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ELIZABETH TAMEZ MENDEZ 3990 Spring Valley Road # 222, Farmers Branch, TX 75244 etm76 [at] rocketmail [dot] com • Work 214-269-5080 • Cellular 469-371-7412 Career Profile Self-motivated, results-focused leader with over twelve years of varied for-profit and non-profit professional and volunteer experience. Tenacious focus and commitment to social change and life development of young people in the areas of leadership, character, education, and spirituality. High-integrity, ethical, and creative leader with the ability to independently envision, structure, plan and execute various levels of affairs and strategies. Possess strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, team building, management, presentation, and customer service capabilities. Areas of excellence include: • Strategic Planning and Analysis • Cross-Functional Team Leadership • Decisive Leadership • Leadership Building and Training • Multicultural Understanding • Cross-Cultural Work • Goal Management • Financial and Budgetary Planning • Event Planning • Public Speaking and Relations • National & International Experience • Fund Raising Professional Highlights • Strategic Planning – Turned around Church’s Youth Ministry effectiveness and approach by establishing, leading and implementing new model and strategies – group grew in attendance by 50% to a total of 40 students and flow of funds increased from $600 to $10,000 per year. • Transformational Change – Contextualized ministry models, resources, and tactics to suit our specific needs. Results included drastic alteration of low-education trends by achieving rates of 100% High School graduation and 90% college enrollment of students. Spiritual growth was also evident as 80% of students engaged in evangelism, community outreach, mission efforts, and leadership within our Church. • Building, Leading and Training Teams – Based Youth Ministry operations on the efforts of volunteer team – via training and coaching, team grew to 4 lead and 10 support members. Initiated East Texas Hispanic Youth Ministry Network, which provided ministry support, resources, and training venues to a group of 15 leaders from area churches. Currently provide training through conferences and workshops to students, volunteers, and youth ministers – involved with an average of 6 churches, organizations and educational institutions per year. • Generating Cooperation – Established partnerships to promote synergy with area churches, organizations, and ministries. This led to increasing outreach effectiveness, volunteer force numbers, and capitalization of resources. This was achieved by means of events and programs such as: evangelism program at State Fair reaching on average 1000 children annually, 2 after-school programs in local school and apartment complex, 30 Guiding-Light members as work force for community out-reach, regional youth events averaging 350 attendees, and 6 International mission trips. Professional Development PRIMERA IGLESIA BAUTISTA, Tyler, Texas – Youth Ministry Director 2002-2008 • Initiated and directed Nueva Generación Youth Ministry. Helped the Church, through education and gaining trust, to embrace the vision for a new structure of effective ministry and intentional outreach to young people in the community. This gave way to growing numbers of teens reached, and a new level of participation in the areas of evangelism, discipleship, education, and leadership development. • Exercised leadership by managing the Youth Ministry Team and ensuring we moved in conjunctive efforts to achieve ministry vision and mission. Four out of the six years of service were developed via long-distance leadership with weekly trips to the Church, emphasis on constant communication, and team training. • Four main areas in ministry were fruitfully developed: 1.- Established work-model based on a volunteer Ministry Team and focused on developing leaders. Provided training to the Ministry Team in the areas of: leadership, spiritual development, ministry organization, general operations, fund-raising, student counseling, lesson preparation, and teamwork. 2.- Identified needs and implemented family-based Youth Ministry approach which served parents by providing family-strengthening events and training in areas such as parenting skills and family progress. These efforts encouraged the necessary synergy and support to bridge the gap between parents and children. In turn, this approach promoted proactive parental involvement in Youth Ministry efforts. 3.- Obtained Church-wide support and active involvement in Youth Ministry. The Church worked together, invested in the students, and collaborated with efforts such as mentoring and fund raising. 4.- Closely discipled and mentored students in spiritual growth and character development, which led to ownership of their faith and life vision. Consequently, teens are leading the Church’s music ministry, teaching Bible studies, serving in community outreach, leading mission trip efforts, and encouraging one another to pursue careers and education. • As directing member, exercised leadership in the areas of: synthesizing facts and ideas, applying critical thinking, identifying needs, problem-solving, goal setting, and training and mobilizing volunteers. • Operational tasks included public relations, producing ministry structure documentation, calendar planning based on goals, event planning and coordination, and management of budget, resources and facilities. • As proactive education advocate, focused on providing students with one-on-one career mapping, education mentoring, general counseling, and coaching through college and scholarship application process. These and other efforts led to a drastic shift in the life vision of our students, thus altering their education levels and trends – all the students we work with attend college or technical school. • Created, planned and organized numerous programs and events at different scales. These included regional events that reached up to 350 attendees with no budget available for operations. Established fundraising solutions through events, individuals, and corporate sponsorships from local businesses. • Initiated East Texas Hispanic Youth Ministry Network to provide area churches with ministry support, resources, and training venues. The vision was to encourage cooperation among area churches and its leaders, to promote Youth Ministry in churches and work in unison for greater impact via student outreach. • As Church Council member, during the period of Pastoral transition, served as Interim leader handling: ◦Public relations with partner churches and BGCT ◦Delineating leadership roles for Council Members ◦Coordinating the work and efforts of the Church Council and Treasurer ◦Establishing Church budget ◦Assembling and co-training Pastoral Search Committee ◦Guiding Church to invite an Interim Pastor ◦ Assisting Church in conflict resolution ◦Drafting of official documents ◦Conducting business sessions HUMPHREYS & PARTNERS ARCHITECTS, Dallas, Texas – Architect /Designer 1999-2000 / 2004-2008 • Co-manage and execute design and project development of complex, large-scale, National and International, multimillion-dollar residential hi-rise projects. Tasks performed include: ◦Creative space and image design ◦Delegating team workload ◦Data and document administration ◦Legal code research and applicability ◦ Leading meetings with local authorities and clients ◦Client, internal team, and consultant team communication and work coordination • Led and participated in collaborations to develop and establish Company standards. These include: creating and structuring aspects and documents for office data and file organization, inter-office communication, and office manual for presentation and technical data standards. • High awareness and practice of production based on profitability. Various bonus compensations received for executing tasks on time, with high quality, and generating revenue above $34K monthly billing quota. • Versatile and cross-functional team leadership and cooperation. Work with CEO, President, and Vice-Presidents to present services and business proposals to current and potential clients. Collaborate with Business Developers and Marketing Team to reach new clientele and promote our services. Delegate work to Administrative Team and ensure proper implementation of presentations and business proposal packets. • Respected and trusted employee. Earned reputation as valuable and cooperative by: being a fair, honest, and hard-working team player; and being accessible by assisting new employees with corporate familiarity of policy and operations. Received HPA Heroes award for these efforts – award is based on peer nomination. • Activate efforts for employee motivation. CEO and President entrust service, on a volunteer basis, for initiating, planning, and executing programs to improve employee morale and collaboration. In addition, called upon to be Company MC at employee events, help mentor interns, and counsel employees. • Notorious for high customer satisfaction. Possess high customer service skills and provide constant satisfaction of client expectations in diverse types of projects. Received office award for efforts in obtaining new project contracts from existing clients. Such efforts are outside typical scope of work. • Established and manage system for work outsourcing to International providers. Such system aids in increasing our team productivity, efficiency, scope of services offered, and revenues. • Represent Company in speaking engagements at local Schools and Colleges on the subject of education and Architecture as a career. Work with students visiting our offices to encourage their pursuit of education. SINCLAIR & WRIGHT ARCHITECTS, Tyler, TX - Intern Architect 2002-2004 US CENSUS BUREAU, Dallas, TX - Census Conductor & Data Analyst 2000 DEMAREST AND ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS, Dallas, TX- Intern Architect 1998-1999 INTERNATIONAL FREELANCE PROJECTS, Mexico & Spain – Architect 1996-1998 / 2000-2001 Additional Related Experience • AME –girls victims of sexual abuse • GABC Multi-housing Ministry • Evangelism Techniques • Mission Trip Team training & leading • Drama, Clown & Puppet Ministry • Medical Brigades • Prison Ministry – Angel Tree Program • Homeless, Food & Clothes Ministry • Counseling • Translation– written & spoken • Vacation Bible / Sunday School • Discipleship Consulting and Speaking Engagements • BGCT Congreso 2007 Mary-Hardin Baylor University • Dimension Juvenil • 9th Annual Hispanic Women’s Conference – Green Acres Baptist Church • El Centro College • Other presentations and training sessions at Schools, Colleges, Churches, and Camps Committee Membership • Nueva Generación Youth Ministry – Director • Will Doo Ministry – Member • Guiding Light Ministry (Green Acres Baptist Church) - Co-Founder with Appellate Judge Sam Griffith • Primera Iglesia Bautista Church Council – Member, Interim Leader • Others Education & Training • Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Masters in Interior Architecture • Universidad del Valle de Mexico, Naucalpan, Mexico Bachelor of Architecture Honors: Summa Cum Laude, full tuition scholarship, and others. • Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Interior Design Specialists • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Acatlán, Mexico Foreign Language Studies –French • Multiple Conferences, Seminars & Workshops: Leadership, Teaching, Ministry, Missions, etc. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION UPON REQUEST. AMPLE REFERENCES AVAILABLE.