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.

-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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.