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Led two teams responsible for sourcing and managing 500+ restaurant partners nationwide at a y-combinator food-tech startup providing catered meals to offices. Drove new initiatives through Program and Project management. • Leadership and Management: Led and managed three coordinators and three specialists tasked with maintaining vendor performance KPIs and recruiting new vendors across six regions. Drove key vendor KPIs of timeliness and order accuracy to historically positive results resulting in reduced client churn.• Program Management: Ideated and launched six interrelated company-wide high-impact projects in first six months. Trained direct reports in project management fundamentals and supervised individual projects. • Project Management: Initiated, planned and executed projects to upgrade the meal experience and integrate data into decision-making. Launched photo project to capture and analyze photos of over 84K client meals providing first-time data to strategically target client churn reduction. • Organizational Restructuring: Restructured team roles and created an entirely new menu-focused department, resulting in 50% higher operational team capacity, reduced ordering errors and higher quality meals.

Conceptualized and launched Artís Coffee concurrently with MBA, expanding from business plan to three retail locations, wholesale distribution, ecommerce and 38 employees in less than three years. First location in U.S. to offer “live”, on demand coffee roasting by the pound, in a premium and highly differentiated retail coffee experience. Transitioned from U.S. Naval Officer to civilian entrepreneur, becoming business development expert while applying fundamentals of leadership and management. • Raised $4 million in investor capital across two funding rounds through persuasive presentations and strategic alliance building.• Generated 3X the revenue of the average SF Bay Area coffee shop in the company’s first year of operations, with 25% same-store sales growth in the second year.• Designed, planned and constructed two additional retail locations in San Francisco in the company’s second year. Launched ecommerce and wholesale revenue streams and opened a distribution center/corporate office. • Conceptualized and created the Artís brand from scratch, developing brand standards, look and feel, training program and marketing plan to achieve consistent and differentiated experience across all customer touch points.• Identified, negotiated and executed four competitive 15-year commercial leases in four top San Francisco Bay Area neighborhoods including 4th Street Berkeley, Hayes Valley, Castro and Fillmore Street. • Recruited, hired and trained and lead baristas, managers and executive team members to a peak total payroll of 38 full and part-time employees.

Earned two-year Masters of Business degree from the top entrepreneurial school in the world.

Naval Officer tasked with leadership of personnel and Program and Project Management in the planning and execution of complex operations. • Poise Under Pressure: Demonstrated dynamic leadership while responsible for the management of a six-person navigation team for a $1B, 300+ crewmember warship while conducting wartime operations.• Cross-Functional Leadership: Led PMO and stakeholder management for a cross-functional 112-person team to safely and expeditiously transport 2,200 U.S. Marines and their equipment from three warships to the beach during 10 major landing operations in Jordan, Kuwait and California. • Project Management: Initiated, planned, and executed 50+ operations and maintenance projects for $50M in shipboard gun weapon systems while operating off the coasts of China and North Korea. Responsible for the maintenance, operation, monitoring, and control of $200M in equipment and training of 112 personnel. Awarded Meritorious Service Medal for exceptional leadership and operational readiness. • Global Experience: Developed and strengthened Brazil-U.S. diplomatic relations by serving as the Assistant Weapons Officer aboard a Brazilian warship for two years during six major at-sea operations. Achieved professional fluency in Portuguese.

• Planned and executed ship-to-shore operations and coordinated training for amphibious warfare detachment.• Lead and managed 112 personnel and $200m in equipment, including three $40m hover-craft, threeconventional landing craft and six amphibious tactical vehicles.• Balancing leadership, maintenance, and the demands of multiple entities, conducted 10 ship-to-shore operations for 2200 Marines and their vehicles and support equipment, including landings in Jordan and Kuwait during a six-month deployment to the Middle East.• Awarded Navy Meritorious Service Medal for exceptional leadership and operational readiness of detachment.

Led and managed a team of 14 sailors in the maintenance and repair of $50m in shipboard gun weapon systems.Managed two major shipyard upgrade and repair periods. Planned and executed two safe and efficient onloadsand offloads of 87 missiles, 40 torpedoes and 50K+ rounds of ammunition.• Demonstrated combat-ready leadership as Officer of the Deck. Stood 2000+ hours of watch during over twoyears of deployment to the Western Pacific region, including multi-national operations. Responsible for themanagement of a six-person team in the safe navigation of a $1b warship and her 300+ crewmembers.• Led an eight-person Vessel Boarding Search team through an eight-week combat training course, resulting insuccessful qualification and deployment in support of anti-terrorism operations.• Planned and executed all anti-terrorism security plans for over 20 ship port visits throughout Asia. Coordinatedtraining of 300+ ship’s crew in security measures and quick reaction scenarios.