Melody's Candidate Biography

• Appointed Commissioner, Warren Senior Housing Development – Senior Citizens
• Warren Precinct #5 Delegate
• Appointed Macomb/St. Clair County Michigan Works Board
• Vice Chaired, City of Warren Diversity Committee
• Warren Precinct #5 Delegate
• Warren Business Association
• Macomb County Citizen Planner Program
• Former Warren Tech Center Employee
• Started the first City of Warren Skilled Trades Career Fair 
• Former Member, Warren CERT Team - Community Emergency Response Team
• Macomb County Boys Scout Explorer Program – Advisory Board

• Managed $77 million in supplier contracts in line with GM business plan.
• Achieved $6.5 million in cost savings with $220,000 in non-traditional savings on expiring GM supplier contracts 
• Saved $7.4 million by successfully sourcing global and regional supply base
• Lean Six Sigma Professional Certification
• Project Management course training
• 15 yrs. Human Resources, Manufacturing, and Construction management
• Senior Buyer for 3+ yrs. – General Motors Global Purchasing Division
• Global Business Process Leader – General Motors

• Executive Board Member, ACE Mentoring (Construction Architect Program for Teenagers) 
• Board Member, DABO – Detroit Organization of Black Organizations
• Advisory Board, Boys Scout Explorer Program
• Chaldean American Chambers of Commerce
• The American Human Rights Council (AHRC)
• Islamic World Peace Outreach Association 
• Support, Philippine American Community Center of Michigan 
• Central Michigan University Alumni
• Member - Great Lakes Women’s Business Council
• Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council.
• WOB – Women Own Business Certification

• Macomb Small Business Owner
• WOB – Women Own Business Certification
• Provided Covid-19 Grant Funding resources to Warren small business owners
• GM Minority Supplier Senior Buyer
• Member -Michigan Great Lakes Women Business Council
• Business Woman Workshop Facilitator – Great Lakes Women Business Council

• WOB – Women Own Business Certification
• Member - Michigan- Great Lakes Women Business Council
• Alumni – Detroit Women of Excellence
• Participate - NAWIC – National Women Association of Women in Construction
• Participate – NAWBO – National Association of Business Owners
• Women in Construction – Policy for Women Only Portable Restrooms
• Veteran Women - Job Recruitment
• Sisters with a Purpose – Girls Mentor Group

• Currently provide neighborhood seniors with health, housing, and family resource information 
• Participate of Warren Senior Citizens events
• Commissioner, Warren Senior Housing 
• Develop, manage, and maintain quality independent and affordable senior housing.
• Review, approve/disapprove purchases, lease, sell, exchange, transfer, assign and mortgage, real or personal property expenditures and RFQ contractual agreements

• Participated in the City of Warren Michigan Active Shooters Prevention
• C.E.R.T. Warren Emergency Response Team
• Trained in Community-based Approaches to Prevent Hate Crimes
• STOP SCHOOL VIOLENCE Prevention Training
• Warren GM Tech Center and Prototype Warehouse Safety Coordinator
• GM Safety Training for Managers
• GM ISO/OSHA/ Value Streaming Safety Training

• Michigan Department of Transportation/Infrastructure Business Training
• Board Member, DABO Neighborhood Program

• Macomb County Community College Recruitment participant
• Macomb Michigan Works
• Hired 1500+ Professionals, Manufacturing, and Skilled Trades applicants
• Started the first City of Warren first Skilled Trades Job Fair – Better Skills create Better Jobs
• Mentor, train, and provide job-placements for ex-offenders through re-entry hiring programs
• Support Living Wage increases
• SHRM Human Resource Management Member
• Job training and Development in Skilled Trades and Manufacturing
• Job & Career Transition Coach Certification, Career Planning & Adult Development Network

• Boys/Girls Scout Explorer Program -Youth Protection Training Certificate
• Board Member, ACE Mentoring Program
• Guidance and Education Scholarship Committee
• Skilled Trades middle and high school mentorship and recruitment (Plumbers & Pipefitters)
• Speaker, Career Days and Parent Teachers Conference High School Seniors and Colleges
• Task Force Member, Q-strides Detroit Education for Children
• Career Trainer and Mentor – Girls Group -Oak Park High School

• Provided Masks to Southwest Detroit Families
• Covid-19 – Career Village Advisor
• Distributed Food Boxes to Families for the Focus Hope -Detroit
• Distributed Masks and Sanitizers – Macomb Churches and Community Organizations through Boys Scout Explorers Advisory Board
• Provided Food, Masks, and Sanitizers to neighbors
• Shared Covid-19 Grant Funding resources to Warren small business owners

Macomb Student Life and Leadership Clothing Drive 

Grace Center of Hope Thrift Store – Warren

Ukrainian American Center Foundation 

Jackets for Jobs

Fitzgerald High School Bottle returns Fundraiser

TCF Youth Mentoring

Jabari's Martial Arts Academy (JMAA)

Young Fathers Standing United

Angel Tree

Time Done - Alliance for Safety and Justice

• Participate –Detroit Veterans Taskforce
• Recruited and hired Veterans for Manufacturing and Skilled Trades
• Detroit Piston’s Veteran Fair 
• RecruitMilitary organization for Diverse Veterans
• Veteran Women Resource Fairs 
• Veteran Food Pantry – Focus Hope