Executive operations / Program leadership / Organizational change
I run the mechanism that turns a leader's priorities into coordinated action — executive cadence, board-level materials, and cross-functional follow-through that closes without reminders. A decade of it inside a major research university, plus a PhD in strategy studying how organizations adopt radical new technology.
I've spent more than a decade running the operating machinery behind executives — the intake, the cadence, the follow-through. At the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business I ran the executive operating system for the school's successful five-year reaccreditation by AACSB, the industry body that certifies business schools — an organization-wide, audit-style program: intake, prioritization, owners, cadence, and on-time deliverables across every unit, with no direct authority over any of them. Before that I managed an $11M department of 300+ people. Before that I ran a family company end to end.
A lot of that work was trust work. Confidential personnel files and promotion cases, correspondence produced over the chief executive's signature — including responses to the university's most senior leadership — the kind of material where discretion and accuracy are the whole job, and where being the person who quietly makes the deadline matters more than being the person in the room.
Alongside it I earned a PhD in Strategy & Entrepreneurship, with a dissertation on how language and strategic framing shape the way organizations adopt radical new technology. That research isn't decoration — it's the reason adoption problems read clearly to me. I evaluated model responses as an independent contractor for OpenAI, my research runs on computational text analysis over large bodies of language, and I use LLM tools daily to automate my own routine work.
I'm based in Fort Lauderdale and open to remote or South Florida–based roles.
The work I've been hired for repeatedly, stated plainly.
Quarterly business reviews, annual planning, initiative accountability, and follow-through owned end to end — built by hand, in institutions where nobody had built it before.
Consolidating scattered inputs, shaping the executive narrative, and packaging decision-ready materials. External advisory-board meetings planned end to end; correspondence produced on behalf of the organization's chief executive.
Multi-year, high-stakes programs driven to timely completion across units I held no formal authority over. Influence, sequencing, and a refusal to let items go quiet.
Team lead for a three-day kaizen digitizing personnel processes university-wide; paper-to-electronic workflows adopted by long-tenured stakeholders with strong opinions.
$11M+ in annual budgets with forecasts, variance reports, and risk analysis across 30+ restricted and endowed accounts; payroll and personnel actions for 300+ people; staff hired, trained, and supervised.
NLP research on how language drives technology adoption; LLM response evaluation under quality and alignment frameworks for OpenAI; Python text-analysis stack; complex findings translated into briefs non-technical leaders can act on.
Operating roles from 2005 to 2025, most of them inside a large research university.
How language and strategic framing shape the way people understand, adopt, and spread radical innovations — studied with computational methods over large bodies of text.
Capstone strategy instruction across every delivery format, plus first-year student success.
The undergraduate capstone, taught hybrid (Spring 2022), in person (Spring 2023), and online (Summer 2023), and again in 2025. Students worked in consulting teams on real client engagements, from scoping through final executive presentations.
Three sections of the first-year student success course in Kabul, alongside academic advising on course selection, academic planning, and career preparation.
I read every message and reply. The fastest route is email.
Based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Open to fully remote roles, and to on-site or hybrid roles in the Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach areas.