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Professional Experience

2018 – Present Proposal Development Specialist III, College of Agriculture & Ag Experiment Stations, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849

- Work with over 150 + researchers and agricultural experiment station staff in the development and submission of investigative proposals in response to posted federal and state funding announcements.

- Assist faculty in the development of competitive grant proposals. Help faculty secure collaborative agreements with investigative partners and prepare/revise research team personnel documents and supporting materials so they align with federal and state grant application requirements.

- Coordinate all faculty notifications and proposal solicitation activities for the Alabama state funded internal grants program, the Agriculture Research Enhancement & Seed Funding Program (ARES).

- Provide small-group and one-on-one instruction to faculty on effective proposal writing strategies.

2017 Writing Instructor, Nashville State Community College. Nashville, TN 37209

- Provided small group and one-on-one student instruction on academic research and writing strategies.

- Primary focus was on helping first-year / ESL students acquire stronger writing habits in support of college coursework.

- Lessons covered strategies for writing stronger research papers, power point, and outlining/presenting oral presentations. Topics supported student research and cited source documentation requirements.

2012 – 2015 Grant Writer, College of Agriculture, Human and Natural Sciences,Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209

- Worked with over forty PhD Principal Investigators and Extension Faculty in TSU’s Agricultural Science, Ag Education, Consumer Science, Nutrition, Chemistry, and Biology departments.

- Assisted researchers identify funding opportunities in their respective fields, wrote narrative content, prepared budgets, budget justifications, and completed all pre-submission reviews.

- Developed and presented grant proposal training workshops to early career faculty. These featured introduction and follow-up strategies to use during sustained grant-writing campaigns.