Technology Development • Crafting the technology development plan.• Working with operations to identify needs and priorities.• Writing user stories and designing UX visuals to convey acceptance criteria.• Using Jira to communicate with external developers and prioritize the backlog.• Managing the development budget, approving estimates, and verifying invoices.Messaging and Collateral Design• Designing all corporate printed material using Adobe products.• Creating branded templates for documents and presentations.• Crafting the corporate business plan and an overview brochure.• Authoring grant applications including successfully securing an OEDIT Advanced Technology grant.Strategic Planning and Management • Led the process to develop a three-year strategic plan. • Managing the roadmap, tracking milestones and deliverables, and adjusting to align with evolving priorities. • Updated the corporate business plan with strategic priorities. • Partnering with the fractional CFO to develop tools to inform financial models and forecasting.

COMMUNITY INITIATIVES• Collaborated with national and local strategic organizations, including the National and CO Jump$tart Coalitions, USDA's Cooperative Extension System, and the National Youth Involvement Board. • Redefined a national volunteer network program, managing funds to reimburse training expenses.• Helped establish the MoneyWi$er Initiative through the CO Office of the Attorney General and the CO Department of Education.MARKETING AND CONTENT CREATION EXPERIENCE• Designed marketing materials using Adobe Creative Cloud, including ads for national publications, conference collateral, and graphic images for the website and social media posts. • Wrote and designed an e-newsletter sent monthly to over 30k subscribers.• Created content for a resource library, including blogs, articles, and research summaries.• Drafted research-based curriculum aligned with the JumpStart Coalition National Standards.WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT• Applied Agile protocols and principles as a product owner for a high-volume website. • Collaborated with developers to redesign the website experience, simplifying the registration process, improving accessibility, and creating a resource library rich with articles and other content.• Monitored daily website functions, including reviewing google analytics and troubleshooting customer feedback. • Set up a help-desk management system, including writing content for the knowledge base. • Used HTML to create and edit website content.SPEAKER AT NATIONAL CONFERENCESFinancial Education topics including:• Cultural Values and Effective Financial Education • Teaching Intentional Economic Decision-Making • Economic Principles to Prepare Students for an Unpredictable Financial Environment• Evaluating Financial Education,• Research for Effective Financial Education: Understanding Students & Money• Personal Finance for Teens• Engaging Your Community in Financial Education • Tools to Create an Effective Financial Education Program

Managed a large Individual Development Account (IDA) program; assisted families to realize goals of micro-enterprise, homeownership and education. Collaborated with community partners to coordinate homeownership services, micro-enterprise trainings, post-secondary counseling, and financial education classes throughout Metro Denver. COMMUNITY RELATIONS/ PROGRAM MANAGEMENT• Developed and maintained relationships with 25 non-profit, public and private partners in the Denver community to provide services to approximately 500 individuals annually. • Coordinated with community partners to develop roles and responsibilities for partner agencies for the IDA program. • Actively worked with partners to adjust program structure as needed to streamline procedures while increasing client results. • Led a community working group which created a metro Denver financial education network in 2007, providing classes each month with consistent core competencies advertised on a shared calendar.• Brought together community members from the public, private, non-profit and foundation sectors to create financial education standards for Metro Denver in 2012. EVALUATION• Monitored and tracked results for a large IDA program. Acted as a co-administrator for the Outcome Tracker database, created customized queries as needed for program reports as well as responded to partner agency data requests. GRANT MANAGEMENT• Tracked over 15 federal, local, and foundation grants for a large IDA program. Linked clients to funding stream, ensured compliance with grant regulations, and tracked remaining funds.• Provided detailed reports monthly, quarterly, and annually to federal and local funders.• Negotiated contracts with local funders for multi-year projects.

• Consulted for the African Sudanese Community Association of Colorado (ASCAC) and the Oromo Community of Denver (OCD) to develop their new non-profits, including writing grant proposals and teaching their grant writers how to successfully write a project budget; creating a sustainability plan, organizing new elections for their leadership boards, designing programs, and developing marketing materials.• Planned and implemented ESL classes, citizenship classes, job training, micro-enterprise development program, financial literacy training for pre-literate refugees with limited math, parenting classes, and a youth after school/summer program.

Conducted financial statistical analyses to produce cost-benefit analyses, reports and measurements websites for use by the Outside Plant (OSP) Vice Presidents and the engineering and construction teams.

Producing congressional reports on grants approved at the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and regional Multilateral Development Banks. Researching international economic statistics in response to White House requests.

Teacher assistant for graduate level international finance course. Leading student study sessions, tutoring students during office hours, and grading assignments.

Developed and taught English language and job readiness courses for refugees.