Farnaz Feizi

Experience

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  Gap Inc./ Banana Republic

  Mar 2007 - Mar 2011

  Sales

  At Banana Republic I worked my hardest by Consult customers on procedures and policies and resolve customer complaints. Enroll customers for Banana Republic credit cards.Organize visual sales presentations throughout the store.

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  Connections For Life

  Jun 2011 - Sept 2014

  Living service Coordinator

  Mobilize diverse individuals by assisting disabled adults in their homes and with daily routines, managing personal finances, medical care, and day-to-day logistics. Management of caseload of ten clients that require collaborations with their housing and staff for 24-hour care. Supervised over 60 staff and managing their training and by working in clients’ homes. Managed schedules, reports, analysis financing documents, client behavior, funding and maintaining a positive and productive relationship with employees. Planning and facilitating clients and their neighborhood engagement within communities. Individuals who needed assistance with matters such as Adult Protective Services, disability income, and housing advocacy. Show less

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  TUMI

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

  Assiocate Manager

  Duties included management of the store and its employees. Maintained inventory, shipments, and continuously updated the store displays and window visuals. Learned product knowledge and translated that into educating clients about our products and services. Built strong communication skills and team management skills.

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  Public Health Survey Research Program (PHSRP) at California Sacramento University

  Jun 2015 - Mar 2016

  Research data Acquisition

  Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System project (BRFSS) United with Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and California Department of Public Health to conduct research analytics from the gathered data. Performed data collection and research on health habits, used to inform record smoking legislation. Develop and conduct user surveys while analyzing habits and data available from other researchers. Improve the public health of Californians by leading high-value research to include in policy change. Identify and understand problems through forecasting, gap analysis, quantitative reporting, research, and statistical analysis from each project. Show less

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  Connections For Life

  Feb 2016 - Mar 2017

  Resource Developer

  Duties included gathering resources data, policies, and reports that are empowering adults and families with developmental disabilities. These resources are to access and promote independent, responsible for the growth in community relations. Other duties included writing grants, reports, marketing materials, and volunteers’ outreach, event planning, project coordination, engaging with local leaders, disability income and housing advocacy. Moreover, I worked on financial, budgeting, and yearly audits of programs and governmental fundings. Show less

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  University of California, Davis

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2019

  Teacher Assistance

  Assisted students in their learning objectives, while aiding professors in their research and lectures. Recommend changes and improvements to course lectures based on research findings. Held weekly office hours that provided additional learning plans for students. Also, I presented materials both written and orally in my lecture to students that analyzed policy reviews and data references. Overall, I provided clear communication, professionalism, quick response to professors and student.

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  City of Rancho Cordova

  Mar 2017 - Jan 2019

  Economic Development

  Conducted project planning, audit including a site visit, tenant outreach, and program evaluation. Perform topic research on affordable housing policy analysis and organize data for future studies of sustainable and affordable projects. I assisted staff with the processing and tracking of housing and grant contracts. Additional support with helping in the development and maintenance of the division budget. Further work, on invoice tracking, data managing, and financial analysis. Responsible for the processing of loan closing and documentation for each project site. Create diagrams and documentation to pinpoint problems and solutions in regard to housing policy. Assist with community public outreach and participation efforts. Simplify research findings into presentations for the city staff and supervisors. Grant agreements in compliance with both federal and state requirements. The overall goal is to improve affordable housing, homelessness, and transportation by minoring human service such as HUD, CDBG grants and other policies in the City of Rancho Cordova. Show less

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  State of California

  Jan 2019 - May 2020

  Division of Fiancial Assistance

  Housing and Community DevelopmentRepresentative I, Program Design, and Implementation (PDI) January 2019- Present• Preparation of Notices of Funding Availability, drafting and editing program guidelines and applications.• Workshop presentations for our local jurisdiction and developing sponsors.• Internal monitoring of projects to assure feasibility, by viewing replacement reserve rental restricted for Supportive Housing and Special Needs populations.• Application review process of scoring, underwriting, threshold, and feasibility using Uniform Multifamily Regulations (UMR), Health and Safety Codes, State and Federal Regulations and Guidelines for each program such as Multifamily Housing Program (MHP), Supportive Housing Multifamily Housing Program (SHMHP) and Permanent Local Housing Allocation (PLHA). Awareness of California Emergency Solutions and Housing (CESH), and Emergency Solutions Grants program (ESG).• Underwriting financial documents from sponsors such as development budget, cash flow, organization documents, operating expenses and environmental reviews for National Environmental Policy Act and California Environmental Quality Act (NEPA and CEQA).• Examine organizational documents such as title, site control reports, appraisals, relocation plan and Article 34 authorization. Ongoing communication with applicants/developing sponsors to meet project requirements.• Tracking of data by inputting it into Consolidated Automated Program Enterprise System (CAPES) and excel workbook (mapping).• Creating excel tools such as checklists and workbooks for internal staff and to assist with completing application reviews.• Final project report and presentation to Committee members.• Preparation and executing Standard Agreements and working with the loan closing department on closing construction calls. Show less

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  California Department of Housing & Community Development

  May 2020 - now

  Representative II

  Financial Compliance in Disaster Recovery