Professional & Volunteer Experience
Altruist Management, Direct Advocacy Services, Seattle, WA, 2018 - Present
- ADA Workplace and Training Accommodation - Learning Disability
- Equal Employment Opportunity Complaint forms and Charging Document - Disability Discrimination
- EEO and State Complaint Forms - Discrimination, Harassment (hostile workplace), Retaliation
- Federal OIG Whistleblower Reprisal Forms
- Public Disclosure Requests - Retaliation, Harassment, Unfair Dealings, Falsified Discipline
- Coaching
- Drafting emails
- Serving as Your Authorized Advocate as a Disability Accommodation
Altruist Management Public Management Consultant, Mary's Place in Seattle, WA, 2012 - 2013
- Providing strategic planning, business process improvement, reporting, and grants expertise.
- Sectors/Focus Areas: Direct health and human services to no and low income women and children.
Altruist Management Public Management Consultant, Multi-Employer Training & Education Fund in Seattle, 2011 – 2012
- Served as Control Specialist, Grants Manager, and Business Engineer/Organizational Change Management Professional. Applied OMB Circulars A-123, A-133, A-110, and A-122 to perform tasks for these roles.
- Sectors/Focus Areas: healthcare, labor/union, training and education, and low-wage/at-risk employed populations.
Associate, Business Development, Grants & Compliance, Booz Allen Hamilton, 2009 – 2011
- Wide-ranging impacts and responsibilities. Applied OMB Circulars A-123 (management controls), A-133, A-87, A-21, A-110, A-120, and A-122 in performing tasks for these roles.
- Sectors/Focus Areas: Transportation, Food and Nutrition Services, FEMA Grant Programs Directorate, and U.S. Dept. of Commerce – Broadband Programs.
Consultant & Sr. Consultant, Grants & Compliance, BearingPoint (now Deloitte), 2007 – 2009
- Wide-ranging impacts and responsibilities. Applied OMB Circulars A-136, A-123, A-133, A-21, A-110, A-120, and A-122 to perform tasks for these roles.
- Sectors/Focus Areas: Housing and Urban Development, Office of Justice Programs - Office of the Chief Financial Officer, and Transportation.
Program Coordinator/Transportation Specialist, Community Transportation Association of America, 2004 – 2007
Temporary Post-Graduate Intern, Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2004
Employment break for graduate school
Truman Policy Fellow, Selected by and Contracted to the Secretary’s Policy Office, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 2002 – 2003
Employment break to complete undergraduate programs
Interim Communications Director, University of Missouri St. Louis – Public Policy Research Center, 2001
Ms. Sivage held assistant and intern positions with the Public Employees Retirement Association for the State of Minnesota and the St. Charles (Missouri) County Counselor’s Office (1999 to 2001).
Volunteer Experience:
- Provided ESL and GRE tutoring for English, literature comprehension, and essay writing in Seattle (2011-2012).
- Served 3-year term on Philanthropic Education Organization (PEO) DC State Cottey College Committee. Responsible for: creating standardized scholarship application scoring tool; fundraising; awarding travel stipends for prospective students’ “C for Yourself Weekend;” and working with DC PEO President.
- Served two years (2008-2010) as Co-Chair and Chair of the Industry Networking Committee of the National Grants Management Assoc. Responsible for creating mission, goals, operating processes, annual operating plan, coordinating with organization leadership, and conducting strategic outreach.
- Served two years (2007-2008) as a volunteer job mentor to adults at a live-in shelter. Provided guidance and editing for resumes, mock interviews, coaching for skill changes, and difficult work situations.