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Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Greater Denver Area

• Administered a $70 million disaster recovery program with tight two-year funding deadlines by organizing and prioritizing workload.• Collaborated with and led subrecipient teams to design and monitor project timelines, milestones, progress reports, and performance measures to ensure they completed the project on time, within budget, and in compliance with policies and requirements. Creating high performing teams completing 20 large infrastructure projects.• Implemented continual process improvements such as implementing a policy for Davis-Bacon regulation review and improving the efficiency of the reviews• Reviewed and reconciled budget from three different grant funding allocations, managed by three different offices on two different accounting software.• Coordinated with federal agency, state partners, and subrecipients to close-out 19 large infrastructure projects and prepare the CDBG-DR Infrastructure program to close out.• Ensured compliance with federal requirements by monitoring sub grantee policies and procedures.• Ensured team members were properly reviewing reimbursement requests and procurement, providing the final eligibility review before payment of reimbursements.

Centennial, Co

• Greatly increased the capacity of subrecipients and eliminated risk by researching and maintaining up-to date knowledge on grant requirements and regulations, developing and maintaining excellent relationships with the subrecipients, providing daily knowledge management and trainings.• Acting as the main contact, initiated and maintained effective relationships with clients and administrative support staff providing guidance and tailoring communications effectively, communicating complex ideas to stakeholders from diverse backgrounds.• Identified eligibility and reimbursed $37 million by identifying issues with compliance and compiling documentation to ensure eligibility on reimbursements.• Prevented problems and ensured that solutions were found in an efficient manner through proactively reviewing procurement documents, timelines, milestones, and reports to anticipate problems.• Maintained organized files in accordance with federal requirements, demonstrating all areas of grant compliance and ensuring a quick close-out.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Supported knowledge management, articulating innovative ideas and implementing an awards database with linked pivot charts and power point presentations, to improve internal data management and portfolio presentation to stakeholders.• Demonstrated integrity and attention to detail, quickly learning Save the Children systems and procedures in order to maintain effective and efficient management of award funds, programming, and monitoring and evaluation of Save the Children Awards while the permanent award manager was on deployment. • Administered the award management cycle of USAID OFDA awards, editing and submitting quarterly reports, reviewing financial reports and submitting requests for wire transfers of funds, and preparation of budget and phasing for multiyear awards.• Built positive relationships with the respective team both in the field and in Washington in order to maintain award status and communications with country offices to stay on top of contract requirements. • Prioritized and completed tasks on time, producing contractual documents including budget and reporting schedules for sub awards, award extensions, no cost extensions, and award amendments.

• Managed the implementation of the monitoring systems enhancement project by building positive relationships with the team, securing resources, structuring team assignments, scheduling and facilitating meetings, leading status calls, drafting meeting minutes, creating and following the project schedule ensuring action items were followed up.• Provided data visualization to report and review financial documentation such as expense reports through the creation of a budget data tracker and to assure that invoices were correct and the projects stayed on budget.• Provided knowledge management support, reviewing the program team’s use of the program management application, and presented and implemented lessons learned and best practices for the team to use the tool to its full potential and improve project time estimation.

Honduras

• Multitasked and prioritized the management of a cumbersome portfolio in a high pressure and rapidly changing environment, efficiently supporting several milt-million dollar programs through producing and monitoring programmatic and financial documents ensuring efficient management of funds, programming, and monitoring and evaluation; receiving the Meritorious Honor award from the Ambassador for support of those programs during a time of high pressure and change.• Proved respectful and professional, successfully collaborating with teammates from diverse backgrounds to create the new country strategy and assess country programs; receiving the Meritorious Honor Group award from the Ambassador.• Increased public awareness and government and private sector support by preparing and managing communications materials, events, drafting and tracking memos, and creating schedules for the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, executive visitors from the U.S. Congress and USAID, and events for launching new government programs.• Organized and restructured files for several multi-million dollar programs that had been neglected by previous employees for more than four years preparing for an audit.• Supported knowledge management, collaborating with headquarters in a mid-term strategy review compiling reports and surveys outlining the office’s portfolio and key accomplishments, challenges, and lessons learned increasing knowledge of the portfolio in the U.S and amplifying congressional support.• Successfully prioritized and organized the travel logistics and paperwork for 34 people to travel to a conference in Guatemala with an extremely tight timeline of only a week.• Led the procurement of assessments and evaluation projects by designing scopes of work, preparing Acquisition and Assistance Requests, and support documentation.

Honduras

• Researched and gathered information on Mysql and Openmrs, self-teaching the software in order to manage the Data Informatics program, resulting in successfully creating, maintaining, and analyzing data for 30,000 patients.• Increased productivity and quality by training and supervising over 1,500 university students in the use of the medical records system as shown by improved data output.• Created systems and procedures to maintain effective and efficient management of administrative, technical, and financial aspects of the Data Informatics program.• Established team workloads, training manuals, benchmarks, and objectives and other policies and procedures successfully increasing employee motivation and participation by 30 %.• Supplied figures and reports for the monitoring and evaluation of other Global Brigades programs by creating, tracking, and monitoring targets to show community trends and to provide outcome indicators.• Increased student and stakeholder support by building and maintaining professional relationships, responding to requests for information, writing and sharing success stories, and using other marketing tools to distribute project information.• Managed all administrative, technical, and financial aspects of the Data Informatics program.• Assisted in the cultural sensitivity training of 80 employees.• Lead the leadership training at the Global Brigades Women’s Conference.

Honduras

• Taught program management to the local government installing systems and procedures to maintain effective and efficient management of funds, programming, and monitoring and evaluation; therefore improving their capacity for development and ensuring that activities were complimentary to the Government of Honduras’ overall strategy. • Excelled continuously in a work environment under conditions of ongoing change, remaining flexible, professional, and respectful of a multicultural setting to implement programs, policies, and strategic plans with the Women’s Office in the local government increasing women’s development throughout the municipality.• Effectively prioritized and organized the needs of the community in order to present solutions for development.• Increased workforce development and served as a positive role model by training and certifying at-risk youth in computer proficiency in Windows, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, the Internet, and Email. • Successfully wrote a proposal, and obtained a USAID grant for the construction of 76 improved household stoves to improve health, efficiency and reduce environmental impact.• Presented over 75 public lectures to more than 600 at-risk youth on topics ranging from civic education to Project Design Management.• Developed programs, policies, and strategic plans with the Women’s Office in the local government increasing women’s development throughout the municipality.• Enhanced the strategic planning of the district’s educational department by implementing programs for surveying community educational needs ; created a strategic plan with schools for the development of the areas in need.• Adapted to and effectively worked in an intercultural environment.• Empowered women and youth through creation of 18 women’s civic groups aimed at enhancing their self-esteem, violence prevention, independence, and ability to handle small businesses.

International Administration, Conflict Resolution And Good Governance, 3.73

Activities and Societies: Future International Administration Professionals Latin American Student Association DU Peace Corps Community

Bachelor Of Arts, International Studies; Spanish

Activities and Societies: • GPA: 3.42 • Financed educational expenses through continuous part-time and summer employment.

Bachelor Of Arts, International Studies; Latin America

Financed educational expenses through continuous part-time and summer employment.

Education record

Education record