Experience

Yakima Valley Libraries

• United States
• Libraries
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Jul 2022 - Present



City of San Antonio

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Digital Inclusion Administrator

  • Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

  Responsible for developing and managing the City of San Antonio's Digital Inclusion initiatives in collaboration with public, private, and community stakeholders.

• Smart City Coordinator

  • Oct 2018 - Feb 2022

  Facilitate planning processes with City departments and SmartSA partners to support Smart City 3.0 strategic and operational planning activities and prioritize investments in Smart City technology and infrastructure.Collaborate with City departments and SmartSA partners to devise Smart City solutions to ensure that the City's Smart City projects are well-coordinated.Work with the City's IT Department to ensure proposed and planned Smart City projects are supportable and maintainable.Highlights and Accomplishments:• Led the efforts for the successful coordination and implementation of the community engagement phase and survey for the SmartSA partnership that led to over 3700 responses and capturing key challenges within innovation zones• Led the efforts for the planning and implementation of the City's first SmartSA Vendor Summit that showcased the City's challenge based SmartSA program and complemented the traditional Request for Information (RFI)•Leading the City's first collaborative Digital Inclusion Strategy that includes completing a city and county-wide Digital Inclusion Survey and Assessment (DISA), Digital Inclusion Report Cards for the City and each council district, the $27 million Connected Beyond the Classroom initiative, as well as a public-private-community Digital Inclusion Roadmap under SA Digital Connects.

• Library Services Administrator

  • Aug 2014 - Oct 2018

  Provided yearly strategic vision and oversight for the purchasing, processing and delivery of more than 200,000 library materials. As well as the implementation of many high profile events and major technology projects for the San Antonio Public Library community of 1.9 million through the following departments: technical services, adult services, teen services, children services, delivery, digital services and collection development.Highlights and Accomplishments:• Led the efforts for the creation of the Library's first five-year technology strategic plan that has been leveraged to acquire over a $1 million to support the initiatives in the plan • Oversaw the yearly spending of a $4.2 million materials budget• Provided information and proposals to successfully acquire an additional $1.1 million for books and materials as well as $200,000 in grant funds for program support and implementation • Successfully acquired over $43,000 from Nonprofit Technology Network & Google Fiber for the salary of the City of San Antonio's first Digital Inclusion Fellow• Helped lead the efforts for the successful implementation of the City of San Antonio's first and second annual Digital Inclusion Summit that hosted local and national representatives• As part of a project for the Women's Leadership Mentoring Program, created the framework that was used to initiate the planning process for the City of San Antonio's Tricentennial Celebration• Administered high profile multimillion dollar contracts



Mid-Columbia Libraries

• Community Engagement Director

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2014

  Provided leadership in growing and sustaining strategic relationships among individuals, groups,and organizations in the communities served by Mid‐Columbia Libraries (MCL). Provided guidance to 12 branch managers and supervisors to identify individuals, groups, and organizations to initiate and build relationships within their communities to increase branch use and awareness. Provided guidance and training in sustaining and growing these relationships once initiated. Oversaw the planning, preparation, and implementation of organization‐wide programs designed to promote usage of MCL by key target audiences identified in MCL’s Strategic Plan.Highlights and Accomplishments:• Provided support for all 12 branch managers and supervisors to have yearly programming plans• Planning, prioritizing, assigning, and supervising work of all assigned staff • Attending monthly community meetings and participated in several committees • Generating weekly work schedules

• Branch & Outreach Manager

  • Oct 2011 - Aug 2012

  Served as the Branch & Outreach Manager for Mid-Columbia Libraries. Having the unique opportunity to manage the 2nd largest branch in the system as well as coordinate the outreach efforts to the Latino community for the entire system. Highlights and Accomplishments:• Generating weekly work schedules• Implementing, maintaining, and monitoring operating procedures• Planning, prioritizing, assigning, and supervising work of all staff• Assisting library patrons with the use of a variety of equipment including computers, printers, and self-checkout machines • Attending various meetings and participating in committees • Increased Community Partnerships• Created and facilitated Latino Alliance Meetings on a quarterly basis• Created responsibilities for Outreach to Diverse Populations position• Implemented several staff & community trainings• Led the spending efforts of the branch's budget• Purchased and led the collection development of thousands of Spanish Language materials

• Community Library Supervisor

  • Apr 2009 - Oct 2011

  Responsible for the management of a library branch circulating 9,000 books and materials average per month. Increased branch programming by 30%. Deeply involved in collection development. Strong pursuits in marketing library services to the community concentrating on community. • Generating weekly work schedules• Implementing, maintaining, and monitoring operating procedures• Planning, prioritizing, assigning, and supervising work of all staff• Assisting library patrons with the use of a variety of equipment including computers, printers, and self-checkout machines • Attending various meetings and participating in committees



Mid-Columbia Libraries

• Library Branch Supervisor

  • Jun 2006 - Sep 2006

  Responsible for the management of a library branch circulating 4,000 books and materials average per month. Increased branch programming by 25%. Deeply involved in collection development. Strong pursuits in marketing library services to the community concentrating on youth services. Highlights and Accomplishments: • Generating weekly work schedules • Implementing, maintaining, and monitoring operating procedures • Planning, prioritizing, assigning, and supervising work of all staff • Assisting library patrons with the use of a variety of equipment including computers, printers, and self-checkout machines • Attending various meetings and participating in committees



Washington State University Holland Library

• Library Assistant

  • Sep 2001 - May 2006

  Responsible for supervising other students and handling customer questions when other staff were unavailable. Duties included: * Opening/closing library building * Shelving * Stack Maintenance and shelf-reading * Customer service * Register * Inter-Library Loans Responsible for supervising other students and handling customer questions when other staff were unavailable. Duties included: * Opening/closing library building * Shelving * Stack Maintenance and shelf-reading * Customer service * Register * Inter-Library Loans