Experience

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  JVS Boston

  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Director of English for Advancement, Refugee and Disability Services

    • Dec 2021 - Present
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Under the leadership of the Vice President of Refugee and Disability Services, the Director of English for Advancement (EfA) builds relationships with and engages partners in sustainable workforce development programs that lead to long term economic stability. The Director builds, strengthens and grows key partnerships; supervises and supports program managers; tracks and reports all relevant program data and outcomes; and evaluates programmatic success. The Director’s charge is to assess the workforce needs of employers and clients and to provide the education and training programs that will allow clients to successfully pursue a career of their choice. The Director of EfA plays a critical role in the expansion of the EfA program to new gateway cities, ensuring that the quality of the current program is maintained and strengthened as scale is achieved.

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  NECAT

  • Boston, MA, United States

  • Director Of Career Services

    • Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
    • Boston, MA, United States

    - Increased graduate employment rate from below 50% to an average of 75% over the first six months through a team and personal based SEL curriculum, significant class instruction based on industry identified needs, and extensive personalized counseling.- In 2021 created and implemented an SEL Work Readiness Program at Suffolk County Correctional and taught first three cohorts and acted as Case Manager and Career Navigator from pre-release through probation to release.- Established Employer Advisory Board recruiting Greater Boston’s largest culinary organizations to help identify and improve NECAT’s graduate placement and retention.- Helped establish tracking mechanisms and data collection process to ascertain career success and development post-graduation.

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  Dreamfar Triathlon

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Director and Founder

    • Jan 2007 - Jun 2020
    • Greater Boston Area

    • Developed the highly successful Dreamfar Triathlon Team which is now one of New England's premier USAT certified training resources and a funding source for the high school program. In 2013 expanded the program to assist at-risk and underserved veterans in the greater Boston community and in 2016 became the official triathlon team of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition.• Developed and launched Strength & Mechanics in 2015, a program designed to reduce recidivism through sport and engineering education providing both self efficacy and a means to develop technical trade skills.

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  vm Acosta Consulting

  • Eastern Massachusetts

  • Non-Profit Consultant

    • Dec 2015 - Aug 2018
    • Eastern Massachusetts

    • Tunefoolery Music (MA Department of Mental Health) - Created and implemented Program, Work Force Training, and Development Models to help the staff, members, and board align and expand their mission impact. Established major new partnerships in the corporate sector and with regional mental health partnerships such as NAMI.• Common Cathedral, Ecclesiastic Services – Developed their first Development Strategy and Implementation Plan• Boston Bulldogs Running Substance Abuse Interdiction – Developed 501.c.3 Business Plan and managed Addiction Recovery Vigil Event held at White Stadium on May 22, 2016.• United Way of Massachusetts Bay - Conducted, managed, and monitored corporate and individual solicitations and employee campaigns in the Boston business district ranging from $100,000 campaigns at high tier business organizations to helping grow innovative campaigns at expanding smaller business units.• Project Citizenship - Conducted Development Program and served as a translator for citizenship documentation and discussions.• Doc Wayne Youth Services - Created Annual Development Plan and assisted with evening youth programs.• Vinfen Corporation - Communications and Development Consultant

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  Dreamfar High School Marathon

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Operations Director and Co-Founder

    • Sep 2007 - Jul 2018
    • Greater Boston Area

    • Researched and demonstrated overall efficacy and impact of the DHSM program leading to enhanced high school student socialization, higher graduation rates, and long term developmental improvement. This has led to significant investment by the community supporting programmatic efforts.• Develop yearly budgets, planning and implementing campaigns, events, managing sponsorship, individual giving and delivering community impact reporting and advocacy.• Responsible for all aspects of DHSM's solicitation and stewardship of philanthropic support from private funders, corporations and foundations driving $300,000 of revenue/year. Established all event and campaign efforts to deliver sustaining and growth funds.• Co-founded and developed the Dreamfar High School Marathon Program to train at-risk youth for marathon as a means of providing a focused, disciplined, and positive outcome infrastructure. The program’s success has led to a 501.3c non-profit status in 2011, expansion to fifteen schools in 2016 and as of June 2017 the program has a 99% high school graduation rate with more than 90% attending college having trained close to 1000 high school students.

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  Arthritis Foundation

  • Newton MA

  • Director and Trainer

    • May 2017 - Nov 2017
    • Newton MA

    - Managed 2017 Central MA Walk to Cure Arthritis and 2017 Boston Jingle Bell Run at the Boston Common exceeding financial goals securing donations and investment in excess of $200K. Also,solicited, trained, and managed an effective volunteer base of community leaders to assist in meeting financial goals. - (2004 - 2009) Served as liaison between the Arthritis Foundation, its volunteers, and the local community.- Initiated and developed the Arthritis Foundation Date Auction event, the Disney World Marathon team, and the Joints in Motion’s (JIM) Triathlon and Falmouth Road Race teams exceeding budget goals and establishing premier community programs.- (2004 - 2009) Coordinated and conducted the training of over 200 first time athletes, many with Arthritis, to run the Disney, Dublin, and Boston Marathons, Falmouth Road Race and the Witch City and North Shore Triathlons raising well over $300,000.

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  Back on My Feet

  • Executive Director and Workforce Development Lead, Boston Chapter

    • Apr 2010 - Nov 2015

    • Developed chapter into a continuous wellness service model through partnering with Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, Northeastern University, Massachusetts General Hospital and area clinics thereby doubling the number of people served on a yearly basis. Established and implemented business strategies that will double the number of people served every year through 2020.• Established the Boston Chapter of Back on My Feet as the highest performing in terms of positive outcomes for homeless and at-risk as well as development consistently surpassing budget goals and creating and expanding partnerships in the private and service sectors. • Developed and created the first models representing the transitional nature and efficacy of running, socialization, and wellness programming on at-risk and homeless populations. Led research verifying the positive impact of such programs on homeless and at-risk populations.• In 2011 charged with turning around and establishing a sustainable chapter by creating development and partnership opportunities, hiring staff, and managing a program that met Boston's housing first approach to homeless engagement. Succeeded by raising over $500,000 in first year, hiring and training program staff, and developing key partnerships with John Hancock, Morgan Stanley, Comcast, AT&T, State Street, Pine Street Inn, New England Center for Homeless Veterans and other community and business leaders.• Founding Program Director and Work Force Development Manager establishing Boston's first six teams across Boston, Somerville, and Quincy and managing its first 300 shelter resident and volunteer members as well as the 30 service organizations and facilities that comprise the Back on My Feet Boston community.

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  Axcelis Technologies

  • Engineering Manager

    • Sep 1995 - Jan 2007

    Senior Engineer, Sept. 2004 – Jan. 2007• Reduced failure rate for field equipment from 75% to 10% and refurbishment defect rate from 25% to 7% by establishing and coordinating testing and analysis with field support and customer engineers.Engineering Manager Sept. 2002 – Oct. 2003• Managed five supervisors and 65 employees making up Axcelis' Component Engineering, Project Planning, Outsourcing, Product Release and Configuration Management, and Tech Services groups. • Transitioned and supported over $500 million of development and manufacturing projects and product from design, to build, to field support. Engineering Supervisor & Business Process Engineer Sept. 1995 – Sept. 2002• Established Component Engineering Department and hired, trained, and supervised a group of mechanical and electrical engineers to address component and materials engineering projects.

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  Dana Farber Cancer Institute

  • Development Associate and Team Captain

    • Nov 1992 - Jun 2004

    • Recruited, coordinated, trained, and managed 250 athletes for the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC), which raised over $3 million in 2004.• As DFMC Team Captain led team in the field and prepared over 90 weekly newsletters providing training theory, fundraising guidance, team activity updates, and personal stories of cancer survivors and patient-partners.

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  Panametrics Inc

  • Watertown MA

  • Electrical Engineer

    • Jun 1993 - Sep 1995
    • Watertown MA

    Validation Engineer for the build and qualification testing of the TIROS weather satellite Space Environment Monitor. Selected, procured, and qualification tested over one million dollars of electronic parts, sensors, and electro-mechanical components for the TIROS weather satellite program which successfully launched  in 1995 and is still in operation.

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  Hazeltine Coproration

  • Braintreet MA

  • Engineering Leader

    • Feb 1986 - Apr 1993
    • Braintreet MA

    - Established Reliability Engineering department at Hazeltine's  Anti Submarine Warfare Laboratory. - Led a team of design and test engineers on development,  production and field failure analysis on contracts valued in  excess of 31 million dollars.  - SATCOM Buoy and ADC MK 4 Countermeasure programs successfully completed field trials and        implemented. - Developed and implemented all in house Environmental Stress Screening profiles including Random Vibration Stress Screening analysis of printed circuit board designs. Performed design assurance tasks including component stress analysis, tolerance analysis, FMECA, Sneak Circuit Analysis,  circuit and system redundancy trades, reliability math modeling and reliability predictions on all in-house programs.