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Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Develop, coordinate, guide, and support State of Florida’s (DOR) and City of Jacksonville’s annual budget process for accurate financial and operational strategies and objectives• Manage fiscal year budget of $11.9M ensuring continuity of operations via invoice payments, purchase orders, and other expenditures• Manage the purchasing process to ensure goods/services are planned and procured in a timely manner and in compliance with the City’s Procurement Code (includes oversight of contracts and r renewals); also maintain all personnel, payroll and purchasing files and records• Coordinate the procurement, maintenance, and repair of various equipment, including computers, printers, pagers, cellular phones, furniture, office supplies, etc.• Oversee processing/payment of dues and subscriptions, printing requests, rentals, and leases• Manage all Human Resources and Information Systems activities and personnel• Provide the Council, its committees, and members, with information, data, and research analysis to conduct legislative business• Drafts all Scope of Services for Contractual Agreements and Request for Proposals (RFP’s)• Manage legislative tracking from introduction through final action and enrollment of each piece of legislation

Jacksonville, Florida Area

 Develop, coordinate, guide and support the State of Florida’s (DOR) and the City of Jacksonville’s annual budget process for accurate financial and operational strategies and objectives.  Manage fiscal year budget of $10.5 million to ensure continuity of operations via payments of invoices, purchase orders and other expenditures.  Maintain authorized salary cap. Act as a liaison between the Department of Revenue and the Property Appraiser’s office. Manage the purchasing process to ensure goods/services are planned and procured in a timely manner and in compliance with the City’s Procurement Code (includes oversight of contracts and renewals). Serve as Property Officer to ensure that capital assets are appropriately recorded, inventoried, physically inspected, surplused, and transferred to and from other units of government in compliance with the COJ’s TPP Code. Conduct in-house audits and implement improvement recommendations.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

 Work with departments to create departmental budgets including revenue & expense forecasting, capital improvement projects, grants, etc.  Track trends, major expenses, contracts with budget impact, rev grants, etc.  Act as liaison between departments and budget office.  Conduct annual fee review for applicable departments & provide recommendations.  Understand the Mayor’s transfer powers, City Councils’ transfer powers & all relevant ordinances. Maintain authorized personnel cap for departments.  Maintain budget records using multiple databases (MS Access, Oracle, FAMIS).  Manage the revenue and expenditure budgets for Fire Rescue, Employee Services, Office of Economic Development, Downtown Investment Authority and Sports & Entertainment totaling $512,075,456.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

 Work on ICD-10 Enterprise sponsored project. Analyze direct & downstream impacts of ICD10 to third parties & vendors by documenting data exchanges between FB and vendors.  Coordinate vendor testing with FB testing teams (End to End, IM testing, Business Testing & UAT).  Liaison between internal clients & functional departments.  Identify internal and external system dependencies.  Communicate risks & impacts to vendors and project team members. Collaborate with IT & Business Areas to develop Business Processes, Vendor Profiles, Scope Documents and Timelines for project tasks.  Review reporting, metrics & data to identify and implement effective solutions.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

 Conduct audits on all ocean liner services, and manually enter data into database.  Analyze ocean liner shipping schedules, trends & data Collecting data from Vendors and entering in database.  Produce reports on data, which is provided to customers.  Edit my own and peers work to ensure complete data accuracy.

Watertown, New York Area

 Conduct audits on all ocean liner services, and manually enter data into database.  Analyze ocean liner shipping schedules, trends & data Collecting data from Vendors and entering in database.  Produce reports on data, which is provided to customers.  Edit my own and peers work to ensure complete data accuracy.  Raised over $200k for campaign.  Composed strategic fundraising plan.  Ensured that all donations met FEC regulations

Jacksonville, Florida Area

 Reported directly to Research Director and CEO. Managed team of research analysts, and oversaw day-to-day operations of ComPair Database. Also, managed special projects.  Edited the data entered by staff into the database to ensure data accuracy.  Conducted reviews of new projects and team members after implementation. Produced quarterly reports for CEO regarding progress of the research team.  Conducted audits on ocean liner services, in five week increments, to assure all data in our system was current and accurate.  Contributed numerous pieces to be published in AS+ Daily and on Americanshipper.com

Maintained and edited website content.Planned and promoted events. Represented The Melting Pot at community events.Created and sent Club Fondue emails. Used social media to gain exposure.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

I worked at Predictive Results on an internship basis to continue gaining experience. Wrote press releases.Promoted events.Managed social media sites.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

Gained experience working with traditional and social media. Assisted with the creation and editing of printed materials, including agency brochure, agency newsletter, and the 2007-2008 annual report.Initiated, developed and maintained local media and public contacts.Created press releases and feature articles which were published in local media outlets.Provided assistance in planning of special events, specifically the 14th Annual Barbara Ann Campbell Memorial Breakfast.Assisted with all additional communications projects to support and advance the organization’s goals and adjectives.

Master'S, Public Administration

Bachelor'S Of Science, Public Relations

Activities and Societies: Public Relations Student Society of America.