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Austin, Texas, United States

Supporting transformation for state government clients, specializing in health and human services operations.

Austin, Texas, United States

* Advise and assist state and local government clients, including managers and executives, with the development of transformational strategies to improve operations, implement new technologies, and respond to growing demand for services* Advise and assist clients in managing organizational change to maximize buy-in and change adoption* Advise and assist.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Led a cross-functional team of eleven supporting operations and stakeholder relations for public health and human services programs. Responsible for the department budget, project and data governance processes, stakeholder and legislative communications, strategic planning, employee engagement, and legislative and grant reporting. Advised the Deputy.

Austin, Texas Area

Led a team of 19 FTEs supporting and overseeing the activities of local area agencies on aging providing Older Americans Act services to individuals 60 years and older, including home delivered meals, transportation, housing modifications, and benefits counseling. Transformed the local and state strategic planning process to drive data-informed.

Austin, Texas Area

Led a team of three that coordinated legislative activities, audits, and special projects that supported eligibility determinations across the state of Texas for Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, TANF, and Healthy Texas Women. Represented the Deputy Executive Commissioner on working groups with healthcare and other service providers to address issues related to.

Managed a diverse portfolio of projects and contracts from small, well-defined initiatives to large, division-wide multi-year endeavors. Oversaw negotiations and development of multimillion-dollar contracts, including a $78 million data broker services contract. Applied principles of structured project management to perform project and contract planning.

Established and nurtured a working relationship between between Office of Social Services (OSS) and other internal and external organizations. Provided management consulting assistance and internal coordination of OSS responses to cross-divisional assignments, including researching, analyzing, evaluating, and translating highly complex health and human.

Austin, Texas Area

Oversaw the completion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) programs and advised executive staff within the office and at external agencies regarding grant management and financial accountability, particularly as it relates to A-133 audits of state agencies and institutions. Tracked changes in state and federal legislation that impacted.

Austin, Texas Area

• Management consultant on a high-profile, high-risk contract with the Office of Texas Governor Rick Perry, related to $27 billion dollars of federal funding awarded to state agencies and Institutions of Higher Education.
• Analyzing legislation
• Preparing and evaluating RFPs
• Issuing awards
• Program closeout
• Compliance and reporting

Austin, Texas Area

Graduate intern for the Chief of Staff/Legislative Liaison of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Division of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Coordinated activities of Drug Demand Reduction Advisory Committee, a legislatively mandated body of representatives of 14 state agencies and 5 at-large members. Researched behavioral health issues.

Austin, Texas Area

Provided quality assurance for inventory reports submitted to The University of Texas Office of Accounting. Addressed delays in processing requests and an exceptionally high error rate. Created a series of trainings that resulted in a substantial drop in the error rate of the submitted reports.

Master Of Public Affairs, Nonprofit Studies

B.A, Liberal Studies; English & Business

Activities and Societies: Debate team, The Oracle Student Newspaper, Adopt-a-Grandparent at University Hills Retirement CenterSenior.