Since 2019
Since 2018
Since 2017
09/2015 - 10/2017
10/2013 - 09/2015
Since 2012
Founder & Principal of The Urban Money Project
Adviser & Contributor to www.blackandurban.com
Implementation
Business Process & Initiatives
Retail Communications
Personal Finance Educator
Project Management
PMP Certification Pending
Successfully manage projects from conception to implementation. Success attributed to:
Stakeholder Management; effectively considering and appropriately engaging all stakeholders on every project
Communications Management; building communications strategies to encourage adoption and mitigate resistance
Change Management; Strategically considering changes to increase adoption
Strategic Thinking
Relationship Building
Technology Implementation
Engage in projects early to leverage my knowledge and experience with the end-users to guide development.
Engagement examples include:
Conducting discovery, used for an opportunity assessment, to determine customers' needs and painpoints
Defining UI/UX scope and requirements
Managing user-engagement sessions to collect feedback during development
Detailing acceptance criteria for stories
Defining UAT requirements
Prioritizing backlog items
Designing implementation plans, inclusive of documentation, training, and support
Process Improvement
Streamline workload and processes to increase effectiveness and efficiency with a unique ability to look beyond what exists to determine white space opportunities, and create a plan to chase them.
A few examples include:
Identifying opportunities for consolidating sourced materials in an effort to reduce the cost of goods sold
Onboarding Vendors onto an expedited workflow to reduce supply chain leadtime
Managing a committee for process simplification for Store Reporting, Fitting Room Recovery, Mobile UI, and an Executive Schedule
Developing and implementing a change in internal communication
Leadership & Mentoring
Strategy. Design, and Delivery
Experience implementing curricula and learning strategies; including documentation, learning objectives and modules to support the adoption of systems utilizing change management principles and adult learning methodology.
Utilize a multi-dimensional and people-centric, not product-centric facilitation style to connect with a room full of people. If the technology is relevant and easy to use, the real-job is the people, the product follows naturally.
Listen, story-tell, connect.
Financial and Lifestyle Coaching and Development
Leverages experience and influence for speaking engagements on:
Attending college
Job seeking
Skills and professional development
Setting SMART Goals
Future Planning
Budgeting, Saving, and Credit management
et al
Urban Planning & Economic Development
M.S. Urban Policy and Planning
Contain educational experience includes; but is not limited to; program design and evaluation, management of non-profit and government organizations, public policy, as well as research projects for economic development.
Link to Urban Planning & Economic Development Portfolio
Engagements:
American Planning Association (APA) Member - NY Chapter
National Association of Economics Educators (NAEE) Member
Adviser & Contributor to Black + Urban
Founder & Principal, The Urban Money Project
Urban Money Project
Organization that provides personal finance education and social impact consulting using project work to address socioeconomic inequality.
What else has been said…
“Coretta always puts the customer first. She challenges her business partners to ensure deliverables will meet expectations. She uses that to influence her partners to drive results”
”Coretta is great at accomplishing the desired results; she will give it her all and owns her role whole-heartedly”
-Excerpt from 2018 Performance Review