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Saratoga Springs, Ny, Us

➤ Oversaw financial planning and budgeting, for the 2024 general election, ensuring the organization's fiscal integrity and operational efficiency.➤ Managed complex operations, including resource allocation, staff coordination, and system implementation to drive organizational success during the election cycle.➤ Led cross-functional teams to streamline processes and improve accountability, contributing to the strategic growth of Rally NC’s voter mobilization efforts for the 2024 election.

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

➤ Directed daily campaign operations, optimizing supply management, facilities, and communication among staff.➤ Delivered high-level administrative support, crafted impactful campaign materials and reports, orchestrated events, and expertly managed financial operations including budgeting and regulatory compliance.➤ Ensured strict adherence to legal regulations, and maintained financial records and timely reporting.

Houston, Texas, United States

➤ Planned, coordinated, and executed operating budgets for a $100+ million campaign.➤ Supervised, maintained, and approved a $1,300,000 payroll for over 500+ employees on a bi-weekly basis by filing and securing employee payroll information, transmitting, and verifying payroll. ➤ Created processes and procedures to hire, onboard, and offboard thousands of staff, including sourcing and placing staff in short-term and long-term housing across the state.➤ Designed and administered an online ordering system to ensure all staff and offices had the resources and materials necessary to succeed.

Albany, Ny

➤ Directly oversaw strategy, provided legislative analysis, advise, and impactful solutions during the height of New York City's COVID-19 outbreak and Police Reform demonstrations.➤ Led the day-to-day operations of the office, including compiling the Senator's Daily Book, and implemented the strategic plan, while managing staff at various levels of responsibility, including multiple consultant teams.➤ Effectively led Committees and other decision-making entities and collaborated with the Caucus Leadership team and Personnel Committee to establish the roles and responsibilities for each staff position and to hire staff as needed.➤ Evaluated employee effectiveness and restructured jobs as necessary, while managing core staff to ensure that operations were tracked for the achievement of producing results without micro-managing.➤ Organized the public argument for Democratic legislative leadership, and developed critical communications with activists, stakeholders, partners, consultants, allied organizations, and key constituencies.

Lake George, Ny

➤ Managed all aspects of a 500+ acre ranch resort in upstate New York located on the Hudson River, which included more than 60 rooms, 40 horses, and up to 45 full-time employees.➤ Directly oversaw a $2M renovation of the property, ensuring on-time and on-budget completion, as well as proactively identified substantial cost savings on repairs, contracts, payroll, and insurance claims.➤ Successfully networked with multiple television networks and movie studios to have the ranch featured on shows including “The Rachael Ray Show,” “Jersey Shore,” and “Good Morning America.”➤ Contributed to long-range operational and strategic planning, including preparing quarterly/annual management plans, while ensuring the optimal operation of the property and maintaining client relationships at the highest level.

Harrisburg, Pa

➤ Strategically advised on legislation, prepared bill analyses and identified key issues, and compiled the Senator's Daily Book.➤ Served as Democratic Executive Director of the Intergovernmental Operations Committee and Government Reform Caucus.➤ Effectively contributed to the strategic planning process as a key member of the management team, and provided thought leadership on overall direction, while formulating short-, mid-, and long-term strategies to advance priorities.➤ Drafted 100+ pieces of legislation and Senate resolutions aimed at passing reforms, while also leading the development, management, and evaluation of policy activities and overseeing grassroots efforts.➤ Attended hearings, and conducted staff and Member briefings, providing talking points and background materials to help make policies that represented progressive values for everyone.➤ Directly supervised an experienced Legislative Affairs team, including planning, assigning, leading, and evaluating the team's activities, including editing all written materials prior to publication.➤ Played a leading role in the development and cultivation of strategic partnerships with key stakeholders, including identifying opportunities for collaboration and devising appropriate staffing plans to accomplish plans and projects.➤ Conceptualized and shaped publications, briefings, and other materials, including policy explainers, as well as wrote opinion pieces to amplify policy priorities in order to move issue campaigns forward.➤ Led the development of internal and coalition-based strategies to expand support for key policies in cooperation with other members of the program team.➤ Supervised team members in closely tracking legislation, committee action, and floor activity, and spotted opportunities to solicit key research from policy experts and to conduct public education on timely policy topics.

Erie, Pa

➤ Won with 40% of the vote in a 5-person Primary Election, and despite being outspent 3-1, won a decisive 22-point victory in the General Election in a seat that had been previously held by a Republican for 16 years.➤ Effectively managed and advised the top ranked, highly competitive State Senate race in Pennsylvania, while owning all aspects of the campaign.➤ Managed day-to-day operations of campaigns, including fundraising, media, field, coordination, endorsements, policy research, scheduling, and legal compliance.➤ Implemented campaign plan strategy while supervising the candidate to ensure they were maximizing campaign time, raising campaign funds, and delegating to and managing volunteer activities.➤ Organized and conducted direct voter contact, and managed community and grassroots outreach, implementing all aspects of the field program, including paid/volunteer canvassing and phone-banking.➤ Worked alongside the candidate and caucus staff to meet deadlines and achieve goals.➤ Strategically managed a budget of $400K that included an aggressive digital and paid communications plan, including campaign messaging and debate preparation, resulting in an 85% growth of engagement in just 1 month.➤ Worked to secure key endorsements from influential organizations and people such as EMILY's List, The Erie Times News, and President Barack Obama.➤ Executed a successful targeted field program that resulted in over 64,000 doors knocked, and supervised the collection of more than 156K total voter contacts throughout the Senatorial District.Handled infrastructure needs, including identifying office and canvas launch locations, and maintained relationships with all partner organizations on the ground, as well as managed website, email, and social media presence.

➤ Actor & Body Double – Multiple TV Shows, including HBO's "The White House Plumbers" starring Woody Harrelson – Present➤ Assistant Manager of Transportation & COVID-19 Support – French Woods Festival – Summer 2021➤ Campaign Manager – Cicero Town Board, Cicero, NY – 09/2009 to 11/2009➤ Campaign Manager – Joe Nicoletti for Mayor, Syracuse, NY – 05/2009 to 09/2009➤ Campaign Manager – Vote Yes! For Our Neighbors, Cedar Rapids, IA – 02/2009 to 03/2009➤ Campaign Manager – Gretchen Lawyer for State Representative, Marion, IA – 04/2008 to 11/2008➤ Deputy Communications Director – Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee, Trenton, NJ – 08/2007 to 11/2007➤ President – Make College Votes Count, Orlando, FL – 08/2004 to 11/2004

Advanced Political Management

➤ Completed intensive training designed to take political organizing and management skills to the next level.

Education record

➤ Completed comprehensive campaign training program, covering all aspects of running a successful campaign.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science & Pre-Law