Majid Zaghari

Vice President, Enterprise-wide @St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore

Baltimore, MD, US

Key Role:•Oversee operational functions and sales acquisitions for the food security enterprise ensuring safe and quality food access to schools, elderly, and homeless. • Operationalize the strategic plan, including developing budgets, staff, 3rd-party supply chain procurement, market analysis, government, vendor & customer outreach. •Direct workforce development program for under-employed, at-risk historically disenfranchised people, resulting in fully certified professionals in the workforce. •Collaborate with major NGOs & advocacy groups in the region (Family League, Catholic Charities, YMCA) to implement federal and state programs, such as the NSP, CACFP, and SFSP.• Establish, implement & ensure compliance with state & federal statutes/regs governing food safety. Key Accomplishments:•Designed a time management system and staffing schedule to optimize efficiency, resulting in faster delivery & a wider area of service coverage. •Renegotiated prior purchasing contracts resulting in reduced paper product cost by 6%.•Held expert food service training courses for unemployed and at-risk individuals; awarded and graduated on average 65 certifications yearly.•Created an outreach advocacy coalition to promote healthy eating in critical high districts designated as ‘food deserts’ by federal agencies.•Reduced our ecological footprint through focusing more strategically on buying local and providing seasonal produce.•Expanded & diversified our service areas and communities to meet the needs of elderly, family units and more children populations. •Rapidly responded to the crisis of Covid-19 by re-designing our delivery systems and identifying new venues for service to feed an average of 4K individuals a day; increasing weekly. •Collaborated within a large county region to fight hunger in partnership with the Baltimore Hunger Project and the Support Youth Network making it possible to provide 5K meals to the community weekly.

University of Rabat, Morocco

Bachelor of Science - BS, College of Natural Science

Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

Certificate Program