Experience

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  Youth Enterprise Services

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Chief Operations Officer

    • Jun 2004 - Present
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Manage an annual budget of approximately $2,000,000; prepare operating budgets, review and approve expenditures; supervise bookkeeper and all accounting processes; directly supervise unit managers and case managers; provide all human resource functions including hiring, firing, handling disciplinary issues and resolving them; develop job descriptions and set salary requirements for same; develop and implement training programs for staff; provide training to residential counselors and unit managers; ensure all reporting and record-keeping requirements are met; assist with developing programmatic goals and objectives; annually prepare program quality improvement plan, which includes annual review of programmatic goals and objectives and recommendations to the Board of Directors.

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  Private Consultant

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Consultant

    • Dec 1994 - Dec 2006
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Provide technical assistance to small and minority businesses; represent local governments in resolving problems with federal agencies; assist local governments in creating and strengthening internal control procedures, policies and processes; analyze and assess the adequacy of internal control systems to respond to regulatory and statutory requirements for continued and new funding; draft responses for clients on factual and interpretative issues for submission to federal government; enhance timekeeping and record-keeping system; provide training to City staff and others in properly documenting files.

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  Department of Housing and Community Development -- Baltimore City

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Project Director

    • Aug 1991 - Oct 1994
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Assisted City officials in successfully mitigating issues with the federal government, resulting in securing millions of dollars in federal funding; management of several federal programs; analyzed and assessed the adequacy of the City's internal control systems to respond to regulatory and statutory requirements for continued and new funding; evaluated City's community development objectives and identified/assessed resource needs; determined applicability of existing/new laws and policies and made recommendations for necessary changes; designed and instituted effective systems for contract preparation and administration of contracts; developed and implemented monitoring and evaluation systems; supervised technical and professional personnel; provided specialized training and technical assistance to City staff and others.

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  Mayor's Office, City of Baltimore

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Mayoral Appointee/Project Director

    • Dec 1989 - Aug 1991
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Coordinated the work of the Mayor's Task Force to produce an integrated and comprehensive community economic development plan for physical and social renewal in the Sandtown-Winchester community in West Baltimore, using a grassroots approach. Residents developed a vision for neighborhood revitalization. This initiative received national and international attention in 1991, and in 1993 became a national model for urban revitalization. My work is featured in the book, Black Baltimore: A New Theory Of Community, by Professor Harold McDougall. This book discusses African-American communities in Baltimore and how residents in Sandtown-Winchester were empowered to effect positive social and physical changes for their communities.