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Chris Andrews Director PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: M DG Associates, Inc. —Director, 2020—Current Since joining MDG, Chris has supported the team's grants management and disaster recovery assignments with an emphasis in planning and program implementation. Chris is a team leader on CPD Programs as well as Disaster Recovery assignments for MDG. He works as a subcontractor to several national Technical Assistance (TA) providers through HUD's Community Compass initiatives. Chris serves as a lead consultant for HUD funded CPD programs with assigned clients and is responsible for coordinating the work of assigned MDG staff to ensure work -flow efficiency and quality. Provides technical assistance to clients to enhance client capacity to administer CPD programs as well as disaster recovery grant programs. Areas of specialization include compliance monitoring, audit preparation, policy and procedure development. Chris Andrews serves as the Director of MDG's Disaster Recovery division. During his tenure at MDG, he has been responsible for the management of Disaster Recovery assignments for MDG where his experience and proven track record of working with grantees, HUD CPD staff at the national and local level, as a HUD subcontractor is utilized in providing clients with effective solutions that produce desirable outcomes. Works as a subcontractor to several national Technical Assistance (TA) providers through HUD's Community Compass initiatives. Through the initiative, provides technical assistance to HUD grantees on implementation, monitoring and reporting. Columbia University — Earth Institute; Disaster Housing SME, 2019 Chris was the lead author of two curricula series funded by FEMA to train disaster housing professionals and stakeholders to leverage disaster housing and supportive housing services. The First curricula focused on program elements and best practices related to rapid rehabilitation programs such as the Sheltering and Temporary Essential Power (STEP) and the Multi -Family Lease and Repair (MLR) programs. The second curricula provided guidance on the application of the Disaster Case Management program. Each curriculum used a range of adult learning principles to maximize participant engagement and retention. The Cloudburst Group, Practice Area Lead, 2017 - 2019 As the Practice Area Lead, Chris oversaw Cloudburst's portfolio of housing and community development TA assignments and contracts. Chris worked closely with staff, clients and partners to ensure that Cloudburst projects were completed within schedule and scope. Programmatically, Chris worked with states and cities across the country to design, implement and evaluate housing investment strategies. He developed resources, delivered trainings and provided direct support to grantees on CDBG program elements and cross -cutting rules and regulations including the Consolidated Plan, fair housing, URA, environmental reviews and reporting and recordkeeping. Chris also oversaw Cloudburst's disaster technical assistance portfolio. He provided direct support to communities to develop housing strategies and programs to support vulnerable populations and worked with communities across the country to design and implement mitigation elements into existing HUD CPD programs. Chris led HUD's technical assistance team in Puerto Rico for CDBG-DR, supporting the launch and early implementation of the Commonwealth's programs. 0 \IDG \SSOCI TES, INC. 0