A provider of a secure learning environment for cultural identification and at-risk reduction activities. • Advance the mission of the $3 million organization with strategic plans that promote growth in student education, senior programs, immigrant resettlement, and national holiday celebrations; oversee accounting, marketing, human resources, and programming functions, managing a team of 15. • Create and adapt budgets to economic developments and association needs; identified new sources of funding through government and state work-study programs from local universities, saving $200,000 annually on salaried employees. • Foster organizational missions through aggressive strategies that analyzed the external and internal environments; contribute to immigrant resettlement, cope with language barriers, and strengthen youth study skills. • Maximize center performance; attained higher numbers of students successfully attending local schools with improved grades; awarded as the Best Tutoring & Mentor Provider Program by a federally supported organization. • Lead change management efforts resulting from new program development; diagnose organizational capacity and resolve internal issues with conflicting approaches to implementation. • Partnered with non-for-profit and government agencies to finance programs offered; study financial requests with cost-benefit analyses to support the value of the requested programs. • Approved operational policies and procedures for accounting, finance, internal controls, and risk reduction; recruited and trained staff, incorporating job-sharing and one-on-one mentoring. • Raise funds for diverse projects by marketing partnerships opportunities; joined with 16 local stores willing to donate new clothing, furniture, and other household items. • Promoted the benefits of the center with written advertisements and personal appearances at meetings and community events with up to 120 attendees.

MBA, MPM, International Business, Financial Management, Project Management

BS, Accounting