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Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States

Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States

• Draft policy documents and manage high visibility and politically driven pieces of legislation; coordinate implementation efforts department wide, make recommendations as needed.
• Prepare legislative briefs, attend legislative committees, and voting sessions.
• Work closely with lobbyists, advocates, and other PK-12 stakeholders to obtain feedback to create effective legislation and policy.
• Manage robust policy portfolio including early childhood education, student health and safety, educational finance, and other education related matters.
• Monitor trends and developments on the national, state and local levels to plan for impact on policy.
• Create and draft policy analyses of each piece of legislation for implementation purposes.

Trenton, New Jersey

• Office of Legal Services and External Affairs
• Developed several policy documents for the Department and relevant forms for statewide school district consumption and use.
• Coordinate stakeholder meetings to develop robust and effective Statewide policies.
• Research, evaluate, analyze legislation to provide comment for the Governor’s office regarding pending legislation (bill comments)
• Draft and amend legislation as requested by the Governor’s office and Department Administration.
• Provide briefings and summaries to executive staff on school district visits, legislators, and relevant legislation for the visit, meeting, or event.

• Conduct confidential email searches for ethics investigations and for pending litigation.
• Review OPRA requests to determine whether they are legitimate under the law. Ascertain whether the department has jurisdiction over the issues or areas that are the subject of the requested records.
• Notify appropriate departmental office or offices of the records sought and the deadline for response.
• Make policy decisions regarding requests and create new policy for future requests.
• Receive and review records to determine whether they are responsive to request, or need redactions or contain privileged material.
• Work with senior staff and Deputy Attorney General to determine whether legal basis exists for withholding records or making redactions. Make redactions accordingly.

Trenton, NJ

-Liaison between executive staff and various offices within the Department to edit and amend Administrative Code.-Track and identify Legislative Bills affecting division's interests.-Process Procurement Requests, Travel Expense Reports, and act as the liaison between staff and budget and accounting-Manage multiple division e-mail accounts and ensure.

Cherry Hill, NJ

-Draft and prepare resumes for all proposal efforts-Work with subject matter experts to determine workflow milestones and develop Gantt charts using MS Project-Maintain government form SF330 data and produce form for solicitations -Draft and maintain corporate past performance experience

-Write and design internal and external corporate and client communications: newsletters, email bursts, advertisements, and press releases. Active participation in the creation and design of marketing collateral such as cut sheets, brochures, presentations, posters, case studies, and websites.-Use of project management skills by developing projects.

-Creation of internal and external communications: newsletters, email bursts, web site updates, press releases, letters, and qualifications statements. Active participation in the creation and design of marketing collateral such as cut sheets, brochures, presentations, posters, case studies, and resumes.-Coordination of trade shows and corporate events..

Supported sales representatives with processing orders, advertising layout and small design, order entry, scheduling and planning trade show events.Assisted clients with their advertising needs.Skills Microsoft Office Suite( Excel, Word, PowerPoint,etc), Adobe Creative Suite, Mac and Microsoft Operating System

Doctor Of Business Administration

Master Of Public Policy, Public Policy Analysis, 4.0

4.0, Summa Cum Laude

Bachelors, Business

Activities and Societies: International Honor Society of Business Administration, Delta Mu Delta3.8 GPA, Program Distinction, Cum Laude

Graphic Design For Print