Experienced professional with 16+ years of program/event management, student affairs, and leadership development experience as an Executive Director, Director, and Assistant Director. Implement innovative and strategic programming, event, and networking opportunities which set and promote the highest standards of academic, social, and moral excellence. Develop strategies to maintain the highest ethical and professional objectives of the organization, honor the responsibilities of institutions to their students, as well as the responsibilities of the students themselves, in order to uphold respective values and promote service to self and the community at large. Provide leadership and collaboration to stakeholders which maximize potential for personal and professional success.Areas of concentration include student development, complex project management, operations and administration, budget and fiscal analysis, leadership development, relationship management, and communications and outreach strategies.In my roles as Executive Director of Special Events and Programs in the Office of the Dean at Columbia College and Columbia Engineering and Assistant Director for University Programs and Events in the Office of the President at Columbia University, I have over 10 years of experience planning and managing New Student Convocation, New Student Orientation programs, Family Orientation programs, Transfer and Combined Plan student transition welcomes, Family Weekend, and other activities related to student engagement and campus life. I have acquired advanced knowledge and skill in collaborating and consulting with deans and senior leadership to advise them on best practices with regards to promoting opportunities for student success, as well as cultivating relationships with internal and external partners to effectively implement initiatives in line with school and university strategic plans, goals, and priorities.Furthermore, I have received training and have experience working in a complex, high pressure, and deadline-driven academic and cultural environment. Both my major in strategic communications and minor in leadership have provided me with excellent verbal and written communication, leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills. In addition, my extensive graduate studies and work in higher and post-secondary education, specifically in academic and developmental analysis, have given me the framework with which I professionally operate that encompasses teaching and learning and student and professional development on an institutional scale.
Listed skills include Event Planning, Event Management, Strategic Communications, Nonprofits, and 23 others.