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Arlington, Va, Us

Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

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Arlington, Virginia, United States

Arlington, Virginia, United States

▪Change Management: Identifies potential training impacts and provides recommendations to leadership. Integrates with Scrum teams to ensure training is aligned with application development. Collaborates with stakeholders to develop program deliverables such as Training Plans, Impact Analyses, and other documents. Champions the Navy’s MS Teams adoption efforts by offering training sessions and demos on new functionality, publishing best practices, and by providing technical support for staff.▪Curriculum Management: Maintains a library of 100+ training products. Engages with the program management office and Navy Recruiting school staff to discuss training needs and expectations.▪Training: Develops e-learning products using Camtasia as well as user guides, job aids, and other material. Facilitates remote training workshops with product owners, stakeholders, and staff.▪Testing: Supports testing activities during regression testing cycles. Drafts and provides feedback on scripts, performs testing, logs defects, and collaborates with developers to resolve issues.

Arlington, Va

Led the Curriculum section of the Training team supporting a large scale PeopleSoft implementation for the US Army (Integrated Personnel and Pay System: Army [IPPS-A]}.▪ Curriculum Management and Development: Facilitates meetings with stakeholders to customizetraining content to audience needs. Consults with software and training developers to ensurefunctions are properly documented in training products. Collaborates with LMS managers to ensureprograms in training library align with curriculum plan.▪ Knowledge Management: Restructured the Training Team SharePoint site in order to promote moreeffective collaboration across training sections. Efforts include: creating sites for each section;implementing a system to track Requests for Information; developing a training product review sitefor government and military stakeholders.▪ Training Development and Implementation: Develops training products on topics such as generalHR and Payroll functions, CRM, and Access Controls. Facilitated in-person trainings with NationalGuard units in WA and NY, training approximately 200 Soldiers and civilians.▪ Management: Directly manages two full time staff on the Roles and Curriculum team. Establishesteam priorities, areas of responsibility, and deadlines. Collaborates with other Leads to discuss higherlevel concerns and develop courses of action for the Training Manager.▪ Communications: Develops presentations and facilitates discussions with stakeholders and programstaff during daily standups, weekly meetings, training events, and after-action reviews. Createdcommunication channels with traveling trainers to ensure they were aware of updates.

Arlington, Virginia

Developed e-learning products using Oracle UPK, Adobe Captivate, and Powerpoint in support of a large scale PeopleSoft implementation for the US Army (Integrated Personnel and Pay System: Army [IPPS-A]}.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed educational and logistical aspects of sixteen, two week-long, youth leadership conferences in Atlanta, Boston, Chapel Hill, New York City and Washington, DC involving over 4000 domestic and international high school students and dozens of field staff over four summers. ▪ Training and Facilitation: Instructed education staff on conference curriculum, pedagogical strategies, employee guidelines, and security policies; performed formal and informal evaluations of education staff to provide feedback and track success; coached staff on issues related to classroom management, engaging facilitation, and logistic awareness; facilitated daily staff meetings, nightly debriefs, and post-program after action reviews; occasionally lead group sessions with students; coached field based leadership on best practices related to guiding education and operations teams.▪ Program Management: Identified and implemented strategies to resolve scholar and staffing issues, logistical setbacks, venue and vendor complications, and other challenges; bridged field offices and HQ to communicate updates related to policy issues and student/ staffing issues at in the field. Submitted nightly reports highlighting staffing skills gaps, leadership and logistical pain points, as well trends in student and vendor issues.▪ Relationship Building: Coordinated with housing (such as Emory University, Olin College, and Manhattan College) and site visit staff (such as the Newseum, the Saudi Arabian Embassy, and Spirit Cruises) to accommodate evolving conference needs; planned transportation requirement and routes with transportation vendor management and local drivers; liaised with speakers from the US Department of State, the United Nations, the World Bank, and other organizations to promote student engagement.

Arlington, Virginia

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Supported USAID's Expanding Monitoring and Evaluation (MECap) Task Order as part of the program operations team. Provided backstopping support related to administrative, logistical, recruiting, and training. ▪ Recruiting: Maintained online job portal; drafted position descriptions; published job announcements via Facebook and LinkedIn; reviewed and ranked applications, conducted initial phone screens, scheduled follow up interviews and scenario exercises, supported salary and benefit negotiations, and provided clear communication with candidates throughout the process.▪ Backstopping: Provided administrative and logistical support to a portfolio of 40 staff and consultants which included travel planning, visa and ticket purchasing, reviewing and submitting financial reimbursements and invoices, ensuring compliance with security protocols, and liaising with HR and Finance Department to ensure the timely resolution of various issues.▪ Training and Facilitation: Developed and facilitated training material for program staff and built mentoring relationship with team to foster encouraging environment with a focus on professional development. Coordinated with outside trainers to pilot new trainings for Fellows and schedule training sessions. Enrolled staff in required security trainings and tracked training completion status. ▪ Communications: Drafted annual accomplishments and work plan; reviewed quarterly reports, trip reports, blog posts, and other communications products. ▪ Office Management: Managed monthly financial tracking tool and track level of effort reporting across quarters; tracked office inventory and replacement orders; facilitated IT troubleshooting; coordinated with building management to address space needs and resolves various issues.

Vienna, Va

Coordinated short term federal language assignments with over 6000 on-call volunteers and supported member engagement as part of the National Language Service Corps.▪ Recruiting: Drafted position descriptions, distributed assignment details to targeted membership, collected and ranked resumes, and conducted candidate screenings. ▪ Backstopping: Primary POC for members during mission pre-deployment, deployment, and post-deployment; facilitated mission orientation to share assignment details with members; tracked project progression, team status, operational challenges and other issues; led debrief sessions and to gain feedback and address lessons learned from completed assignments.▪ Event Management: Initiated RFP process with venues and outside vendors; created proposals and submitted potential venues feedback; developed event programs and agendas; distributed and tracked event invitations; facilitated open houses, meet and greets and other events; facilitated event debriefs to collect lessons learned and incorporate them into future planning. ▪ Communications: Collected, ranked, and selected member submissions to be included in monthly newsletter; edited compilations of chosen article; and distributed the finished product to members

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided programmatic and logistical support to the Office of Compliance and Ethics. ▪ Communications: Reviewed documents, presentations, and reports for compliance officers.▪ Logistics: coordinated international travel for office staff.▪ Data Analysis: compiled training data, casework documentation, and HR reports for internal reporting purposes as well as for marketing materials.▪ Program Management: Reviewed RFP for new LMS; analyzed and ranked initial proposals; evaluated vendor demos and provided feedback to office management.▪ Recruiting: Reviewed candidates for overseas and domestic compliance positions.

Savannah, Georgia, United States

Bucharest, Romania

Supported high school and middle school English programs through daily classroom teaching and after school skills development courses. ▪ Training and Facilitation: Taught 20 hours of advanced courses per week covering Business English, Western Culture and Civilization, Modern Literature, Public Speaking, and Debate; developed and implement new curriculum pieces and project ideas which greatly increased student engagement.▪ Relationship Building: Formed partnership with Junior Achievement to redevelop Business English curriculum and emphasize project based learning.

Albania

Supported capacity building activities with teachers and students in rural Albania as part of the National English Language Program. Collaborated with the U.S. Embassy, Peace Corps HQ, and various NGOs to bring educational opportunities to teachers and students in local schools.▪ Training and Facilitation: Co-facilitated high school English classes for 15 hours per week with two members of the English Department for two academic years; researched curriculum development methods, educational pedagogy, international student exchange programs, educational project management strategies, and education leadership; developed and implemented new curriculum pieces and student evaluation methods; facilitated workshops and afterschool training sessions for Model UN students and students preparing for international exchange programs; facilitated training sessions for incoming Peace Corps Volunteers.▪ Recruiting: Promoted advanced leadership workshops with interested students and guided them through application process; recruited students to join National Model UN competition; published volunteer opportunities for Peace Corps Volunteers to support local English and outdoor leadership camps and conferences.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Greater Atlanta Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Savannah, Georgia Area

Supported daily center operations, academic and social event planning, and staff management.  Training and Facilitation: facilitated one-on-one tutoring sessions for hundreds of university and high school students; facilitated biweekly workshops for remedial students; mentored new tutors; led weekly staff meetings to identify areas for staff growth and discuss upcoming events. Relationship Building: fostered positive relationships with professors, staff, and students throughout campus; promoted Writing Center Services at campus events. Event Management: Coordinated with caters, venue staff, and transportation vendor in preparation for 2008 Southeastern Writing Centers Conference; assisted in the development of workshop and plenary schedules as well as social events outside of the daily schedule.

Savannah, Georgia, United States

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