RESUME
Career Highlights
25+ years of progressively responsible experience in management, consulting, technology strategy and social justice. Past roles include: Senior Manager at the U.S. Department of Treasury, Director of Program Operations at the National Health Service Corps, Senior Managing Consultant at IBM Consulting, Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Consulting.
Experience highlights include:
Professional Experience
2020 – Present | Independent Researcher, Writer & Nonprofit Founder
2012 – 2020 | Supervisory IT Program Manager, U.S. Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Managed a white collar software development group at the nation’s banking regulator. Oversaw the design and development of secure national regulatory systems including Anti-Money Laundering compliance data gathering, Bank Securities Dealer Registration, FinCEN data tracking, and mortgage data compliance analysis. Led the internal process improvement team with budget authority of $4–6M annually.
2010 – 2012 | Division Director / Senior Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HRSA)
Built the Division of Program Operations of the NHSC from the ground up, leading a turnaround of a 90+ person team. Guided the division through audit and expansion, deployed enterprise workflow technology, and restructured customer service centers to reduce costs and set new performance records.
2009 – 2010 | Director of Business Development, Windwalker Corporation
Identified new federal business opportunities, positioned the company for CIO-SP3 and Eagle II contracts, and secured a spot on the FAA’s $2B eFAST contract vehicle.
2002 – 2009 | Senior Managing Consultant & Business Development Manager, IBM Global Services
Directed a 20+ person department of senior consultants. Served as Worldwide Business Development Manager for Middleware services. Proposal manager for midsize bids, and served as volume manager on large bids including the FBI’s $1B NGI biometric system. Managed DHS-FEMA programs for disaster recovery software development, securing $20M in follow-on work.
1997 – 2002 | Principal Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Consulting
Project manager and team lead during the dot-com boom. Designed and implemented a lifecycle grants management system for the U.S. Department of Education, now processing $39B in annual transactions.
1995 – 1997 | Senior Associate, Ernst & Young LLP
Led IT projects for commercial clients including a mission-critical scheduling and tracking system for the National Tax practice.
1994 – 1996 | Founder & President, Imagicom LLC
Operated a small consulting firm writing multimillion-dollar proposals for clients like HUD and the World Bank. Contracted on training, certification, and educational game projects.
1992 – 1994 | Management Consultant, Korn Ferry (Hay Group)
Developed training and modernization strategies for clients including the U.S. Air Force and major health insurers.
Education
Community Service
Career Highlights
25+ years of progressively responsible experience in management, consulting, technology strategy and social justice. Past roles include: Senior Manager at the U.S. Department of Treasury, Director of Program Operations at the National Health Service Corps, Senior Managing Consultant at IBM Consulting, Principal Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Consulting.
Experience highlights include:
- Founder, Single Dads Foundation — Created a nonprofit and online community supporting fathers navigating divorce, co-parenting, and family rebuilding.
- Creator, The BLOOD CURSE Series (2025) — The BLOOD CURSE Series is a supernatural docufiction project on Medium.com. It’s a collection of fictionalized stories, essays, poetry and original music — all of it inspired by the real family legend of a karmic blood curse cast on my mother’s family in the 1930s. I inherited this curse when I was born, back in the 1960’s. The series begins with BLOOD CURSE, WHITE COBRA (2024), the origin of the curse, and continues with WHITE LIES, BLACK CROW, a supernatural political thriller inspired by my time in government.
- Leading teams building and operating secure systems for data exchange with national banks for money laundering and mortgage regulatory enforcement.
- Leading teams building custom software for FEMA’s Mobile Housing Operations as part of post-Katrina support.
- Stabilizing and expanding a custom high-volume federal grants management website that still processes $39B in transactions annually.
- Serving as lead for one of the volumes of IBM’s contribution to a winning 4,000+ page proposal for the FBI’s $1B Next Gen Biometric system.
- Designing and implementing a new Division of Program Operations for the federal bureau that houses the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and other key public health programs. I built it from the ground up, guiding it through a major audit and expansion while reducing costs and exceeding customer service records--and serving as the inaugural director.
Professional Experience
2020 – Present | Independent Researcher, Writer & Nonprofit Founder
- Founded and developed the Single Dads Foundation, creating an online presence to support fathers navigating divorce, co-parenting, and family recovery.
- Researched and authored an independent report to Congress on structural weaknesses in the federal EEO harassment reporting system.
- Adapted this research into The BLOOD CURSE Series, an online docufiction project blending memoir, investigative reporting, and supernatural themes.
- Pursued creative work as a songwriter and guitarist, improving performance skills to the level of playing in clubs and live venues.
- Published articles, essays, and music across multiple platforms.
2012 – 2020 | Supervisory IT Program Manager, U.S. Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Managed a white collar software development group at the nation’s banking regulator. Oversaw the design and development of secure national regulatory systems including Anti-Money Laundering compliance data gathering, Bank Securities Dealer Registration, FinCEN data tracking, and mortgage data compliance analysis. Led the internal process improvement team with budget authority of $4–6M annually.
2010 – 2012 | Division Director / Senior Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HRSA)
Built the Division of Program Operations of the NHSC from the ground up, leading a turnaround of a 90+ person team. Guided the division through audit and expansion, deployed enterprise workflow technology, and restructured customer service centers to reduce costs and set new performance records.
2009 – 2010 | Director of Business Development, Windwalker Corporation
Identified new federal business opportunities, positioned the company for CIO-SP3 and Eagle II contracts, and secured a spot on the FAA’s $2B eFAST contract vehicle.
2002 – 2009 | Senior Managing Consultant & Business Development Manager, IBM Global Services
Directed a 20+ person department of senior consultants. Served as Worldwide Business Development Manager for Middleware services. Proposal manager for midsize bids, and served as volume manager on large bids including the FBI’s $1B NGI biometric system. Managed DHS-FEMA programs for disaster recovery software development, securing $20M in follow-on work.
1997 – 2002 | Principal Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Consulting
Project manager and team lead during the dot-com boom. Designed and implemented a lifecycle grants management system for the U.S. Department of Education, now processing $39B in annual transactions.
1995 – 1997 | Senior Associate, Ernst & Young LLP
Led IT projects for commercial clients including a mission-critical scheduling and tracking system for the National Tax practice.
1994 – 1996 | Founder & President, Imagicom LLC
Operated a small consulting firm writing multimillion-dollar proposals for clients like HUD and the World Bank. Contracted on training, certification, and educational game projects.
1992 – 1994 | Management Consultant, Korn Ferry (Hay Group)
Developed training and modernization strategies for clients including the U.S. Air Force and major health insurers.
Education
- M.A., Communications Management (1991) — Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California.
- B.A., Journalism (Honors) (1989) — Carleton University, Ottawa.
Community Service
- Vice Chair, Montgomery County Human Rights Commission.
- Board roles with IBM Diversity Council, Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County, Bradley Hills ES Foundation.
- Certified community facilitator for the county school system, called in to help the school community in the wake of incidents of racial conflict.
- Founder of the Single Dads Foundation (2015).