Distinctive Action - Decisive Impact: Consulting focused on organizational management, strategic framework, partnership development, resource management, creative placemaking and grant management. TEAM LEAD: Provide technical assistance, assessment of grant management systems and regulatory compliance support to recipients of the Dept of Housing and Urban Development grant program awards. • Provide technical assistance to Albany, GA Dept. of Community and Economic Development to review HUD programs policies and procedures. Help revise and update them to reflect current compliance requirements. o 2014 HUD programs value $12 mil met compliance through technical assistance.• Provide HUD program assessment and support to cities in Puerto Rico (Mayaguez, Ponce, Trujillo Alto, and Arecibo). o Improve Policies and Procedures, compliance documentation and reporting, and project monitoring. • Provide support to Iowa Finance Authority to analyze and provide guidance to improve management and data reporting for housing projects. o Agency successfully submitted program data for annual progress (CAPER) reporting.TEAM MEMBER • Provide technical assistance to NSP grant recipients (PA (programs value $64 mil, 867 units completed); Southfield, MI (programs value $4.3 mil, 91 units completed); Pontiac, MI; Douglas County, GA (program value $1.6 mil, 15 units completed); Fulton County, GA). o Expenditure milestones met. HUD national objectives met, and compliance reporting is completed on time. Ready for grant closeout procedures.• Smithsonian Institution Anacostia Community Museum Strategic Plan: Facilitate and provide logistics support to Museum's strategic/ action planning process. Develop new vision and mission. Resulted in development of published strategic plan.• Walter Reed Army Medical Center: Team member to facilitate the Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s strategic planning process. Resulted in plan to consolidate medical facilities and services (TRICARE).

Provide technical assistance, advisory, and consultant services to support housing, economic, transportation, neighborhood, and green space development along the West North Ave corridor of Baltimore. Provide consultant services toward arts and culture/creative placemaking strategies development that support revitalization within the corridor.Responsibilities include:• Review and monitor State, Regional and City planning and development activities to ensure alignment with the Authority's comprehensive economic, housing, transportation, neighborhood, and green space development plans and FY focus areas.• Determine if State, City, and Authority grant funds and financing are efficient and effective in achieving the comprehensive plan's goals, objectives, & FY strategies.• Review and recommend changes to current zoning and land uses that will accelerate economic development growth without displacement.• Review & recommend grants and financing that align and support the Authority's comprehensive plan initiatives.• Provide support & technical assistance to the development officers team: Economic Development Officer, Housing and Neighborhood Development Officer, Transportation Development Officer, Green Space Development and Environment Health Officer, and Policy and Research Analyst.• Research and provide recommendations to implement creative approaches to advance economic, housing, transportation, & neighborhood development projects & opportunities.• Review and assess materials from Arts & Culture entities and key community stakeholders, as well as research additional creative placemaking strategies to develop goals, objectives, and strategies for Arts & Culture as an additional neighborhood component in the West North Avenue Comprehensive Plan. • Conduct outreach and hold community engagement/ focus meetings to encourage full participation in the revitalization efforts, which includes efforts to fortify a sustainable creactive economy and ecosystem.

Platform and ecosystem development to optimize food, nutrition, and healthcare delivery. The startup initiative strived to provide trusted connecting points for communication between a practitioner and patients/ clients for long term health change with more sustainable benefits and outcomes. The objectives were to provide access to nutritional information from meal and recipe planning, to source healthy affordable shopping recommendations from a health provider and dietician practitioner level and an individual patient or client level, as well as connect food partners. It joined experienced and diverse team members – community, management, technology and health professionals - to explore ways to create healthier, sustainable, prosperous, equitable and inclusive communities through a place-based community oriented focused initiative. Performed organizational management, partnership & resource development, and liaison management functions. facilitate the strategic framework and business plan development. Help to identify collaborators to provide resources to support technical or programmatic aspects of initiative. Support outreach and communication with community/ stakeholder groups.

The 2023 Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Creative Placemaking and Leadership Summit was produced by a partnership that included the Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs, Jersey City Theater Center, Northern New Jersey Community Foundation, LISC Greater Newark, Dennison Associates and Creative Placemaking Communities. The four day Summit brought together over 250 civic and cultural leaders, virtually and/ or in-person in Jersey City, NJ at Hudson County Community College Culinary Conference Center to explore ways to grow healthier, sustainable, prosperous, equitable and inclusive communities through place-based community focused initiatives.Performed functions with respect to the funding and partnership development, liaison management and on-site logistical support at the Summit. Tasks include: * Fundraise to support planning efforts, programmatic support, session development, scholarships and operational costs; * Liaison Management to help identify collaborators and partners to provide resources to support logistics or programmatic aspects of The Summit;* Support outreach and communication with community groups;* Participate in planning meetings and participate in workgroup sessions;* Support on-site logistical activities at The Summit.Participants explored issues of activating and/ or leveraging cultural assets, gentrification, how to engage and impact communities’ vibrancy and sense of place, planning use of open public spaces, food security (local and international), youth programs, and economic and community development opportunities - and other topical issues. The Summit provided a peer to peer learning experience, information exchange and networking opportunities.In addition, The Summit spotlighted Greenville in Jersey City, a community experiencing tremendous community, housing and economic development changes. The Greenville Strategy Lab half day session provided strategic focus on cultural preservation and cultural entrepreneurship.

Accelerate Hudson (AH) is an initiative spearheaded by the Hudson County Chamber of Commerce (HCCC) to advance a more inclusive and equitable place-based model of economic opportunity and community development that benefits more people. Identified pillars/priorities included: Inclusive Economic Development, Talent & Leadership Development, Advocacy and Capacity Building. AH, the Chamber’s effort to transition from the previous strategic plan, builds on the strategic framework developed to focus on the current conditions and dynamics to determine holistically and collaboratively with Chamber members and other stakeholders on how best to make impact within Hudson County and the region. Areas of focus included:• Research and facilitate conversations with a selected focus groups of area and HCCC stakeholders.• Benchmark and comparative research on similar organizations to HCCC.• Marketing and communication planning.• Funding development research and planning, including tiered membership program transition.• Research, identify and plan new or scale existing initiatives which fit within the identified AH pillars.The Hudson County Chamber of Commerce commissioned a consultant team to conduct a collaborative planning process and establish a Strategic Framework to help guide and advance the Chamber’s philanthropic and community impact efforts. The initiative supported the Chamber’s role as an ‘Anchor Institution,’ in order to expand economic opportunities for its members, improve the regional quality of life, and serve as a possible model for other Chambers. Identified areas of focus included:• Identify and Prioritize Chamber Foundation Initiatives• Create an Inclusive Economic Platform for strategic initiatives to support a vibrant and inclusive community economy.The process included research and data collection, Committee work group sessions, Stakeholder interviews, SWOT analysis preparation, Impact Statement Developed and recommendations for implementation.

Census Field Manager — Jersey City Area Census OfficeResponsibilities: Manage, provide oversight and coordinate the activities of field data collection and directly supervise an assigned team of Census Field Supervisors, Office Operations Supervisors andoffice support Clerks.      • Directly supervise approximately 15-17 Census Field Supervisors. • Provide group and individual training, monitor daily assignments, review and certify payroll, and provide guidance to subordinate staff. • Establish an effective working relationship with CFM team. • Establish relationship with traditionally hard-to-enumerate populations or with specific populations indigenous to the area within the community. Assist the Area Census Office Manager (ACOM) in the maintenance of effective public relations and problem solving with community leaders, organizations, and local government officials.         • Identify and help recruit sites for the CFS and Enumerator trainings.·        • Manage production and quality goals, data protection and progress of field operations through analysis of various computer-generated reports and observation. Take corrective action as needed.·        • Determine the appropriate number of field staff needed and assist with recruitment and hiring of staff to complete field Group Quarters (GQ) and Non Response Follow Up (NRFU) operations.• Ensure the safety of CFS and Enumerator staff.

Arts & Culture, Community Development, and Creative Placemaking ConsultingProvided management consulting services to Newark Arts and directly support the Executive Director, and the Executive staff, regarding corporate and philanthropic partnership development. Support strategic initiatives to a create vibrant cultural ecosystem, support community revitalization, generate economic growth in arts and culture activities, and support robust and healthy creative sector activities.• Provide strategic work and analysis to develop partnerships with community, civic, and private sector stakeholders, artists and cultural workers that will help create arts-based solutions that contribute to the social, civic, and economic outcomes for Newark. • Provide business donor development support to develop and/ or assemble major donor materials such as proposals, appeals and sponsorship pieces. • Provide client database management support (Donor Perfect Online donor/ client management system). • Work with staff to identify, analyze, determine gaps, and make utilization recommendations to Donor Perfect, client management system to improve data management and capacity to coordinate with donors and Board.• Provide logistical and facilitation support to Newark Creates – a city-wide cultural plan and strategic community engagement initiative.

Served to advance the mission and agenda of the Arts Council: To be an ambassador and advocate for the arts in Jersey City. JCAC supports artists, builds sustainability and promotes arts and culture in the community. • Articulate, and communicate the value of the arts and culture to improve quality of life, advocate for arts and culture sustainability and economic development, and promote community support of the arts and the Arts Council. • Develop template for organization’s Strategic Plan and action plan. • Develop bylaws and budget. • Prepare paperwork with legal team for incorporation, nonprofit, and charity application filing. • Raise the awareness and increase the dialogue among area stakeholders to expand and develop areas of support to make arts, culture and design an integral element of community development and urban planning strategies.