• Managed day-to-day operations for the Office of Career Education and Dual Enrollment; supervised one program director, eight full-time Classified staff, and two hourly staff• Oversaw local implementation of the federal Perkins CTE grant program and state Strong Workforce Program (SWP) local and regional grants• Managed and tracked nearly $10 million annually in Career Education grant funding; responsible for ensuring compliance with federal and state grant spending and reporting guidelines• Led the Santa Ana College Workforce Council, a cross-functional committee of administrators, faculty, and staff responsible for making Career Education grant funding recommendations to the Vice President of Academic Affairs• Developed and managed partnerships with local school districts and charter schools to expand dual enrollment pathways that provide early access to college courses for high school students underrepresented in higher education; achieved 60% increase in enrollments from 2022 to 2024 while maintaining high student course success rates• Worked with Academic Senate, academic deans, and faculty department chairs to improve dual enrollment processes related to course selection, faculty onboarding, and course scheduling

• Managed Guided Pathways and Dual Enrollment Office, overseeing implementation of the $1.2 million California Community Colleges Guided Pathways grant program• Developed and managed strategic partnerships with local school districts to create early college academies for high school students; achieved 700% increase in enrollments from 2018 to 2022• Proactively generated, cultivated, and converted leads to continually increase high school partnerships and grow enrollments; responsible for delivering over $2 million annually in state apportionment revenue

• Gathered, analyzed, and summarized data to support campus leaders in making informed decisions to increase student success and to eliminate gaps in student achievement• Led development of the college’s strategic enrollment management plan and trained academic deans on using data to meet efficiency targets, which has resulted in a 15% increase in course fill rates• Oversaw local implementation of the statewide Multiple Measures Assessment Project (MMAP), resulting in a 130% increase in students passing math and English courses in their first year.• Designed and built a series of data dashboards using Tableau and Power BI to make student enrollment, persistence, and completion data more accessible for administrators, faculty, and staff

• Led the Department of Education policy team that worked with the Department of Labor and the White House to implement the $2 billion Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) grant program, the largest discretionary grant program aimed at community and technical colleges in U.S. history that has trained over 400,000 workers nationally• Led the Department’s Experimental Sites Initiative policy team to provide postsecondary institutions with statutory and regulatory flexibility in administering federal student aid; spearheaded development of the Second Chance Pell project to extend financial aid to incarcerated students • Advised U.S. Department of Education and White House leadership on funding proposals related to higher education and workforce training to include in the President’s annual budget request• Coordinated Department of Education participation in White House Job-Driven Training Initiative, led by the Office of Vice President Biden and the National Economic Council

• Assisted Dr. Dara Cohen with quantitative book-length study on civil war violence• Performed descriptive and multivariate statistical analyses to test various causal claims

• Conducted education policy research and prepared policy briefings for state legislators• Led data collection and analysis for winter 2011 study of the UTeach Classroom Observation Protocol (UTOP), part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project

• Supported the USAID Guatemala staff with Ministry of Education capacity building efforts• Worked with Ministry of Education officials to design and implement the National System of Educational Supervision and Support (Sistema Nacional de Acompañamiento Escolar, SINAE)

• Managed the community resource centers and after-school youth programs at two affordable housing communities• Supervised four staff and managed an annual budget of $150,000

• Taught elementary through advanced English and Spanish language courses to non-native speakers

• Taught elementary through advanced English and Spanish language courses to non-native speakers