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Pie Hxle is a private club for restaurant industry workers that workshops Neapolitan pizzas, vintage amari cocktails, and incredible wine. Created to provide earning opportunity for food and bev workers in the pandemic, Pie Hxle is now a center for mutual growth and exploration of pizza and bar crafts.

Advise and guide clients in operational excellence, leadership and team development, data-backed strategy, modeling, and finance.

4.0 funds and incubates not-for-profit startups at their earliest stages: from passion to idea, idea to test, and test to first employee. In financing this work, 4.0 seeks to upend the philanthropic landscape by funding entrepreneurs proximate to their communities and the problems they seek to solve.

Charter school network growing to statewide entity | State of NC pension exit | Balance sheet cleanup | ESSER management | Systems building

Every state has a humanities council and an arts council, thanks to the NEH and the NEA, respectively. The LEH is Louisiana's and we grew it into the largest council in the country.

New Orleans, LA, US

Led budget and finance functions, managed or led development of internal systems in a high-growth landscape, provided strategic guidance and analysis to c-suite and board during LE’s national build-out.

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

Led all non-academic functions at a start-up public school, providing top-notch support to 450+ scholars and 60+ staff. Delivered stalwart financial management; decision-focused budgeting; accurate, timely, and relevant data and statistical analysis; IT planning and support; responsive facilities management; efficient operational support; and.

Rochester, New York, US

• Asked to sit on the Search Committees for the Executive Director of Career Management Center and Executive Director of Admissions.

Part of the earliest stage team launching this start-up bespoke women's heeled shoe company by defining strategic entrance into a crowded marketplace.

Hired as a summer employee, I identified key business obstacles and threats, including an absence of internal financial controls. My insight and initiative in executing a fast turnaround to prevent a forced sale led to a swift promotion to business manager. In this role I had full P&L responsibility, oversaw a staff of 10 and was responsible for all.

New York, NY, US

Developed course & training materials; trained teachers for all tests; taught for LSAT, GMAT,GRE, SAT.Awarded 2002 Best Regional Teacher for the Western Region (1 of 5 national awards given annually).

Launched an organization for at-risk teenagers that engaged students to write, direct and produce original theater based on their experiences and stories.Commissioned by and collaborated with local Superior Court justices, (then) Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg and the Capital Unity Council to bring our students’ work to the ‘Unity and Justice for All’.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Simon Leadership Fellow

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Experimental Theater Wing, Tisch School Of The Arts