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Develop, articulate and implement the County’s economic strategy and programs, including business attraction and retention, neighborhood economic development, and fostering positive working relationships with business owners, property owners, and community members by designing, implementing, and monitoring efforts that stimulate economic growth consistent with County policies, goals, and objectives.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Manage cash flow, fundraising and financial projections to be profitable by the end of 2021.• Ensure a continual commitment to the firm’s stakeholders and mission by producing reports and presentations quantifying the firm’s environmental and social impact.• Enhance marketing strategy resulting in an increase of follower base by 310% over 6 months.• Reduced COGS by 32% through the aggregation of the supply chain and fostering supplier relations to improve production efficiencies and service agreement terms.

Greater Denver Area

• Administer and allocate over $23.5M of Urban Renewal Authority funds and incentive programs in efforts to revitalize blighted areas, support catalytic development projects and bolster a resilient and inclusive local economy. • Monitor and manage a yearly budget of $600K to effectively complete annual objectives and invest in projects with the highest ROI for the Town. • Research and prepare technical reports, marketing materials and presentations for the various Town Boards, coworkers, ED partners, the public and other stakeholders.• Oversee the BRE efforts through the business outreach program, incentive programs, development of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and relationship building with business leads and developers. These efforts have resulted in the private investment of $16M, activation of 55k commercial sf, and 160 new FT jobs

Greater Denver Area

• Supervise a team of four in a time sensitive, performance incentivized work structure and proficiently oversee the team’s deadlines to consistently meet quarterly target objectives.• Manage a product line that generates $60M in annual revenue by developing and implementing the strategic operations such as: marketing promotions, competitive market analysis and expansion, churn reduction strategies, and operational optimization.• Serve as an interdepartmental liaison to leverage the product’s assets, resulting in a quarterly reduction of expenses by $250K and increase in organic sales by $130K.• Manage database and financial system to ensure the integrity of the data. Analyze information to develop the annual strategic planning of the product group and communicate this to executives through presentations, reports, and dashboards.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Supervised 3 separate committees, comprising of 17 members, which host a variety of events to educate and spread awareness of sustainable, social and environmental practices in the business sector.• Managed the annual budget for the allocation of funds to maximize the organization’s programing efforts and activities in the most effective manner.• Coordinated with Net Impact chapters, community sponsors, universities and organizations to administer the two staple annual events, with over 350 attendees each.• Recipient of “Gold Status” merit for the 7th consecutive year at Colorado State University by surpassing expectations in the required criteria, resulting in runner-up to “Chapter of the Year”.

Ecuador

• Supervised a team of 7 working on economic development projects with vulnerable communities such as; Financial Education, Workforce Training, Affordable Housing, Sustainable Business Development, Entrepreneurial Enablement, Youth and Community Employment Engagement while maintaining a cash-positive budget.• Applied monitoring and evaluation processes to improve work effectiveness: 68% of participants in the employability course attained jobs, two capital lending ventures were founded and five enterprises were established creating 76 new full-time jobs.• Led over 150 interactive lectures, presentations and workshops in Spanish and English to supervisors, clients, government officials, local business leaders, university professors and students, and the constituents of the local community with audiences ranging from 10 to 3,000.• Implemented projects by building private-public partnership resulting in over $12M of private investment in the City.

Greeley, Co

• Researched, collected and analyzed data and market trends for strategic planning, marketing and fundraising purposes, utilizing this information for the design of pamphlets, webpages, annual and quarterly progress reports, demographic statistics, community profiles are responses to prospector RFIs.• Aided in the efforts of business recruitment and retention, and the investment of catalytic projects thus contributing to the creation of 1,290 primary full-time jobs in Weld County.• Increased membership financial support by providing excellent customer service and exemplifying the value of the organization’s efforts to our private and public partners which resulted in over $615K fundraised.

Santiago Province, Chile

• Built and analyzed budget and resource allocation reports to maintain profitable business operations.• Monitored endowments portfolios and forecasted the expense and growth potential of the company. • Produced monthly balance sheet and income statement to report on the variances and the department’s financial position.• Identified non-value added, inefficiencies within the company and implemented resolution projects to reduce or eliminate the inefficiencies resulting in an increase to overall gross margin by 8%.

Greeley, Co

• Managed and supervised construction projects and quality control for a team of 6-12 coworkers.• Collaborated with stakeholders such as; government zoning and permit officials, clients and other construction crews for the timely, cost-effective completion of projects ranging from $200K to $2.7M.• Assessed the financial and logistical feasibility of new project bids.

Master'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General, Global

Spanish And International Business

I had the great privilege to study abroad in Viña del Mar at one of the most prestigious business schools in South America, Adolfo Ibáñez.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Business, Spanish, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Spanish club, El centro volunteering, Environmental Restoration, Young Americans for Liberty, United Nations.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Basketball, Football, Future Business Leaders of America, Spanish Club, Student Government Body