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Oakland, Ca

Washington D.C.

Managed personnel matters including screened employee applications, conducted interviews, and promoted continuing education for team staff. Monitored production reports for 65 grantees to evaluate progress and work with grantees to increase outcomes.• Led the creation of the Project Reinvest Financial Capability (PRFC) disbursement process. Train and supervise staff to make over $30 million dollars in grant disbursement payments to financial counseling agencies.

Washington D.C.

Defined grant metrics and synthesized content for quarterly and monthly report used by diverse stakeholders. Supervised work of a specialist to update grant documentation and procedures. • Tailored the grant determination procedure and executed a new round of a $1.7 million foreclosure grant program.

Washington D.C.

Managed and maintained a national data collection system to assure data quality for over 200 grantees. Provided high caliber customer service as subject matter expert for data system development call enhancements, fixes, and reports.• Developed and implemented a successful $40 million grant allocation methodology for the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling NFMC Round 10.

Washington D.C.

Enhanced and implemented grant allocation methodology to strategically target neighborhoods affected by foreclosure crisis. Created and implemented a new reallocation process guaranteeing a 10-business day turnaround time and provided VP of Foreclosure Mitigation a corresponding decision-making tool. • Managed the procurement of data and consulting services for $20,000, saving the program over $5,000 for services. To replicate success, the procurement documentation was adopted as the standard approach for future procurements.

Washington D.C.

Created and developed bi-weekly one-page production reports for 92 grantees to track and manage production pipeline. Created and developed a one-page Compliance Dashboard for United States Department of Treasury to track compliance performance. • Developed bottleneck analysis to monitor and reduce the potential interruptions in the production pipeline.

Arlington, Va

Developed data collection and reporting framework for United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) $230 million Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI). • Defined over 250 performance measures used to evaluate neighborhood revitalization for CNI, bringing all data on people, places, and housing together in one report so that all stakeholders/ funders could easily see the progress of the project and what effects their financial support was having on the community.

Philadephia And New York City

Produced a report on the relocation of the Javits Convention Center for the Regional Plan Association. • Designed and created a retail corridor revitalization plan for the South Street Head House District Philadelphia, PA.

Berkeley, Ca

Provided market and demographic analysis of transit-oriented development along Phoenix’s Light Rail Transit System. • Created an economic feasibility model analyzing a mixed-use development for the City of Sebastopol.

Master, City And Regional Planning

Public/Private Development, Community and Economic Development

Bachelor Of Arts, History

Thesis topic: Reconstruction and Development of San Francisco 1906-1915