Experience

Pius X High School - Official
• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Assistant Advancement Director

  • Aug 2017 - Present


Metropolitan Community College

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Grants

  • May 2016 - Aug 2017

  Oversees all aspects of the Metropolitan Community College (MCC) grant development and management processes. Works with the College and community partners to strategically plan, develop, and launch innovative and fundable projects. Supervises and trains all MCC grants personnel and internal grant managers. Collaborates with MCC personnel and funding partners to ensure compliance with all project and grant management requirements through successful grant close-out. Develops and implements systems to identify institutional external funding priorities each year. Coordinates all aspects of assigned College-wide and departmental special projects, including support for the President’s Office and close collaboration with the MCC Foundation to facilitate strategic stakeholder communications and the Institutional Mission Achievement Plan.

• Development Facilitator

  • Oct 2015 - May 2016



San Diego State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at SDSU (College of Extended Studies)

  • Feb 2010 - Oct 2015

  As Director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Diego State University (SDSU), I facilitate learning opportunities for 600-700 members age "50 and better." Together with the OLLI Advisory Board, I developed and launched a new volunteer leadership initiative resulting in four new committees to enhance our members’ engagement. With our instructors (30-40 teaching per year), staff (FT: 2 coordinators; PT: 1 student assistant) and volunteers (20+ including advisory board members and committee members), I administer 130-150 university-quality courses and special events annually.Responsibilities: strategic partnership facilitation, curriculum development, fiscal oversight (budget negotiation, fundraising, grant/endowment management); marketing and member engagement; recruiting and evaluating instructors; analyzing institutional effectiveness and achievement of learning outcomes; directing operations and logistics, ensuring compliance to The Bernard Osher Foundation, CSU, SDSU, and CES policies and procedures.I currently serve on the College of Extended Studies' (CES) Implementation Leadership Team (ILT) and CRM Group, serving as leader of the Training Team to support the new college-wide integrated Student Information System (Jenzabar Higher Reach), Customer Relationship Management System (Jenzabar/Salesforce JRM), and eLearning System (Jenzabar JICS).Before becoming director of OLLI at SDSU, I’d managed numerous credit and non-credit continuing education programs as a program director at SDSU’s CES, including teen camps, graduate degrees, and certificates offered on-campus, off-campus in partnership with local and international universities, and online. To enhance CES staff members' customer service skills, effectiveness and efficiency, I also collaboratively designed and developed staff training and learning resources, leveraging Mediasite lecture capture technology and creating/supporting the online CES Learning Resources Portal.

• Web Designer (General Asst. / Student Asst.)

  • 2008 - Jun 2010

  Utilizing Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Fireworks, I performed web site maintenance, editing, proofreading, layout, site evaluation, improvement, and updates on the website for the SDSU Center for the Study of Children's Literature (CSCL) http://childlit.sdsu.edu, and advising on the Friends of SDSU's Children's Literature Program blog http://sdsuchildlit.blogspot.com. My duties also included correspondence and collaboration with English Department faculty and staff, assisting in the development of long-term website maintenance plans, marketing plans, student and donor recruiting strategies, and event promotion for the NCSCL and the SDSU Children's Literature Program.I performed these duties originally as a Student Assistant, and continued as a General Assistant through the SDSU Research Foundation after completing my M.A.

• Teaching Associate

  • May 2007 - Dec 2008

  As a Teaching Associate for ENGL220: Introduction to Literature, I created curriculum, a course syllabus, and a course description according to the specifications and learning objectives of San Diego State University's Department of English & Comparative Literature. I taught this General Education Foundation course to 36 students from diverse cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic and academic backgrounds with a variety of cognitive, emotional, and physical ability-levels. My curriculum included literature from numerous periods, locations, and genres. I helped facilitate students' understanding of basic literary terms and concepts in relationship to fiction, poetry and drama by writers such as Sophocles, Plato, St. Matthew the Apostle, Gabriel García Márquez, Lewis Carroll, Ursula K. LeGuin, Edgar Allen Poe, Yukio Mishima, William Faulkner, Emily Dickenson, Chinua Achebe, J.D. Salinger, Sandra Cisneros, Patrick Süskind, Isaac Asimov, and William Shakespeare. For RWS100: The Rhetoric of Visual and Written Argument, I created curriculum, course syllabi, and a course descriptions according to the specifications of SDSU's Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies. I taught two sections of this General Education Foundation course to 28 students from diverse backgrounds. When I taught the course for the first time during Fall 2007 I used curriculum developed by SDSU, but I developed my own curriculum when I taught the course again in Spring 2008.



Grossmont Union High School District

• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructional Support Technician

  • Sep 2002 - Feb 2010

  As Instructional Support Technician, I supported over 24,000 high school students and over 53,000 adult school students through service in two departments – Curriculum and Instruction, and Instructional Resources – for the Grossmont Union High School District (GUHSD) Educational Services Division. I collaborated with faculty and staff to facilitate the development and implementation of curriculum and instructional resources, as well as print and web-based marketing and informational materials for the district’s schools, alternative programs, professional development workshops, and special events. I co-authored a grant proposal that led the district to obtain a $265,000 Hewlett Packard (HP) Innovations in Education grant, which was used to develop digital learning environments, increase students’ high-tech career awareness, and expand leadership in the use of technology. As a member of the Post-Secondary Planning (PSP) Committee (2009-2010), I supported the district's counselors in creating curriculum and instructional materials to guide students in their college and career plans. Our committee facilitated the PSP initiative for every student to graduate with an Individual Graduation Plan (IGP) and a personalized Post-Secondary Plan (PSP). I also served with GUHSD and Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District faculty and staff on the Got Plans? Career/College Fair Planning Committee as Chair of the Website/Program Sub-Committee (2008-2010) and as Member of the Marketing Sub-Committee (2006-2010). During my service on the planning committee, GUHSD's annual Got Plans event grew to become one of San Diego's largest career/college fairs, with attendance of over 5,000 students and their families.