Experience

Kansas Hispanic Education & Development Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  •Enhance and support the work of the Board by managing, monitoring, and executing the organization’s fiduciary responsibilities to the donors and the students that the organization serves.•Serves as a visible public advocate for the work of the organization and its need for philanthropic support, cultivating and building external relationships and collaborations.•Guides the organization through regularly scheduled annual planning activities, leading the implementation of resulting strategic initiatives.•Promote procedures and practices that will ensure organizational compliance with the highest ethical standards ensuring operational accountability and adherence to the law.•Establish policies, procedures, and processes.•Oversight and supervision of staff. •Revise program data collection and techniques.•Analyzes program outcome data to ensure programs are meeting objectives.•Develops and oversees fundraising activities, included but not limited to identifying donors, managing fundraisers, drafting fundraising solicitation letters and grant applications.•Expand revenue and fundraising to support scholarship program, educational initiatives, and operations.•Secure financial support from individuals, corporations, foundations, and educational institutions.•Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with major donors.•Research and write grants.•Oversee reports for all fundraising, data entry, and gift processing.•Maintains sound financial practices, internal controls, and reports.•Works collaboratively with staff, the Board treasurer, and the Board to prepare annual budgets, monitor income/expenses, and initiates changes to operations and/or budget as appropriate.•Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.•Responsible for planning, development, and implementation of all marketing strategies, marketing communications, public relations activities, including website, newsletter, and social media.

• Director Of Development

  • Nov 2019 - Sep 2020

  • Incorporate KHEDF’s policies and procedures, mission, and vision in development and implementation plans.• Provide technical assistance to, as well as seek input from, key board members, staff members or committee members to identify needs and methods to address those needs. • Identify, research and cultivate funding sources to include individuals, corporate, foundation, religious, and government in support of KHEDF’s activities.• Develop solicitation materials and prepare funding applications to various sources. Act as a resource to program staff involved in funding applications/writing grants and assist in the submission of new funding requests. Provide reports on all requests and successful funding.• Utilize donor software for recording of all meetings and solicitations of donors. Provide reports to the development committee regarding gifts, cultivation of prospects, management of prospective donor lists and those that have declined gift proposals.• Establish and implement an annual calendar of fundraising and grant writing activities to include sponsorships, program support, major gifts, and special events.• Serve as staff liaison to development committee of the board of directors and assume responsibility for cultivating, training, and supporting the committee.• Perform duties as pertaining to scholarship and programs.• Develop and monitor an annual plan to market KHEDF while highlighting program specific activities.• Serve as the spokesperson to outside groups, including the media, regarding fundraising activities and public relations.• Assist in board development activities such as board member training sessions.



keycentrix, LLC

• QA Analyst

  • Jun 2019 - Oct 2019

  •Adhere to quality standards when testing and analyzing •Recognize and notify Team of potential issues or oversites with functional or technical behavior •Troubleshoot escalated production issues •Utilize Jira to track project timelines and deadlines •Assist internal Teams when needed •Provide collaboration on functional design when requested •Participate in and provide valuable input during discussions •Develop test cases •Effectively execute test cases •Review Functional documents •Participate in Peer Review of test case writing and test case performance as a reviewer and a reviewee •Attend and participate in group meetings regarding daily tasks, process improvements, training sessions •Document testing outcomes, failure reasons, discussions, decisions made for historical tracking purposes •Keep time tracking accurate and up-to-date •Maintain HIPAA compliancy, ethical behavior, be respectful, be prompt to work and meetings, deliver tasks in a timely manner



INVISTA

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Master Data Management SSC Coordinator

  • Mar 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Applied all business processes, procedures and standards related to the creation and maintenance of master data • Understood expectations for compliance and control activities to mitigate risk in the MDG processes • Played a key role in the approval process for master data creation • Acted as a subject matter expert for the MDG tool • Managed and understood translation between MDG and SAP • Supported users of the MDG tool including troubleshooting user issues and provided direction for users for broader master data questions • Supported master data mass maintenance requests • Provided local multi-language data support as required • Engaged with regional data stewards to develop, manage, and challenge process of Information Steward • Created project documentation and strategy plans, as well as collaborate with participants to meet deadlines • Challenged process by working to optimize the use of the system and eliminate waste • Raised opportunities to improve MDG/SAP users, processes, and system effectiveness • Created and updated training documents using Word, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat. This duty is performed annually, about 30% of the time • Assisted with providing, coordinating, documenting, maintaining, and scheduling training • Communicated goals and performance standards to co-workers • Ensured consistent adherence to company policies, procedures and performance standards • Conducted annual performance evaluations for colleagues



Open Mortgage

• United States
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Loan Originator Assistant

  • Aug 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Initiated borrower applications and deliver acceptance/denial of pre-qualification • Organized, monitor status and track all active loans • Analyzed required forms and obligatory documents, before sending to processor and underwriter • Identified and solved potential problems • Managed office schedules in Microsoft Outlook • Managed social media execution for marketing strategies and community engagement • Consulted with manager regarding event strategies • Identified, assembled, and organized items to coordinate with events • Created invite list, distributed invitations, and tracked RSVPs • Transcribed letters of explanation for client's credit report • Assisted with coordinating and managing marketing to buyers, sellers, realtors and builders