Board Member offering guidance from a business perspective as well as the perspective of family who have participated in the VSA program. Marketing Director 2015-2018

Set up operations system for the Credit Enhancement Management Portfolio, providing deal set up for all portfolio deals. Continued with agile improvements to this system as the end user final business tester for each iterative Sprint roll out of new features. Provided feedback loop as business user in tweaking requirements and quality testing supporting SDLC. As operations analyst responsible for monthly loan performance reports to Fannie Mae's Mortgage Insurers. Supported Fannie Mae Customer Service team troubleshooting concerns and pulling data to capture loan history and identify and resolve any concerns. Worked with the process improvement team improving the Credit Enhancement Operations processes and as Project Manager led both process improvement and audit projects capably. Responsible for Policy and Procedures Manuals reflecting current state policy and processes.

Providing contract and data analysis in the financial sector for a client as a contract professional supporting a project developing standardization of terms for a contract repository of repeatable terms and services supporting sales of security interests. After initial part of project providing contract review was completed, leveraged as a business analyst providing ongoing support on an Agile project development team creating the new system to ensure capability of managing new products efficiently in a changing market. Led the demonstration with each Sprint roll out of new features for the Software development team and all stakeholders, including leadership and product owners as demonstrating system updates and gathering feedback to identify and capture requirements of the Agile build.

Drafted customer contracts for specialized services such as hosting, cloud computing, security and professional services, and assist lead lawyer on complex deals such as managed WAN, LAN, contact center, security and IT outsourcing services. Provided support to sales team in delivery of final executable contract documents after communication and approval from all required interdisciplinary stakeholders including technical, finance, subject matter experts and legal team members, as well as interfacing with subcontract management and outsourcing support personnel as required.Provided legal oversight and review of RFP responses, and draft RFP legal responses as well as managed queue of RFP review for the legal group. Management of assignment of work in such queue to legal outsource personnel on an as needed basis to provide seamless, uninterrupted work flow delivery to the teams we support.Special Projects: Assisted Litigation and Regulatory Group with regulatory audit to ensure state Tariff compliance. Assisted in training of project members in methodology.

Worked as a legal assistant to attorneys, corporate counsel, and firms who require assistance in navigating the complex immigration arena. Successfully have assisted in Naturalization, responses to deportation proceedings, as well as business immigration filings of H1B and correspondence with the Department of Labor seeking approval for hires. Provided basic Immigration overview seminars to Financial Service providers seeking knowledge helpful in processing mortgage applications of Visa holders. http://dcregistry.com/users/lawblake/

Researched and briefed three BIA members ( Lauren Mathon, Ed Grant and Lauri Filppu) on former case law and issues relevant to cases being reviewed. Here is information on the BIA:http://www.justice.gov/eoir/fs/biabios.htm

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Pro Bono position assisting at a refugee center. Completed Termination Review Motions for refugees who had gained entrance into Canada. Researched issues for staff attorney preparing Asylum Claims for Refugees apprearing before the Immigration Court in Buffalo, New York.http://www.vivelacasa.org/

Managed over 25 direct care staff who provided for the needs of eleven developmentally disabled residents in a group home setting. Responsible for staffing, scheduling, HR paperwork and household budgeting responsibilities. Ensured quality of care through ongoing supervision and training of resident assistants, developmental specialist, and other support staff as well as provided oversight and set expectations of professional clinicians providing care for residents. Met NYS Medicaid and OMRDD regulatory requirements for quality care as well as physical plant and fiscal accountability with outstanding state surveys/audits in multiple years with no deficiencies. http://www.people-inc.org/

Provided supervision of staff of approximately 25 employees. Successfully transitioned employee postions filled with full time employees to permanant part time and part time work study students while retaining all staff satisfactorily with positive morale and 100% staff retention after job shift and cut of 50% of hours worked per former full time individual staff. Provided training, paradigm shift and integration of student work study employees while earning respect and cohesive team work mentality of all staff after the transition.