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.
- Founded and currently lead the USDA Digital Service , an enterprise digital transformation capability within the USDA Office of the Chief Information Officer.
- Serve as a member of the Federal Digital Experience Council
- Led the effort to establish a $300 million BPA for key IT projects supporting the National Farm Security Action Plan in under four months
- Successfully secured Direct Hire Authority for term appointments for a broad category of IT Specialists across USDA.
- Co-founded the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program , bringing technologists, innovators, and federal leaders together to address national-scale challenges
- Drafted Executive orders during Obama and Trump Administrations, including the order formally establishing the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program, which was later enacted as permanent legislation
- Led operational transfer of the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to GSA while recruiting the second class and graduating the first class of Fellows.
- Directed the Presidential Management Fellows Program , supporting approximately 600–1,000 Fellows across government at any given time and assessing up to 20,000 applicants annually
- Streamlined PMF application and placement processes, reducing cycle time from several months to approximately six weeks while maintaining 100% cost-recovery status
- Led drafting and publication of OMB-OPM Joint Memorandum M-17-04, “Institutionalizing Hiring Excellence to Achieve Mission Outcomes.”
- Drafted and executed publication of two OMB policy memoranda implementing the 2017 Presidential Hiring Freeze within eight days
- Led development and release of UnlockTalent.gov , a data tool supporting federal employee engagement and workforce analytics.
- Senior Level- Level III
- Highest Tier for Federal Acquisition
- 2025-present
- Innovation policy and strategies- entrepreneurship in government, change management, in government technology as well as mission support functions such as human capital and contracting
- Healthcare Privacy
- Public Health regulations and policy
- Regulatory Affairs and Compliance
- Legal Research and Analysis
- Client consulting
- Legal writing
- Litigation
- Regulation Writing and Analysis
- Public Health Law
- Bioethics
- Policy Analysis
- Several Cash Bonus Awards and Time Off Awards from 2022-Present
- Outstanding Performance Rating for FY19 and FY20
- OPM HRS STAR Awards Recipient- 2019
- Bold Friday Award Recipient- GovExec Fedstival- October 2016
- OMB Special Achievement Award- July 2016 and 2017
- GSA Director's Award- Excellence in Performance- January 2014
- U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy Award for Excellence- January 2013
- Several annual performance awards and promotions throughout federal career
- Presidential Management Fellow- Class of 2011