SUMMARY:

• Public/private partnership development
• Change Management
• 15+ years of cross - industry experience in both the public and private sectors; recognized nationally and internationally as an effective collaborator, builder of strategic alliances, corporate and collegiate trainer, and award-winning partner to diverse communities and work environments.
• Articulate communicator, skilled in delivering insightful presentations and strengthening relationships with business partners, peers and senior leadership.
• Proven mentor, trainer and director of multidisciplinary teams in line with aggressive performance metrics.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Compliance monitoring
• Consensus Building
• Operations Management
• Human Resources Management
• Team Building
• Business Analysis
• Public Speaking
• Strategic Planning
• Organizational Development
• Conflict Resolution
• Training and Development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Adjunct Professor

Responsibilities:

• Instruct on matters of Management and Leadership within the core and elective curriculums and interrelated, relevant disciplines with real, work-life experiences.
• Provide academic and career advice to current students.
• Collaborate with other faculty in developing, maintaining, and improving academic offerings.
• Created a team teaching approach to instruct ethical, transformational, servant, and authentic leadership approaches as one learning module by integrating subject commonalities.
• Provided business, partnership opportunities for the National Capital Region.

Confidential, Largo, MD

Economic Dvelopment Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for advocating and creating a synergistic relationship between government and private entities to identify resources and support and prepare a local workforce for opportunities provided by a water management project.
• Responsible for recruiting, identifying, and prequalifying local and minority businesses for available contracting opportunities.
• Responsible for interacting with all program and community stakeholders to promote program initiatives.
• Responsible for delivering program performance standards and metrics

Confidential, Washington, DC

­Assistant Director

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with certification and contracting directors and small business compliance officers nationally and implemented the District of Columbia’s certification and contract compliance program.
• Trained a team of ten business certification and contract compliance specialists and managers on industry best practices.
• Designed curriculum and monitored team training of all District agency contract officers, administrators, and finance officers on small business contracting and reporting best practices. ­­­
• Provided expert advice on best practices for small business environments to the District’s Committee on Economic and Workforce Development, the agency Director and General Counsel, and the Office of the Inspector General.
• Created the process for reviewing and monitoring the degree to which DC agencies and private projects were compliant with DC, local, business development law.

Senior Analyst, Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned and led inspections, evaluations, and performed analyses of the Certified Business Enterprise Program ( Confidential ) implemented by the District’s Confidential and a broad cross section of District agencies to determine their level of compliance with District laws.
• Identified internal control weaknesses within the Confidential program which were leading to contract fraud.
• Managed and trained a staff of 5 analysts on compliance best practices.
• Provided business development and economic development assistance to small businesses and municipalities in the Washington, DC area, Arizona, California, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas in the areas of federal procurement, marketing, assessments of base relocation and closure, and Brownfield opportunities.
• Trained emerging, manufacturing companies to design marketing and business plans targeting procurement activities at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Associate Deputy Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered eight programs, (8a) Certification, Hubzone Certification, Small Disadvantaged Business, Small Business Innovative Research and Grant Assistance, Small Business Goaling, Size-standards, Service Disabled-Owned Veterans, and Federal and Commercial Market Contracting and led a staff of 185 located throughout the Confidential (U.S.) and its territories to meet the economic development goals of the U.S. President.
• Increased procurement monitoring activities of 150 federal, procurement entities, business development activities and related projects throughout the U.S. and its territories in order to meet statutory goals.
• Initiated a national assessment of the Procurement Contracting Representative Program ( Confidential ) in order to quantify program performance. This assessment prevented the termination of the Confidential Program.
• Administered the delivery of the Confidential ’s business development and financial assistance programs throughout the Mid-Atlantic region (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, and the District of Columbia).
• Served as the chief spokesperson and senior Confidential official responsible for coordinating economic development initiatives with other federal and regional offices.
• Collaborated with District agency directors and lending representatives to create best practices in delivering the Confidential Loan programs.