James Castle

Sr Community Planning & Development Specialist @U.S. Department Of Housing And Urban Development

Washington, DC, US

Directly assists New York City\'s HUD CDBG-DR P.L. 113-2 program. Directly communicates with staff, grantees, Management, contractors, and others.Monitors recipients of grants. Schedules and conducts on-site reviews, analyzes information, and recommends subsequent actions. Create monitoring reports based upon monitoring results.Provides input on policy and guidelines on subjects such as procurement, DRGR, and implementation. Develops training programs and trains those in making judgments concerning disaster assistance program requirements such as eligibility, statutory requirements, and reporting. Identifies where additional training is needed. Serves on Internal Training team and assists in creating training for Disaster personnel. Assists in the planning and implementation of the annual Disaster Team Work Session. Assesses the adequacy of the grantee\'s mgt. system(s), and determine compliance in such priority areas as program process, accountability of funds, benefit, national objective and eligibility, and effective use of funds and sub-recipient management.Demonstrates knowledge of program elements and special conditions such as environment, labor standards, acquisition/relocation, procurement, Section 3 and financial management.Created report to Congress highlighting progress on P.L. 113-2 grantees. Worked with HUD PD & R on rapid launch study.Serves on DRGR team and mans the DRGR help desk. Adds new users, updates and deletes user profiles. Assists users with session resets. Refers users to AAQ function. Assists users with use of DRGR system. Serves on Risk Analysis team and assists rating grantees for risk and creating the annual disaster monitoring and technical assistance calendar. Maintains the annual calendar. Reviews and approves disaster grantee’s request for release of funds.Prepared Paperwork Reduction Act process for OBGA Block Grant Close Out procedures. Assist and motivate my team members and accept all other duties.

Brunswick High School

High School Diploma, Certificate in Business Management