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.
Executive Director- USDA Digital Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Since December 2022
- Founder and Executive Director of the USDA Digital Service, an enterprise digital transformation program within the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Responsible for accelerating digital service delivery across USDA through human-centered design, modern technology practices, improved customer experience, secure digital services, and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
- Founded and scaled the USDA Digital Service to deliver simple, seamless, secure, and human-centered technology and customer experiences across USDA.
- Goal lead advisor for Goal 1 of the USDA IT Strategic Plan: Accelerate Digital Transformation during the Biden Administration
- Serve as a member of the Federal Digital Experience Council and served as an advisory member of the USDA Chief Information Officer’s Council , helping shape digital experience, technology modernization, and service delivery priorities.
- Lead integrated, multidisciplinary teams on high-priority, multimillion-dollar transformation initiatives across the Department.
- Successfully secured Direct Hire Authority for term appointment for a broad category of IT Specialists across the Department
- Drive modernization efforts involving cloud migration, digital service delivery, customer experience, human-centered design, data-informed decision-making, and secure technology adoption.
- Led and facilitated key cross-agency IT modernization efforts for OCIO, such as the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program application, IT Loan Modernization, key cloud migration efforts, and others
- Led the effort to get a $300 million BPA in place for key IT projects for the National Farm Security Action Plan in less than 4 months
- Own executive relationships from problem identification through execution, aligning senior stakeholders around modernization goals, delivery priorities, risks, and measurable outcomes.
- Partner across sales-equivalent, consulting, engineering, product, acquisition, delivery, legal, policy, and program teams to execute strategic initiatives.
- Promote delivery excellence, program quality, customer value, operational discipline, and sustainable digital transformation practices across agency programs.
Company Description
USDA provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management.
We have a vision to provide economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve our Nation's natural resources through conservation, restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.
We have a vision to provide economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve our Nation's natural resources through conservation, restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.
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