Gourmet Gent Culinary Services & Supply Co., serves as a boutique-style, culinary concierge service, committed to offering highly customized dining experiences ranging from Personal Chef Services, Special Event Catering, and Luxury Social Dining Experiences ranging from intimate dinners for two or multi-course dining experiences for a few. Accomplishments-Serves as a Contract Chef for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Aramark Sports and Entertainment. -Serves as an Independent Chef Consultant For the American Heart Association.-Provide Personal Chef Services To NFL Pro Bowl Athelete Deznel, New York Times Best Selling Author, Omar Tyree, and America’s Smooth Jazz artist, Najee.-Featured on several news outlets, ranging from Fox 8 News with David Moss, to sharingholiday recipes with Josh and Marie Cribbs on Channel 19 News and the list go on.-2019 Season 9 Master Chef (Top 40) Competitor -Brand Ambassador for Barney Butter, Buckeye Vodka, etc.-Provided Chef Services for over (300) Personal & Private clients. Well, over 10,000 people have been served.-Facilitated over (100+) cooking classes and food demonstrations.

Coordinate and arrange services for students and families to help mitigate any issues that impede on their educational success and social well-being. Strategically build relationships with external partners and community service providers including satellite mental health clinics, in-school legal and health services, after-school providers, and any other identified services.Serves as liaison between support staff, external service providers, DCFS staff, and partners in efforts to develop and assess individual student growth plans, and data-driven interventions and outcomes.

Recruited, Advised, and completed individual success plans for (383). Coordinated experiential college tours and enrichment field trips.Completed extensive data collection & assessed student learning outcomes to compile several comprehensive reports and vocal perspectives for Federal documents and program evaluations.

-Collaboratively developed and monitored the progress of all SSS programming, services, and activities, ensuring that each reflects a commitment to academic excellence, diversity, and student success.-Served on relevant campus committees where TRIO student needs overlap with university needs; -Analyzed & manage data; documented ETS performance indicators and completed reports, including the US Department of Education’s Annual Performance Report (APR). -Designed a Male Mentoring Initiative called the G4 Mentoring Series, which was housed at (4) targeted schools within the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Committee-Served as professional member of the College's Black American Council (March 2019-Present)-Served as the Co-Chair for the Administrative Coordinators Committee (August 2019-Present)Achievements Successfully Completed A Design Sprint Training (Innovation Champion Training)Certified as a Mental Health First Aid Responder by the National Council For Behavioral Health.Certified as a Safe Zone Ally-Completed (70) hours of Professional Development Training.

Provided ongoing support to nearly (1000) students to help them eliminate barriers that may impede their collegiate success (i.e. college advisement, holistic counseling, life skills coaching, tutoring, mentoring, resource referral, community advocate, etc) Furthermore, I manage the Academic Success Division of the Center for Male Engagement and coordinate quality programming opportunities & leadership development activities. Oversaw the management and execution of over (300) events and programs. Prepared and managed the annual budget for Academic Learning Specialist and Student Support Programming.Accomplishments: Was presented with the President's Award for Distinguished Service to the Community College of Philadelphia.Offered professional consultation and provided students with the necessary advisement to acquire over $50K in scholarships & educational support funding.Forged strategic partnerships within the local Philadelphia business community in efforts to help launch a pilot internship program. Corporate partnerships were successfully built and established with companies such as Johnson and Johnson, Parx Casino, Boys Scouts of America, and Comcast.Cultivated strategic partnerships and collaborative relationships with college constituents, external partners, community & nonprofit organizations & faith-based communities to produce mutually beneficial outcomes, high-quality programs & events, civic engagement experiences, mentorship pairings, employment, and various scholarship opportunities, which have amounted to to over 50k in scholarships. Provided visionary leadership and coordinated a multifaceted, college orientation and registration program for targeted populations which helped to generate over (90K) in student tuition fees. Led leadership efforts and served as the project manager surrounding all elements of program development, budgetary oversight, curriculum development, logistics, etc.

Licensed, REALTOR committed to providing top-notch service in areas of rental and residential real estate. Personally abides by the strict Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice adopted by the National Association of REALTORS. Am I also Personal &Recognized Member of :National Association of Realtors (NAR) Pennsylvania Association of Realtors (PAR)Greater Philadelphia Association of Realtors (GPAR)Counseled and advised clients on market conditions, mortgage prices, lending rates, and various legal requirements to best educate clients on purchasing decisions that best align with their financial needs in efforts to best act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers, sellers, mortgage lenders, etc.

Implemented and designed social development programs to support personal growth and career development. Mediated interpersonal problems with students, utilizing empathy and management techniques.

Maintained classroom environments conducive to effective learning & adopted instructional practices to follow lesson plans outlined by the absent teacher.

Provided career coaching and individual consultation to help transitional and displaced workers reposition themselves in today’s global and every changing workforce. .

Short-Term, Summer ContractManaged administrative functions and the day-to-day operations of building management for 200+ students. Designed and implemented academic, health, teambuilding and special programs/initiatives to promote healthy living, skill development, and community development (i.e. Family Day, Workout Wednesday/Team Days, and Community Mentor Programs.) Rewarding experience- One of the many benefits that resulted from this experience is being surrounded by excellent leaders, a wonderful staff, and hundreds of bright students with bright futures.

Provided leadership, management and vision for a complex residential program system. Oversaw staff supervision, student and community development, administration, building management and professional and leadership development. Supervised a team of 10 Residential Assistants, while overseeing the well-being of (361) students.

Planned blood drives and developed creative strategies to attract, manage, and retain potential and existing blood donors to ensure that collection goals were met. Developed recruitment strategies to help establish a team of volunteers to promote and organize campus blood drives. Accomplishment: Collected over 1000 pints of blood and set campus records for blood drive collections

Coordinated monthly social activities and designed marketing materials for events such as monthly international coffee hours, cultural exchange nights and spice runs to the Cleveland World Market.

Assisted in the operations of the department for the following functional areas: Programming, Leadership Development, Greek Life, Marketing and Student Organizations. Co-led the design, planning, and implementation of all major campus events including, major concerts,Homecoming, Lil Sibs Weekend, etc. Provided advisement to over (60) student and Greek-lettered organizations. Accomplishments: Provided individual consultation and helped to plan Greek Community Awareness week, which rose over $17,500 in philanthropic activities

Operated multi-line phone systems and cultivated relationships with over 150 clients on a day-to-day basis to assist those who were in need of tax assistance. Contacted potential and existing clients for customer service calls and scheduled up to 50 tax appointments per day. Streamlined communications to tax professionals and applied critical thinking and problem solving skills to identify and resolve new and existing customer issues.

Oversaw inventory control, visual merchandising and day-to-day performance for the men’s departments, which generated $200 to 3,000 in daily sales. Provided exceptional customer relations and superior product knowledge to maximize service satisfaction and promoted goodwill to contribute to sales growth. Educated consumers on the benefits of applying for a Macy’s Star Rewards Card to met loyalty, credit account goals.

Coordinated all logistics for summer program operations to ensure that the Freedom School Program was in full compliance with local, state, and federal laws. Facilitated debrief sessions to discuss the successes and challenges, potential issues, site logistics and forecast planning. Secured funding sources and community donations for program operations.