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• Support analysis of customer needs, market trends, and potential partnerships to inform product decisions• Translate high-level product strategies into detailed requirements for developer teams, ensuring smooth development phases• Work independently to track project dependencies, milestones, and deliverables to ensure successful implementation and deployment• Manage vendors and business partners to deliver work on schedule and within agreed upon scope

• Led teams of cross-functional and cross-site employees through two state-wide IT project deployments from planning to execution using agile methodology and iterative planning delivery cycles• Managed implementation and ensures transparency of projects by working with over 1200 key stakeholders, aligning on common priorities and goals and communicating risks• Tracked milestones, timelines, resources, and statuses of projects to ensure successful execution• Managed a core team of 7 contractors and full-time staff

• Developed and finalized the 2022 Williamson County Community Health Assessment

• Ensured alignment of work with county-wide health strategic objectives and drove effective collaboration across 30+ non-profits, hospital systems, government agencies, coalitions, and foundations (Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan)• Supervised cross-functional project teams that defined strategy and maintained project plans to completion for complex, concurrent multi-year projects• Delivered incremental and transformational business results that met the needs of project sponsor, product owner, and customer• Developed innovative solutions for complex public health problems amid stalling forces through continuous quality improvement while building trust and rapport with community members and project teamsCommittees• Williamson County Complete Count Committee, 2020 Census

Austin, Tx

• Developed a 40 week Green & Healthy curriculum for K-5th graders in Foundation Communities' after school learning centers

Austin, Tx

• Participated in Go Austin/Vamos Austin (GAVA) – a five-year evaluation of physical activity initiatives implemented in Doves Springs, TX and Texas Grow! Eat! Go! (TGEG) – an evaluation of the impact of two physical activity and nutrition interventions in Texas CATCH schools• Collected parent/student height and weights using a portable stadiometer and digital scale and entered parent/student survey data

Masters Of Public Health, Health Promotion And Behavioral Sciences

Global Health Concentration Thesis: Differences in the Association of Social Support for Health Eating and for Physical Activity.

Bachelor'S Degree, Nutritional Sciences

Bachelor’S Degree, Public Health