Academic administration / Program leadership / Organizational change
I run the operations behind academic leaders. I spent nine years doing that work at the University of Pittsburgh, in a dean's office and as the administrator of a department of over 300 people, managing budgets, staff, faculty personnel processes, accreditation, and student programs. I also hold a PhD in strategy and have taught at the undergraduate level, and my research looks at how new technology gets adopted.
Most of my career has been spent managing operations at the University of Pittsburgh. In the Dean's Office of the Katz Graduate School of Business I was the project manager for the school's five-year reaccreditation by AACSB, the organization that accredits business schools. I gathered and coordinated the information from across the school, and the application was successful. Before that I managed a department of over 300 people with a budget of over $11 million a year. Earlier I ran my family's small mapping company.
Much of this work was confidential. I handled personnel files and promotion cases, and I wrote correspondence on behalf of the Dean, including annual review letters, job offers, and requests to the university's senior leadership.
I also earned a PhD in Strategy & Entrepreneurship. My dissertation looks at how language affects the way people adopt new technology, using Bitcoin and Ethereum as the cases. In 2024 I worked as an independent contractor for OpenAI evaluating AI model responses, and I use AI tools in my own work every day.
I'm based in Fort Lauderdale and open to remote or South Florida based roles.
The work I have done most, stated plainly.
I provided day-to-day support for a Dean's Office: correspondence, confidential personnel files, tenure and promotion cases, faculty searches, contract renewals, event planning, and special projects. I also planned Board of Visitors meetings (the school's external advisory board) and multi-day strategic planning events.
I was the project manager for a business school's successful five-year AACSB reaccreditation, which meant gathering and coordinating information from every department on a schedule and delivering the application on the deadline.
I helped plan and run more than 100 programs a year for new students, including a week-long orientation, started two student programs at a young university in Kabul, taught a first-year success course and advised students, and wrote a master's thesis on first-year retention.
I was Team Lead for a three-day kaizen event, "Digitizing University Faculty Personnel Actions," and I moved promotion and personnel review processes from paper to electronic systems.
I managed budgets of over $11 million a year, including more than 30 restricted gift and endowed accounts, along with payroll and personnel actions for over 300 people and the supervision of the full-time staff.
My research uses computational text analysis to study how language affects technology adoption. I also evaluated and ranked AI model responses for OpenAI on a short-term contract in 2024.
My work history from 2005 to 2025, most of it at a large research university.
My research looks at how language and framing affect the way people understand and adopt radical innovations. I use computational text analysis together with qualitative methods.
Strategic Management at the undergraduate level, and a first-year student success course.
I taught the undergraduate capstone hybrid (Spring 2022), in person (Spring 2023), online (Summer 2023), and again in 2025. Students worked in teams analyzing real companies and their current situations.
I taught three sections of the first-year student success course in Kabul and served as an academic advisor for 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.