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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. • Draft and create policy recommendations for the Department and Governor’s Office.• Interpret statute for programmatic offices to ensure understanding of the provisions of legislation.• Supervise and coordinate legislative and external affairs and policy development and implementation staff and resources. • Track and manage the legislative calendar to ensure recommendations are communicated to the Governor’s office and legislators in a timely manner.• Conduct monthly meetings with appropriate department staff regarding policy implementation status to ascertain areas that need additional supports and ensure due dates are met.• Edit, draft, and amend administrative code; serve as Code Liaison for Executive Services.• Review, analyze and draft legislative amendments. • Participate and sit on Task Forces, make recommendations, author reports.• Oversee and manage special projects related to policy and statute, as assigned.

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.• Works closely with programmatic offices to ensure pending legislation is amended to be consistent with the Department and Administration’s vision and policies.• Provide constituent services for referrals from the Governor’s Office and legislative offices.• Monitor the implementation of new statute to report to legislators and the Governor’s office on the status of implementation. Assist program offices when needed.• Participate in meetings and events to provide legislative support as needed. • Attend and memorialize legislative hearings that impact education. • Provide information to program offices and the State Board office on legislation that will require regulation.

• 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.• Ensure that all records fulfilling requests from members of the media are reviewed and approved by the Public Information Office before sending.• Write letters or e-mails to requestors detailing final status (fulfilled, denied, partial fulfilled, etc.) of requests, include paper or electronic copies of records receipts and requested records, and mail or e-mail records to requestors. • Answer questions from the public via telephone and e-mail about how to file a request with the department. Direct constituents to the correct agencies with which to file requests if the department does not maintain the records sought.• Work with Deputy Attorney General regarding actions filed against the department in N.J. Superior Court and the Government Records Council and submit personal certifications in relevant cases.

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 responses are made in a timely manner.-Lead contact for division website update and redesign.

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, assigning tasks to appropriate team members to ensure the project is completed successfully.-Select stock and products for production-Prepare files for print and web-Social media management

-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. This includes planning, scheduling and communicating with event hosts and participants, selecting venues, vendors and gifts for clients.-Track and manage the departmental budget. Maintain budget spreadsheets and make suggestions on how to stay on track with budget predictions. Process all invoices, negotiate with vendors for costs and payment terms, and make budget predictions.-Lead for the Corporate Social Responsibility Team. Selection of fundraising promotions and events for corporate charities, while maintaining relationships with select charities to provide continued company involvement in community relations.-Support of the business development team in their initiatives by providing materials needed for their events and meetings.-Research of competitive markets and compilation of reports for upper management to make strategic decisions on further international expansion. -Use of project management skills by developing projects, assigning tasks to appropriate team members to ensure the project is completed successfully.-Maintain company website, press releases, news updates, and event calendar.

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