Experience

Health Management Support Team (HMST)
• Netherlands
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Program Director

  • Aug 2023 - Present


Positive Projects

• Romania
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Management Consultant

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  Auradou, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France I offer support with all aspects of program management, including routine, exceptional or emergency support, through short or long-term engagement. I bring most value to moments of reflection and strategy development or review, or when knots need to be untangled. Examples of recent assignments include: - Global Fund Technical Evaluation Review Group (TERG) evaluations in Community Engagement and Community-led Response, Challenging Operating Environments, and Data-Driven… Show more I offer support with all aspects of program management, including routine, exceptional or emergency support, through short or long-term engagement. I bring most value to moments of reflection and strategy development or review, or when knots need to be untangled. Examples of recent assignments include: - Global Fund Technical Evaluation Review Group (TERG) evaluations in Community Engagement and Community-led Response, Challenging Operating Environments, and Data-Driven Decision-Making; - Strategic plan development for a regional health advocacy organisation (APCASO), and a global malaria movement of civil society organisations (CS4ME); - Facilitating a capacity assessment process, resulting in an organisational development plan, and informing a plan to operationalise a strategic plan (CS4ME); - Facilitating the development of the Government of Liberia's malaria private sector engagement strategy; - Supporting a multi-country project start-up, including team building and designing internal and external communication plans (PSI); - Participatory program evaluation (Sanofi Espoir Foundation); - (Remote) team retreat (Mercy Corps) and stakeholder consultation facilitation (Global Fund); - Developing strategic regional documents, including on UHC (APCASO) and supporting an investment case for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria (GFAN AP); - Providing project management assistance for a four-country COVID-19 project, and eleven-country digital health project (PSI) - Interim country director for Mercy Corps Ethiopia. Show less



Population Services International

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Greater Mekong Subregion Elimination of Malaria through Surveillance Program (GEMS)

  • Mar 2016 - Feb 2020

  Yangon, Myanmar Managed a four-year, $20 million malaria elimination project covering Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam. At its peak, the project supported over 20,000 private health care providers to deliver malaria care in compliance with national treatment guidelines, and developed a surveillance system to ensure that data was readily available to the government to support decision-making. The program continually adapted in response to the context and dynamic data review, and expanded its influence… Show more Managed a four-year, $20 million malaria elimination project covering Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam. At its peak, the project supported over 20,000 private health care providers to deliver malaria care in compliance with national treatment guidelines, and developed a surveillance system to ensure that data was readily available to the government to support decision-making. The program continually adapted in response to the context and dynamic data review, and expanded its influence through pro-actively sharing data and learning. Show less



Mercy Corps

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief of Party

  • Sep 2014 - Dec 2015

  Erbil, Iraq Led the integration and acceleration of a $55 million USAID-funded civil society development program, consisting of three international and two national partners, including guiding a programmatic pivot to respond to political and humanitarian crises while remaining on scope, on time and on budget, and subsequently deepening the influence of civil society on community and government stakeholders.

• Deputy Chief of Party

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Erbil, Iraq Broadening Participation through Civil Society Program

• Senior Program Director

  • Sep 2013 - Apr 2014

  Sulaymaniyah, Iraq Broadening Participation through Civil Society Program

• Consultant

  • Mar 2012 - Aug 2013

• Country Director

  • Apr 2010 - Feb 2012

  Goma/Kinshasa, DR Congo Led a team of over 120 national and expatriate team members, and built the program portfolio in scope and size, working in the sectors of WASH, economic recovery, food security, environment and governance, with an overall budget of approximately $80 million.

• Deputy Country Director

  • Sep 2009 - Mar 2010

• General Projects Manager

  • Jun 2009 - Sep 2009

  Goma, DR Congo



University of Oregon

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mercy Corps Practitioner in Residence

  • Oct 2012 - Nov 2012

  Portland and Eugene, Oregon



International Rescue Committee

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Civil Society Program Coordinator

  • Jul 2008 - Dec 2008

  Bukavu, DR Congo (Interim)

• Civil Society & Community Development Coordinator

  • Jan 2006 - May 2007

  Rumbek, South Sudan =



Save the Children

• United States
• Political Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Advisor

  • May 2005 - Dec 2005

  Nairobi, Kenya (Consultant)



UNDP

• United States
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Proposal Writer

  • May 2005 - May 2005

  Nairobi, Kenya

• Small Grants Trust Fund Coordinator

  • Apr 2002 - Aug 2004

  Tegucigalpa, Honduras



Lao National Committee for the Control of AIDS

• Program Officer

  • Apr 2000 - Aug 2001

  Vientiane, Lao PDR



Lao National Mekong Committee

• Capacity Building Officer

  • Aug 1997 - Mar 2000

  Vientiane, Lao PDR