Microsoft Office Professional Experience

JOHNNY C. RIVERA

917-***-**** *************@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Management experience with an entrepreneurial attitude and a proven, successful track record as a strategy setter who can generate ideas and implement solutions to complex problems • Significant experience with public and political affairs, as well as community and civic involvement • Developed and executed a cohesive public affairs strategy that built brand recognition and equity, externalized organizational knowledge, and integrated authentic community engagement

• Built strategic relationships with a wide array of stakeholders through sophisticated relationship management, collaboration, imagination, and consistency • Comfortable with solving problems • Adopts a positive team approach to working with internal and external partners • Excellent presence, with the ability to quickly gain respect from senior leadership and emerge as a strategic counselor and advisor • Work towards consensus with stakeholders

• Excellent people-management skills, with demonstrated success in making meaningful connections with staff across a large organization with a national reputation, as well as in managing programs, staff, volunteers, and interns

• Results driven, with excellent planning and organizing skills • Familiarity of issues facing vulnerable populations and knowledge of government budget, legislative and agency processes. I’m also fluent in Spanish and diplomatic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant 2016– Current

East Harlem Chamber of Commerce, MirRam Group, BrownMiller Group and SCAN NY

• Community outreach to residents and local businesses

Political Consultant 2016 - 2016

State Senator Adriano Espaillat for U.S. Congress, Judge Sabrina Kraus’s for NY Civil Court, Carmen De La Rosa for Assembly, Marisol Alcantara for State Senate, Paul Newell for Assembly and Jim Gaughran for State Senate

• Coordinated canvass and petition operations for candidates in Washington Heights, East Harlem, Lower East Side and Northern Long Island

BRIDGE STREET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 2016– 2017

Community Outreach

• Created a training program for business owners located in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to enhance their financing, operations, and marketing skills

• Supported tenants in creating and sustaining Tenant Associations by creating presentations

HARLEM RBI 2011–2015

Director of Community & Government Affairs

• Initiated a public relations campaign by building and leveraging relationships at community events and developing partnerships with community-based groups, which produced over 100 letters of support for an $80 million capital project consisting of a school, 89 units of affordable housing, and a playground

• Developed and implemented strategy for municipal financing via a participatory budgeting model, which yielded $300k

• Built a community advisory board with representation from elected officials’ at all three levels of government, as well as NYCHA residents, Community Board #11, and nonprofit representatives, to ensure political support for the capital project and maintain consistent message

• Keenly monitored issues that stood to impact the agency by anticipating and providing environmental analysis of and problems in a proactive, timely, and constructive manner

MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM 2007–2011

Senior Program Director

• Designed and implemented a community strategic outreach plan for the Department of Community & Government Affairs, which led to greater involvement by a broad spectrum of stakeholders

• Oversaw, enhanced, and expanded existing departmental programs, events, and activities

• Planned and implemented new activities, conferences, and meetings in concert with other departments

• Served as the department’s liaison to strategically selected community groups, advocacy and policy organizations

CONGRESSMAN CHARLES B. RANGEL 2003–2007

Director of Community Affairs

Acted as a liaison to social services providers, community and business leaders, and intergovernmental agencies on issues regarding economic development, arts, culture, tourism, affordable housing, and infrastructure, which increased the congressman’s visibility and stature

Managed day-to-day relationships and produced briefings on community activities

Represented and advanced the congressman’s interests by providing recommendations

NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 1998–2003

Program Director

Designed and implemented an employment and training program to help adult participants return to the workforce

Facilitated job readiness workshops for hundreds of participants regarding employment opportunities

Taught participants to use Microsoft Office Suite to increase their marketability

Conducted individual career counseling sessions and skills assessments; created individual action plans

Supervised staff and volunteers; effectively delivered regular reports to funders

CIVIC INVOLVEMENT

SINERGIA 2013–Present

Chairman, Board of Directors

Ensure quality services for families of children with disabilities

THE REV. ROBERT V. LOTT ASSISTED LIVING CENTER 2013–Present

Member, Board of Directors

Provide assisted living services for 127 seniors in a residential setting

YOUTH ACTION PROGRAMS AND HOMES 2010–Present

Member, Board of Directors

Engineered the process of identifying a new executive director

THE UPPER MANHATTAN EMPOWERMENT ZONE 2002–2007

Member, Board of Directors

Reviewed and approved over $20 million in economic development proposals for Northern Manhattan

MANHATTAN COMMUNITY BOARD #11 (Recently served on the Bronx CB #1 board) 2000 & 2015

Chairman, Land Use Committee

Led the administration of public land use for nonprofits to develop affordable housing

EDUCATION

SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Masters of Public Administration (earned 30 out of 45 credits)

HUNTER COLLEGE OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

CERTIFICATION AWARD AND RECOGNITIONS

Circle of Security Registered Parent Educator

New Yorker for New York Award by the Citizens Committee for NYC

Cited in several books: Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage by Lisbeth Schorr; And I Haven’t Had a Bad Day Since by Charles B. Rangel; The Go Green East Harlem Cookbook by NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer; and Barrio Dreams by Arlene Davila

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