As the Grants and Contracts Lead, I provide expert support to grant managers throughout the entire lifecycle of grants. My responsibilities encompass setup, budget management, compliance, financial oversight, reporting, and project closeout. I am dedicated to ensuring streamlined processes, strict adherence to regulations, and the successful execution of projects within multi-departmental teams.- In collaboration with the Chief Administrative Officer, I support the administration of the District’s funding portfolio, which encompasses over 95 grant and contract awards, guiding them through all phases from award acceptance to closeout. - Responsible for reviewing funding awards to ensure compliance with District processes, award guidelines, and applicable regulations, including closeout procedures, billing, and audits for federal grants.- Conduct thorough budget analyses to assist Grant Managers with budget planning, award management, and financial oversight, ensuring proper allocation of resources and adherence to grant terms.- Responsible for managing award information across various internal systems, including Springbrook Express, Excel budget workbooks, and Smartsheet, as well as sponsor-specific systems such as EAGL and PRISM. Ensuring accurate and up-to-date tracking of grant details, facilitates seamless data entry, and streamlines reporting processes for effective award management. - Responsible for reviewing, analyzing, and reconciling financial information and accounts. Prepare detailed financial reports and work closely with Grant Managers to ensure the timely and accurate submission of all required documentation.- Support audits conducted by state, federal, and sponsor entities, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, facilitating efficient audit processes, and addressing findings with accuracy and attention to detail.

Serving as an elected official requires the ability to comprehend and respond to the needs of a wide range of stakeholders while balancing differing interests to reach shared objectives. I have developed the ability to make decisions under scrutiny, a crucial asset in any senior leadership role. These experiences have significantly enhanced my capacity to inspire teams, drive innovation, and implement policies that promote growth and development within the organizations I serve, whether as a volunteer or an employee.- Strategic Decision-Making and Stakeholder Balance: Responsible for strategic decision-making that influences various sections of our community while balancing the diverse interests and perspectives of all stakeholders. - Policy Review and Development: Engaged effectively with constituents, government agencies, and diverse stakeholders as an elected official, building strong, collaborative relationships. - Staff and Stakeholder Engagement: Foster and maintain collaboration with staff and fellow elected officials to promote a clear understanding of policies, the legislative process, and the development of new bills and budget items. Ensured compliance and provided staff with the support needed to meet organizational and regulatory demands effectively.- Public Accountability and Transparency: elected officials function under public scrutiny and are held accountable to their constituents. This environment fosters both integrity and transparency in my actions.- Communication and Advocacy: Champion the allocation of resources that guarantee we are addressing the needs of our community while fostering the growth and management of our comprehensive development plan.- Budgeting and Resource Allocation: Tasked with upholding a strong level of appropriation and ensuring the financial integrity of the city's operational budget to ensure we are meeting the community’s needs and maximizing resources.

As the Grants Manager I manage multiple grants, act as the technical expert on grant and contract administration, and provide consultation to the Executive Director about how to meet the needs and requirements of the grants.Responsibilities involve interpreting grant requirements; interacting with granting agencies; advising staff of requirements, writing the operational portions of grant and contract applications and grant progress/status reports; manage pre- and post-award grants and contracts operations to include developing grant and contract budgets. I also ensure fiscal compliance with city, state and federal regulations is successfully performed and executed. Grants successfully secured from Washington State Microenterprise Association, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Association of Washington Business, Economic Alliance of Snohomish County, City of Monroe and Snohomish County Tourism Bureau. Key areas of responsibility include:Applying principles of financial management and cost-accounting standards to perform such functions as analysis, forecasting, and reporting. Provide financial forecasting to the Executive Director to facilitate efficient management of grants and contracts resources including meeting with the E.D. weekly to review forecasts. Prepare and coordinate preparation of grant progress reports and status updates, which include compiling and assembling information from staff in accordance with funding agency requirements.Prepare financial spreadsheets, forecasts, and reports for use by the Executive Director about grants and the general fund, using Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Quickbooks.Interpret and apply the Monroe Chamber and funding agency policies concerning grant proposal preparation and post award management. Plan, organize, monitor, and coordinate the grant budgets for the Chamber, with delegated authority to approve expenditures.

I initiate, support and develop local community events that promote our local craft beverage makers in Snohomish County. I work with local breweries, cideries, wineries, meaderies, and distilleries to highlight the craft beverage industry in Snohomish County. Through social media, print advertising and special event coordination I am supporting a fun, energetic and social brand awareness of the craft beverage industry in our area. Learn more about us at LocalLiquidArts.org.

Temp position to assist with the 2021 Brew & Cider Festival. This is a great fundraiser for the Marysville Tulalip Chamber. The proceeds from this fundraiser will be used to fund Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce programs, designed to assist and provide resources for the local business community.

The Snohomish STEM Network is a model for generating passionate support for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in education. Our mission is to create a substantial impact on the quality of STEM education in Snohomish County by building a bridge that links students, educators, and the community to STEM resources through the Snohomish STEM Network. The STEM Like ME! program provides middle school students an introduction to STEM careers through hands-on activities designed and presented by local STEM professionals. I am attaching a few resources to acquaint you with our program. Here is a link to our STEM Like ME! video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-cFyF3RpAQ) that provides insight into what an event looks like. Interested in being an industry mentor for our program? Let me know your contact info and I will send you more information.

As the Executive Director for the Monroe Chamber I advocated for and represented the Monroe business community. I worked to promote and strengthen our community by building a strong relationship with local resources, business leaders, Snohomish County and the City of Monroe. --Grant and Financial Management--Researched, procured, and administered grants to include monthly financial reports to present to the Board of Directors and membership. Served as the Compliance Officer for the Chamber regarding city, state and federal policies and regulations, review and approve entries in QuickBooks for purchasing and various reimbursements as the Chamber’s Compliance Approver. Prepared financial spreadsheets, forecasts, and reports for use by the Executive Director, using Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other pertinent software.--Membership Services--I developed and supervised programs to help membership development and provide membershipservices such as workshops and training. I maintained our website, social media and developed our newsletters to ensure our communications program were responsive to the needs of our members and community.--Community Engagement and Outreach--I worked with local organizations to promote, organize and administer community engagement programs and events such as Annual Community Awards Ceremony, Light Up Monroe, Music in the Park, Monroe Farmers Market and the Fair Days Parade and Market.--Advocacy--I served as spokesperson for the Chamber in conjunction with the President at county and city wide networking events, trainings, meetings and conferences. -- Strategic Planning --Continuously monitored industry trends and economic indicators to adapt strategies and ensure the Chamber remained at the forefront of addressing both challenges and opportunities in the business landscape.Identified and developed strategies to improve Monroe Commerce and Tourism by fostering strong partnerships with key organizations.

• Create and drive business development strategies to support the 2015-2016 school year growth plans.• Create and implement a comprehensive marketing communication plan for each year: prepare marketing and advertising strategies, plans, and objectives for the school year.• Develop marketing, social media, PR strategies to build general awareness of the CCE PTA as the voice for our students to include preparing promotional presentations, updating calendars and websites. • Lead networking efforts and build relationships with prospective members and sponsors.• Responsible for executing digital campaigns to promote event details and sponsors • Manage website updates (HTML coding), calendar submissions and e-newsletter• Lead production and distribution of marketing and event notifications.• Develop and maintain editorial content such as fliers, websites, blog posts, PowerPoint presentations, press releases, direct solicitation letters and social media feeds for fundraisers and monthly events• Created and currently maintain the PTA online store. We are using the Square Market to sell spirit wear, PTA memberships and accepted various fundraiser donations.

• Executed digital campaigns to promote specific events and announcements • Managed the website updates (HTML coding), calendar submissions and e-newsletter• Designed and produced sales aids, reports, presentations and other externally-facing content • Created editorial content (blog, knowledge center, website, etc.) • Delivered reports to clients to demonstrate ROI of marketing expenses for special events • Responsible for ensuring permits and insurance in place to host special events in and around the city and county. • Responsible for managing inter-organizational relationships between my employer and other local businesses and community organizations• Responsible for negotiating quotes, delivery times, and purchase agreements with preferred suppliers • Responsible for creating material and service request, receiving supplies and monitoring the delivery of equipment• Generated a secure, strong and in budget supply chain for new products• Worked with management to promote, assist with and organize photo shoots and manage photo files

• Analyzed quotations to ensure that the selected or recommended supplier aligns with the corporate strategy to ensure the success of the product in production• Researched and estimated the material costs of new items in the preliminary phases of a product launch. • Worked cross-functionally within the organization between engineering, supply chain, finance and manufacturing to procure and manage components that are critical to Fluke Electronics’ ever growing portfolio of innovative products• Developed and implemented cost reduction strategies while collaborating with both procurement engineers, design engineering, and suppliers.• Continuously evaluated, and implemented world-class, global suppliers capable of supporting Fluke’s technology needs• Generated a secure a strong and in budget supply chain for new products • Updated and enhanced the standardized item master fields of active items to provide more detailed information for procurement, identification, application, and traceability.• Investigated requests from production teams, supported departments, and marketing concerning product use, proper labeling, product structure, and compliance in accordance to standard work and procedures. • Conducted research on RoHS for Bill Of Materials (BOM) that require RoHS compliance

Hired as Metrology Operations Analyst I, promoted to Metrology Operations Analyst II in March 2013. • Reviewed, updated, and executed policies in Fluke Park Laboratories related to quality, customer service improvement and daily operations • Reviewed, maintained and reconciled group’s financial budget and Capital Acquisition Request budget• Liaison between the Customer Call Center, Contracts, Accounts Receivable, service and manufacturing managers and the FCAL Metrology team to resolve both internal and external customer issues• Reviewed, maintained and reconciled the division’s financial budget and Capital Acquisition Request budget--performed the monthly budget reconciliation to include maintaining financial and quality records of purchases made and items delivered, prepared the credit card and bank statement reports, verified all charges were correct with no irregularities• Streamlined daily tasks such as invoice discrepancies, requisitions/purchase orders through compliance to standard work processes in ISO 17025:2005 and ISO 9001:2008. • Managed procurement tasks to meet group’s needs (E.g.; supplier add/change, PO requisition, match material request to POs to shipping docs, PO approval)• Utilized IT applications to accumulate, analyze and report financials from different data sources [Oracle, iBuy, US Bank Pcard)• Used UPS and FedEx shipping software to send out and track equipment for calibration, repair or to return to customer once order is complete.• Experience deploying kaizen/lean manufacturing philosophy and tools, leading workshops, and improving processes with quantifiable results achieved--lead 2 Kaizens (one 5S Kaizen and one Standard Work development Kaizen).• Assisted in one Standard Work Kaizen by helping complete and track the charter and desired milestones.

• Managed the daily operations of calibration personnel by using either written and/or oral communication to include training, collecting, tracking and editing all time cards and performing semi-annual and annual performance reviews.• Worked closely with senior management in the implementation of QA procedures to ensure that quality and conformance with Z540-1, ISO 17025, and NAVSEA quality standards and safety regulations were followed and upheld.• Worked with Senior Management in the drafting our departmental supply budget, tracking expenses and maintaining budget integrity to include purchasing, calibrating and repair schedules.• Liaison between customers and lab technicians--provided equipment status reports, recall reminders and schedule confirmations.• Developed and implemented a new training program to include developing training classes on upgraded equipment, new calibration stations, new standard operating procedures and safety standards due to new calibration lab upgrades and move.• Responsible for monitoring and tracking requirements and schedules for test equipment for both internal and external customers. • Projected work load across projects and built resource plans--including identifying needs for outside vendors (such as sending equipment to higher level calibration labs). • Identified and escalated issues to Senior Management that put a project completion at risk or that showed milestones are not tracking toward a timely completion. • Contracted with external vendors, monitored work to ensure completion of equipment repairs and calibration completed on time as promised to customer. • Managed and maintained inventory for over 3000 measuring devices totaling $10,000,000 in assets. • Reviewed and evaluate performance of 29 calibration technicians and assigned personnel• Set up and managed command Calibration Inventory and Recall System software program encompassing over 800 calibration records for 5 tended units.

Promoted to Electronics Technician 2 (E-5) on 27 December 2000.• Supervised the Electronics Technician Work Center, which provided electronics repair and installation services to the USS Sacramento and other assigned ships. • Responsible for purchasing, negotiating and installing new communication equipment to include upgrading radio central, electronics workshop and operations stations. • Managed and supervised a work center of eight electronic technicians, to include training, mentoring and maintaining a high level of morale while out to sea for months on end to continue with the mission at hand and complete repairs, installations and training on time. • Maintained command training program for various work centers within our department• Ensured that the ship's maintenance and material management system (3-M) policy was upheld and current in accordance with OPNAV Instruction 4790.4 by regularly reviewing and updating Planned Maintenance Schedules and Training Program. • Repaired, trouble-shot, maintained and installed various radio and electronic equipment within the scope of our departmental needs. To include, but not limited to CCTV applications, HF communications equipment, fiber optics and associated hardware.• Maintained and monitored the operational readiness of our surface ship's exterior communications suite. • Performed preventive and corrective maintenance on the surface ship's exterior communications system. Troubleshot HF communications equipment, including the AN/URT-23 series, the AN/URA-38, UN/UCC-1, R-1051, R2368A/URR LF/MF/HF receiver, CV-2460, AN/URA-17 and their interfaces.