I lead the Opportunity Education Foundation's efforts to enable better, more engaging and relevant learning experiences for teenagers in the US and in the countries where we work. Young people globally will face huge challenges in the coming decades, as well as tremendous opportunities for success. Our job is to help them to gain the academic, social and emotional skills to reach their goals.

We are a management consulting firm focused on business strategy, change management and app development. We help leaders see growth opportunities where they see limitations, and we help envision or renew products and services through lean/agile change processes focused on rapid deployment, learning and improvement.

I co-founded PicPocket Books and designed and built a proprietary iOS app platform to publish interactive picture books as stand-alone mobile apps. PicPocket Books has published over 140 titles, and has been featured in Wired Magazine, Inc. Magazine, Huffington Post and the Washington Post.

I worked with the company's founders as a strategic advisor, and built and led Vartopia's product development team (on-shore and off-shore). We transformed a beta application into a market-ready product and integrated with a global IT vendor's Salesforce.com deployment.

I stepped in as an advisor to CEO Mollie Spilman to assess the company's existing (Microsoft .NET) applications, reorganize the technical team, and build and launch several new (Ruby on Rails) applications.

- Positioned company in strategic operations consulting market, with primary focus on Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions- Created long-term client relationships with major organizations, and worked closely with organizational leaders on transforming operations, teams, and information systems. Focus: increase service or product quality, reduce cycle times, and significantly enhance leadership capacity at all levels.- Built an effective, well-aligned consulting and technology teams and created standardized delivery methods to ensure high degrees of client satisfaction. A client executive commented after working with the team: “I’ve worked with one of the leading global consulting firms and other consultants – your team is the best I have seen in years.” - Served as trusted advisor to a number of top level executives among Apex clients.- Strategic advisor to several venture capital firms on technology-related investment opportunities.