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Auckland, NZ

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Provides governance and strategic support to the Rainbow Communities Advisory Panel. The panel offers advice to Auckland Council based on their experiences living as queer (LGBTIQ+) people, to help council improve outcomes for the community.

Auckland, New Zealand

Provides strategic advice and support on department-wide and cross-organisational issues, including analytical support and issues management. Identifies and facilitates opportunities for local boards to input to regional strategies, plans, policies and submissions. Provides advice and coordination for colleagues within the department and the wider.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Developed, sourced, and tailored strategic and policy advice to support local boards in their decision-making and advocacy and supported relationship building with constituents and communities.
• Annual Budget 2022/2023 advice: Synthesised public views to provide advice to elected members on advocacy items based on alignment to Local Board Plan outcomes, the council’s regional and local strategies, budget.
• Work Programme 2022/2023 advice: Delivered guidance to local board members and develops their work programme to achieve local aspirations through prioritisation of budget, clear direction to staff on operational.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Provided policy advice to elected officials on the council’s investment priorities ranging from community facilities and services, open space, recreation, and climate change mitigation.
• Project lead, too much water policy interventions: Led a workstream focussing on principles, roles and responsibilities, regulatory and non-regulatory interventions, financial management, and implementation approaches.
• Project lead, regional park designation policy: Delivered advice to the Kaipātiki Local Board on their Local Board Plan objectives. This work included mana whenua engagement, local park public use, interpreting.
• Achievement: Developed a set of public policy statements to guide Auckland Council decision-makers when responding to risks from too much water. The public-facing statements were adopted by the Environment and Climate.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Leads land delivery projects utilising council’s open space and acquisition policies. Provides policy advice aligned with the Auckland Plan 2050 on addressing hazards from climate change.
• Project lead, land exchanges: Delivers open space benefits through providing advice and guidance to local boards and council committees, communicating between council departments and external stakeholders, organising.
• Workstream lead, natural hazards policy: Provides guidance on dynamic adaptive policy pathways to increase council’s anticipatory governance, shapes unclear and complex policy problems, synthesizes information from.
• Achievement: Facilitated bureaucratic and legislative processes and managed public engagement through two city-wide lockdowns to approve a new walkway and park for Māngere.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Managed the development of region-wide bylaws by ensuring timely delivery of high-quality advice on social policy issues, reflective of the needs of Auckland’s diverse communities.
• Project lead, animal management: Completed a findings report on the Animal Management Bylaw through a statutory review informed by in-person public engagement and surveys, twenty local board workshops, kaitiaki forums.
• Project lead, on-site wastewater: Managed a bylaw review from inception including developing problem definition, creating cross-council working groups, presenting at local board chairs’ forum, running public engagement.
• Achievement: Synthesized local government, resource management, building, and health legislation to revoke a bylaw and provide a simpler means for regulating wastewater.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Provided technical input and advice to elected officials and council planners regarding community facility provision policy. Investigated community facility and optimisation needs across the region.
• Subject-matter expert, area plans: Interpreted census data and provided long-term planning advice for community infrastructure projections for the next 30 years in Auckland and participated as the community facility.
• Project support, needs assessment: Assisted in data gathering, consultation, report writing and presenting to the Manurewa Local Board on advice for community services and infrastructure needs. Learned how to navigate.
• Achievement: Took initiative to navigate an incomplete community facility stocktake in the northwest by organising a cross-council team of operational and subject-matter experts.

Auckland, New Zealand

Assisted in progressing policy projects through report tracking and project management, led the creation of the department’s Reward and Recognition Policy, provided aide-memoires and research materials to the general manager, and responded to LGOIMA and complaint requests from the Mayor’s Office.

Auckland, New Zealand

Soho

• Ran front desk services, including greeting guests and clients, managing the phones,scheduling and maintaining conference rooms, organizing and delivering mail and packages, and ordering messengers
• Coordinated travel for all VSA employees and occasionally for clients and visitors
• Provided hospitality for client and internal meetings, including set up, clean up, and providingmeeting room supplies as well as breakfast, lunch, dinner, and cocktail catering
• Sent out office­wide informational emails as needed
• Organized and maintained the office including lobby, kitchen, conference rooms, andproduction areas
• Managed conference room availability as well as reorganization and office aesthetic

• Provided high quality and continuous support to the Chairman and senior director
• Coordinated appointments, schedules, and travel bookings in a detailed and timely matter
• Tracked office expenses and handled monthly finance reports
• Managed work flow among multiple projects and potential new strategists
• Researched new projects and provided insight and updates on active business
• Accompanied directors on travel and facilitated on site coordination, acted as a client liaison, and thoroughly documented each meeting

New York, New York

• Assists in producing performance reports for teams dedicated to the following marketing channels: Digital Media, Paid Search, Affiliates & CRM. Builds databases for collecting organized and usable data for tracking.
• Liaised with media teams, third party agencies/vendors, and clients to collaborate and create a cohesive performance report addressing needs across multiple digital platforms
• Provided email and phone support for display, search, and video advertisements with both advanced and basic descriptions depending on the client’s experience
• Supported manager with filtering and prioritizing clients’ needs
• Handled multiple time sensitive client requests proactively utilizing a multi-team approach
• Performed requested media analysis and reporting (scheduled and AdHoc) with research including consumer insights, search engine optimization, and ad serving services

Melbourne, Australia

• Hosted and tended a range of corporate conferences in multiple rooms. Worked in the hotel restaurant and cafe serving and assisting customers. Provided and maintained bar services and stock. Basic coffee barista skills.
• Provided general information and support for hotel guests and directed them to other departments if their requests needed special attention
• Organized daily staff meetings to delegate and coordinate clients' needs
• Acted as a “face” for the hotel providing swift, detailed, and personable services while remaining sensitive and aware to the many cultures of the international guests and staff
• Delivered personal assistant skills including transit, errands, and stock shopping
• Attended to special needs management for handicapped and VIP guests

Melbourne, Australia

• Processed and coded legal documents based on clients' directions. Paginated, scanned, photocopied, bound, and ordered series of folders and binders. Delivered documents to clients located in the CBD. Remained calm and.
• Processed and coded legal documents based on clients’ directions
• Paginated, scanned, photocopied, binded, and ordered series of folders and documents
• Proofread and edited documents before delivery
• Processed and printed large paper jobs which required poster and wide format printing
• Delivered completed projects on foot to clients within the city center

Positioned at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science/NOAA, Miami, USA. Formed models for measuring seasonal hurricane intensity trends. Hypothesized climatic shifts in Atlantic Ocean tropical activity. Analyzed dropsonde data to enhance forecasting capabilities of tropical development. Created graphs and digital imaging of the data for.

Worked in the Delta Airlines Global Weather Forecasting Center, Atlanta, GA. Analyzed and plotted daily surface weather charts. Aided in writing terminal aerodrome forecasts for major hubs. Learned aviation forecast methods for upper air dynamics. Studied severe storm forecasting and icing hazards for planes.

Interacted with customers to help find and purchase merchandise. Front line sales. Demonstrated a calm and polite attitude during busy hours. Re-stocked, organized, and maintained creative displays of products.