Experience

Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Older Adult Services - Program Director

  • Jul 2013 - Present

  San Jose, California Director of two State Licensed Adult Day Care facilities in the cities of San Jose and Sunnyvale, where caregivers needing respite, bring their dependent older adults for supervision in a program offering engaging social, physical and mental activities. Director of two community Senior Centers in Downtown and East San Jose. Both offering cook on site Senior Nutrition programs and a variety of Senior Wellness activities.

• Program Director - Eastside Neighborhood Center

  • Feb 2005 - Jun 2013

  San Jose, California Managing Director of the Eastside Neighborhood Center of Catholic Charities. Serving low-income, monolingual Spanish speaking families with several social services, such as ESL, Computer classes, Health check-ups, Foodbank, Senior Nutriton program, Community education and recreational activities.

• Program Coordinator at Economic Development Services

  • Sep 1999 - Jan 2005

  San Jose, CA Supervised an "Employment Assistance & Training" program for CalWorks recipients and Resettled Refugees & Asylees; funded by Federal and City grants.



American Society on Aging

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• New Ventures in Leadership - Fellow Class 2008-9

  • 2007 - 2008



Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

• Ecuador
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant - Center for Latino American Studies (CELA)

  • Aug 2001 - Jul 2005

  Quito, Ecuador Research regional electoral trends and developed an extensive statistical electoral database for analysis.



County of Santa Clara

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Assistant

  • Oct 1998 - Jul 1999

  Development and analysis of Requests For Proposals (RFPs) for non-profit organizations that provide services to low-income immigrants. Organized and implemented the “Dialogue on Immigrant Needs” conference for three hundred participants. Responsible for the data collection of four different study areas and prepared statistical summaries.