Performance driven business professional with more than 10 years of combined expertise through aggressive business to business sales initiatives, business development management, staff recruiting, staff retention strategies, talent acquisition, compensation & benefits, and employee relations.•Performed a needs analysis and assessment to increase organizational revenue by $250,000.•Designed, developed and delivered curriculum for Jani King, Inc. employees' thereby increasing organizational performance by 50%•Designed aggressive business to business sales initiatives, business development management strategies, expanded staff recruiting, implemented effective retention strategies resulting in a 75% staff retention rate, talent acquisition, compensation & benefits, project management, HR compliance performance, and conflict resolution.•Implemented innovative organizational development strategies to effectively implement HR Initiatives to streamline business management processes and capitalize on organizational change management opportunities by 78%.

Charged with the implementation and administration of the speech therapy goals based on the Individual Educational Plans for 50 students. Collaborated with educators and educational administrators to plan and implement inclusion based intervention strategies to enhance oral communication deficits. Utilized the information gained from student sessions and collaborative work with other educators to work with parents to ensure lasting transformational changes in communication skills over the long term.

Primarily responsible for the administration and development of progressive plans to address the speech therapy needs of approximately 70 students attending schools within the district. Other duties include the collaboration of thought between 200+ multidisciplinary educators and educational administrators to develop and implement inclusion based intervention strategies to address communication deficits of the student body.• Developed stringent, strategic Individual Educational Plans with definitive levels of achievement for students that could be collaboratively used by educators and parents in the home, that incorporates theory based applications to assist students in addressing speech and effective communication problems.•Performed intake and exit interviews with students, educators and parents to determine the progress/completion of speech therapy services.•Recognition of exemplary performance in speech therapy with a 98% mastery level of student achievement rates specifically in regard to Speech Impaired Individualized Education Plans.

Responsible for the evaluation and process revision of the SMSD Para-Professional Training program for approximately 50 new professionals per month. Duties included, but were not limited to the following:•Researched existing training program and gained insight through focus groups held with stakeholders and district management designed to highlight areas of deficiency in order to refine the detailed subject matter covered in the coursework.•Ensured the correct facilitation of instructional strategies mandated by the Highly Qualified Para-Professional Initiative endorsed by No Child Left Behind Act 2001 which resulted in a reduction of new employee attrition by 23% throughout the organization.•Trained facilitators in Behavioral Assessment techniques and methodologies to ensure the proper behavioral management strategies and research based intervention strategies were appropriately implemented to support highly qualified paraprofessionals in the establishment of effective communications strategies in instructional settings with students with disabilities.•Developed an SMSD Yearly Award Recognition Program specifically for Highly Qualified Instructional Paraprofessionals to support the the National Legislation No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The End of Year Recognition Program was specifically developed to decrease paraprofessional attrition, quality improvement, and leadership training for 500 employees. The Highly Qualified Paraprofessional Yearly Award Recognition Initiative was later expanded to include all organizational paraprofessionals.

Facilitated the inclusion process for 60 to 70 students with various levels of disabilities ranging from Kindergarten to High School. Worked to increase the morale and motivation of veteran educators to explore new co-teaching methodologies; resulting in an increase in student and parent interest, engagement and achievement. Also implemented various remediation strategies for various individuals with specific articulation, language, fluency, auditory processing, intellectual disabilities and voice disorders in various educational instructional settings.

Designed projects to effectively establish organizational effectiveness within the Theratx organization. Responsible for redesigning the administration of services, review of skills of therapists on staff and to facilitate improved interaction with clients based on structured, definable goal oriented plans.•Provided leadership development and coordination of various health care professionals in the management of individuals with communication deficits, neurological disorders and dysphagia disorders in a long term care rehabilitation facility. •Implemented various remediation strategies to target various individuals with specific articulation, language, fluency, dementia, auditory processing, dysphagia, and voice disorders in a long term rehabilitation facility. •Designed and implemented effective public relations strategies to increase revenue in a long-term care rehabilitation facility.•Established a full time Speech Therapy Program for the first time within time within an urban long term care rehabilitation facility thereby increasing organizational revenue by $750,000.