Foster Care Home Worker - TFI Family Services
(2024-08)
Work closely with children and families to ensure children can thrive safely in their home environments
- Teach skills such as emotion regulation, healthy communication, conflict resolution, and building healthy relationships
- Support foster parents by helping train, license, and guide them in providing the best care for the children in their homes
- Ensure logging and tracking of contact logs and uploading of client/provider documents per policy and DCF auditing requirements
- Visit foster families as required in their homes to ensure DCF regulations are being upheld, verify safety of environment, and report any concerns regarding safety of child or home per policy and mandated reporting practices
- Prepare licensing packets, ensure licensing documents and trainings are completed within the licensing period, and send all licensing documentation to DCF and upload to company systems
- Ensure data integrity for auditing purposes of client and provider files
- Communicate regularly with the case team for the child/youth as well as other stakeholders for the child/youth
- Prepare monthly reports that document current behavior on each child in assigned homes and changes in placement
- Facilitate support meetings and other activities for foster families regularly; ensure clients' rights are protected
Foster Care Home Worker - Saint Francis Ministries
(2023-11)
- Develop an understanding of the child or youth's needs for environment and caregiver, wants in a placement, personal strengths and coping skills, cultural beliefs and creates and individualized referral to make the most appropriate match for the child or youth transitioning from a higher level of care (PRTF & QRTP)
- Communicate regularly with the case team for the child/youth as well as other stakeholders for the child/youth
- Assists data personnel with appropriate paperwork related to placement
- Ensure placements' compliance with DCF regulations and licensing guidelines
- Complete all documentation necessary to ensure that once appropriate placements are located for clients, placements are accurately paid. This includes CMS and all other documentation platforms utilized
- Reports unusual incidents through appropriate Risk Management, clinical and safety channels
- Schedule regular home visits monthly with placement caseload, visit with placement and clients, and provide support as needed
- Assist foster parents in accessing resources throughout the community to meet foster child needs
- Prepare monthly reports that document current behavior on each child in assigned homes and changes in placement
- Facilitates support meetings and other activities for foster families regularly; ensure clients' rights are protected
Business Owner - Parrot House Exotics, LLC
(2018-08 - 2022-10)
- Ensured the proper health, appearance, welfare, and proper handling of all animals
- Ensured merchandise is properly priced, displayed and stocked according to inventory levels appropriate for the store; made merchandising decisions with consideration of visual standards, adjusting these as necessary
- Scheduled and adjusted labor hours & payroll to maximize productivity, achieve sales & payroll goals, and complete workload
- Tracked and maintained inventory, managed company website and social media pages, determined promotions and sales incentive programs for increasing customer traffic
- Drive fundraising activities to increase donations for Eden's Exotic Rescue and animals in our care
- Ensured cleanliness of store and animal enclosures, maintained overall appearance of store and restocked inventory as needed
- Educated customers on exotics pets, proper handling, training, overall care, and handling emergency situations
- Identified underperforming metrics and develop strategies that leverage resources to improve and grow the business
Sr. Business Data Analyst/Project Manager - Textron Aviation
(2020-04 - 2020-10)
- Designed and developed data analytics reports to drive change within the company relating to inventory, pricing, market activity, and sales performance
- Became a subject matter expert on data analytics for the spares parts division and trained new employees on Alteryx and Power BI
- Led a team of analysts, hosted meetings with senior management to increase revenue, drove new sales through strategic promotions, and predicted future product demand
CRM Automation Developer - Textron Aviation
(2019-04 - 2020-04)
- Design, develop and test digital marketing campaigns using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript; including responsive design for mobile
- Design digital content for landing pages using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver
- Analyze analytic metrics for effective email deployment and campaign success
- Integrate SalesForce with Marketo for lists pulls, database management of accounts and customers, campaign management and marketing
- Ensure business practices align with SPAM Management best practices to prevent blacklisting by eliminating chronic non-responders from distribution lists and utilizing subscription management
- Utilize drip campaigns for automation of ongoing email delivery as needed
Process Leader, Material and Information Flow - Textron Aviation
(2016-05 - 2019-04)
Provided input and facilitated development of assigned program operational metrics, goals, objectives, material costs, inventory, and Supply Chain/PC&L performance metrics such as schedule performance, cost of quality and delivery performance. Held extensive knowledge in Supply Management, Quality, benchmarking, supplier development, Material & Information Flow, and Database Management.
- Successfully implemented a new system which helped improve material tracking and identified gaps in the material presentation process, increased communication of material movement throughout the organization by 85%, decreased the occurrence of lost parts by 70%, and provided invaluable new data for transportation turn time previously not captured to improve routes and delivery frequency
Supervisor, Production Control & Logistics - Textron Aviation
(2013-03 - 2016-04)
- Managed team of up to 50 bargaining and SNE employees; performed cross training, employee orientation, ensured general understanding of company policies and goals with a firm, fair and consistent approach
- Audited data related to the Bill of Material (BOM) and Item Master in the MRP system; utilized MRP demand to execute planned work orders, released and created work orders while effectively utilizing available capacity
- Managed departmental scheduling, parts expediting, and stock control to meet production schedules; used Six Sigma Lean Management to identify RCCA and implement changes for improved control
- Determined the need for scheduled overtime, manpower changes, and other operational changes; allocated equal overtime scheduling to assure equal distribution of hours offered per labor relations policy
