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.
Director-Presidential Management Fellows Program
U.S. Office of Personnel Management
September 2017
to December 2022
- Directed the Presidential Management Fellows Program, the federal government’s premier leadership development program for advanced-degree talent and future public sector executives. Led strategic design, day-to-day operations, stakeholder engagement, policy, budget, program delivery, and continuous improvement for a government-wide program supporting approximately 600–1,000 Fellows across federal agencies and assessing up to 20,000 applicants annually.
- Led national program strategy and delivery for a highly visible, government-wide leadership program with complex stakeholder, policy, operational, and public-facing requirements.
- Identify and implement opportunities and strategies for program reform and improvement while maintaining high credibility and legacy of an over 40-year old program
- Managed relationships with federal agencies, senior government leaders, academia, public sector organizations, Congress, and external partners.
- Implemented a new PMF Leadership Development Program to strengthen leadership capability and improve participant experience.
- Scaled program operations and streamlined application and placement processes, reducing cycle time from several months to approximately six weeks.
- Maintained 100% cost-recovery status through disciplined budget management, revenue monitoring, contracting oversight, and operational planning.
- Supervised and developed a team of seven and contributed to the Strategic Leadership Team for OPM’s Center for Leadership Development.
- Led change management, quality improvement, customer engagement, and stakeholder communication efforts in a high-visibility environment.
- Received multiple Outstanding Performance Ratings; PMF team received the Human Resources Solutions STAR Award for delivering the 40th Anniversary celebration of the PMF Program.
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