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Buena Park, California, United States

Master Electrician in Entertainment Production Lighting. Designing power requirements and cable layouts for seasonal parkwide lighting installations and Scary Farm mazes. As Tech II select installation crews, assign duties, supervise Tech I's, and maintain production build schedules to completion.Durning Scary Farm "Haunt" as Fog 1 supervise small crew in.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Serving on multiple committees including the Steering Committee.
• Handle the messaging, write press releases, and prepare individuals for media interviews so they stay on point.
• Responded to community requests for instruction on campaigns and advocacy by preparing and presenting original material on personal narrative storytelling, campaign message framing, media training, resulting in several.
• Advocacy strategist to develop campaigns to win support for preferred policies and legislation.
• Outreach to Los Angeles area high schools and parishes to organize undocumented students so they can transition to college.
• Inform counselors and mentors on programs for in-state tuition, financial aid, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) opportunities.

Santa Ana, California

• For an issue advocacy campaign on behalf of NextGen Climate, managed all field staff, canvassers, and operations for a voter registration and GOTV drive heading a regional office.
• Recruited, trained, and supervised Field Organizers, monitoring performance expectations and call objectives.
• Maintained daily and end of night reporting. Ensured smooth office operations and processed payroll for canvassers.
• Provided onboarding and training of canvassers.

Las Vegas, NV / Port Townsend, WA / San Gabriel Valley, CA

• Engaged in constituency services and field organizing in NV, WA, CA
• Organized key constituent groups to build supporters among labor, immigrant communities (Latino and Ethiopian), to mobilize for caucus and voter turnout.
• Worked with allied campaign groups writing press releases and conducting media training to prepare them for their events.
• Oversaw large geographic regions with several communities organizing people around issues and instructing them in voter registration, voter contact, and methods of volunteer recruitment, neighborhood canvassing, and.
• Worked in voter districts conducting volunteer recruitment and maintaining voter contact of hundreds of supporters.Independently attended Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 2016.

• (Independently owned contract IT management and consulting group)Providing IT management, infrastructure project management, technical consulting, web development, network/PC support for wide range of clients.
• Worked with GEM accounts to enhance management, network operations, Internet, and web site projects.
• Wrote multi-year technical and operational plans to support the goals of the organizations, identifying areas best suited for technology, and increasing workgroup collaboration among business units and customers.
• Identified need for, and implemented technical solutions and upgrades of Microsoft Server 2003 and Windows XP for networks between 50 and 1,000 nodes.
• Designed and implemented enterprise network security systems including virus/spyware protection, intrusion detection and centralized management for 5,000 node network in the education sector.
• Deployed 3,000 laptops among 8 middle schools as part of an EETT federal grant.

Los Angeles

• Technology manager providing end user support and technology training to GOC staff. Primary support to key Honored Guests venue in support of Special Olympics World Games 2015.
• Project managed scheduling, inventory, imaging, distribution, tracking of 3,000 technology assets, setting policies and workflow standards.
• Responsible for technology onboarding of 400 staff, orientating users to multiple operating systems (PC, MAC, Google Apps) and games related software systems, and providing 1st through 4th level end user support.
• Chair level member of Downey’s Host Town Committee to host the Ireland Delegation of athletes.

Ontario, California

• Project Manager overseeing infrastructure implementations in Cisco networking, data processing and VoIP systems, utilizing Cisco's PPDIOO and Agile methodologies.
• Created and executed project work plans among Networking Infrastructure, Data Processing and Unified Communications.
• Single point of contact interface between client, implementation engineers, and business development teams.
• Scheduled over a two dozen engineers from all divisions across a consistent workload of 15 active projects.
• Maintained finance and forecasting revenue models, project P/L, cost-to-completion projections.

• (Charter Management Operator of 18 high schools in inner city Los Angeles)Senior level manager providing support to all IT divisions including desktop support, networking, special projects, with primary responsibility.
• Project managed the implementation of the Altiris Asset Management Solution and Help Desk System.
• Working with multiple departments, defined and implemented policies on Life Cycle Management.
• Worked with school principals on Installations, Moves, Adds, Changes.
• Utilizing CompuTrace instituted theft reporting and recovery procedures of school IT assets.
• Kept abreast of compliance requirements for Federal funding of technology. (E-rate).

• (IT management outsourcing and consulting group specializing in Microsoft and Cisco solutions)Senior managed services specialist providing IT consulting, network administration, and help desk services.
• Established methods and workflow for Managed Services Help Desk center; training and supervising staff.
• Provide site-based Tier I & II client support for end-users and network systems utilizing MS Server 2003.
• Support a variety of technical monitoring and test equipment systems for a semi-conductor testing company.
• Wrote several knowledge based solution articles on networking, software applications, phone systems, user procedures, all following Best Industry Practices.

Contract IT Manager and Help Desk specialist overseeing technology for 150 users.

• Responsible for all computer systems in use by the Town inclusive of municipal departments and police. Set strategic direction for technology acquisition, use and life cycle management. Supervised staff in maintaining.
• Implemented help desk procedures including call reporting, escalation and tracking.
• Updated web site and made use of the web for collaborative work efforts among departments, vendors and contractors. Maintained and developed Crystal Reports for HR department.
• Chaired "special systems" committees and as the Town's liaison to the architects set forth guidelines for the new 90K sq. ft. municipal complex in terms of cabling, security, A/V, and phone systems.
• Established and monitored vendor contracts for IT related goods and services.

• (IT management outsourcing and consulting group for the healthcare industry)Responsible for client engagements in Western region ensuring outsource contracts are delivered to specification. Known internally as.
• Reported regularly on account status to INFOHEALTH. Processed client invoicing.
• Contributed to INFOHEALTH's internal operating manual, Optimal Information Management (OIM™) for use in delivering consistent models of IT management and help desk procedures throughout client sites.
• As a technical consultant, redesigned and programmed web site for Redlands Community Hospital.
• Met with and prepared outsourcing/consulting proposals for prospective clients.

• INFOHEALTH (IT management outsourcing and consulting group for the healthcare industry)Responsible for all aspects of IT including staffing, goal setting, performance reviews, technical systems, project prioritization.
• Meeting with executives on corporate strategy set forth multi-year plan to allow CMA to provide next level membership database capabilities to improve customer service. New system to interface with accounting and PBX.
• Provided monthly quality review reports on customer satisfaction regarding the help desk.
• Upgraded multi-server network infrastructure and desktops from Novell to Microsoft OS.
• Reported regularly on account status to INFOHEALTH. Processed client invoicing.

• Responsible for staffing and directing a $4 million division that provides technology, services and consulting to new and existing client base with $250 million in leased assets.
• Transitioned business model from hardware focused to service focused, increasing gross profit by 30% versus prior year.
• Worked with multiple clients to develop or enhance: LAN/WAN, Internet, security and Life Cycle Management/Total Cost of Ownership projects.
• Developed various software projects for clients including Internet B2B/C, SQL, and Client/Server. Platforms included; AS/400, Intel, Novell and NT. Areas include asset management, web development, e-commerce.
• Created Internet Web products to allow online ordering by client base.
• Authored quarterly publications advising IT Management client base on trends in technology and management; plus understanding Life Cycle Management and Total Cost of Ownership of computer equipment resulting in pull.

• ($5 billion retail, training, direct sales and computer integrator)Responsible for selling and implementing network and technical services to new and existing account base.
• Managed assignments by coordinating with in-house labor and outsourced consultants.
• Created third party alliances with service providers such as Artex, Target Solutions and Sophtech.
• Created an AS/400 unit consisting of project managers and technicians for servicing accounts.
• Worked independently and with sales team to win significant national accounts generating a revenue stream of $2 million.
• Programming in Notes, Domino, HTML, SQL, Novell, NT, and various macro languages.

• ($400 million consumer products manufacturer)Managed department overseeing entire Wide Area Network for headquarters and subsidiaries in 12 facilities nationwide. System included sub LANs on multiple servers with.
• Managed annual budget of $500k; supervised LAN administrators and PC technicians.
• Established and enforced corporate wide standards for software and hardware, eliminating file incompatibility among facilities and reducing overall expenditures using volume discounts.
• Established methods for training users in PCs using off-site education facilities, in-house trainers and IS newsletters.
• Prepared summary operation reports from the AS/400 for executive management, interfacing with operational groups and IS programmers to ensure usability of IS reports.
• Upgraded NetWare servers creating a corporate WAN including E-mail with Internet gateway, and remote access.

B.A, Political Science And Behavioral Sciences

Dean's Honor List

High School Diploma, College Prepatory