Alice Thomas-Powell
Birmingham
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Grants Management Specialist
HUD
Birmingham, AL
03.2023 - Current
- Protect public trust by monitoring funds allocated to participating jurisdictions.
- Monitor assigned PJs and provide effective technical assistance.
- Conducted comprehensive reviews of applications and accompanying paperwork for HOME-ARP.
- Ensured compliance with financial statutory mandates and regulatory requirements for grant administration.
- Supported PJs in addressing community development, affordable housing and homeless needs comprehensively.
Finance Instructor
Colorado Technical University
03.2023 - Current
- Provide guidance on academic and vocational curricula.
- Prepared instructional materials and conducted classes covering key concepts in finance, marketing fundamentals, and operational strategies.
- Partner with coworkers to handle instructional and study-related difficulties.
Loan Specialist
USDA
Tuscaloosa, AL
02.2022 - Current
- Conducted field site visits to verify occupancy compliance with SFH loan requirements.
- Facilitated financing options for rural families to acquire or repair single-family homes.
- Performed thorough analysis of credit, earnings and other factors to determine applicant's eligibility for loan repayment.
- Analyzes loan application data for compliance with RD criteria.
- Prepared conditional commitment, funding commitment and notification of loan closing.
- Secures funding through contracts and grants.
Contract Specialist
Department of the Army
Fort Benning, GA
07.2021 - 02.2022
- Facilitated the negotiation and awarding of contracts, including modifications and subcontracts.
- Collaborated in managing and overseeing contract compliance.
- Conducted analysis to evaluate proposed prices and costs.
- Contributed to defining guidelines for sourcing operations.
- Draft contractual documents for analysis.
- Managed hybrid work setup.
Accounting Professor
Miller Motte College
Columbus, GA
07.2021 - 12.2021
- Provided academic aid for completion of assignments effectively.
- Facilitate both virtual and classroom learning.
- Provided comprehensive teaching of accounting techniques and mathematical concepts.
- Evaluated digital participation patterns among learners.
- Delivered personalized educational strategies tailored to individual learning needs.
- Assessed students' performance through detailed grading.
Military Pay Technician
Department of the Army
Fort Benning, GA
01.2019 - 07.2021
- Ensure accurate processing and reviewing of diverse pay actions for service members.
- Evaluated source documents and validated pay authorization records for compliance.
- Processed compensation data using organization's payroll software.
- Executed adjustments to pay accounts when required.
- Clarified complex financial matters involving pay structures for military personnel.
- Delivered financial updates and managed travel compensation requests.
- Monitors changes to personnel information in automated system covering arrivals, departures, and attachments.
- Established effective communication channels with academic staff and leaders.
- Oversaw maintenance of employee salary accounts.
- Skilled at using coding guidelines for proper classification of personnel activities.
- Administered an extensive range of personnel tasks under multiple protocols.
- Provide routine briefings to both military personnel and students involved in various training programs.
- Conducted Levy briefings for deploying soldiers.
- Managed account coding and financial recordkeeping.
- Assisted customers with queries and concerns.
- Utilized technology for accurate document digitization.
- Delivered organizational support to ensure mission readiness.
- Liaised effectively with S-1 Shops.
- Conducted detailed evaluations of operational processes and mission specifications to pinpoint issues.
- Optimized team productivity through remote and hybrid schedules.
- Served as technical advisor for multiple professional standards boards on employee compensation.
- Explored various options for addressing HR challenges.
Stock Clerk (CIF)
VSE Corp
Fort Benning, GA
10.2017 - 01.2019
- Ensured support to enlisted troops.
- Completed soldiers' paperwork efficiently resulting in timely CIF clearances.
- Distributed and collected Military Combat and Deployment gear to soldiers.
- Issued military gear to training soldiers to include IBLOC, ABLOC, OCS, BLOC and WINSIC
- Completed annual evaluations of tracked inventory.
- Tracked and documented inventory of property book items on a daily basis.
Operations Specialist II
Synovus
Columbus, GA
05.2006 - 10.2017
- Sustains efficient operation of transport imaging systems.
- Consistently update and document daily progress.
- Verifies correctness of diverse credit card payments.
- Managed routine data transfers across systems.
- Started coordination of transport and Opex 150 processes for capturing images.
- Conducted comprehensive training sessions on equipment usage.
- Managed data entry tasks ensuring minimal errors.
- Processes customer transactions efficiently.
- Provided assistance to customers through emails and phone calls.
- Manages loan processing and credit card payment handling.
- Generated detailed management-focused reports using Excel.
- Drafted, updated, and transmitted significant monetary files.
- Performed routine accounting tasks with accuracy and efficiency.
- Ensured proper balancing of financial transactions.
- Managed project timelines for efficiency.
- Managed financial records.
- Monitored deposits and adjusted accounts.
Education
MAS of Finance - Finance
Purdue University
Lafayette, IN08.2018
Baccalaureate - Psychology
Purdue University
Lafayette, IN04.2015
Associate Degree of Arts - Business Admin
University of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ06.2010
Certificate - Leadership
Army Primary Leadership And Development
Fort Hood, TX06.2004
Diploma - Math And Science Technology
Carver High School
Columbus, GA05.2000
Skills
- Policy analysis
- Compliance monitoring
- Data management
- Technical assistance
- Proposal development
- Grant reporting
- Funding research
Timeline
Grants Management Specialist
HUD
03.2023 - Current
Finance Instructor
Colorado Technical University
03.2023 - Current
Loan Specialist
USDA
02.2022 - Current
Contract Specialist
Department of the Army
07.2021 - 02.2022
Accounting Professor
Miller Motte College
07.2021 - 12.2021
Military Pay Technician
Department of the Army
01.2019 - 07.2021
Stock Clerk (CIF)
VSE Corp
10.2017 - 01.2019
Operations Specialist II
Synovus
05.2006 - 10.2017
MAS of Finance - Finance
Purdue University
Baccalaureate - Psychology
Purdue University
Associate Degree of Arts - Business Admin
University of Phoenix
Certificate - Leadership
Army Primary Leadership And Development
Diploma - Math And Science Technology
Carver High School