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Director of Operations and Development Director of Development and Operations for a 501 (c)(3) with programs serving families and children of incarcerated men and women. Duties include managing day-to-day operations, program planning, design, implementation and management; website design and copy writing; development and implementation of fundraising and marketing strategies; grant writing and management; facilitating in-prison programs; budget setting, management and implementation and reconciliation; contract building, implementation and management; data evaluation; financial and donor report writing and management; vendor management; creating and maintaining program and organizational databased; HR policy development.• Raised $2.79 million through state, county and foundation grants between March 2019 - June 2022• Created successful donation programs for the Family2Child Literacy Program and Camp Grace resulting in over $20,000.00 in donations.• Designed and implemented literacy program for all San Bernardino County Jails, and Reentry Program for formerly incarcerated persons

Launched high-end home luxury brand for start-up in Los Angeles. • Company registration and trademark registrations for product line and corporate identity• Design and implementation of administrative, financial, and manufacturing processes• Budget setting and implementation; financial reconciliation• Local, national and international vendor negotiations and purchasing • Contract development, negotiation and implementation

Vizeum Deutschland GmbH 2008 - 2017 International Account Director/Project Manager Direct major accounts for global brands at Carat/Vizeum, a subsidiary of Dentsu Aegis Network. Duties include: client-facing account management; campaign coordination and management from inception to completion; liaising with clients, creatives, tech, and media vendors; managing multiple cross-platform campaigns with diverse team members and combined budgets totaling over 40M Euros; establishing best practices for financial management and compliance; generating revenue and optimizing cost efficiencies; digital strategy, research, and analytics. • Account Director for Wrangler’s European media campaigns; developing campaign processes and optimization strategies; managing local market teams; serving as liaison between the client, local teams, creative agencies and media owner, and managing media budget of 25M Euro. • Logged 4156.5 hours as lead project manager for innovative, multi-market, and multi-platform FERRERO tic tac What’s Fresh Now brand campaign with a bespoke website, mobile app and digital display campaign resulting in 197,703 app installs, 10,563,672 visits, 1,617,919 page views and 352,836,190 contacts. • International account director for DHL’s marketing campaigns with sole responsibility for managing and coordinating all European media activity in 23 markets; liaising with local markets; managing and reconciling 38M Euro media budget; ensuring implementation of client’s media strategy and objectives.• Demonstrated initiative, talent, and capabilities as indicated by fairly rapid ascent from assistant (2008) to business controller (2010) to international account director (2011) and completion of over thirty professional development courses on digital marketing and project management, including completion of the Greenwich School of Management’s Circus Street Certificate (2014) for the latest innovations in digital marketing.

Served as office manager for an environmental consulting firm specializing in alternative energy resources. Duties included: streamlining accounting and invoicing processes; managing 20M Euro budget; supervising accounting staff; writing and managing complex purchase and lease contracts/agreements; translating, editing, and finalizing documents, presentations, and feasibility studies on renewable energy from German to English. • Introduced cost-saving measures and increased efficiencies through by reorganizing the logistics department and implementing new streamlined purchasing and invoicing procedures, resulting in a 25% cost reduction. • Improved overall budget operations by reducing management travel costs by 15%.

Executive Assistant to Managing Director for Aviation, Fleet, FacilityServed as executive assistant for a private fund bank specializing in structured financing and entrepreneurial investments in selected growth industries: aviation, renewables, and real estate. Duties included: compiling, editing, and maintaining expansive aircraft leasing agreements; translating quarterly/annual reports and marketing collateral e.g. fund brochures; managing purchases for and maintenance of company facilities and vehicle fleet. • Negotiated 20% discounts on purchase new vehicles for company fleets.• Achieved 22% reduction in costs by identifying more cost-competitive vendors for facility deliverables and maintenance.

Served as senior analyst to security management firm specializing in global detection and investigation of economic crime within a corporate environment. Other services included: crisis management, investment review, and preventive security consults. Duties included: preparing threat analyses and dossiers on international figures; preparing business proposals and liaising with prospective clients; developing marketing concepts and collateral; and media consultation. • Developed and implemented new marketing concepts for materials in English resulting in a 35% increase in English-speaking clientele.• Consulted members of the German media on Gulf War Syndrome and Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.

Served as remote site manager City Colleges of Chicago, a part of the Harold Washington College offering long-distance education opportunities for all members of the U.S. military branches stationed or deployed throughout the globe. Duties included: interviewing, hiring, training, and supervising team of field representatives; problem-solving for complex, challenging circumstances; preparing monthly accounts-receivable reports, quarterly/annual statistical reports; projecting and monitoring budget; fostering collaborations between military personnel, embassies, and consulates; designing, implementing and overseeing distance education programs across several continents; conducting quality control evaluations; developing metrics for student success; and developing outreach and marketing strategies for increased enrollment. • Enterprising and targeted marketing strategies to military personnel resulted in a quadrupling of student enrollments in one academic year and the facilitation of 200 distance education courses worldwide in diverse locations like Pretoria, South Africa, Yaounde, Cameroon and Bahrain.• Developed concept for and implemented distance education programs for U.S. military personnel stationed at U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide, as well as deployed locations in the Balkans and the Middle East resulting in a total of 11 programs custom tailored to their local needs and conditions students’ environment.• Devised and implemented system for processing sensitive testing materials in remote or high-security locations, including active war zones.