Leading strategic planning and process improvement initiatives at the Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command and the Defense Centers for Public Health - Portsmouth.

Provide support to the Commanding Officer, Executive Officer, Command Master Chief,Directors, and Special Assistants of the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center in the areas of:-Strategic planning expertise and facilitation-Process improvement expertise and facilitation-Command communications support and strategic communications expertise-Organizational design expertise and support-Performance management expertise and support

-Liaise with all directorates, five field activities, and the Command Suite on administrative matters including Navy correspondence.-Research, edit, and format policy point papers, memos, decision briefs, reports, and other taskers from higher echelon commands including the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Naval Medical Forces Atlantic, and the Chief of Naval Operations. -Coordinate the communication and execution of taskings across directorates including for Emergency Operation Cell activities for public health emergencies and high visibility taskings.-Planned and executed 3-day offsite meeting with leadership from PM field activities.-Edit and route awards and fitness reports in BUPERS Online (BOL).-Maintain Preventive Medicine correspondence and directives files.-Lead facilitator of the Professional Development Working Group, an interdisciplinary team tasked with identifying professional development problems, proposing recommendations, and enacting solutions for the benefit of the command and individual employees. Responsibilities include designing the overall strategy and workplan for a structured performance improvement process and solution implementation; creating meeting objectives, agendas, minutes, and facilitation guides; facilitating hybrid in-person and online meetings; and, communicating updates and milestone deliverables to key stakeholders and command-wide audiences.

Under my tenure as the senior leader responsible for fundraising, my team and I grew the revenue streams in our portfolio by 72%. These included personal solicitations, sponsorships, events, email campaigns, and direct mail. In addition to financial donations, my department managed donations of time through our thousands of dedicated volunteers. In total, I supervised a team of seven personnel.

Remote support to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for management, operation, and recruitment needs.

•Managed a research portfolio of over $40 million in research funding from donors such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Institute of Aging, Sanofi Pasteur, private foundations, and several United Nations agencies. •Facilitated decision-making processes for the Principal Investigator, Dr. David E. Bloom.•Supervised two team members (hire/fire responsibility). Oversaw day-to-day operations for a research team of seven employees and multiple external researchers.•Ensured compliance with University and donor regulations and contract budgets. •Wrote donor reports and grant proposals totaling over $6 million. Co-author on multiple journal articles and white papers. Citations available upon request.•Established novel procedures and documentation for internal and external grant making.•Cultivated relationships with experts in the fields of vaccine research, manufacture, and policy for the purposes of proposal development, research event engagement, and participation in high-level steering committees. •Planned and executed four multi-day research workshops for 20-50 participants. •Represented Prof. Bloom's research team when liaising with University departments to creatively problem solve•Member of the Steering Committee of the Research & Program Staff Collaborative•Specific global health research areas include: social and economic returns on investments in vaccination, non-communicable disease burden, misalignments in the health sector, aging populations, multi-criteria decision analysis tools

Research on the broader benefits of vaccination with reference to Mexico.

•Designed and created the first ever safety and security position at PSI to assist with the prevention of and response to emergencies across the 60 country, $600M network •Designed, implemented, and executed the succession plan for the full-time Senior Global Security Manager, ensuring seamless support to PSI’s field staff•Coordinate Crisis Management Team response to safety and security incidents in PSI country offices assisting with knowledge management, communications, logistics, and documentation•Trained program staff from each of PSI’s regions on security plan templates to impart the knowledge and skills to review and assist country offices with template completion•Continually monitor real-time security alerts from Control Risks, OSAC, Twitter, press, etc. to identify threats requiring follow-up with security focal points in PSI country offices•Organized, designed, and briefed consultants delivering in-country security trainings for country office leadership to establish safety and security management teams in 18 countries•Grow and maintain external relationships with private sector, governmental, and INGO partner organizations to broaden PSI’s security network •Develop and promote national security focal point network and communication vehicles •Organize quarterly hostile environment awareness training for headquarters staff members•Liaise with regional, human resources, internal audit, accounting, contracts, procurement, and insurance departments on operational issues in crisis management and policy development•Expand and maintain extensive online knowledge management library of security resources•Authored confidential internal duty of care assessment with PSI’s legal counsel to identify risk•Manage safety and security budget of $220K for 2014An article referencing the NGO security skype chat I started during the South Sudan evacuation in December 2013: http://psiimpact.com/2016/05/duty-of-collaboration-the-changing-personality-of-ngo-security/

•Support the CEO/President through strategic decision-making, coordination of detailed travel briefings, and preparation of external and internal presentations and communications•Liaise with all PSI departments and senior leadership on a wide variety of tasks including headquarters and companywide communication campaigns and policies•Create and manage CEO, COO, and international retreat budgets over $1.5M for 2014•Co-led the planning and development of PSI’s first Non-Communicable Disease Strategic Plan•Supervised, mentored, and designed the work plan for the first ever Executive Office intern•Record the official minutes for the tri-annual meetings for PSI’s Board of Directors•Assist with Board briefings, respond to Board members information requests as needed•Manage the proposal process, track reporting and deliverables, and manage contract documentation for over $5,000,000 in discretionary fund projects awarded through HQ•Digitized PSI’s institutional development and governance library of national legal documents•Coordinate regular updates with the Regional Directors, COO, CFO and CEO to PSI’s Network Member Database tracking legal and governance information for the PSI network•Organize four day International Retreat for 120 employees and guests (2012, 2014)•Organize trips for PSI’s Board of Directors to Niger, DRC, India, and Myanmar•Working Groups: Cervical Cancer (chair), Network Quality Standards (member), Working with Deconsolidated Entities (member), and Risk Owner’s Circle (member)

•Provided financial and administrative support to projects funded by: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; USAID; The Gates Foundation; DFID; The World Bank; The World Health Organization; and the Dutch Government in Zimbabwe and Madagascar•Provided proposal support through budget and technical proposal reviews•Led the APM Career Development Initiative with upper level management•Recorded podcasts for PSI’s Healthy Lives Blog•Working groups: Cervical Cancer (member), 2012 Strategic Plan Working Group 5 (member), Partner Capacity Building (member), Program Management (member)

•Provided administrative support through proposal editing, research on donors and health topics, document legalizations, consultancy paperwork, and departmental invoices•Created donor report tracking tool in order to send regular reminders to country offices•Updated and maintained departmental pages on internal knowledge management tool

•Translated for physicians and Spanish speaking patients•Recorded the medical histories of new obstetric patients•Assisted with prenatal care program through advertising and patient education•Maintained clinic records on all pregnant patients, demographic data, pregnancy dates, and birth weights for grant evaluations•Coordinated enrollment for uninsured patients in medication assistance programs•Authored multiple office procedure guides and training documents