Assist education providers, EdTech firms, and investors in strategy, planning, and launch of new products, new markets, and new lines of business. Examples:• Drove product strategy and development for an African institution going online and for an international education non-profit• Assisted investor groups in assessing industry verticals and specific investment opportunities• Advised for-profit and non-profit edtech firms on university relationship, product, and digital strategies

Led the academic and product dimensions of a new line of business focused on helping elite universities develop high quality, commercially successful online degrees• Drove university partnership strategy, partnership deal structures, financial modeling and product strategy• Closed or helped close deals with 7 of the 10 Triple Crown accredited business schools in Latin America• Built teams for online course development, academic delivery, and student success coaching• Led the design of 12 and delivery of 7 degree programs, achieving 90+% retention and completion

Ending with successful exit

In a network of higher education institutions serving more than a million students in dozens of countries, drove global efforts to prepare more students to graduate and succeed in their careers• Guided and supported institutional improvements in student experience, persistence, and graduation• Provided tools to develop and assess students' and graduates' career readiness, ensuring superior workplace performance and attainment• Applied behavioral science principles and empirical techniques to optimize and personalize products and services, to maximize student outcomes and impact

Drove scale, competitiveness, and quality at Laureate's Asia Pacific/Middle East/Africa institutions, working in China, India, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa• Supported regional CEOs and CAOs on strategy, products, quality, student experience, online learning, marketing, talent, innovation; served on corporate and academic boards• Integrated new academic leadership at most institutions, and built collaboration across region for the first two layers of academic leaders• Led region-wide improvements in product innovation and management process, and created regional online curriculum development center• Directed regional support for market research and assessment• Guided development of online, hybrid, and working adult programs• Assisted with academic, operational, and market dimensions of business development, due diligence, and M&A

• Advanced strategy, institutional capacity, and academic business processes at campuses in United States and Asia• Led international online team and strategy to assist universities worldwide in developing online learning capacity• Led conception, design, and roll-out of network-wide program offerings that now serve tens of thousands of students in English, Spanish, and Portuguese

• Built and led a large-scale (100+ professionals) international online program development team• Led design and creation of online programs leading to 4x portfolio expansion for two online universities (Walden and University of Liverpool)• Enhanced faculty and academic partner relationships nationally and internationally

Chief executive of fully accredited Malaysian private university, leading a team of 900 serving more than 5,000 students from more than 60 countries• Drove best-ever five-star quality rating and recovered professional accreditations in engineering and accounting• Reorganized and augmented leadership team for teamwork, functional optimization, and effectiveness• Introduced new focus on student experience and outcomes, especially regarding student diversity• Instituted values-driven mission alignment of staff, improving engagement and morale• Made key contributions to brand definition and positioning, enhancing competitiveness• Drove order of magnitude increase in staff training, faculty development, leadership development• Drove teaching quality and research productivity through action research engagement• Merged silos of quality management for effectiveness and efficiency

• Co-founded, raised $10M in for-profit and non-profit funding, built, and led a Carnegie-branded international e-learning spinoff of Carnegie Mellon University• Led a small business development team in closing dozens of contracts in more than 20 countries, including contracts with ten of the top 50 Chinese universities• Delivered curriculum and services to over 200,000 students in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian• Developed and applied learning analytics to ensure gender-neutral curriculum outcomes• Led concept development and accreditation efforts for -- Profit/non-profit partnerships for international degree delivery -- Greenfield institution launch in Malaysia -- Carnegie Mellon branch in AustraliaPrior accomplishments in traditional academic roles at Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science:• Authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in computer science and education• Led development and delivery of the B.S. Computer Science program, using an integrated product management approach to:-- Drive graduation rates to record-breaking levels-- Drive entering percentage of women from 7% to 42% in five years-- Achieve 100% student satisfaction for first-year advising-- Develop a career path for non-tenured teaching faculty-- Transform faculty culture to view undergraduate and female students as sources of enhanced quality and reputation• Co-authored an award-winning book on challenges and solutions for women in Computer Science• Contributed as a key player in university-wide student experience improvements that increased retention and graduation rates by more than 10 percentage points• Raised more than $20M in research and education funding from federal, corporate, and foundation sources