SUMMARY:

• Diversity & Inclusion | Community Relations | Business Development
• Excellent leadership, business acumen, and program management skills leveraged to launch impactful programs.
• Accomplished executive with a passion for business analytics and a quintessence for rehabilitating profitability metrics and capacity development.
• Distinct experience serving in multiple capacities within various government agencies while maintaining a focus on strategy, innovation, and national operations.
• Committed leader with success launching game - changing strategies, programs, and systems.
• Able to navigate complex and challenging business situations by leveraging acute business and financial acumen.
• Nationally recognized SME for Supplier Diversity, Diversity & Inclusion, Economic Development, and Neighborhood Revitalization programs and projects.
• Championed several successful programs / projects under 49 CFR Part 26, Title VI & VII and SBA for the past 30 years in the following industries; Retail (TVM / Light Rail); Roads & Bridges; Construction

HIGHLIGHTS OF EXPERTISE:

• Program Management / Development
• Staff Leadership and Teambuilding
• Organizational Change Management
• Federal & State Grant Administration
• Economic Development
• Internal / External Communications
• Stakeholder Management
• Codified Regulations Compliance
• Public Speaking / Presentations
• Continuous Quality Improvements
• Project Leadership / Management
• Social Investment Strategy / Consulting
• Contract Administration / Negotiations
• Human Resources Management
• Community Relations / Public Relations
• Historic Preservation / Revitalization

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Integral member of the project team, leveraging industry expertise to structure long-term approaches that shape the overall design of the supplier diversity program.
• Work diligently to maximize resources while managing daily operations; formulate policies and procedures, track key performance metrics, and manage strategic partnerships.
• Constructed strategies for proactive and responsive support, providing analysis and guidance to advance program objectives; worked with the finance team to define internal systems, and oversee operational budgets.
• Launched and currently serve as the Executive Director for Alstom NAM Supplier Diversity Committee; developed a five-year calendar for outreach events and activities (national, regional, and local).
• Negotiated a series of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), nourishing the development and expansion of a sustainable diverse supplier base in the North American market.
• Reduced Buy America Noncompliance from 78% to 21% within one year by accurately identifying and addressing areas of critical opportunity; authored policy and procedures manuals and established best practices. increased reported DBE spend from $5.7M at end of fiscal .8M at end of Quarter 1, 2019.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

EEO-DBE Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as a strategic partner, maintaining control over various aspects of EEO-DBE operations.
• Advised the executive team regarding organizational design and change management to establish structure across the organization and improve compliance.
• Implemented systems and processes, and provided executive leadership to drive growth, innovation, and continuous improvements.
• Prioritized workload to successfully reduce backlog of delinquent DBE Applications from 450 to zero within first six months in position; established compliance matrices for status reports and project plan updates.
• Accelerated Analyst workflow completion from over 180 days to and average 30-day turn-around through introduction of a two-tier evaluation process for DBE Applications.
• Boosted the number of contracts that complied with DBE goal from 59% to 95%.
• Engaged with Procurement, Engineering, Architecture and Legal departments to establish a partnership agreement to conduct cooperative scope reviews for pending contracts; prepared scope analysis to set goals.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided expertise to create resolutions to complex problems through the application of strong analytical capabilities.
• Collaborated across multiple departments to establish workflow matrices and manage project resource allocation as well as stakeholder, contractor, and vendor relations.
• Analyzed business processes and procedures, assisting in the development of business requirements, objectives, and specifications.
• Revamped policy and procedures for DBE renewals; eradicated delinquent firms from portfolio, delivering a 100% compliant status for every firm listed as certified
• Increased the number of compliant renewal candidates from 5% (1250) to 100% (25K).
• Surpassed DBE/LDBE participation goals by 300% on all architectural / engineering projects as part of the 25-year Capital Improvement plan.

Confidential, Beltsville, MD

DBE / Civil Right Compliance Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed Confidential project's Confidential Job Program, establishing initiatives that brought value and enhanced engagement, leading multi-disciplinary teams to achieve 100% DBE, EEO, and OJT compliance. Completed comprehensive EEO review (Contract C) exposing OJT fraud and authored corrective actions policy to bring the program into federal compliance.
• Exceeded DBE goal of 20% on Contract C and achieved 30% DBE participation.
• Recognized with the Women’s Transportation Seminar’s Rosa Parks Diversity Leadership for 100% compliance in the DBE, EEO and OJT programs for the entire $550M mega project; largest infrastructure development construction project in the history of the state.