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Ellicott City, Md, Us

Ellicott City, Maryland, Us

Founder of 501(c)(3) nonprofit community development corporation focused on inter-generational poverty, homelessness, and ex-offender recidivism. Developed high-end organizational capacities in job readiness, workforce development, family stabilization, financial literacy, and adult education programming. Authored highly-acclaimed life skills curriculum used by over 500 welfare recipients and ex-offenders. Raised over $3 million in private donations and donated services since 2006. Noted lecturer on diverse topics such as "The History of American Poverty" and "The State of Mass Incarceration in America." Accomplished consultant to major corporations and small businesses on entry-level hiring and on-boarding best practices. Executive Team member of the Baltimore Police Commissioner's Ex-Offender Task Force and the Johns Hopkins Hospital Healthy East Baltimore Initiative.

Columbia, Md, Us

Initially hired as the Director of Development & Public Relations. Elevated in year two to Chief Operating Officer by the Board of Directors. Directed day-to-day operations and annual reporting requirements of the business, human resources, case management, volunteer coordination, and development/public relations staff. Served as the principal quality assurance and compliance officer for $2 million State of Maryland treatment foster care contract. Led agency to achieve first-ever Council on Accreditation (COA) designation as a best-practices human services provider. Launched award-winning after-school program for impoverished elementary school in Baltimore, MD.

Negotiated $1.5 million in renewable federal and State of Maryland contracts for minority-owned disadvantaged business. Managed the design, implementation, evaluation, and renewal stages of a $700,000 contract with Fort Meade Army Base, a $500,000 contract with the National Arboretum in Washington D.C., and a $300,000 contract with the Maryland Department of Transportation in Annapolis, MD. Represented the company with the Small Business Administration (SBA) Minority Disadvantaged Business (MDB/MBE) 8(a) program. Achieved expert status in Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).

Joint teaching position under English (World Literature) and History (Western Civilization) Departments. Taught 125 freshmen students per semester while pursuing Master's Degree in Twentieth Century American History.

Suitland, Maryland, Us

Held Top Secret/Sensitive Compartment Information (TS/SCI) security clearance during the Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Herbert Walker Bush Administrations. Assigned to Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) Division Head positions in five distinct analytical offices: (1) merchant shipping arms deliveries; (2) clandestine oceanographic research; (3) current operations indications & warning; (4) submarine & anti-submarine warfare; and, (5) strategic nuclear forces. Extensive travel within NATO and SEATO nations during final decade of the U.S.-Soviet Union "Cold War." Senior ONI Damage Assessment Analyst in high-profile counterespionage case. Project Manager for Persian Gulf War special operations analytics. Received ten Outstanding Performance Ratings and eight Sustained Superior Performance bonuses in twelve years.

Graduate Studies, American History

Undergraduate Studies, Political Science & History

Graduate Studies, European History

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