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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Advises social entrepreneurs focused on scaling impact within the early childhood education sector.

Greater Chicago Area

Led education, family engagement, professional development, human resources, research and technology teams to drive child outcomes for the Acelero Network and develop new business opportunities for Shine Early Learning.

Early Childhood and K12 Consulting Experience:• Developed Digital Curriculum specification and business plan for a market leader in curriculum and assessment. Company has over 90% market share in the government funded preschool market. • Evaluated existing market players and identified entry opportunities in the online teacher professional development market for education media nonprofit. • Developed business plan and product design of an elementary school curriculum product offering for nonprofit content provider. Higher Education Consulting Experience:• Developed organization design strategy for multi-affiliate school system encompassing three separate non-profit universities and an online division. • Assisted Hispanic focused start-up in market planning. Company is focused on offering dual-language programs to Spanish speakers. • Developed instructional design and product strategy for online education provider start-up. Recruited, on-boarded and managed instructional design team. Consumer Consulting Experience: • Developed new content and product positioning strategy for the children’s division of the second largest national book retailer.

Served as Technology Product Manager for HATCH, a hardware and software solutions provider for early childhood programs. Managed development, product launch and implementation of adaptive learning platform. Supervised product testing in a Washington DC Head Start. Developed desktop management software to facilitate use of computers in preschool classrooms.

Greater Chicago Area

Managed team of 12 instructional designers, editors and producers to develop and launch standardized curriculum programs in KHEC's 70+ on ground schools. Worked cross functionally with operators and educators to optimize program offerings.

Greater Chicago Area

Managed seven-member education team responsible for strategy, development and implementation of LPA’s program offerings, which target children ages six weeks to 12 years old.Managed four-member customer retention team responsible for reducing customer churn, conducting market research, and handling inbound customer complaints.

Pacific Pulmonary Services is a home health company headquartered in California. The Center Manager is responsible for recruiting, training and managing all center employees, and is accountable for the Center's success.

Epylon Corporation was acquired by Accenture in 2001. It offered a procurement software and marketplace solution for schools and government agencies.

Ms Ed, Literacy Education, School Reform, Technology

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering, Civil And Environmental Engineering