Founder and first employee of the Tech Hubs program, authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act and designed to strengthen economic competitiveness and national security by investing in the capacity to produce and deliver innovative products and services in critical, technology-centric industriesOversee the design and implementation of EDA’s large national competitions (over $3B in total investments), including Tech Hubs ($1B+), the Build Back Better Regional Challenge ($1B), the Good Jobs Challenge ($500M+), Build to Scale ($300M+), and the Recompete Pilot Program ($200M)Lead the Secretary’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE), facilitating a diverse group of principals and experts to provide strategic guidance to Secretary RaimondoConduct public outreach and engagement, both domestic and international, including keynote speeches, panels, and on-the-record print, television, and social media interviews

Led the digital services team for NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs, a NASA-wide portfolio of small business R&D investmentsResponsible for budget and performance for the program’s digital portfolio, which serves >20K Federal and external users and through which NASA manages an agency-wide ~$200M/year R&D portfolio that funds entrepreneurs to prove and commercialize innovative technologiesTransformed the program’s data management from immediate execution to holistic and longitudinal analysis and evaluation to assess and improve program performance, unlocking insights from nearly 40 years of innovation data

Early employee of OIE and co-founder of the Build to Scale program, which makes grant investments in projects and organizations that enable technology startups to secure capital and growLed data-rich performance management of $1.2B in disaster recovery and resilience fundingDesigned governance of and coordinated policy development with the White House and other stakeholders for the Secretary’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE)Created and led former Secretary Pritzker’s Open for Innovation initiative, which connected startups and large corporations to create investment, M&A, and procurement opportunities

Developed deep understandings of a broad array of telecommunications technologies by issuing more than 50 patents and evaluating nearly 300 actionsLed interactions with patent applicants and attorneys to resolve complex legal and technical questions and to efficiently identify patentable subject matter in new technologiesNegotiated with European IP offices in the transition to a joint US-EU patent classification system

Led negotiations of software licenses and other IP contracts with domestic and foreign firms centered on big data analytics solutions that enable financial institution compliance and risk managementLed deployment of a contract data platform and coordinated across the finance, legal, and sales business units to improve legal research, simplify revenue analysis, and increase invoicing accuracyReduced past due invoiced amounts by 35% year-over-year by resolving outstanding issues with clients and reengineering processes across business units