I am an accomplished Operations Specialist and a dedicated PA Army National Guard NCO (25U), bringing over a decade of high-volume logistics and operational leadership experience. My career is defined by driving process efficiencies, leading high-performing teams, and ensuring operational continuity across complex environments.
My educational foundation is uniquely robust: I hold a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from The Art Institute of York, which informs my strategic, visual approach to operations. I am currently completing my Associate in Business Administration and focused on earning my Bachelor’s degree in Project and Supply Chain Management at Penn State University, with goals to achieve the PMP certification and a Certificate in ERP with SAP.
Key Operational Expertise from Military Service (25U):
My military experience goes beyond IT systems (computers, network infrastructure, and radios) to encompass comprehensive operational management:
- Logistics & Inventory Control: Routinely tracking inventory, issuing hand receipts, and maintaining strict chain of custody for both traditional and sensitive equipment.
- Mission Execution: Directing the loading, transportation, setup/teardown, and recovery of equipment within established timelines to consistently meet critical mission requirements.
- Maintenance & Readiness: Conducting and documenting detailed vehicle and equipment maintenance checks and annotating deficiencies for repair, ensuring continuous operational readiness.
- Personnel Management: Functioning as a Training Leader and Supervisor—mentoring, evaluating, and managing soldiers to drive collective and individual performance.
Seeking Interesting Project Collaborations
I am actively looking to connect with professionals for engaging and challenging projects that require a unique blend of analytical, logistical, and creative skills. As a practicing artist with a B.S. in Graphic Design, I strategically integrate skills in photography, drawing, illustration, and logo design, offering a detail-oriented perspective to process visualization, documentation, and creative problem-solving.
In my extra time, I write, draw/sketch, take photos, illustrate, and review art.
Latest stories by Yessenia:
Luminiscence at the Cathedral Basilica: A Night of Light, Music, and What Was Left Unsaid
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Dalí’s Corpus Hypercubus: The Crucifixion Painted as a Hypercube
I Called This Painting Blasphemous. Then I Turned a Corner at the Met Salvador Dalí is considered a logical artist. His works, especially the ones touching Catholic imagery, are unlike the classical works of the past. When I was younger, I saw him as a modern artist challenging the crucifixion, and I honestly perceived his…
In Pain (Self-Portrait): Behind the Piece Series
The Words I Couldn’t Forget “Crying is a coping mechanism to escape accountability,” someone I deemed to be intelligent once said to me. I never forgot those words, and because of the respect I had for that person at the time, I refrained from crying or being emotional. Deep down in the depths of my…
Divine Design Art Series: 10 Artworks That Capture the Fall of Man — From Michelangelo to Dalí (Genesis 3:1-7)
Consider all evil to be gone from the world. What would that world be like? Would humans roam the world naked with no worries? Would animals wander freely without needing to hunt each other? Would pain and sorrow cease to exist, and all worry be tucked away forever? Good people seek to make the world…
Divine Design Art Series: The Creation of Eve (Genesis 2:21–25)
Six artists across six centuries have painted the moment Eve was formed — Cranach, Michelangelo, Bosch, Ghiberti, Uccello, and Rodin. Each one imagined something different about her first moment of existence, and together they reveal how differently the Church, and the culture around it, has seen womanhood ever since. The Creation of Woman (Genesis 2:21–25)…
Divine Design Art Series: Eden’s Rivers and the Creation of Eve (Genesis 2:8–25)
Where Was the Garden of Eden? The Garden of Eden has disappeared. No one knows where it is, and where it went, yet many people still look for it. As recently as 2025, Dr. Konstantin Borisov published a theory using ancient maps alongside texts from Flavius Josephus, which led him to propose that the Gihon…