Provides leadership and direction for innovation, business operations, finance, technology and governance. Manages and mentors 50+ kick-ass team members. Fosters an environment of welcoming, fun, collaboration and teamwork. Drives emerging technologies for the company and its clients.

Provided leadership and direction for innovation, business operations, finance, technology and governance. Fostered an environment of welcoming, fun, collaboration and teamwork. Drove emerging technologies for the company and its clients.

Downtown Partnership is the lead organization planning, advocating and promoting a vibrant downtown Colorado Springs.

Member of the Inside Out Youth Services Board of Directors, serving as treasurer. They serve over 600 LGBTQIA+ youth per year with suicide prevention, community outreach, weekly programs and more. IOYS tackles issues of bullying, safety and discrimination in Colorado's Pikes Peak region.

Performed the role of Enterprise Architect in IT at Navient, formerly Sallie Mae, a Fortune 500 company with 10,000 employees in the Financial Services industry. Provided consulting and guidance for strategic projects where architecture leadership was needed.Specialized in translating business requirements into architectural deliverables. Principle architect of Sallie Mae and Navient’s company separation for the computing architecture, including Sallie Mae’s transition to Office 365. Led major enterprise incidents and excelled at pulling together a team of technical staff for system restoration during high pressure situations.

Led a matrixed team of 40 people in the infrastructure design, development, and implementation of new customer facing portals. Mentored and guided an extended development team of 30 onshore/offshore contractors.

Managed the Sallie Mae web environments and designed the new web infrastructure while supporting legacy systems. Jump-started an effort to benchmark web performance of 100+ externally facing web applications and monitoring systems for customer impact. In 2002, this ground-breaking work set the foundation for what is now a robust, award-winning customer experience and business activity center of excellence. Supported a demanding and intense effort to consolidate numerous data centers into one location.

Led projects engaging IT teams to design and deploy the most effective workstation configurations. Managed a project to deploy 3,000 new workstations. Designed and implemented the Unified Remote System Access, known today as VPN access. Key contributor during USA Group and Sallie Mae data center merger.Supported end-user technologies and office technology conversions from mainframe to PC at company locations across the United States. Supported various data center operation functions.