Work Experience | Recognition | Education
Consultant - Current Projects- Restoration of Train Service to Philadelphia - Phoenixville, PA (current)
- Low income housing homeownership, Opportunity Zone - Coatesville, PA (current)
- Atlas Development Refugee Housing Development - Beechview, City of Pittsburgh
- Transit Oriented Development Infrastructure Improvements - Castle Shannon, PA
- Storm Water Management Plan - Borough of Boswell, PA
- Remediation and subdivision of abandoned Forest Hills PA Westinghouse Electric Site
- Anti-gentrification project and corridor revitalization - Lower North Philadelphia CDC
- Outreach program and grant proposal for Permeant Peace Movement - Beirut, Lebanon
- Direct pre-development activities including public infrastructure, remediation and use planning
- Secure public financing by employing various public finance mechanisms
- Direct real estate out sales to potential developers and end users
- Direct effort to secure minor league baseball team and financing of related stadium
- Establishing a market position for the predevelopment activities of the project
- Inherited a program on the verge of losing operational funding
- Restored buildings in Phoenixville Historic District, 2 buildings won Preservation PA commercial building restoration award
- Strategic Reposition by Implementing Arts and Entertainment Economic Development Strategy
- Leveraged nine million government dollars for streetscape improvements, housing, crime prevention and open space preservation
- Restored building through DCED Façade program that won Preservation Pennsylvania Commercial Development restoration award
- Over a 6 year period added $150,000,000 in assessed value providing a growth rate of 20.25%
- Manage Entertainment District, emphasizing "Safe and Clean" program.
- Strategic Market Repositioning of South Street after the 2000 Mardi Gras riots.
- Secured $1,000,000 streetscape grant, $50,000 Second and Lombard fountain repair grant, $15,000 market analysis grant, and over $35,000 in promotions grants to enhance the district.
- Implemented Arts and Entertainment Economic Development Strategy.
- Developed Community Policing Plan
- Supervised downtown revitalization, using the Main Street 4-Point approach.
- Managed Historic Façade Program
- Projects included streetscape, joint advertising, economic development, grant writing, and business district management.
- Supervised Brownfield remediation of Superfund site to bring it to statewide health residential standard
- Secured over $3,500,000 in grant funding for public works projects
- Obtained and supervised train station revitalization grant and low-interest loan pool in Coatesville, PA.
- Developed Business District Authority plan in Lower Merion Township, PA.
- Housing and HOPE II consultant for Philadelphia's Southwest Community Development Corporation (CDC).
- Executive Director of New Kensington CDC.
- Organized and provided home mortgage counseling, leveraged vacant rehabilitation of low-income homeowner housing stock, administered energy assistance program (LIHEAP), and conducted fundraising.
- Packaged over $1,700,000 million in grant funding
- Managed commercial area of Kensington Avenue from Front to Lehigh
- Acted as a pass through for other organizations to access CDBG Mortgage Counseling program
- Co-authored and administered training course for Delaware Valley Mortgage Plan
- Managed downtown revitalization utilizing the Main Street 4-point approach, including streetscape, tourist development, facade program, and fundraising.
- Secured funding to restore historic train station
- Functioned as the redevelopment authority director and the parking authority director.
- Inherited a program on the verge of losing operational funding
- Managed established 2-point program; main issues addressed included facade (design) and promotion.
- One restored building received the commercial restoration award from the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission.
- Determined adjustment amounts in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bureau of Labor and Industry pass-through Federal program to aid those unjustly impacted by steel dumping in the United States.
- Performed tasks to enable clients to open regular Unemployment Compensation Claims
- Inherited a program on the verge of losing operational funding
- Administered program to provide free weatherization services to low-income individuals.
- Provided bond issue first mortgage financing with a second mortgage for rehabilitation to low-income individuals.
- Developed and managed Community Based Rental Corporation (Neighborhood Rental Corporation)
- Secured financing for large-scale project-based Section 8 (100) for Neighborhood Rental Corporation
- Managed urban county fair, with main areas of focus including community relations, public speaking, production, fundraising, sales, and advertising.
- The 11 day fair was largely a Baltimore Bi-centennial event
- The County Fair featured Cypress Garden's Ski Show, a host of nationally known music acts, high divers, auto thrill show, and circus acts booked through Ringling Brothers.
- Organized labor unions in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee for the United Furniture Workers Union.
- Processed grievances through arbitration.
- Organized unions in factories located in Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
- Implemented change in the way exhaust systems were employed to eliminate particle matter from the workplace environment.
- Organized non-profit hospitals in Pennsylvania for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees.
- Organized first private non profit hospital in Pennsylvania under Act 195
- Researched Occupational Safety and Health legislation (OSHA).
- Conducted national education program explaining the initial OSHA implementation
Keystone Laureate - Presented by Governor as an Agent of Change
Co-Founder - Pennsylvania Downtown Center
Pennsylvania Local Arts Network - Board Treasurer
University of Chicago Harris School for Public Policy - Municipal Finance Certificate
London School of Economic and Political Science - MSc Cities - 2017-Present
Carnegie Mellon University - Independent study course short of Masters of Public Management - 1984.
West Virginia State College - B.A. in History Political Science - Graduated 1971.
John F. Kennedy Memorial High School - Iselin, New Jersey - Graduated 1967.
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