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.
Presidential Management Fellow- Senior Policy Advisor
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
August 2011
to May 2015
Full-time
Washington
United States - District of Columbia
- Served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Director’s Office, Planning and Policy Analysis Division, and as advisor to the Performance Improvement Office. Portfolio included the President’s Management Agenda, performance improvement, open data, employee engagement, federal workforce policy, and Federal Employee Health Benefits Program policy.
- Led and supported agency-wide modernization, performance improvement, workforce strategy, open data, and federal management initiatives.
- Developed and implemented initiatives under the President’s Management Agenda, People & Culture Cross-Agency Priority Goal.
- Coordinated and led development and release of UnlockTalent.gov , a data tool for federal agencies and the public to understand federal employee engagement.
- Served as project and team lead for the employee engagement sub-goal.
- Designed, led, and implemented OPM’s data-driven performance review process, Performance Point .
- Provided oversight for web development contract activities and coordinated across technical, policy, and program stakeholders.
- Developed and coordinated policy initiatives related to Open Data and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program.
- Supported a White House Datapalooza using workforce data.
- Built relationships across OPM offices and components to advance agency-wide priority projects, including USAJOBS.gov restoration and Retirement Services call center improvements.
- Provided regulatory and policy advice on Federal Employees Health Benefits Program matters affecting approximately 8 million federal employees, retirees, and beneficiaries.
- Completed data analysis, reporting, Privacy Impact Assessments, and recommendations for healthcare, wellness, workforce, and employee data initiatives.
- Converted to competitive service and promoted to Senior Policy Advisor after completing the Presidential Management Fellowship.
- Received three promotions and several performance awards during tenure.