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SCORE VOLUNTEER TESSIE DELA FUENTE HONORED
Ann Arbor Area SCORE counselor TERESITA DELA FUENTE was honored by The Center for Empowerment and Economic Development (CEED) as 2008 Business Training and Development VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR at an awards celebration on April 9, 2008.
Tessie is currently an active volunteer business counselor with the Ann Arbor SCORE Chapter, and serves on the Executive committee and Marketing/Public Relations Committee. For the last seven years, she has held positions in SCORE as Marketing/Public Relations Committee Chair, Chapter Vice-chair, and Chapter Chair. Tessie provides a range of services to her SCORE clients from looking at the viability of the business idea, reviewing the clients' business plans, and helping them meet deadlines.
Tessie earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Santo Tomas (Manila, Philippines) and a Master's degree in Institutional Management from Purdue University. She has over 38 years of progressive management experience at the University of Michigan Health System. Her leadership roles at UMHS have included Ambassador position of the Management Development Internship Program, serving as the departmental liaison on hospital committees, department lead for the development and successful implementation of total quality improvement activities, productivity studies, and other initiatives. Tessie helped design and build the food service facility for the replacement hospital and prepared for the move by leading many simulations of service from the old hospital to the new.
She has been a keynote speaker at professional seminars and workshops. She presented her abstract on "Benchmarking: An Alternate Method to Measure Performance" at the XXIIth International Congress of Dietetics in Manila, Philippines.
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