Higher Education executive with wide-ranging skill sets: small and large group presentations, one-on-one consultations, marketing budget preparation, interviewing candidates, application evaluation, training Admissions staff, developing and implementing best practices.

North Park University – BA in International Business and Middle Eastern Studies – 2000

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center – Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Dialect – 1992

Director of Admissions – St. Martinus Univ Faculty of Medicine – March 2020 to March 2021

• Full-time consultancy to develop student recruitment in the US and Canada. Idle due to Covid-19.
  
  

Director of Marketing and Recruitment – North America – Univ of Nicosia Medical School – 2012-2017

• Independent and collaborative development of marketing and recruitment efforts for newly established medical program in Cyprus.
• Growing student enrollment from 30 students to 400+ students within three years.
• Heavy emphasis on phone and email contact with students throughout the application and enrollment process.
  
  

Senior Associate Director of Admissions – Manipal Education – 2006-2011

• Recruiting students from primarily the US and Canada for two international medical school campuses: AUA in Antigua and KMCIC in India.
• Single-handedly revamped and recreated the Admissions process for students seeking admission to the India campus.
• AUA began in Jan. 2005 with six students. Enabled growth to over 1000 students in less than 3 years.
  
  

International Admissions – North Park University – 2000-2005

• Designated issuing agent for all I-20s
• Sole transcript evaluator for all undergraduate and degree-completion programs

Interrogator, Arabic Linguist – US Army – 1991-1995

• Graduated top of my class at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC).
• Primarily trained in interrogation of prisoners of war and debriefing human intelligence assets.
• Arabic language translation support for various missions.

Technical Director – NY Fringe Festival and Off -Off Broadway, I Come in Peace by Dean Obeidallah – 2006

NYAACF – Assistant and Stage Manager – 2005-2011

Theatre Set Construction, Design, Lighting and Sound – Multiple Venues in Chicago and NYC – 1999-2008

Transfer, International Student Admissions, Transcript Eval – Multiple Firms in Chicago and NYC – 2000-2011