• Serves as a spiritual leader to a large, engaging, and compassionate multi-generational community in coordination with clergy partners, assuming all rabbinic leadership and pastoral responsibilities while Senior Rabbi is away• Rabbinic duties include all aspects of the worship experience – planning and leading Shabbat Services, b’nei Mitzvah, High Holy Day Services, other holiday services, twice daily minyanim, and delivering sermons and divrei torah• Creates meaningful and transformative lifecycle events: funerals, shiva, weddings, brit milah, baby namings, b’nei mitzvah, hospital visits, and conversions• Serves as a passionate educator in Early Childhood Center, Religious School, Hebrew High, Beth El Junior College, College Connection, and Adult Education Program• Takes prominent leadership roles in fundraising and development campaigns• Serves as staff liaison and supervisor with oversight for numerous committees• Walked community neighborhoods, visiting live while socially-distanced with more than two-thirds of congregant families• Prepared "Daily Lift" video messages to inspire and strengthen congregants• Made phone calls and sent text messages expressing well wishes for congregant birthdays• Helped develop and launch Shomrim, a dues plus benefactor program• Initiated annual springtime High School Senior Send-Off to honor and sanctify the moment of transition as High School Seniors graduate and prepare for College• Led annual Confirmation Class (10th grade) trips to Israel, Federation Israel at 70 Mission, and JCRC interfaith leaders mission• Created Welcoming Ceremonies onboarding new members• Introduced community-building summer activities like ice-cream social and splash pad events• Visited campers at day and overnight camps and students on college campuses• Dramatically increased adult education participation with weekly “Live and Learn” series• Hosted AIPAC speakers; Spoke from 2018 AIPAC Policy Conference main stage

• Officiate worship for 500+ family congregation, honoring congregant celebrations and recognizing losses, with warmth and sensitivity to time. Empowered by rabbinic mentor to cover as sole rabbinic presence during rabbi’s vacation, business trips, and other occasions• Deliver sermons, adult education, and conversion study fusing Jewish wisdom, personal sharing, stories, humor, and contemporary issues• Cultivate relationships with members, planning meaningful lifecycle moments, providing pastoral guidance, offering spiritual care, and giving emotional support• Pioneer ‘playground minyan’ and envision early morning ‘little league Shabbat’ experiences, encouraging active family participation in synagogue life• Inspire congregational youth with age-appropriate religious school activities, cooperative High Holiday teen programming, speech coaching, and regional USY presence• Facilitate B'nei Mitzvah Project development and grow congregational conversion program with web-based project facilitation and conversion FAQ• Organize library; author Kol Nidre fundraising materials; witness Jewish divorce, conversions, and marriage; prepared chulent; interview staff candidates; engage local pastors in interfaith study• Accompany senior rabbi on pastoral visits; shadow meetings, counseling sessions, funerals, etc.

• Spearheaded celebration honoring completion of new Torah scroll, organizing and leading musical prayer and joyous dancing.• Helped facilitate Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremony for children with autism, paralysis, and Down syndrome.

• Entrusted teens to fundraise, collect and review grant proposals, and distribute over $20,000 to charitable organizations guided by philanthropic values derived from Jewish text study• Developed electives in Hebrew Games, Jewish Brainteasers, and Midrash Cartooning to engage 7th Grade students. Guided exploration of Jewish identity through curriculum of Prayer, Comparative Religion, Israel, and Shoah

• Coordinated operations of 30 employee department handling over $300M of material annually• Authored and administered annual reviews, monthly performance evaluations, and salary discussions; reconciled multi-departmental staffing models

One of fourteen chosen through national selection to one of the most prestigious fellowships in public affairs accepting only two percent of applicants in a national selection process. The nine-month, full-time, post-graduate fellowship prepares proven leaders through placement rotations, experiential learning, leadership training, consulting projects, group facilitations, site visits, and interviews with critical decision makers. Placements included: Office of Rep. Chelsa Wagner (PA House of Representatives, district 22)• Researched and analyzed campaign commitments, tracked legislative action to evaluate fulfilled and unfulfilled commitments; Proposed and researched legislation to curb disability placard abuse which was introduced by Rep. Wagner on 12-11-07Milestone Centers, Inc.• Designed process and evaluation tools for employee/management feedback in social entrepreneurship development for mental health services non-profitGirls Math & Science Partnership, Carnegie Science Center • Coordinated strategic donor development and classroom gender equity trainings; Developed first annual Report Design and event promotion; Budgeted museum-wide Design Squad weekendPNC Bank, Supply Chain Management Business / Financial• Tracked vendor follow-up process; Clarified vendor candidate evaluation; Developed plan to integrate benchmark data on industry best practice into PNC Supplier Diversity strategyCarnegie Mellon University, Government Relations• Designed adaptable White Paper template for faculty modification and use as lobbying deliverable; Benchmarked peer institutions and compiled best practices; Prepared and staffed Obama and McCain campaign campus visits

• Oversaw operations and budgets as head of largest student-governed business in the nation (over $75 million, 1,500 employees.) Services include apparel line, bookstore, food service, and international licensing.• Analyzed monthly financial statements for ASUCLA Services and Enterprises, Student Media, semi-annual internal ASUCLA audit, and annual external audit by Price Waterhouse Coopers• Developed marketing strategies and customer rewards promotions (ASUCLA Benefits U), resulting in record performance• Reviewed capital project construction (eg. South Campus Student Center), campus integration programs, security concerns, and contract negotiations• Issued factual consensus responses to protester and media inquiry, tempering volatile situations such as the Coke-Free Campus and AFSCME student-unionization campaigns• Initiated Board process and discussion regarding potential beer and wine service at an on-campus eatery, culminating with 2013 opening of Wolfgang Puck Express, UCLA's first venue with on-campus alcohol service

• Investigated underperformance of index funds relative to tracked indices due to soft dollar brokerage loophole abuse

• Assisted customers in purchases; developed effective customer service skills; operated cash register and delivered evening deposits; cleaned sales floor• Generated revenues far beyond individual wages by single-handedly organizing weekly Magic: the Gathering tournaments

• Prepared and ran laboratory tests; safely disposed of radioactive waste byproducts