Housing and Community Development Planner
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Looking for Full or Part-Time work. Forward-thinking and dedicated Land Use Planning / Housing / HUD Grant Administration / Leadership Professional leveraging a true passion for community revitalization, and background of achieving planning goals. Solid experience in supervisory roles for City, County and private sector planning staff positions; diverse background with relevant work history.
Successful in managing department projects and personnel; confident leader with a unique ability to create vital connections that introduce system efficiencies and project implementation. Demonstrated track-record of optimizing limited resources to fulfill planning objectives. Reputation for bringing fresh ideas to the table and gaining group consensus.
Firmly believes in group collaboration and moving forward through a process of education and participation.
In the last 10 years I have focused my career in directing major planning projects, affordable housing, assisting social services that provide vital housing and life-sustaining services. I am focused on community development planning and implementation work in Pennsylvania, New Jersey as well as throughout California.
I retain a BA degree in Geography with a minor in land use planning. Recently I have been working full-time providing full cycle HUD grant assistance managing federal grant funds. In the last 5 years, I have been providing HUD compliance training to private sector staff.