Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Experienced professional event planner: meetings, retreats, conferences, educational and training events. International certification with nine years of experience.
Provide compassionate, quality customer care in a team-based environment, matching purchasers to the appropriate burial services, and attainable financing options. Train for, test, and retain licensure with the State of Nebraska for pre-need final arrangements, a form of insurance in this state. Master the cemetery terminology, pricing structures, polices and procedures. Communicate this with team members, customers, and vendors. Meet with customers who are in a state of shock due to an unexpected death, yet still need to create a final plan in a constricted time period. Help them achieve that goal, with respect, grief counseling awareness, and patience. Assess and create multiple burial pre-planning choices for any income level, and a variety of family structures. Communicate upcoming plans with operations leadership and staff, as well as communicating with other vendors: funeral homes, vault companies, monument crafters. Daily data entry to multi-cemetery-wide database. Entering genealogical information for future historians. Complete all sales, document all transactions, and keep accessible records. Fiscal accountability to the non-profit association.
Managing the daily operations, and futures planning for a niche market store (Gloria Deo) with an increasing online and social media presence. GloriaDeo.com provides visitors with the best and brightest in Catholicism. Not only do we carry classics from the early years of the Church, but we also seek out writings from some of today's finest minds. Whether you're looking for Augustine or Aquinas, Hahn or Groeschel, you will find it here. Gloria Deo operates retail "brick-and-mortar" stores in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska.
Experienced professional with over 20 years of National level organizational policy, communication and project management practice. Project leadership, logistics/convening and events development, grant writing; writing, editing, federal grant review, professional journal review, abstract review, group facilitation. Member of the Maternal and Child Health Journal Editorial Board, the USDHHS/HRSA/MCHB Graduate Student Epidemiology (Internship) Review Panel, and AMCHP Best Practices Review Panel. Responsible for logistics of the annual CityMatCH Conference as well as the annual National Training Course in MCH Epidemiology, and management of all logistics for CityMatCH training, workshops, and retreats. Leadership of abstract submission/review/selection process, site selection, contract negotiations, creation of CDC-approved continuing education packages, oversight of communications, theme development, speaker selection and acquisition, off-site event development and contracting, execution of scholarship and awardee benefit packages. From 2003-11, initiated and provided ongoing leadership, planning, convening, evaluation of monthly National audio and web-cast series, “Emerging Issues in Maternal and Child Health” co-convened with the National Association of County and City Health Officials, and certified for CEU’s through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior co-chair of the National Initiative to Improve Adolescent Health (NIIAH) Partnership Development Workgroup, and member of the NIIAH Volunteer Leadership Team.