Experience

Collaborative for Children

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director, Strategic Growth Initiatives

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  Serve as a key thought partner to the Chief of Programs to help advance the agency's strategic goals and objectives. Support the implementation of innovative program strategies across the department that are aligned with the agency’s short and long-term strategic plans through collaboration with program leadership. Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of a skills development program to address the agency’s skills deficits and skill gaps to ensure scalability of program strategies. Communicate and align goals and metrics with program staff at funding agencies, gathering information required to maximize partnership success and program growth. Secure and oversee the planning and implementation of state and federal grant programs, prepare budgets, coordinate grant reporting for key strategic partners maintaining compliance, and researching funding opportunities. Drive the ability to track, measure, and report on the performance of the team’s strategies across all areas of its efforts, as well as specific metrics within the organization to drive continuous process improvement.

• Assistant Vice President

  • Jul 2006 - Jun 2020

• Manager, Special Projects

  • Mar 1998 - Jun 2006



Wharton County Junior College

• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Adjunct Instructor, Early Childhood Education

  • Jan 2015 - Jun 2020



University of Houston

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer, College of Education

  • Jan 2004 - May 2018