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SECTION III. PROJECT STAFF QUALIFICATIONS MANAGEMENT AND STAFFING The members of our consulting group proposed to provide monitoring and technical support services include Mr. Rudy Munoz, President who will be overseeing the contract and will be the main contact and responsible for the oversight of the overall monitoring and technical support services with the assistance of Mr. Clint Whited, Vice -President of Grants Management; Mr. Chris Andrews, Director; and Frank Perez, Senior Associate. Rudy Munoz, President —Mr.Rudy Munoz is thePresident and founder of MDG Associates, Inc. With more than 33 years of experience in the community development field, Mr. Munoz' main focus is on assisting municipalities with all aspects of the administration and implementation of their HUD -funded CPD Programs. These include but are not limited to the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership Act (HOME), Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) and Community Development Block Grant— Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) programs. Mr. Munoz works hand -in -hand with municipalities on the development of implementation strategies and tools that facilitate the management of their CPD programs, providing training for the HUD CPD Programs, and at times implementing the day-to-day functions of the programs. These functions include all phases of the program implementation from the initial development of Consolidated Plans and Action Plans for the various programs up to the programmatic and financial closeout of projects and grants. He assists grantees in developing HUD mandated Policies and Procedures for the overall management and oversight of the various CPD Programs as well as individual activities funded under thes e programs such as Housing Rehabilitation, Commercial Rehabilitation, and Homebuyer Programs. Mr. Munoz is a Certified HOME Specialist and is a subcontractor to national Technical Assistance (TA) providers through HUD's OneCPD and Community Compass initiatives. Through the initiatives, he provides TA and training to municipalities throughout the U.S. in CDBG, HOME, NSP, and CDBG- Disaster Recovery Programs. He currently provides training at the national level in "Basically CDBG", Assessment to Fair Housing (AFH), Integrated Disbursement and Information Systems (IDIS), and the Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting System (DRGR). He is a beta tester for HUD on the Disaster Recovery Grant Reporting system. Because of his fluency in Spanish, he has provided many of the aforementioned training in Spanish for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its municipalities. In addition, he has provided training and TA through the initiatives in cross -cutting elements including Financial Management Systems (Uniform Administrative Systems), Davis -Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA), and Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH). Prior to his time with MDG, Mr. Munoz worked for a number of municipalities in Southern California. Mr. Munoz received a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) from California Polytechnic University in Pomona. Clint Whited, Vice -President - Mr. Clint Whited joined MDG Associates, Inc. in 2006 and currently serves as Vice -President of Grants Management. With more than 14 years of experience in the planning and implementation of federal grants including those offered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — Office of Community Planning and Development, Mr. Whited assists municipalities with all aspects of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) and Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) management.