KINGDOM WORKS, INC.
BOARD MEMBERS & STAFF PROFILES
Kingdom Works Board, Staff and Consultants profile (listing after the officers are in alphabetic order)
MINISTRY OBJECTIVE:
Pastor Camelia Joseph, CEO
Pasadena, CA
My life purpose is to develop ministries for people and to develop people for
ministry. I fulfill this by helping congregations, nonprofits and individuals discover
their God ordained purpose and providing services to equip, empower and
encourage them to walk in it. These services include developing the
organizational/personal Mission Statement and Vision Statement, identifying Core
Values and developing an organizational or individual Strategic Plan. Our
equipping, empowerment and encouraging ministries include Classroom and Online Training and Team or Individual Coaching/Consulting. We provide training in
teaching, discipleship, spiritual development; spiritual gift discovery and
assimilation, new ministry development, management and administration and fund
development. Eph. 4:12-16
SUMMARY OF CHURCH EXPERIENCE
Twenty-seven (27) years of ministry experience in small, medium and mega church setting. Served on the church planting
team for three (3) very successful church plants (New Iberia, LA; Houston, TX (Sagemont area) and Santa Monica, CA).
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Licensed and Ordained by Loveland Church of Ontario, CA - March 6, 1994.
Ordained by New Jerusalem Baptist Church of Jeanerette, LA – December 31, 1996.
27 years experience in ministry: developing new ministries and programs, developing leaders, preaching and teaching.
4 ½ years as Executive Pastor.
10 years as Church Consultant.
20 years as a Facilitator
22 years experience in administration and management, ministry/program development and project management.
5 years in C.E.O. of disaster response and recovery ministry.
De’bora V. Johnson, Los Angeles, CA
De'bora V. Johnson, a business Consultant and Entrepreneur Developer, is the
founder of Johnson’s Management and Consultant Group, which is affiliated with
Johnson’s Entrepreneur Development Services, Inc. An Accountant by profession,
De’bora, has approximately twenty years of accounting, general business and
management experience. She has provided bookkeeping and accounting, business
planning and development, business management and general administration services
for a variety of companies throughout the Los Angeles area. Including companies
such as, Laura Lizer and Associates, Fred Sands Realtors, The Los Angeles
Municipal Courthouse, Olive View Medical Center and Ajilon Finance, where she
performed a high intensity analysis and review of client’s financial activity that was
in excess of $240 Million for approximately 150 products. She has identified and
recovered approximately $1 Million in erroneous / fraudulent activity. De’bora
has also developed organizational and process flow charts for all of the financial
activities and procedures on behalf of the clients.
Additionally,
De’bora &
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provided services for Telephony Experts where she was responsible for all of the bookkeeping
KWM Treasurer
and accounting and the general administration. De’bora also launched the Human Resource Department, developed,
implemented and managed accounting and H/R policies and procedures in addition to assisting managers launch
departments in various parts of the country.
De’bora has provided business consultation services to a variety of new start-ups and fledging businesses. She has assisted
them with various business development projects such as program development, grant writing, board development,
establishing the mission statements and working with boards and volunteers. She has also written business plans, a variety
of proposals, concept plans and grants. She has prepared timelines, budgets, and put on special events. She has provided
entrepreneurship training and a host of other services for small businesses. She also provided services on behalf of medium
to large corporations where she was a member of a consulting team for large projects.
De’bora currently holds an AA Degree from L.A. Trade Technical College in Business Administration with emphasis
in Accounting and went on to further her studies in the entertainment industry, where she has obtained two Certificates
of Completion from UCLA; one in The Music Business and one in Songwriting. She has also obtained a Certificate
of Completion from UCLA in Fund Raising / (Non-Profit Management) where she applies her knowledge in this
area to non-profit organizations. She later enrolled at California State University, Los Angeles where she has earned a
BS Degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Entrepreneurship. Additionally, De'bora also holds two
Certificates of Completion from UC Davis, one in National Issues Forums and the other in Issues Framing. She
plans to use this knowledge to implement her facilitation skills to business owners to reduce common management
pitfalls that are associated with poor management decisions and interdepartmental conflicts that prevent growth.
De’bora enjoys working as a team to maximize her efforts. She has thus formed various divisions within Johnson’s
Management and Consultant Group to accomplish multiple tasks by utilizing the skills of other talented professionals.
She recognizes the importance of forming a good business management and development team and has surrounded
herself with a competent team of professionals with whom she can combine her efforts. These professionals have similar
goals and/or serve the same community.
De’bora’s immediate goals are to provide a realistic analysis of business development opportunities for entrepreneurs.
She plans to continue to create viable business plans that attract investors and bankers. She consequently will link
business owners with banks and venture capitalists from a selection of investors, banks and private lenders with whom
she has already established a relationship with. She plans to build business networks and develop joint ventures and
strategic alliances among entrepreneurs for additional support, continued growth and stability long after the initial
business development phase.
Mailing Address: PO Box 4572 ▪ No. Hollywood, CA 91617 [] Phone: (877) 410-2021 [] Fax: (877) 410-2026
Web: www.johnsonsMCgroup.com.com [] E-mail: debora@johnsonsMCgroup.com
Harriett D. Lewis
Kingdom Works, Inc. Secretary
Houston, TX
Past Five Years
2004 – Present: Project Manager, MEI Technologies, Inc.:
 I use MS office applications for various reports (Word), presentations (Power Point), and budget
spreadsheets (Excel). Skilled level for these applications is 27 years experience.
 I have five years experience as Project Manager for a staff 10 engineers on multiple project activities for
the WLEIDS.
 Expert at SEAS quality assurance process to improve efficient with development of Section 4280
products.
 Provide engineering support as required for certification and processing of WLEIDS and Ultem Life
hardware.
 Demonstrate proficiency in a variety of engineering concepts, practices, and procedures to ensure
development of quality technical products.
 Support definition of requirements, verifications, interface definition, test plans and test procedures for
SEAS section 4280
 Cross-train for WLEIDS MER Console support.
 Participate in planning and execution of assigned subtasks in PWA. Skilled level for PWA is expert for
5 years experience.
 Identify project schedule critical tasks and dependecies on other subtasks.
 Identify project technical, schedule and cost risks and plan mitigation activities for those risks.
 Actively support delivery of products identified as major project milestones through DDMS.
 Track DO301 product milestone status and routinely report status.
2004 to 2005: Project Specialist: MEI Technology, Provided configuration and documentation management for
the Wing Leading Edge Impact Detection System and the for the Orbiter Upgrades projects within the
Engineering Directorate.
PROFESSIONAL FIELDS
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Project Management
Flight Hardware Certification
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Project Budget and Schedule
Configuration and Document
EDUCATION AND AWARDS
ESCG Project Management (PM) Certification, 2009
BBA, General Business, University of Houston (Clear Lake), 2004
AA, Business Administration, Houston Community College System (HCCS); Houston, TX – Spring 1991
NASA Educational Co-op Programs: Project IQ -- 1984-1986; Worker Trainee Opportunity (WTO) -- 19831984; and Office Education (OE) -- 1982 – 1983.
National Management Association (NMA)
Co-chair ESCG Project Manager (PM) Community of Practice (CoP), 2009
ESCG Steering Committee
Awards for Sustained Superior Performance
Awards for Group Achievement
Awards for Outstanding Performance
Awards of Excellence
Group Superior Achievement Award
Stellar Group Award 2008
Pastor Raynard Casimier
Senior Pastor Love Outreach Christian Church
President, Alliance of New Beginnings
New Orleans, LA
Pastor Raynard Casimier, Church and Community Relations Director and Senior Pastor of Love Outreach
Christian Church located in New Orleans also serves as the president of the Alliance For New Beginnings, an
alliance of approximately 70 Pastors and Community Members from the Greater New Orleans area. He was
responsible for forming The Alliance after Hurricane Katrina to engage pastors in taking on leadership roles in
the recovery of their city. He worked diligently with Pastor Camelia Joseph through out the pre-planning and the
planning phase. He is very active in the community and serves as KWM's lead local organization.
JOHN EPPS
Executive Director of Applied Principles for Service Incorporated
Instructor University of California at Riverside Extension
CSO at Triune Ministries International Incorporated
John Epps is self-employed as a Lead Trainer and Senior Consultant in the Inland Empire. His
primary responsibilities include the development and delivery of training courses and classes,
application development and support, and project management. He teaches a wide range of Personal
Computer Application and Information Systems classes. John has worked to incorporate a high level
of student interaction in each class. Students are encouraged to focus on the application of the course
materials on the job. His background as a user, trainer, and consultant gives him a unique perspective
for the subjects he teaches.
As a consultant and trainer he has had the opportunity to develop and maintain several major
applications including cost allocation and financial reporting and tracking systems using spreadsheet
applications. He has supported corporate operations using worksheets and graphs to communicate key
business information and to track business performance and student courses and attendance. Working
on a daily basis with applications to track and manage important business processes has enabled him to
help clients and students find solutions and be more productive. As a consultant he has been
responsible for the rapid development and deployment of office automation solutions, web technology,
and, database applications. John’s experience as a troubleshooter adds depth and color to the training.
Technical Training Experience:
Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Front Page, Publisher, Visio and Outlook
Project Management: Microsoft Project, Project Kickstart, Visio
Business Planning: Palo Alto Business Plan Pro, MindManager
Customer Relationship Management: ACT, GoldMine, Outlook
Accounting and Finance Applications: QuickBooks, Microsoft Money, Quicken, TurboTax
Report & Document Development: Acrobat, Pagemaker, Crystal Reports, Publisher, Omniform
Database Management: Access, SQL Server Express Edition
Web Development: XHTML/HTML, Front Page, Dreamweaver, MS Visual Web Developer
Programming: Visual Basic for Applications, JavaScript, SQL, COBOL, CICS, RPG
Utilities: Norton System Works, McAfee Security
He has Microsoft Office skills, Database Programming, Visual Basic for Applications, Web
Development, and Project Management using MS Project for the last few years for UC Riverside
extension none of these requires a degree for employment.
Pastor Charles Price, Execitive Director
Arms Reach Foundation. Los Angeles, CA
Pastor Charles Price has more than 44 years'
experience in the Information Technology
Professional world with Dow Chemical Company,
American Hospital, and SmithKline Bio-Science
Laboratories.
He was responsible for
staff management, training of management
personal, system design, evaluation, development,
program development - program support maintaining integrity of current operating systems
and software throughout the USA, plus others.
Pastor Price, in partner with MAD DADS (an acronym for Men Against Destruction-Defending
Against Drugs and Social-Disorder) and the Los Angeles Juvenile courts, working together with hard
to reach youth and with students who have behavioral problems. The youth received training to build
computers from the ground up, solve computer hardware and software, and how to setup networks
using workgroups.
Pastor Price worked the California's Welfare to Work (WTW) program training welfare reception on
basic accounting, QuickBooks training, word processor, how to structure business letters, how to
answer phones and take messages for employer, how to write resume and be interviewed for a job.
Pastor Price is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Arms Reach Foundation (ARF) a California
Non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization. ARF operated a "Weed and Seed Program" funded by the U.S.
Department of Justice (Weed and Seed) for crime prevention and neighborhood restoration. Weed and
Seed programs consist of four components: 1. Law Enforcement, 2. Community Policing, Prevention,
3. Intervention/Treatment, 4. Neighborhood Restoration for a designated target. The program is
designed to “Weed” Out Crime and to “Seed” Services and Development to reduce crime and improve
quality. ARF's programs included career and life planning, resume writing, interview skills, and workreadiness training and job development and placement for youth.
Pastor Price managed and directed a Job Placement program for the State of California Professional
Resource Network - providing career and life planning, resume writing, interview training, workreadiness training and job development assistance for unemployed professional. He trained
participants how to use computers to develop resume and to conduct job search.
Pastor Price is very multicultural. He has worked with diverse population including IT professional,
corporate staff, division staff, juvenile and adult prisoners, prison re-entry, women in recovery from
substance abuse and youth in at-risk environment.
Dr. Prouty serves as the Chief Executive Officer of
Benefit Technologies International. He also guides the
operations of Global Economic & Workforce
Development Coalition (GEWDC), Global Education
Systems Alliance (GESA) and the California
International Business Alliance (CIBA) that provide a
comprehensive range of resource services and support
for organizations within the sixteen industry clusters.
This includes online human resource management,
William H. Prouty,
regulatory compliance, executive and employee benefits.
CBC CEC CEP CLU RHU
MBA PhD
Dr. Prouty’s business career spans over 55 years and
includes hands-on management and leadership of many
Dr. Prouty teaches a wide varietybusiness
of business
management
and communications programs at
and non-profit
organizations.
the local and regional level. He specializes in the design and implementation of executive and
employee benefit programs. He has over 30 years of experience in the implementation of
healthcare plans for employers.
He is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Champions for Life Foundation and
Wealth Builders Clubs International, Inc., nonprofit financial, economic, business and
political literacy education programs that will begin establishing student chapters on the
campuses of high schools, colleges and universities throughout North America in mid-2007.
He will be leading several business missions to China and Africa in 2007-2008 to develop
active working joint ventures with Chinese and other Asian business and government leaders
and organizations. He is also assisting with the development of over 500 vocational schools as
well as economic & career development centers in Northern Uganda.
Dr. Prouty helps coordinate the development an extensive series of educational and internship
programs in the areas of Information and Communications Technology, Business Operations,
Personal Financial Development, Electronic Commerce and Internet Marketing. He assists in
training and staff development needs of employer organization through a personal and business
resource system that includes 4,000+ online training courses and 14,000+ hours of educational
content. His newest enterprise, Breakthrough Educational Systems & Technologies
(BEST) is growing international educational resource market providers and assists many
California employers in benefiting from the California Employment Training Panel staff skills
development and training grant program. GESA and BEST have active projects in United
States, China and Africa.
He serves as Director of the Inland Valleys Employer Advisory Council; and is a member of
the Executive Committee Global Manufacturing Industry Alliance and Global Health
Sciences Industry Alliance representing a community of over 30,000 manufacturing and
healthcare business organizations. He also serves as an active member of the legislative
advocacy committees of several Chambers of Commerce and business trade organization and
is a strong advocate of tax and government reform.
Dr. Prouty received his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Administration from Iowa
State University. He has been awarded his MBA and PhD in Business Organizational
Development as well as several specialty degrees, CLU, CBC, CEP, CEC and RHU in the
financial services and E-Commerce industries. He served his country as a Naval Officer
during the Vietnam War and was involved in operations management of electronic intelligence
and communications activities. He is married and lives in Sun City, California with his wife
Lynn. He has two grown children and two grandchildren.
CONSULTANTS / STAFF
Jill Shook
Urban Catalyst
Pasadena, California
Jill grew up in Yorba Linda, California. Jill Shook has a unique background as a trained California
Credentialed teacher, with a BS from California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, as well as a
Master’s level degree in Biblical Studies from Denver Seminary. In June 2007, she completed her
doctorate in Transformational Leadership at the Bakke Graduate School in Seattle, Washington. Jill
presently resides in Pasadena, California.
Beginning in 1978, Jill joined Missions Door as a Campus Ambassador serving in San Jose and Fullerton,
CA, and at a private law school in Salem, OR. From 1986 - 1989 Jill lived in Mexico and Arizona, working
with Food for the Hungry International to found and develop a program for church and university work
teams from Harvard to Berkeley to serve in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Kenya. Projects included
a solar water system for a village, medical work teams, building a handcraft cooperative from an old
mining ruin, and other educational and economic development projects. Jill has also developed workshops
on Teaching Like Jesus for teachers and pastors, which she taught in Bolivia and Mexico. In 1996 Jill
founded STARS—Students and Tutors Achieving Real Success, a ministry of Lake Avenue Church in
Pasadena, where hundreds of volunteers have mentored and tutored low-income students. Having entered
the homes of these students, Jill recognized the connection between the long-term success of children and
the high cost of housing. The lack of decent affordable housing in good neighborhoods often results in
multiple families squeezed into tiny apartments concentrated in one part of town, which often breeds gangs,
homelessness, crime and soaring dropout rates. Jill became passionate about finding solutions to this
complex issue. This led to writing a book, Making Housing Happen: Faith-Based Affordable Housing
Models released August 1, 2006 and reprinted Dec. 2006. This book provides a glimpse into creative ways
that churches across the U.S. are addressing this crisis and providing award-winning affordable housing.
The book is being used on numerous universities as a text, including University of Georgia, Eastern
College, Azusa Pacific University, Fuller Seminary and Bakke Graduate University.
Jill coordinates area churches seeking ways to retain Pasadena’s racial and economic mix, and to
house Pasadena’s 1,000 homeless and address urban violence. Jill’s broad experiences with pastors across
all denominations and her work with small rural villages in Latin America give her a unique voice of hope
in our country today.
Missions Door, 2530 Washington St., Denver, CO 80205 www.missionsdoor.org
jill@makinghousinghappen.com www.makinghousinghappen.com
(626) 797-4072 or (626) 675-1316
Ivy Carroll
KWM Mortgage Consultant
Ivy Carroll’s Realty and Mortgage Loans, Fontana, CA / 909-350-1832 / msivy@aol.com
Ivy has been a realtor for over 20 years. She started her own mortgage company approximately four years ago. She
worked in the grocery industry for 20 years and retired from Von’s Grocery.
Jim Johnson
JAE Properties, Oakland, CA
Jim Johnson is an affordable housing developer. Jim Johnson, another key member, is a RE Developer
and Consultant. He is the owner of Johnson’s RE Development Company based out of San Francisco, CA. He
manages multiple Senior Citizens complexes and affordable housing developments around the country along
with his family. He has successfully secured tax
PASTOR WILBERT KING
Waycross, GA
Pastor Wilbert King is President and Founder of Wilbert King Ministries, Waycross
Christian Center, and Waycross Business Development Services (the King Family
relocated from Los Angeles California to Waycross in August, 2006). Wilbert King is
also VP Operations for Cash On A Dot, Inc, a Los Angeles based corporation
specializing in financial services and also VP Operations of Phatfoot, LLC, a Musical
Accessories Company.
Wilbert King formal education included a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering
from Cal-State Long Beach in 1976, second degree in Quality engineering from the Air
force University in 1978, certified as a Quality Engineer after studies under the late
W.E. Deming(father of the American Quality revolution), and Certified at UCLA
Anderson School of Business in 1997.
Under the Guidance of Al Hollingsworth of Christian Business Ministries, Mr. King
was mentored in Business principles according to the Word of God and became certified
through Christian Business Ministries stringent program, Mr. King is a Graduate of
Christian Business Ministries. Pastor King, completed his ministry training under Dr.
Frederick K.C. Price and is a graduate of the School of Ministry at CCC.
In 1991 Mr. King founded Touchstones Business Development Services to apply some
of the Principles of Total Quality Management in both the Profit and Non-profit
business arena. The initial services offered were Business Structure and Formation
services, Strategic Business Planning(Profit and Non-Profit), Completing and Filing of
the Federal Exemption under the IRC 501©(3), the Completion and Filing of the
Franchise Tax Board (FTB) 3500 Application for Exemption from State Taxes. After
study and being certified through UCLA and the Grantsmanship Center in Non-Profit
Management, and Proposal writing, TBDS began to offer Business Credit Development,
Business Development Services, Corporate Compliance Services Grant Resource
Research, Proposal Writing, and Non-Profit Management Services.
Success soon followed and TBDS is now one of the leaders in providing all phases of both Profit and
Non-Profit Business Start-Ups and Management. Our Administrative Assessments have saved
hundreds of thousands of dollars for existing businesses and preventing new businesses from making
those costly mistakes that plague start-ups. TBDS is now renamed Waycross Entrepreneur
Development Services and is dedicated to both the Non-Profit and Profit sector in the Waycross and
Southern States Area. Our Vision is to maintain the Business Leadership role by setting and
maintaining the highest standards of both Profit and Non-Profit Business Consulting Services and by
providing these services in the Best Cost-Benefit-Value Relationship with the Highest Degree of
Ethnics, Professionalism and Pride.
Galveston, TX
Mr. Robert M. Quintero is a member of The National Association of
Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO). NAHRO is the
leading housing and community development advocate for the provision of
adequate and affordable housing and strong, viable communities for all
Americans—particularly those with low- and moderate-incomes. NAHRO
members administer HUD programs such as Public Housing, Section 8,
CDBG and HOME. He is former member of National Community
Development Association (NCDA). NCDA is a national nonprofit
organization comprised of more than 550 local governments across the
country that administer federally-supported community and economic
development, housing and human service programs, including programs of
the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG), and the HOME Investment Partnerships (HOME) programs. Since 1968, NCDA has been at
the forefront in securing effective and responsive housing and community development programs for
local governments. The Association provides timely, direct information and technical support to its
members on federal housing and community development programs. NCDA serves as a national
clearinghouse of ideas for local government officials and federal policy-makers on pertinent national
issues affecting America's communities. NCDA provides you with the necessary knowledge and skills
to become a more effective community development administrator.
Mr. Quintero served three years on the National Steering Committee member and presenter for
Neighborhoods USA (NUSA). NUSA is a national non-profit organization committed to building and
strengthening neighborhood organizations. Created in 1975 to share information and experiences
toward building stronger communities, NUSA encourages networking and information sharing to
facilitate the development of partnerships between neighborhood organizations, government and the
private sector.
The organizational mission of NUSA has, since its inception, been to build and strengthen
neighborhood associations and to promote productive communications and collaborations between
those associations and both the public and private sectors. The organization has, for over thirty years,
served these broad objectives in part through the conduct of an annual conference. This provides an
opportunity for people from all locations, sectors and levels of society to discuss the pressing issues of
the times, share experiences and offer encouragement or assistance.
He has worked with Community Preservation and Development Corporation (CPDC), a non-profit
organization that is a leader in the affordable housing industry. Traditionally, the focus of affordable
housing has been on bricks and mortar, concrete and steel. Properties were built or renovated on their
potential for financial viability. CPDC understands that true profit/loss lies not merely in the structure,
but also in the lives of those living there. Therefore, CPDC develops communities. In addition, Robert
has worked with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and for Galveston Historical
Foundation where he was awarded a “Best Practice Award” for the saving and restoring “Historic
Rainbow Row” housing development and turning it into an affordable housing project for low-tomoderate income families. (See pictures)
He has received certifications in Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED), this
defined as "the proper design and effective use of the built environment that can lead to a reduction in
the fear and incidence of crime and an improvement in the quality of life." The goal of CPTED is to
reduce opportunities for crime that may be inherent in the design of structures or in the design of
neighborhoods and Public Housing Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP). PHDEP is a HUD
grant program that awards grants to empower residents to turn the tide against drugs and drug-related
crime in their own communities. Money from these grants is put to a wide variety of uses, including
the following: (1) employment of security personnel and investigators; (2) reimbursement of local law
enforcement agencies for additional security and protective services; (3) physical improvements to
enhance security; (4) voluntary tenant patrols; (5) programs to reduce the use of drugs, including drug
prevention, intervention, and treatment; (6) security and drug abuse prevention programs operated by
resident management corporations, incorporated residents' councils, and residents' organizations.
Through the United States Department of Justice, Mr. Quintero received certification and became
a community trainer/facilitator for the Weed and Seed project. Weed and Seed is foremost a
strategy—rather than a grant program—that aims to prevent, control, and reduce violent crime, drug
abuse, gang activity in designated high crime neighborhoods across the country. The more than 250
Weed and Seed sites range in size from several neighborhood blocks to several square miles, with
populations ranging from 3,000 to 150,000.
In addition, Mr. Quintero is a former Chairman of the Board for the Galveston Community
Housing Resource Board (CHRB) through the US Department of Housing and Urban
Development. The CHRB provides Fair Housing education, training, and advocacy. A 501(c) (3)
nonprofit, distributes free Fair Housing brochures, self-help guides, reports, newsletters, & research.
Robert was appointed to the National LULAC Housing Commission by three LULAC National
Presidents. He served on the commission for six years and as chairman for two years.
He is a member of the American Grant Writers Association. The American Grant Writers'
Association is a professional association that seeks to enhance the community of grantseekers'
professional standards and ethical practices through education, certification, professional growth, and
advocacy.
In addition, Robert is a graduate of the Grantsmanship Center and has received certificates in
C ert i fi ed Grant s S pe ci al i st , C ert i fi ed Gr ant s Adm i ni st rat or, C ert i fi ed Grant s
C ons ul t ant , C ert i fi ed Grant s R evi ew er, C ert i fi ed Foundat i o n & C orpor at e Gr ant s
S peci al i s t and i s cur rent l y enrol l ed fo r cert i fi c at i on for S et t i ng up a S ucc es s ful
Grant s Offi ce f rom Research Associates' the Grant Experts. He also has certification in Uniformed
Grant Management Standards (UGMS) from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ), and has participated and presented at workshops for
the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Texas Historical Commission.
Since beginning his grant development profession in 1984, Robert has secured more than $54 million
dollars in grant funds for his employers and clients.
Mr. Quintero was born and raised in Galveston, Texas. He graduate from Galveston’s George Ball
High School 1980. After high school he attended Texas A & M University in College Station, Texas.
While attending A & M, Robert served two terms in the Aggie Senate & was a member of the Pan
America Student Forum. He graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Liberal Arts
majoring in Political Science and Minoring in Economics. Robert continued his education at the
University of Houston at Clear Lake. He received his Masters Degree in Public Administration in
1988 and in 1995 Robert received his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from South Texas College of Law
Mr. Quintero is the President of Quintero Investments, Inc., and a Senior Partner with The Trinity
Group, LLC. He serves as a volunteer with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Galveston County and the
Greater Houston Area Boys and Girls Club.
Erness Wright Irvin
Facilitator / Consultant
Erness Wright-Irvin, MHA, brings a unique combination of 6 years of professional practice in group facilitative processes
and 26 years of health systems operational management experience to her consulting and facilitation practice.
Her professional practice in Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) ToP® group facilitative methods assists interdisciplinary
teams and collaborative partners to engage in strategic planning, problem solving, action planning and implementation
tracking processes that also foster development of trust relationships among the parties. These ICA international best
practice methods generate ownership, create clear goals, open lines of communication, broaden perspectives and motivate
people to adapt to their changing environment while honoring the cultural traditions and diversity of all involved. She
received her Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA-USA) designation as a qualified trainer for Technology of Participation
(ToP®) methods in 2005. Since that time, she has applied these methods to community engagement in land use planning
processes, recovery planning, and collaborative, multi-sector initiatives where the participants desire to achieve community
transformation and substantive systems change. At the core of her work is a passion for creation of partnerships among
diverse stakeholders to achieve value-based, mission-driven objectives.
As a member of Facilitative Leadership Training Institute in NOLA, she was engaged in the design & assembly of a 24
member facilitation team for the kick-off public meeting of the Unified New Orleans Recovery Plan (July, 2006). She
worked with H3 Studio (St. Louis, MO) to assemble a Lower Ninth Ward (District 8) community stakeholder group, and
facilitated both public and stakeholder meetings to arrive at consensus on recovery plans for this hurricane devastated three
(3) sq. mile area – www.unifiedneworleansplan.com (2006-2007). Subsequently, she was contracted by Concordia Planning
to facilitate four (4) community-wide meetings of the School Facilities Master Plan Process (Nov. 2007). Her consulting
practice includes collaborative initiatives undertaken by entities such as the Region’s Coalition for Children & Families;
Louisiana Bucket Brigade; and the Greater New Orleans Disaster Recovery Partnership. She joins Jean Watts in conducting
FLI training workshops in group facilitative methods & advanced facilitation techniques for participatory meeting design,
conflict resolution and strategic planning.
Before establishing EWI HealthCare Consulting in 2002, she served in senior administrative roles in academic urban
centers of MetroHealth Systems (Cleveland, OH), Charity Hospital (New Orleans, LA), and state-wide partnership
development for the LSU Health Care Services Division. Her health systems experience encompass management issues in
primary care & sub-specialty clinics; trauma, emergency & ancillary services, and the negotiation of operational linkages
between hospitals and community-based primary care sites that result in easier access to needed services for the uninsured.
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, she has a Masters in Hospital Administration from Tulane University School of Public
Health, and a BA in Sociology and Communications from the University of New Orleans.