I am working across the state of California to expand registered apprenticeship to every sector of our economy. Our Governor has set an ambitious goal of 500K apprenticeship by 2029, and we want to ensure that in this labor crisis we are in that businesses embrace apprenticeship as a mechanism to become creators and not just consumers of talent. In addition, apprenticeship is a powerful earn and learn mechanism that young folks and career switchers should have access to, regardless of the sector they want to enter. I am here to help shape the policy and strategy to make this all happen across CA.

As Regional Director of Apprenticeships for the Bay Area Community College Consortium (BACCC) I worked to expand apprenticeships in the Bay Area. I worked directly with the 28 Community Colleges of the Bay Area along with the K12, Adult Education and County Offices of Education and ROPs to offer education and technical assistance as folks consider and embark upon launching and expanding new and innovative apprenticeship programs. I also represented the Bay Area Community Colleges at the State and National Level in shaping a system of apprenticeship that creates accessible and equitable onramps to a career. As a country, we are in the early stages of expanding this incredibly effective workforce development mechanism and I am excited to be helping advance the cause of expanding apprenticeship and helping to ensure that we are doing so in a sustainable and equitable manner.

I drove strategic planning for the largest market of this nationally scaled workforce development non-profit, convening relevant stakeholders, gathering diverse perspective and prioritizing towards action. In particular, I managed a high performing operations team of 12 people spread across the 4 sites of the Bay Area (San Francisco, Menlo Park, San Jose and Pleasant Hill), supporting an overall staff of 150 people to serve 640 students per year. My leadership philosophy is very much about supporting empowering my team to do great work, which is why I am very proud of having an average manager rating of 4.4/5 from my direct reports. I improved processes and implementation of physical site operations, volunteers, events, marketing, internal and external communications, onboarding and offboarding employees, and leadership team strategy. In the realm of financial management I oversaw a $20M budget, outperforming on revenue and managing compensation and operating expenses to come in under budget, resulting in our market overall contributing to the national organization. Increased transparency around decision making and cross site communications are incredibly important to me and to achieve this, I leveraged all hands meeting times along with technology platforms such as Slack, Wordpress sites and Box.

As COO of YouNoodle, I wear many hats; CFO, Head of HR, Captain of Culture, Strategy Lead, Director of Internal Communications, and occasionally Director of Client Happiness and Chief Bottle Washer. I see my role as making sure that everyone in the organization understands the overall vision of the company, understands their role and deliverables towards those goals and is happy and has the resources to be successful. I also make sure all the trains run on time, the bills get paid, and that we continue to grow and sustain ourselves as a company. It is a joy to work at a company that is working to level the global playing field for entrepreneurs globally and helping to connect startup with opportunities for growth. We get to work with amazing organizations globally that are hosting startup programs, be it incubators, accelerators, universities, startup prizes, or corporate innovation programs. We provide the software that powers these programs, and the outreach tools to allow organizers to let our community of 200,000+ startups from 180 different countries know about their opportunities for growth.

I oversaw an awesome team of people who made sure that all of our clients were happy. I did my part to make sure many of our larger clients were happy. I ran the selection process for Start-Up Chile, coordinating an amazing community of over 200 judges to assess the hundreds of applications we receive each round. In addition I helped to run Desafio Intel across Latin America and the Intel DST Challenge in Asia Pacific. I also had the privilege to work closely with clients such as the GIST Initiative, Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge and so many more. For many of these programs, I assisted in the design, planning and execution of startup bootcamps and intensive training program to accelerate the startups progress. Competition and operational excellence are in my being and I bring it to the wonderful entrepreneurial initiatives that we work with around the globe.

BetterMeans is a web-based platform that offers social entrepreneurs an organizational governance model that is decentralized and self-organizing.As the first person to join Bettermeans beyond the founders, I helped to create and articulate the Open Enterprise model, a new open and democratic form of organization. I also assisted in the creation of the website platform that allows people to work together in this new way. On the operations front, I worked with the legal team to incorporate bettermeans, while shaping and tracking the financial design. I also created all the content for the helpsite, including crafting help videos. As we launched this platform to the world, I spear headed all customer and community facing interaction; reaching out to bloggers, responding to customer inquiries, and building out our team. Since launch we have over 3000 users after only 5 months, and I have been working closely with them to gather feedback for further improvements to our offering.

As a Business Analyst in the Business Technology Group, I worked with the team responsible for the Customer Service Module of Oracle 11i. My project for the summer centered around improving the tracking and execution of Work Requests for both Enhancement and Break/Fixes. The result was an improved process better leveraging an existing underutilized resource: PlanIT. In addition I assisted 2 IT Transformation Workstream Teams through use case writing and resource allocation data analysis. Lastly I assisted in a project to select a field and professional service scheduling tool, attending demonstrations and providing summaries and analysis of evaluations.

MTC is a quasi government agency whose mission is technology based economic development. While at MTC I worked on the Broadband Initiative which was devoted to bringing high speed broadband connections to every business and resident in MA. At MTC I assessed the broadband marketplace in Massachusetts through data collection and created an effective statewide map of broadband competition at the municipal level. In response to the lack of broadband in Western MA, I worked with a team to develop a solution and we briefed high government officials on the issue resulting in the creation and passage of legislation to establish a $40 million Broadband Incentive Fund managed by the MTC. In preparation to launch the now existing Massachusetts Broadband Institute, we drafted a business plan, including budget, personnel, and investment strategy.

Next Level was an English Conversation Institute located in Concepcion, the industrial capital and second largest city in Chile. While teaching English to professionals, I also standardized and designed six-month curricula integrating grammar and conversation for three levels of English courses. Equipped with the newly standardized curricula, Next Level obtained a government contract for 50 students divided into 10 classes, doubling the number of students at this fledgling institute.

TRACS is a sports marketing and event planning firm focused on running sports. While at TRACS, I managed a team of 8-12 interns to creatively and aggressively implement a 3-month marketing push for the Millrose Games, resulting in a 100% increase in ticket sales compared to the previous year. I also worked with a team to design and execute a middle school fitness program which motivated over 2,000 students to cumulatively run and walk the equivalent of five times around the globe. Towards the end of my time at TRACS, we conducted an analysis of the business and proposed recommendations to increase efficiency and maximize profit; this strategy is in place today with increased profit.