I am a passionate, driven professional who enjoys delivering results and helping others, encouraging the people around me while having fun and being creative. Greatly enjoy and exceed at building lasting relationships and networks with kindred professional spirits with a hungry appetite to innovate on old process and strategies and used existing resources to deliver new, more effective results. I have been called ridiculously optimistic which I find to be a very high complement.
Public sector digital transformation executive with deep experience founding and scaling federal innovation, technology modernization, and government-wide talent programs across USDA, OPM, OMB, GSA, and the White House. Founder and Executive Director of the USDA Digital Service, leading enterprise digital service delivery, cloud migration efforts, customer experience modernization, IT acquisition strategy, and cross-agency transformation initiatives. Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior government executives, align multidisciplinary teams, influence strategy, and deliver measurable outcomes in complex, high-visibility environments. Licensed attorney, PMP, FAC-PPM Senior Level and COR Level 3 certifications, and former Presidential Management Fellow with expertise spanning digital transformation, federal IT policy, human-centered design, data, automation, workforce modernization, regulatory strategy, and public sector program delivery.
Executive Value Proposition
• Builds and scales public sector modernization programs from concept to enterprise adoption.
• Leads high-visibility federal technology, innovation, and digital service initiatives across complex stakeholder environments.
• Develops trusted relationships with senior government executives, agency leaders, policy officials, technologists, legal counsel, HR leaders, and external partners.
• Aligns strategy, delivery, acquisition, talent, technology, and operations to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Experienced operating across federal government, White House/EOP environments, cabinet-level agencies, and government-wide programs.
• Brings legal, policy, program management, human-centered design, digital transformation, and executive stakeholder engagement expertise.
Interested in opportunities in where I can continue to work remotely full time as I am part of a foreign service family currently stationed in Rome, Italy until 2028.
Public sector digital transformation executive with deep experience founding and scaling federal innovation, technology modernization, and government-wide talent programs across USDA, OPM, OMB, GSA, and the White House. Founder and Executive Director of the USDA Digital Service, leading enterprise digital service delivery, cloud migration efforts, customer experience modernization, IT acquisition strategy, and cross-agency transformation initiatives. Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior government executives, align multidisciplinary teams, influence strategy, and deliver measurable outcomes in complex, high-visibility environments. Licensed attorney, PMP, FAC-PPM Senior Level and COR Level 3 certifications, and former Presidential Management Fellow with expertise spanning digital transformation, federal IT policy, human-centered design, data, automation, workforce modernization, regulatory strategy, and public sector program delivery.
Executive Value Proposition
• Builds and scales public sector modernization programs from concept to enterprise adoption.
• Leads high-visibility federal technology, innovation, and digital service initiatives across complex stakeholder environments.
• Develops trusted relationships with senior government executives, agency leaders, policy officials, technologists, legal counsel, HR leaders, and external partners.
• Aligns strategy, delivery, acquisition, talent, technology, and operations to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Experienced operating across federal government, White House/EOP environments, cabinet-level agencies, and government-wide programs.
• Brings legal, policy, program management, human-centered design, digital transformation, and executive stakeholder engagement expertise.
Interested in opportunities in where I can continue to work remotely full time as I am part of a foreign service family currently stationed in Rome, Italy until 2028.
Program Advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer; Co-Founder of the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program
Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy
June 2012
to September 2013
Full-time
Washington
United States - District of Columbia
- Co-founded the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program, a government-wide innovation initiative pairing technologists, entrepreneurs, designers, and innovators with federal civil servants to address major national challenges. Supported program creation while detailed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as a Presidential Management Fellow.
- Co-created the program model, policy framework, operational infrastructure, funding approach, administrative systems, and core principles for the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program.
- Helped design and execute the first class of Fellows, including project selection with agencies, recruitment and selection, onboarding, mission support, funding, and delivery operations.
- Built and sustained relationships with early agency sponsors and first customers across more than 16 federal agencies.
- Navigated numerous personnel systems and interagency detail agreements to hire and place Fellows across government within a compressed timeframe.
- Led and supported a team of volunteers that helped establish and operate the program.
- Coordinated and executed a seven-city innovation tour to build awareness, internal support, external sponsors, and customers for the program.
- Assisted in drafting the Executive Order signed by the President to formally establish and make the program permanent across government.
- Supported additional White House and OSTP initiatives related to Open Data, Open Government, technology policy, innovation, and the President’s Management Agenda.
- Received the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy Award for Excellence.