Providing guidance and management of all Grants and Contracts that are administered within Pierce Conservation District. Tracking and reporting funds along with assisting in strategies to identify and secure future funding development opportunities. This position reports to the District Assistant Director and Executive Director.

Provided grant writing, management, strategic, and technical services to foster care agencies including The Wishing Well Foundation, Compelled to Care, and Amara, among other non-profit organizations.• Assessed/Written/Submitted 50+ grant proposals, valued at over ½ million dollars.• Led agency-centered development of grant strategies, storytelling, systems for data collection and analysis.• Researched, identified relevant grantmakers and funding opportunities to meet funding goals.

I founded this business after standing on the top of a jagged, snow-covered mountain 4,000 feet above sea level on Kodiak Island in Alaska. Marveling in its magnificence, I was inspired to make pictures as beautiful as the landscape engulfing me. I made photographs at events and when a local newspaper printed a two-page center spread of my photos, I was captivated with photography as a communication medium. I credit photography with helping me see connections, relationships and patterns. Looking through the lens is seeing things from a different perspective, an ability which translates into creative thinking and exceptional problem solving. As sole proprietor of Summit Lights Photography, I generate books, brochures, photos, and videos. It’s my honor to create images for a variety of businesses and civic organizations. My photographs have appeared on five continents in print, TV, galleries, and museums, including the Museum of Flight and the Smithsonian Institution. Official Team Photographer of the US MLR Inaugural Champions Seattle Seawolves.

In 27 years at SA, adaptively lead 13 program startups, 4 turnarounds in 3 of 4 company divisions, and 25 organizational change, communications, and IT projects that expanded company capacities. While my career path has been more of an adventure than most, I am thankful for so many opportunities to grow professionally and contribute to teams with a versatile, interdisciplinary set of skills and strategies for managing change and facilitating growth.Provided account management, presentations, technical assistance to existing, new, and prospective clients of the RIGHT RESPONSE Workshop program. Provided internal consultation, subject-matter expertise related to procedures, licensing, risk management. Collected, compiled data, metrics, and reports related to program operations, client successes. Developed, revised training curricula and supplemental materials.• Administration, upgrade of IT infrastructure including email, database, web servers, CMS software.• Documented 10 critical business process workflows identifying 76 stages with 412 tasks, documents, systems links, plus created guided worksheets, supervisor’s QA review tool to enhance data integrity.• Account management, new sales in US, NZ in 10 industries; 50% close rate, 63% win rate.• Led RFP review, proposal presentations for training requests for proposals issued by state, county, non-governmental organizations.

Led professional development programs and external sales of core company certification program, product market positioning, pricing, sales strategy, data collection, analysis, risk management, RFPs, government contracts, budget, team supervision for on-location service and licensing in public, private, non-profit and government sectors nationally. Violence reductions by 50 to 95%. • Expanded certifications 5000% from hundreds to tens of thousands annually, 33% AAGR over 18 years.• Grew local professional development course to nationally prominent platform; led 2 product rebrands, created 30 new revenue sources, 5 licensing options; expanded markets served from 6 to 19 (+316%).• Produced 17 custom CRM and content management systems powering millions in annual revenue processing tens of thousands records in client contract compliance, relationship management, sales.

Led staff training and ongoing professional development services for upwards of 200 employees spread across a dozen programs in two regions. Enhanced regional program performance via onsite coaching, identifying training needs, and developing custom-designed classes.

Directed delivery of State-funded, community-based behavioral and social services 24-hours, seven days per week with a staff of over 40 in four locations throughout King and Snohomish Counties. Consistent leader in quality assurance scores, contract compliance through the development of performance management and continuous improvement which were adopted company-wide as best practices.

• Strategic planning, development of sport vision training software delivered as SaaS software as a service via CD-ROM, then transitioned to web app;• Product Management analysis, prioritization of pricing, UX, usability, technical requirements, feature requests; • Developer communications, delivery of product roadmap

• Produced 93 bi-weekly articles totaling over 134,000 words and 280,179 views on Programming, Database, UX, Usability, IT applications, Web Design, SEO, Graphic Design, General Business..• Peer tech reviewer.This subscription web site (now defunct) served thousands of tutorials, templates and articles for web development, web standards, CSS, and Adobe Creative Suite software, including Dreamweaver and Photoshop.When CommunityMX.com put up a help wanted post, I knew that I could also contribute to the excellent instruction and resources from Adobe experts that had already advanced my web development and publishing skills. I not only authored articles and tutorials, but developed content development strategies and an editorial calendar. I regularly helped subscribers in the forums, served as a peer editor and technical reviewer for fellow partners, and participated in a workgroup that developed branding, marketing, sales, and subscriber strategies for the site. My bi-weekly publishing schedule helped me developed excellent writing methods from the regular routine and I earned some good side income.

• Programmed shopping cart, user account, wallet functions for gift card site.• Client unprepared so I initiated gathering requirements, coordinate with developers working on other platforms, managed two teammates.• 250 billable hours, 3662 lines code• 49 Views, 16 Controllers, 6 Helpers, 5 Models created in CodeIgniter

“world renowned customer service”• E-tailer of specialty pet supplies, gifts. Cofounded with wife from home. • Grew to 2.5 FTEs, 150 orders/wk;• Customers in every US state, territory, 28 countries, 6 continents, 433 SKUs; • Survived .com bust despite no free shipping• Sold to full-time employee for +250% of original $9837 investment. • And it’s still hopping!