Raquel Carrion Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Provide Disaster Recovery Program Management services to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) for Hurricane Sandy.Reporting directly to the Program Manager, overseeing special projects for NYCHA’s Office of Recovery & Resiliency.Serving as liaison between grants management, design oversight & construction management teams to manage $3B construction budget of 50+projects across the five boroughs.Project manager for NYCHA’s $50M application for the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program,Acted as point of contact for the Mayor’s Office of Recovery & Resiliency for reporting schedules, budgets and scope.Provide continued assistance to the programs FEMA Recovery Lead for scope alignments as well as versioning of Category B Emergency PW’s.

Greater New York City Area

Worked on behalf of NYCHA to secure the largest grant in FEMA history for a single applicant, under FEMA’s 428- Public Assistance Alternative Procedures (PAAP) program, authorized under the Sandy Recovery Improvement Act (SRIA). Negotiations resulted in the development of 33 individual project worksheets with an aggregate of $2.8B in eligible costs.

New York, Ny

Greater New York City Area

• Managed mayoral candidate’s comprehensive schedule to include meetings, forums, media appearances as well as candidates personal schedule• Initiated exploratory committee and assembled campaign leadership team • Managed $1M plus campaign business accounts & payroll administration for 20 person campaign staff • On site Treasurer reporting to New York City’s Campaign Finance Board and New York State Board of Elections; responsibilities included regular submitting financial reports and regulatory compliance

Greater New York City Area

• Tasked with prospecting and recruiting a target list of potential high yield accounts • Responsible for meeting monthly sales quota and acquiring a large numbers of new clients• Assisted in development of local marketing initiatives • Represented company at National industry tradeshows in local industry events

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Founded and developed first student-run business at Occidental College• Managed $200,000+ budget of initial institution investment and brought business from out of the red and into the black within first year of operation • Responsibilities included employee hiring, training, and evaluations, purchasing supplies, vendor contracting and scheduling for a 50-student/employee operation

Greater New York City Area

• Utilized PR software to research and contact more than 1,000 publications and media outlets daily • Constructed press clipbooks containing extensive media coverage of clients in Adobe Photoshop• Organized red carpet events with 300+ guests, leading in press check-in and trouble shooting

Greater New York City Area

• Managed media at large-scale campaign events• Performed data analysis of election patterns and demographic statistics• Prepared briefing reports for campaign executives

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology

Activities and Societies: President, Alpha Lambda Phi Alpha

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