Project Manager

Andrew Winters, M.P.H.

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North Potomac, MD 20878

Home: 301-***-****

acqwcj@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-winters/3/bb6/72a/

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Recent experience in international and domestic health and development including business development and management experience with U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. State Dept., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and government contractors. Skill set includes leadership abilities in project management from startup to closeout including team supervision, budgeting, and maintaining a deliverable schedule. USAID experience includes writing Operational Plans, Country Assistance Strategies, Mission Management Plans, and Strategic Objectives. Experienced in programming for global health, diabetes control, community organization, and project evaluation. Over four years in Central America including Peace Corps service in Guatemala and USAID posting to Honduras. Short term USAID assignments in Yemen, Thailand, and Cambodia. Fluent in Spanish at the FSI 4/3 level.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Independent Consultant 2010 – 2015

(North Potomac, MD)

•Business development specialist for small minority-owned businesses seeking opportunities with USAID, USDA. Peace Corps, and PEPFAR in Supply Chain Management System, HIV/AIDS capacity building and training, Feed the Future, and global health. Investigated marketing and collaborative opportunities, wrote capability statements, wrote proposals for USAID Child Blindness Grants Program, USDA Food for Progress grant, investigated teaming possibilities and recruited key personnel. Most recent project a cacao cultivation and community development project proposal in Guatemala to the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank.

United States Agency for International Development 2005 – 2010

(Washington, D.C.)

Program/Project Development Officer (Foreign Service Officer)

•Experienced in all aspects of USAID management; training certificates in assistance and acquisition; cognizant technical officer (CTO); project evaluation; New Entry Professional Program graduate.

•Program officer (most recent overseas post) in Strategy and Planning Support Office, USAID/Honduras, collaborated in managing a $35,000,000 portfolio of projects including health, HIV/AIDS, environment, agriculture, education, democracy and governance. Lead on sections of performance reviews, operational plans, and country assistance strategies. Wrote strategic objective on local governance.

•Lead on evaluation of CORE Initiative, a multi-country HIV/AIDS prevention and control program, mandated by Presidential Management Initiative. TDY in Thailand and Cambodia to interview CORE Initiative NGO/PVO members and community participants in field locations; led to improved PEPFAR HIV/AIDS prevention and control programming including New Partners Initiative.

•Wrote operational plan for USAID/Yemen during TDY in collaboration with program area offices; wrote operating unit overview. Wrote closeout report of ADRA health project.

•Member of Support Team for Manage to Budget Initiative in Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination. Won Meritorious Honor Award.

•Wrote and edited sections of peer review memorandum for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee.

•Honduras desk officer; in charge of region-wide procurement for Democratic Indicators Monitoring Survey; closeout of health program; implemented successful GE collaboration project in Honduras.

•Fully trained in USAID procedures and business practices.

Northrop Grumman Health and Science (CDC contract) 1998 – 2004

(Rockville, Maryland)

Project Director Diabetes Today National Training Center Project

•Directed a CDC-funded national training project designed to create new community health interventions across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the US/Mexico border area.

•Managed and supervised a team of professionals with a budget of 3.5 million dollars; generated over one million dollars of new revenue.

•Managed client relations and garnered high praise from federal, state, and local health personnel.

•Wrote and submitted work plans and deliverables including evaluations.

•Trained over 3000 local, state, federal, and overseas health staff and volunteer community members.

•Created and implemented a Hispanic/Latino training curriculum, Diabetes: La Comunidad en Acción.

•Formed and led a National Expert Council for Diabetes Today.

•Provided ongoing technical advice to participating communities.

•Directed trainings on United States/Mexico border in collaboration with Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Field Office in El Paso, Texas.

•Received superior evaluations from CDC in each contract year.

Project HOPE 2001

(Millwood, Virginia)

Consultant

•Carried out needs assessment of community diabetes programs in Distrito Federal, Hidalgo, and Oaxaca.

•Made key recommendations to Project HOPE in final report.

Diabetes Control Program, Kansas Department of Health 1997 – 1998

(Topeka, Kansas)

Program Manager

•CDC - funded program to measure the impact of diabetes mellitus in Kansas, improve standards of care, developed strategies for community interventions.

•Managed a yearly budget of three hundred thousand dollars.

•Supervised health promoter project in Garden City, Kansas.

Human Services Action Coalition 1996 – 1997

(Islandia, New York)

Project Director

•Led a group of community advocates for social and health issues.

Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons 1995 – 1996

(New York, New York)

Project Director, Special Project of National Significance

•Managed a HRSA contract for educating Hispanic physicians about HIV/AIDS.

•Wrote and submitted all planning and reporting documents to HRSA client.

CRISS/CROSS Project, Human Services Department 1994 – 1995

(East Hampton, New York)

Project Manager (consultant)

•Managed grant-funded project to develop an integrated approach to human services in a culturally diverse municipality, carried out extensive community needs assessment.

Peace Corps Training Center 1993 – 1994

(Santa Lucia, Honduras)

Technical Trainer for Health Extension Program

•Trained a new group of Peace Corps health extension volunteers for service in Nicaragua.

Employee Anti-Discrimination Outreach Project, Catholic Charities 1992 – 1993

(Amityville, New York)

Project Manager

•Directed a statewide Dept. of Justice-funded project to educate immigrant workers on workplace rights.

Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health 1993

(Baltimore, Maryland)

Technical Consultant

•Evaluated proposals to USAID for funding child survival programs in Central America.

Peace Corps Public Health Program 1988 – 1991

(San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala)

Peace Corps Volunteer

•Child survival projects included growth monitoring and treatment of malnourished children.

•Established PL-480 supplemental feeding projects in seven communities in collaboration with CARE.

•Designed and supervised health promoter training course,

•Designed sanitation and potable water projects.

•Provided patients and logistics for U.S. plastic surgeons carrying out cleft palate and other operations.

•Established women in development/small business project.

•Led infrastructure and community organization project to electrify five communities.

•Carried out community organization project to construct two schools.

•Wrote a proposal for a health and social effects research project to NRCA.

•Member of the Special Development Fund Committee, funded by USAID.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE CAPABILITY

Tested in Spanish at State Dept. Foreign Service Institute: 4 in spoken Spanish indicating advanced professional proficiency and 3 in reading indicating ability to read within a normal range of speed and comprehension.

EDUCATION

Columbia University School of Public Health

Health Administration Management Institute

City University of New York, Hunter College

M.P.H. in community health education

State University of New York at Stony Brook

B.S. in social welfare

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

HIV Meds for Guatemala 1998 – 2010

(New York, New York)

Volunteer Member

•Collected and shipped recyclable medicine to Guatemala from sources in the United States.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

•American Public Health Association

•Guatemala Scholars Network

•National Council for International Health

•National Peace Corps Association

PUBLICATIONS

1M. Damond, A. Winters, L. Jack, Jr., D. Cropper, M. Londoño, and R. Stoddard. Commentary. Mobilizing Communities: Local Applications of the Diabetes Today National Training Center Project. J. Public Health Management Practice, 2003, November (Suppl.): S15–S18.

2J. Reynolds, B. Pick, C. Runyan, and A. Winters. Evaluation of CORE Initiative Grantees. United States Agency for International Development/PPC/CDIE/ESPA, 2005, September.

3DAC Peer Review Report; for Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee; wrote and edited several sections including executive summary, USAID, 2006.

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