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Brandon Cruz

New York,NY

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Community School Director

New York Edge
09.2019 - Current
  • Developed and tailored social emotional learning curriculum's for students with heavy absenteeism.
  • Built rapport with 15+ vendors to increase programming fulfillment and visibility.
  • Successfully met requirements of state and city procedures, ensuring that program provided safe, enriching environment for participants.
  • Collaborated closely with director to establish program objectives, cultivated positive work culture aligned with funding guidelines.
  • Developed and coordinated after-school programming and activities 300 students.
  • Created and coordinated programs that offered expanded learning time, community engagement, mental health support, college and career readiness.
  • Tracked progress and made adjustments as needed to successfully reach recruiting targets of 300 students with 90% participation rates.
  • Assisted with clear timelines for implementation of grant objectives.
  • Monitored and evaluated educational programs to maintain high-quality performance objectives and standards.
  • Created systems to ensure accuracy and up-to-date student records.
  • Facilitated discussions and activities on effective teaching techniques.
  • Gathered data on program performance to maintain high-quality performance objectives.
  • Formulated and implemented school safety and security policies that improved student safety and reduced incidents by 10%.
  • Optimized staff performance by observing, documenting activities, and improvement plan.

Paraprofessional

Department Of Education
09.2019 - 06.2022
  • Increased participant attendance rate by 40% by establishing creative ways of bringing involvement from month to month
  • Documented all behavioral, IEP participants patterns of declines and growth, declines had to be strategically nurtured and pushed at least to 10% per year.
  • Reinforced differentiated instruction according to participant's ability and skill
  • Demonstrated specific skills and activities for students to improve understanding and take excess workload off teachers.
  • Oversaw students in classroom and common areas to monitor, enforce rules, and support lead teacher.
  • Collaborated with parents and guardians to increase support and provide best learning environment.
  • Kept classrooms clean, neat, and properly sanitized for student health and classroom efficiency.
  • Assisted in maintaining engaging and respectful educational environment by promoting discipline and cooperation.

Data Specialist

Sports and Arts Foundation
01.2017 - 09.2019
  • Developed and managed for software such as Cityspan, creating individual profiles of over 200 participants
  • Tracked all absences and maintained parent communication in support of program retention goals
  • Administered databases to handle high-volume attendance data and organize information for analysis.
  • Ran weekly data reports regarding participants demographic, attendance, participation information
  • Optimized quality of data by developing and continuously improving data collection and automated upload strategies.
  • Reviewed and updated participant correspondence files and database information to maintain accurate records.
  • Produced monthly reports with advanced Excel spreadsheet functions.
  • Built and maintained tracking databases for variety of measuring aspects.

Administrative Assistant

Sports And Arts Foundation
12.2016 - 01.2017
  • Answered and managed 20 incoming clients calls while recording accurate messages for distribution to office staff.
  • Ordered and distributed office supplies while adhering to fixed office budget.
  • Opened and properly distributed incoming mail to promote quicker response to client inquiries.
  • Streamlined office operations by effectively monitoring and addressing client correspondence and data communications.
  • Trained and supervised employees on office policies and procedures.
  • Planned and coordinated logistics and materials for board meetings, committee meetings and staff events.

Education

Bachelors Degree - Psychology

City College of New York
New York, NY
06.2020

Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts And Sciences

Kingsborough Community College
Brooklyn, NY
06.2017

Skills

  • Managing Grant Funding
  • Curriculum Development
  • Problem Resolution
  • Developing Programming Frameworks
  • Microsoft Office
  • Bilingual
  • Operational Leadership
  • Building Stakeholder Relations
  • Salesforce Data Management

Internships

Central American Legal Assistance, Document Preparer 

05/2023 - Current


  • Prepared and filed migrant families I-821 temporary protection status, I-765 employment authorization documents.
  • Prepared and filed I-589 asylum applications for migrant families that are seeking asylum in the United States.


CCNY Social Work Project, Social Work Intern

01/2019 - 06/2019


  • Assisted facilitator in a sobriety group sessions, established rapport with attendees, organized the required materials for the session.
  • Interviewed a former convict to obtain insight of the plights and challenges of integrating with society.


New York Cares, Community Intern

10/2015 - 06/2016


  • Served hot meals to shelters in undeserved communities, disturbed community resource pamphlets
  • Cleaned and beautified the school's community garden, frequently visited the garden to water plants.

Timeline

Assistant Community School Director

New York Edge
09.2019 - Current

Paraprofessional

Department Of Education
09.2019 - 06.2022

Data Specialist

Sports and Arts Foundation
01.2017 - 09.2019

Administrative Assistant

Sports And Arts Foundation
12.2016 - 01.2017

Bachelors Degree - Psychology

City College of New York

Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts And Sciences

Kingsborough Community College

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