SILVESTRE GUERRIDO, M.Ed.

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FAMILY CHILD CARE DIRECTOR

Accomplished business professional demonstrating versatility and drive built during a 22-year active-duty Army career and an 11-year post-Army career working with children, youth, families and schools. Deeply driven to leverage teaching, management and organizational skills to help others achieve greatness. Bilingual professional and Licensed Minister fully fluent in Spanish and English. Hold a Master of Education degree and Texas Teaching Fellows Certification. Areas of expertise:

Operations Management • Youth Programs • Education Programs • Business Administration

Child Development • Child Care Program Management • Youth Services • School Services

Program Development • Program Administration • Strategic Planning • Report Generation

Operational Efficiencies • Personnel Management • Relationship Management

Team Building / Leadership • Training & Development • Mentoring • Volunteer Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DODEA, USMA, WEST POINT, NY, Substitute Teacher – School Year 2021- to Current. HVOPWDD, DDSO - Employed as a Habilitation Specialist 1, May 2017-30

December 2020. Help individuals with developmental disabilities live more productive lives. Develop plans based on individual’s goals, strengths, valued outcomes, and limitations to help individuals minimize limitations an maximize strengths.

HVOPWDD, DDSO – Employed as a DSA with the OPWDD, Blackhawk IRA, Pine Bush, May 2015-May 2017. Provide services for people with developmental disabilities (present).

Children’s Village, May 2014-May 2015. As a TRAC, provided guidance, training, and education to illegal immigration children up to age 18.

CHILD, YOUTH AND SCHOOL SERVICES, U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg, Germany • 2002-2013

Department of Defense organization providing child care, sports, educational and leisure services to military, civilian and contract employees under Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (FMWR).

Family Child Care Director

Training and Curriculum Specialist

Child Development Center Assistant Director

Coordinate the Family Child Care program for Armed Forces Americas United States, Baden-Württemberg, supervising contract child-care providers authorized to provide services to families of associated U.S. military and civilian personnel. Monitor providers’ performance and compliance with federal requirements. Process U.S. government subsidies for providers. Collect and compile data and information for weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports to appropriate authorities through the Child and Youth Management System. Conceptualize and deliver fun activities for children and families. Train and certify providers in an added duty as Training and Curriculum Specialist, preparing them to obtain mandatory Provisional Provider Certificates and Fully Certified Provider Certificates. Help providers retain currency on competencies such as creating portfolios and activity plans for children, formulating individual development plans (IDPs) for children, and developing their own IDPs. Deliver training necessary for providers to achieve National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) and Child Development Associate (CDA) certification and receive additional monthly stipends. Supervise and develop skills of Child and Youth Program Assistants as Child Development Center Assistant Director. Help oversee CDC operations and administration.

Major Contributions:

Began delivering child-care supplies to providers’ homes so they had more time to focus on core responsibilities as private businesses.

Took on 2 additional roles – Child Development Center Assistant Director and Training and Curriculum Specialist – to ensure continued service delivery through organizational downsizing driven by Base Realignment and Closure initiatives.

Simplified the paperwork child-care providers complete to receive government subsidies.

Received 2 monetary awards in recognition of exceptional performance.

Shepherded 2 providers in achieving NAFCC and CDA certification. continued …

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Library Technician (Temporary Detail)

Utilized reference tools to assist library patrons both in-person and online. Used the Millennium library data system to manage, execute and monitor a full range of library business functions.

Major Contributions:

Oversaw collection of periodicals, from check-in to filing back issues.

School Liaison Officer (Temporary Detail)

Interfaced with school officials to understand challenges facing children of military families living both on- and off-post and collaborated on potential solutions. Communicated issues and ideas to garrison command staff as the primary advisor on schools. Facilitated resolution of student processing and other school-related issues for military families as the ombudsman. Urged schools to agree to and sign the Secondary Education Transition Study Memorandum of Agreement.

Major Contributions:

Teamed with the Community Disciplinary Officer to create a program in which military command units partnered with a school or a Child, Youth and School Services program, providing volunteer manpower for projects such as moving equipment or building shelves, accompanying children on short recreational trips, and volunteering to read to children.

Career Note: Additional civilian roles include Supply Technician, United States Military Academy at West Point. Military roles during a 22-year active-duty career include Brigade Noncommissioned Officer in Charge, Kleber Kaserne, Kaiserslautern, Germany; and Noncommissioned Officer in Charge and Consolidated USMA Chaplains’ Fund Manager, USMA, West Point, NY. Currently a Licensed Minister and Ordained Elder with Covenant Connection International Ministries.

EDUCATION

Texas National Teacher’s Test, Generalist 4-8 Grade

Master of Education

National-Louis University, Wheeling, Illinois

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration

Nyack College, Nyack, New York

Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts

St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill, New York

University Of Puerto Rico, 3 years, Ed. Major

250 hours CASAC, Orange County Community College

NY ATAS

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

LANGUAGES: English • Spanish

Alternate Teacher Certification Program, Texas Teaching Fellows

Texas National Teacher’s Test, Generalist 4-8 Grade . NY ATAS

MWR Basic Management Course • Family and MWR Program Management Course

MWR Applied Financial Planning: Retail Sales Accountability • CYS Space Census, FCC Course

FMWR Applied Financial Planning: Income Statement Analysis • Supervisory Development

and Youth Program Director Training • Leadership Education and Development

Supervisory Development • Advanced Leader and Management Course • Certified Fund Manager

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