Mk Holody, Mpaff, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Remote

Denver, Colorado, United States

-Oversight of 40 community giving day platforms-Train, supervise, and manage virtual team of four Project Managers - platform configuration to project management processes to client relationship management-Run weekly cross-departmental meeting with the goals of increased efficiency, communication, and collaboration-Exercise strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills-Balance long-term thinking with hands-on delivery-Gather business requirements for projects and initiatives for alignment in execution-Manage the nation's largest community giving day producing 4 events since 2018; ticker totals across the four events totaling $177 Million; act as account owner, project manager, strategic consultant, technical support; design, develop, implement, configure, test, and maintain the database design and functionality driving the public and administrative sites-Effective communications with senior leadership-Comfortable with complex conversations both with the client and internal teams-Perform highly technical development, configuration and implementation and anticipate and mitigate ripple effects-Upgrade sales scoping-Product feature backports, deployment, training

-Giving Days platform SME: leadership, strategy, consultation, growth, best practices, product development-Technical sales-Database consultation, design, configuration and implementation-Train & onboard new project managers-Manage portfolio of high-profile, comp-Internal training on relational database design, proprietary database software language and project management best practices

Denver, Colorado

-Conduct database design, development and configuration of a low-code database solution-Build technology solutions for nonprofits allowing them to build organizational capacity and report more meaningful and impactful data-Manage Giving Day platform configuration and feature deployment for diverse foundation clients, including the country's largest giving day which raised $48 million in 18 hours-CSS/HTML-Synthesize client, user, and business needs into clear project requirements -Deliver projects within scope, budget, and schedule-Value and respect clients as partners-Scope upgrade proposals-Provide technical assistance to clients and internal Customer Success team

Greater Denver Area

• Administer tuition assistance grants and scholarships totaling $1.4 million to 11 schools and 950 students in the Archdiocese of Denver• Coordinate with schools and foundations regarding the administration, distribution and maintenance of records for all assistance programs• Worked with an outside vendor on the design, testing iterations, implementation, and roll-out of a new web-based tuition assistance application database• Created training manual for application entry into the new database; conducted a training session for approximately 15 school principals and key staff members• Successfully supported school staff members during the transition from a spreadsheet-based to database driven system• Having determined total number of eligible applicants given the complete nature of the application and supporting materials and adherence to income guidelines, used the Fiscal Year 2016 budget to determine total funding allocations to each school for the 2015-2016 school year• Investigated and analyzed project management tools available to the organization; presented findings and recommendations to supervisor• Conduct ad-hoc research analyzing historical tuition assistance programs, recipients, and fund distribution in support of board member and donor inquiries• Created FAQ in response to closure of a school which had been supported by Seeds of Hope; FAQ audience was parents, schools, and community members• Updated tuition assistance application to reflect a focus on increased data collection and ease of use for schools and parents/guardians

Arvada

• Achieved project activation goals of a high-priority 60-site study roll-out organized to meet federal regulatory requirements and internal standard operating procedures.• Identified a problematic data pattern; enacted a cross-functional problem-solving initiative to successful resolution. • Continuously communicated, facilitated and accepted feedback from finance, legal and compliance departments in management of contractual agreements from initiation to final execution. • Demonstrated responsible financial oversight in managing the selection of new vendors and negotiating multi-million dollar, multi-year study agreements.• Mentored and developed junior employee; created and provided department-specific on-boarding materials to new department employees.• Promoted team morale with regular, virtual team building exercises; increased team communications, project compliance, and project knowledge attainment through internal needs assessments and appropriate material production.• Produced four national Investigator Meetings compliant with organizational and federal Health Care Provider regulations; created and deployed marketing collateral.• Led post-market study data recovery efforts, which saw increases of up to 50%, through full engagement with clinical field staff, sales representatives and sites.

Greater Denver Area

• Skillfully engaged in positive customer relationship building with current clients identifying reasons for disconnect, overcoming objections and acknowledging areas for improvement to create a positive customer experience; established open lines of communications with potential clients to obtain their business.• Sold and upsold catering services through confident presentation of capabilities and willingness to negotiate, manage budget constraints and create event specific menus.• Initiated ongoing feedback process with students, meeting coordinators and meeting attendees to provide the best possible value proposition. • Provided direction, supervised and motivated 10 catering employees to execute 20 – 40 weekly events in line with organizational standards; arranged staff work schedules to both minimize resource expenditure and allow for last minute event coverage; empowered staff to anticipate needs, provide solutions and exceed customer expectations.

Austin, Texas Area

• Assisted sponsorships for a 500-rider charity bike ride -- prospect identification and solicitation.• The ride's final fundraising efforts of $400,000, benefited non-profits serving breast cancer patients, survivors, and their families.

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed operational activities of the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation & Commercialization including strategic marketing and communications, alliance creation, relationship building and event management. • Maintained data and reports on the activities of a $60m regional investment portfolio.• Led the regional deal selection committee -- recruited potential candidates, hired and trained members.• Greatly surpassed average state funding rate of 30%, seeing a 70% funding rate for recommended regional start-ups; successfully funded regional companies saw an average $2m per deal.• Coached scores of start-up companies through application and funding rounds -- analyzing business plans, providing pitch reviews and identifying strategic relationships with mentors and universities.• Participated in due diligence activities of life sciences companies.• Educated over 400 regional entrepreneurs via quarterly learning sessions at a university incubator.• Navigated the politics of regional business funded economic development, city governments, and gubernatorial relations.

Austin, Texas Area

• Deployed corporate reputation and communication management skills to provide top-level clients with strategic guidance on mitigating and resolving crises and building trust with key audiences.• Coordinated document revision flow in a fast-paced, high-stress and deadline-oriented environment helping clients turn their reputation into competitive advantage.

Austin, Texas Area

• Identified abnormal expenditures per federal and corporate requirements and initiated corrections for any outliers.• Tracked, reported and delivered accurate project cost controls of large-scale engineering delivery projects to Project Managers enabling achievement of project budget goals.

Austin, Texas Area

• Provided research used to establish collaborative relationships with community leaders, organizations, and corporations to market and coordinate the fundraising efforts of a successful development campaign.• Created and delivered inspiring pitches targeted at education and solicitation of donations.

Austin, Tx

• Developed and taught individualized early childhood literacy tutoring plans for at-risk first graders. • Created and led after school curriculum for classes of up to 20 kindergarten through second graders.• Volunteered with community building events for a variety of nonprofits.

Mankato, Mn

• Developed a safety plan process to analyze and document all manufacturing floor work processes, developed work process documentation training materials, and personally trained safety teams and all employees in each of the three shifts on correct process conduct and documentation.• Audited the manufacturing floor to capture all products and chemicals in-use throughout the fifty year old manufacturing facility; reviewed, obtained, and updated Material Safety Data Sheets accordingly.

Mpaff, Public Affairs, Nonprofit Management

Activities and Societies: Brown Bag Speaker Series Manager, Follies Theater Producer, Student Organization Leader, Great Society Fund.

B.S., Business Management

Activities and Societies: All American Marching Band Golduster Dance Line Women's Club Lacrosse Barbara G. Doster Leadership.