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Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Responsible for recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and training over 1,000 election officials for the Durham County Board of Elections, which administers elections for over 230,000 registered voters. Primary position functions include overseeing departmental training and recruitment of personnel; developing standard operating procedures to ensure compliance with election law; creating and maintaining the annual divisional budget; creating an emergency response and activation plan for precinct officials and managing a team of temporary workers that respond to incidents; utilizing instructional methodologies such as ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) during the training/curriculum development process; using Articulate Storyline 360 to develop e-learning content; facilitating in-person training classes; developing training materials using Adobe InDesign; utilizing TalentLMS to evaluate learner progress and performance metrics; managing the recruitment, onboarding and retention of election officials through VolunteerHub management software; operating social media platforms used by the Durham County Board of Elections (Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter).

United States

Responsible for overseeing financial and auditing functions for the Durham County Board of Elections. Primary position functions included processing requisitions, contracts, and vendor invoices; assisting in the development of the departmental budget, which annually exceeds $2 million; processing payroll for regular and temporary employees; processing procurement card statements; auditing campaign finance reports and reporting discrepancies to the State Board of Elections; overseeing candidate filing; acting as a liaison to the Training and Development/Recruitment division on instructional design and technology; and designing and managing departmental standard operating procedure documents.

Altus, Oklahoma

Responsible for merging multimedia strategies such as audio, video, graphic design, and web design with a systematic approach to create engaging training materials. Primary position functions included assisting with the development of training programs and coursework using the Instructional System Development (ISD) process; assisting with the development of ISD products and reviewing government-furnished materials (GFMs); developing training materials using KC-135 Advanced Management System, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Word for classrooms, Computer-Based Training (CBT), Instructor-Led Training (ILT), Aircrew Training Devices (ATD), Part Task Trainers (PTT), and video modules; digitizing photographs for integration into presentations and web pages; conducting peer reviews to verify production under established quality standards; and proactively prioritizing efforts to meet course milestones.

Lawton, Oklahoma

Responsible for overseeing the equitable distribution of branch funds to eligible clientele while ensuring loan compliance. Primary position functions included managing a staff of three customer service specialists; creating training content for direct reports to increase company clientele; ensuring account gain through proven ethical loan judgments while providing effective customer solicitation; maintaining, developing, and implementing departmental compliance policies and procedures in alignment with all federal and state lending regulations; minimizing delinquent debt through various legal collections activities; maintaining departmental budget and accounts payable/receivable records; and ensuring compliance with company record-keeping procedures.

Lawton, Oklahoma

Responsible for ensuring compliance with state and federal lending regulations and company policies, guaranteeing prompt completion of loan applications, minimized delinquent debt through collection activities both via telephone and fieldwork. Assisted with employee training in all areas of the branch.

Lawton, Oklahoma

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Multimedia Design

Master Of Science - Ms, Instructional Design And Technology