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New York City Metropolitan Area

As a Senior Director for Spruce's Digital Experience team I lead and deliver significant, complex client engagements that identify, create, and implement creative business and technology solutions for public and private companies as well as government agencies.I oversee engagement management, including engagement planning and budgeting, mobilizing and managing development teams, defining deliverable structure and content, risk management, and facilitating buy-in of proposed solutions from client's top management.

Weehawken, New Jersey, United States

At UBS, my core responsibility was to support company-wide transformation initiatives by utilizing advisory expertise around digital strategy, solution design, and technology implementation.I lead and collaborated with teams of 3-6 consultants to design and implement solutions for clients in wealth management, investment banking, compliance, and legal divisions.

New York, New York, United States

As a Product Manager at Morgan Stanley I enabled improved communication and data access to support monthly P&L management and forecasting of Morgan Stanley’s $1.7B real estate capital portfolio in close collaboration with senior executivesI drove improved information delivery by leading the digital transformation of project reporting capabilities and I enhanced information awareness and data integrity by spearheading the planning, adoption, and user training of self-service dashboards.

New York, New York, United States

I combined skills in computer science and business intelligence with experience in construction project management to develop cost models and project trackers to assist Morgan Stanley's Corporate Real Estate Managers in evaluating and bench-marking real estate construction projects.I helped decrease budget turn-around time and reduce project costs by implementing new cost capture processes that enabled data mining, outlier detection, and trend analysis for regional budget estimates.

New York, New York, United States

During my tenure with Alta Vista, I was involved in three projects such as the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows bridge, and Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge while serving as the Bridge Owner's representative.I communicated project trends and status to senior government officials and project leaders, supporting contract negotiations aimed at reducing costs and hitting milestone dates.

East Lansing, Mi

My research focused on understanding base material properties of Nickel and Titanium Alloys with the support of research grants from The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Science.Graduate school taught me that while I love learning, I also need to synthesize that information into actionable items and tangible results. It was this realization that led me away from academia into a professional career.

East Lansing, Mi

I supervised an undergraduate materials science research lab, which taught students how to collect and analyze data to solve technical problems.I taught three sections of a introductory computer science course that introduced students to use advanced features in Microsoft Word, Excel and Access as well as programming with HTML and CSS.

Apex, Nc

I managed residential construction and remodeling jobs through all project stages including design, estimating, permitting, construction, and project closeout. This position provided me the opportunity to use some of my engineering skills as well as develop new skills in project management and project accounting and finance.

Greater Atlanta Area

I performed validation experiments on composite lay-ups and titanium fasteners that were used in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Material Science Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering & Material Science Engineering