Provide out-patient virtual medical nutrition therapy for clients and patients.Main focus areas are: weight loss, weight maintenance, anti-obesity medication management, motivational counseling, and behavior change.

Content writer - nutrition in relation to IBS, GERD, acid reflux, and food allergies.Develop recipes to meet the nutrition needs and interests of readers.

- Educator of nutrition & menu planning for the culinary students of the Secchia Institute for Culinary Education.- Allergy Certification Master Trainer for students and staff through AllerTrain by MenuTrinfo, LLC.

Provide nutrition education to students at the College of Human Professions to prepare them for their future careers and guide them in their personal nutrition.Courses taught: Nutrition for Healthy LivingChild Nutrition

-Design & instruct cooking classes for community and patient participants supporting healthy lifestyle choices using whole food ingredients-Created and implemented a new online store and website for Nature's Remedies-Provide education and clinical guidance to patients, customers and staff regarding functional medicine supplements recommended by the doctors at DBC: Natural Holistic Health Center.- Implement tools for staff education and on-the-job resources regarding supplementation- Product ordering and inventory management- Development of policy and procedure manuals for administrative use by DBC & Nature's Remedies- Implementation of organized communication within Nature's Remedies for improved efficiency - Staff hiring and training

-Manage food service operations by enforcing hospital policies for sanitation and employee relations.-Collaborate with the food service management team to provide excellent dining services to the patients at Metro Health Hospital and continuously work to improve patient satisfaction.-Communicate regularly with clinical staff and dietitians to build the relationship between food service and the medical staff departments.-Implement department improvements in an organized and well communicated fashion so as to encourage team work within the department.-Manage the schedule for 30+ staff in order to balance financial costs according to annual budget.

-Manage clinical operations including enforcement of facility policies, direction of inpatient, outpatient, and residential nutrition consultations, development of clinical orientation materials, leading monthly clinical update meetings, and also providing regular clinical support.-Provide support and guidance to the dining services management team regarding nutrition guidelines for menus, dining services needs for mentally ill patients, and improvement of communication with Pine Rest clinical staff.-Collaborate with the dining services director to implement improvements within the department, provide in-services to culinary and service staff, and ensure proper food handling.-Increased clinical productivity to consistently exceed the 90% target of the hospital requirements for nutrition consultation timeliness.-Implemented a department wide restructuring by developing improved labor structure, composing job descriptions, improving scheduling, identifying equipment needs, introducing a new Unidine menu computer program, and providing consistent communication with the client. -Developed new programs & nutrition materials for Pine Rest Hospital and Unidine such as menus, snack programs, dietitian productivity tracking, diet manual, online carbohydrate resource, nutrition services quality improvement measures, website utilizing Pine Rest intranet capabilities-Provided support and leadership for Unidine management in the new account opening with Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services-Provided support in hiring hourly and salary staff members.

Resource clinical Registered Dietitian and project assistant.-Served as an expert guest speaker for the Michigan Dietetic Association fall 2011 conference regarding psychiatric medications effect on nutritional status.-Managed the data entry for the roll-out of Unidine’s new corporate menu program, MyUSuite, fall 2011. Developed training tools and quality check tools for menu analysis-Selected as a corporate level Super User for the Unidine MyUSuite online menu program--provided training support for facilities throughout West Michigan.-Served as a Unidine Corporate speaker to provide regional educational webinars to clinical dietitians. Key topics: psychiatric medications, the Nutrition Care Process

Registered Dietitian for Saint Mary's Health Care as well as Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services in Grand Rapids, MI.