Microsoft Excel
Mary Anne Send
Grand Prairie,TX
Work Preference
Summary
Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Community Impact Manager
Irving Schools Foundation
03.2025 - Current
- Serve as liaison with community partners to involve with foundational programs and large-scale events that align with organizational goals and community needs.
- Raised $24,800 in two months, once implemented as project leader for event.
- Collaborated and Coordinated New Teacher Event for 450 participants in 3 months.
- Manage ISF programs including: Food for Thought, C2C Store, and Threads of Hope
- Increase traffic for programs by 75% by developing and implementing metrics to assess program effectiveness and marketing.
- Recruited 350+ volunteers to support various events and programs.
- Organize volunteer opportunities with community partners resulting in event sponsorships and ongoing donations.
- Analyze data monthly and prepare reports for senior leadership, and donors to demonstrate impact and compliance.
- Collect, evaluate, and report data for all ISF programs to meet grant and funding requirements, ensuring accurate documentation and budget adherence.
- Manage various project and program budgets including sponsorships, donations, and fundraising.
- Research, attend, and represent ISF at community events such as fairs and festivals to strengthen partnerships and recruit new supporters.
Program Director
Irving Independent School District (Administration)
07.2021 - 06.2024
- Collaborated with various teams to uncover issues, identify applicable solutions, and offer guidance.
- Created structured alignment by utilizing targeted data, and recruiting cross functional teams, to increase goal success rate from 63%-90%.
- Developed crosswalk, alignment documents and presentations from ground up, laying out framework, and defining roles and opportunities to support system workflows.
- Developed dashboard for quick access to data and documentation analysis through collaboration of cross departmental teams. Provided regular updates to senior leaders and stakeholders to determine process improvements, successes, and impact data.
- Provided ongoing direction and leadership for program operations.
- Created part-time to professional employment pipeline resulting in an increase of alumni in recruitment efforts.
- Managed and executed events annually, including workshops, conferences, and community outreach programs for audiences ranging from 25 to 500+ attendees.
- Coordinated budgeting, scheduling and resource allocation to facilitate smooth flow of operations for $250,000 budget.
- Identified opportunities for company to reallocate budgets by unveiling how initiatives overlapped and provided similar resources resulting in savings of $100,000 annually.
- Conceptualized and executed three-day training event to include keynote speakers, leadership collaboration, subject expert training, and curriculum alignment for over 100 participants.
- Program management, evaluation, and support of implementation at secondary satellite campuses, encompassing 13 sites, 36 coordinators, and 60 part-time employees.
- Recruited, hired, and trained initial personnel, working to establish key internal functions and outline scope of positions for new organization.
- Establish individual development plans, provide directives, and execute separation of employment as needed.
Academic Specialist / Site Program Coordinator
Irving Independent School District (Lamar Middle School)
08.2017 - 06.2021
- Coached and supported teachers in areas of instruction, classroom management, and organization.
- Mentored site team participants in leadership development, positively impacting site morale and creating subject matter experts.
- Provided individualized support which decreased absences by 5%, increased moral, and resulted in an 87% retainment at EOY.
- Led a team to streamlined deliverables, decrease site disruptions, and increase employee engagement.
- Organized and executed multiple events simultaneously by creating proposals, agendas, schedules, communication strategy, and operational guidance.
- Served on the planning team for Campus Leadership Ambassadors to promote positive culture and employee engagement by organizing and executing monthly activities for all stakeholders.
- Collaborated with leadership to determine site required and initiatives based training.
- Managed and created training, schedules, and presenters for annual training, required training, and additional initiative based training opportunities.
- Conceptualization and implementation of campus dashboard providing leadership an organized structure for gathering information and employees a collaborative board for planning positively impacting collaborative engagement.
Teacher / Site Program Coordinator
Irving Independent School District (Nimitz High School)
08.2008 - 06.2017
- Organized, recruited and led a team of 16 to establish systems, enhance culture, build leadership, and provide high quality instruction. Developed and mentored site team as campus leaders. Monitored implementation of the program and provided leadership documentation of compliance.
- Planned and executed large-scale events such as graduations and community celebrations, involving logistics for 500+ attendees.
- Increased educational expertise and knowledge by participating in instructor-oriented workshops.
- Coordinated volunteer teams and developed detailed event timelines and operational plans.
- Created and developed lesson plans to meet students' academic needs.
- Worked with staff members and teachers to design comprehensive and individualized plans to optimize student education.
- Created and managed project plans, timelines and budgets.
- Cultivated culture by coordinated parent events such as welcome “cook-outs” and “winter break gatherings” inviting teachers, students, and parents to participate in community outreach.
- Organized, fundraised, and managed multiple events to include such coordination for dinner and seating arrangements, entertainment, keynote speakers, operational guidance, volunteer recruitment, gifts, voting and counts, resources, decorations, parent permissions, vendor relations, budget and fundraising, logistics, and timelines.
Education
Bachelor of Arts -
University of Texas At El Paso
El Paso, TXMaster of Education -
University Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TXSkills
- Program development expertise
- Cultivating strong partnerships
- Process optimization
- Coaching for effective leadership
- Analytical problem-solving skills
- Strategic Partnership Development
- Collaborative project engagement
- Employee onboarding and training
- Data-driven decision making
- Recruitment and hiring
Certification
- PMP - Project Management Professional
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
- PMI- Fort Worth Chapter
- Big Brother Big Sisters Mentor
- Irving Community Action Network Member
Accomplishments
- Fundraised $24,800 in 2 months for luncheon event.
- Increased program involvement and awareness by 75% in 6 months.
- Managed budget of $250,000 annually.
- Saved the company $100,000 over 2 years by implementing a successful productivity improvement plan.
- Supervised team of 100 staff members.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
Software
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint
Google Sheets
Google Docs
Google Slides
Canva
Adobe
Teams & Zoom
Timeline
Community Impact Manager
Irving Schools Foundation
03.2025 - Current
Program Director
Irving Independent School District (Administration)
07.2021 - 06.2024
Academic Specialist / Site Program Coordinator
Irving Independent School District (Lamar Middle School)
08.2017 - 06.2021
Teacher / Site Program Coordinator
Irving Independent School District (Nimitz High School)
08.2008 - 06.2017
Bachelor of Arts -
University of Texas At El Paso
Master of Education -
University Texas at Arlington