Experience

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  Texas a&m university-corpus christi

  Jul 1989 - Nov 2015

  • Oversight and management of Garcia Arts and Education Center• Full responsibility for operating budget, grants, foundation gifts & special funding • Plans (strategic, marketing and business planning), coordinates and assures implementation to develop donors and contributions to support the center • Responsible for hiring, directing, supervising, assigning & evaluating personnel• Acts as a community outreach liaison to develop working relationships with community members• Serves as liaison for AVID Higher Education, and other P-16 initiatives Show less • Direct six Faculty Fellows and five University Student Ambassadors• Provide professional development and participate in school mentoring visits• Monitor data gathered by the faculty and student ambassadors from school visits• Participate in meetings to continue work on curriculum alignment grades 7-12• Collaborate in systematic activities that reach 100% of students and parents• Present at “college night” activities and at parent and teacher workshops• Organize campus “orientation to life on campus” visits by parents and students• Collaborate with Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce and other entities in the business community—work with West Side Business Association and civic organizations in the towns where target ISDs are located. Show less

  • Retired

    Sept 2014 - Nov 2015

  • Director, Antonio E Garcia Arts and Education Center

    Aug 2012 - Aug 2014

  • Director of GEAR UP/STAR Faculty Fellows

    Sept 2007 - Aug 2012

  • Director of College of Education Development and Research Operations

    Sept 2011 - Jul 2012

  • Director of Student Services & College Finances

    Sept 2002 - Aug 2011

  • Business Coordinator

    Oct 1994 - Aug 2002

  • Fine Arts Program Coordinator

    Jul 1989 - Sept 1994
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  Westside business association

  Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

  President
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  Corpus christi hispanic chamber of commerce

  Nov 2015 - Aug 2016

  Interim president & ceo
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  United corpus christi chamber of commerce

  Sept 2016 - Apr 2020

  Vice president for small business and education
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  Grow local south texas

  Jan 2022 - Sept 2023

  Executive director