Thought leader who designs innovative STEM workforce development programmatic activities, identify funding opportunities, and build federal research enterprise partnerships to engage Minority-serving Institution (MSIs) undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and postdoctoral associates conducting federally funded, mission-critical research across defense and civilian agencies. • Connect MSIs with STEM federal research programs focused on addressing societal technical challenges. • Lead grant and contract identification and development efforts which resulted in over $9 million in Department of Energy contracts.• Design training conferences and learning opportunities for MSI faculty and research trainees to strengthen their funding and research capabilities and capacity.• Develop reports and learning outcomes of federally funded projects.• Perform meaningful communication and relationship building across federal agencies and institutions of higher learning.

One Health Lessons aims to educate and inspire every child in the global community to value the intersection of environmental health, animal health, plant health, and human health through educational instruction.

*Design and implement the organization’s programs and grants*Build on current programs and co-lead efforts to develop and document future programs*Work closely with the organization’s Executive Director to identify new partners *Train new consultants, instructors, and facilitators*Contribute to the dissemination of knowledge through research by preparing, publishing, and presenting findings in scientific conferences and journals*Assist in developing progress reports for the funding agencies ssist in monitoring project deliverables and deadlines

•Coordinate activities related to the engagement of minority-focused groups on the NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub project •Contribute to the dissemination of knowledge through research by preparing, publishing, and presenting findings in scientific conferences •Identify funding opportunities and developing proposals •Design, conduct, and/or review surveys to be used for QEM wide priorities and initiatives •Develop progress reports for funding agencies •Monitor project deliverables and deadlines

-Created a complete list of all existing the Company’s partners across all chapters: High-Tech High Heels North Texas and High-Tech High Heels Silicon Valley - Identified additional STEM-education focused non-profit organizations both locally and nationally for partnership-Developed format and execute RFI to list of existing and new non-profit organizations -Developed evaluation criteria to measure organizations -Analyzed RFI responses from organizations based on defined criteria

•Lead efforts to foster cross-agency partnerships for the increased funding of STEM gender equity and diversity advances in higher education by establishing memorandums of understanding between NSF and external stakeholders at the National Institutes of Health•Initiate, develop, and coordinate an NSF-wide national prize award that promotes broadening participation in the STEM workforce through partnerships. The program was recognized by the Directors of the Education Human Resources (EHR) Directorate and a larger budget for the challenge was advocated for and lead to the expansion of my managed support team and advisory board of 10 people •Involvement in implementing policy initiatives that increase diversity and inclusion of higher education faculty •Utilize public speaking skills to engage the global scientific community with NSF through in formal and informal STEM educational settings. This has resulted in collaborations between the Science Ministries of Ethiopia and Nigeria and NSF•Act as a liaison between the EHR Evaluation Monitoring Working Group and the NSF ADVANCE program and work with the external NSF ADVANCE evaluation team for the development of the data evaluation and monitoring program for NSF ADVANCE

•Project management professional who used tremendous abilities to manage the forecasting budgets, schedule and performance of STEM Programs. Maintained all programs with a 100% on time completion rate and never more than 5% over budget•Responsible for hiring, training, and managing a staff of 120 located across the country. Maintained 99% of my staff and was awarded a bonus for my management performance.

•Performed budget analysis of grants at private institutions of higher learning in order to balance budgets, prevent overpayments, process payroll payments, and grant adjustments•Served on the Benefits Appeals Committee and utilized healthcare policy expertise to review dozens of benefit appeals cases•Performed collaborative team work for campus-wide budgetary adjustments of grants this was performed for grant compliance

•Developed novel sampling and analysis methods for semiochemicals from great cats using multidimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-olfactometry (mdGC-MS-O), cryotrapping, olfactory analysis, and selective heart-cutting, which resulted in three scientific peer-reviewed articles•Performed maintenance and diagnostic responsibilities of the multidimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-olfactometry to reduce laboratory cost•Mentored and trained lab interns on analytical techniques and developed mini laboratory experiments for the students, this resulted in 90% of my interns progressing to undergraduate and graduate programs in STEM at Iowa State and various other institutions•Taught fundamentals of analytical chemistry in air quality research course•Wrote and submitted 10 funded grant and research proposals for research funding and presentations at conferences

•Developed educational and leadership activities for underrepresented students interested in careers in STEM, which resulted in engaged students who we recruited and graduated from Iowa State University graduate programs •Supervised and managed 6 community assistants, 27 interns, and 2 graduate assistants who successfully completed a 12 week summer program

•Delivered power point seminars on the fate of tiger conservation during the Biological Sciences Lecture Series which generated international collaborations that produced publishable research•Researched Panthera tigris biological excretions and behavioral responses to measure stress•Learned and performed analytical techniques for the analysis of tiger scent markings which resulted in my expertise in high performance thin layer chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and odor detection

•Collected and analyzed data relevant to the role of parasites on the periparturient period of goat reproduction to produce publishable research •Managed animal science research projects, interns, students in the Livestock Production ANSC 311 course, the course had a 100% pass rate

•Researched and developed lectures for conservation-based educational programs for prek-6 children •Recruited, directed, and supervised 120 interns and 15 paid employees for Friends of the National Zoo, was able to retain 99% of employees with a commendable performance •Performed budget analysis, purchasing, and scheduling of the Class Aide & Birthday Party Programs, which resulted in a savings of 10% of the Birthday Party Program