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.
Performance Manager- Office of Performance and Personnel Management
Executive Office of the President, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
May 2015
to September 2017
Full-time
Washington
United States - District of Columbia
- Served as Performance Manager and principal policy advisor for federal hiring policy, human capital reform, workforce strategy, performance improvement, and government-wide management initiatives. Advised OMB and Executive Office of the President components on human capital matters and served as a primary liaison with federal agencies and stakeholders.
- Served as principal policy advisor for federal hiring policy and initiatives across government.
- Built trusted relationships with senior officials across OMB, OPM, federal agencies, GAO, Executive Office of the President components, and other key stakeholders.
- Developed and implemented government-wide strategies to improve hiring, talent acquisition, workforce management, and mission delivery.
- Led the formulation, drafting, editing, approval, and publication of OMB-OPM Joint Memorandum “Institutionalizing Hiring Excellence to Achieve Mission Outcomes,” released November 1, 2016.
- Successfully researched, prepared, coordinated, and implemented execution of the President’s Hiring Freeze on January 23, 2017. Drafted and supported publication of two OMB policy memoranda implementing the hiring freeze within eight days.
- Directed, developed, and coordinated integration of Administration personnel reform proposals into FY17 and FY18 National Defense Authorization Act processes, with many provisions passed in whole or in part in the final bill.
- Managed complex projects requiring coordination across OMB divisions, federal agencies, policy teams, and senior executive stakeholders.
- Analyzed data, presented findings, and interpreted complex statutory, regulatory, legislative, and policy guidance for federal hiring and human capital programs.
- Provided input for Congressional inquiries, White House correspondence, legislative proposals, budget materials, and other high-level requests.
- Led coordination of office administrative and modernization responsibilities, including team-building, employee engagement, records administration, and IT network migration.
- Received OMB Special Achievement Awards and recognition for legislative coordination, policy execution, and team engagement improvements.
Company Description
The core mission of OMB is to serve the President of the United States in implementing his vision across the Executive Branch. It reports directly to the President and helps a wide range of executive departments and agencies across the Federal Government to implement the commitments and priorities of the President primarily through budget formulation and government-wide management.
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