Drexel University's LeBow College of Business

Provide administrative, budget, HR, and event support to the Accounting Department.  This includes course scheduling and cataloging, monitoring of day to day operational budget, recruiting and hiring of Adjunct faculty, PhD Students, Co-ops, Teaching Assistants and work-study students, and event and conference planning.

Accounting Department Manager

American Bible Society

Managed a program grant budget of $2.2 million and oversaw trauma healing implementation in mixed methodologies in 70 countries, reaching an average of 1.3 million people annually.
• Led a team of highly-skilled program managers to execute high-impact ministry according to the global strategy and delivering outcomes through operational excellence by providing comprehensive overviews of tools and expectations, shortening learning curves, improving delivery quality, and driving business initiatives for a greater scope of impact demonstrating success of outcomes.
• Oversaw the development, validation, implementation, and ongoing adjustment of 70 projects, ensuring that they were aligned with the program model, met impact projections, goals and budgets, and guaranteed timely and thorough reporting of outcomes for the growth and sustainability of these projects.
• Adapted partner strategies to learn new product during pandemic that lead to a 422% increase in participant reach.

Global Program Operations Manager

Increased creation of partner strategy plans by 70% by designing and creating operational budget, planning, and reporting tools for increased efficiency. 
• Introduced project implementation methodology to 40 new global partners and built processes to increase productivity, optimize program output, and generate critical learning.
• Created multiple tools to help with program efficiency such as a project plan template, budget creator, impact calculator, and activities table to develop yearly strategic plans with expected impact and budget goals.
• Organized stakeholder events bringing together regional implementing partners to evaluate, plan, exchange of innovations and key learnings for the creating of yearly operational plans. 
• Improved hesitant and resistant partners to become regional leaders of implementing strong programs with superb relational and communication skills, advocating and motivating their progress and success.

Program Manager

Provided strategic support, organization, and logistics management to leadership, specializing in budget management, reporting, and event management. Grew a managing budget of $3 million with 500,000 people impact to a budget of $5.8 million and 1.3 million impact. 
• Managed the budgeting process for the department, partnering with internal / external clients to ensure payments were processed and reconciled to appropriate projects.
• Executed fiscal budgets, analyzed spending controls, tracked all incoming and outgoing expenses, approved spending requests, and communicated results to leadership, monitoring data for potential issues and sharing comprehensive updates with stakeholders to ensure alignment and facilitate timely decision-making.
• Supervised Administrative Specialists, providing comprehensive training, tracking performance, and giving proper guidance and tools to help them succeed.
• Planned and executed 4 annual stakeholder events to raise program awareness and communicate program successes.  Provided logistical event management for all local training sessions as well as helped our partners manage their own training sessions.  
• Generated a quarterly dashboard, client reporting, and other program reporting as needed using the TeamDesk database, ensuring it was kept up to date to track growth and progress of the program.

Program Associate

Cancer Support Community of Philadelphia

Supported the CEO who managed the board, donor gifts, and special events.
•  Provided organization and management to all special events including creating and overseeing a complete master list of all donations, acknowledgments, and seating, partnering with the donors for all special needs, and coordinating the events onsite.
•  Monitored organization lists of over 400 donors towards the annual gala to track event progress that generated $350,000 in gifts.
•  Created a 100-page ad book and collaborated with donors on copy content to showcase donor program support.
•  Planned and organized all Board of Director meetings and produced the annual board member assessment.
•  Analyzed and entered all donor gifts using Resultsplus! Database and produced acknowledgment letters to keep donors engaged and encouraged.

Executive Assistant

Bringing Hope Home

Orchestrated fundraising and wellness events for cancer patients needing financial support. 
•  Facilitated fundraising campaigns such as the yearly dinner, 5k Runs, golf outings, and Adopt-A-Family to grow support for the program.
•  Developed a Wellness Day for cancer patients and caregivers in conjunction with Paoli and Riddle Hospitals with detailed planning to improve patient quality of life.

Special Events Support

I am an relationally driven global program and operations manager helping partners and customers scale by providing strategic organizational process improvements and resources. With my effective communication skills and by investing in my partners, I have demonstrated successes in motivating healthy, high-impact teams to strive for excellence, delivering results that meet goals with optimal outcomes. As a transparent business partner, reliable critical thinker, and problem-solving project manager, I am known for building strong relationships with internal and external partners to establish trust and confidence.

Operations | Program Development / Implementation | Relationship Management | Grant Management | Budgeting | Process Optimization | Strategic Planning  | Intercultural communication | Reporting | Evaluation | Team Building | People Development | Critical Thinking | Analytical | Languages: Fluent in English & Portuguese; Conversational in Spanish & French

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