Consulting and delivery lead on transformative data analytics, data governance, and emerging AI solutions for federal agencies to advance their business objectives and improve customer services.

Govtech consulting tailored to match the needs of local governments to private sector innovation.

Set and directed a vision for information and innovation operations for the 6th largest city in the U.S. serving 28,000 employees, 1,600,000 citizens. Responsible for annual budgets totaling $335,000,000 including $85,700,000 in six-year capital program.Set yearly strategic goals for the evolution and performance of shared services:Private and Public Cloud – IaaS, DRaaS, DaaS, IPaaS – AWS, Azure, Oracle, VMWare.Project Management Office – procurement, contract and vendor management, change management. Compliance – NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, WC3, HIPAA, IRS 1075, ISO 2700, GDPR, WCAG 2.1.Digital Solutions – UX, CX, agile software development for SSO, payments, and CRM solutions. Oversaw $32,000,000 investment in new voting machines across 800 sites in 2019.Transformed cyber security operations into incident response, GRC and vulnerability management programs in just two years. Fully adopted NIST CSF and implemented MFA, EDR, SSO, vulnerability management. Led multi-million-dollar contract negotiations for SaaS: Oracle, Microsoft, Esri, Salesforce, TCS, Motorola, Workday.Reduced $106,000,000 in audit fees to $2,900,000 by right-sizing Oracle human capital and eBusiness.Ensured on-time and on-budget $30,000,000 construction of state-of-the-art E-911 communications center and Tier 3 data center.Set smart city vision resulting in 25+ private-public partnership projects in three years, 4 national awards; Edge compute AI optical sensors project for digital curbside management and improved pedestrian safety with Comcast, US Ignite, Google, and Juganu. Launched city’s first benchmarking of household broadband internet use and city’s Digital Equity Plan and planned for multi-year investments in municipal broadband: 5G, CBRS wireless, and fiber expansion. Raised $17M in philanthropic funds to set up PHLConnectED with Mayor’s Office to provide free internet and digital navigator services to over 23,000 preK-12th grade households and an Office of Digital Equity.

As the city's first Geographic Information Officer achieved a paradigm shift across 20 business units to de-silo data and participate in a master data strategy.Established the first data governance program in a U.S. city to leverage geospatial technologies and highly skilled team of GIS analysts and data engineers as THE center of excellence to enforce data quality, reliability, and automated ETL operations to maintain authoritative Golden Records integrated across health care, financial, transportation, real estate, and public safety business systems serving 1.6M citizens daily.Created a lasting framework of policies and standards for operationalizing government Data as a Service:Leveraged Esri and Carto cloud platforms to enable low-code creation of hundreds of digital applications and business intelligence dashboards across all business verticals by tech and non-technical teams.Stood up hybrid cloud data warehouse with Oracle on-prem and Postgres on AWS.Standardized data inspection, quality control, and publishing pipelines with automation (Airflow and Python).Published over 600 vector, raster, and business datasets as Open Data APIs.Established data ontology, metadata program, and (WCAG) user-experience standards for visualizations. Setup Dev/Ops team and public cloud platforms to launch eight new digital products to solve long-standing barriers to business intelligence, data reconciliation, and data visualization and enabled the city’s economic development and civic organizations to tackle quality of life problems with award winning web applications.Reduced annual support fees for geocoding and address reconciliation services by over $200,000/year by creating custom, cloud-native applications on AWS EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk services.Established multi-agency agreements to fund $1,000,000 annual capture of street-level and aerial LIDAR and imagery that reduced field work by 30% and physical visits to offices for property records by 50% (pre-pandemic).

Responsible for quantitative analyses - demographics, facility utilization, policy outcomes evaluations - and geographic information systems (GIS) data modeling for city’s long-range, capital investments.• Led multi-agency coalition to implement City’s first integrated workforce asset management (IWAMS) system to track operating, capital, and maintenance costs across 13 million square feet of public buildings. • Facilitated difficult conversations with diverse audiences in underserved neighborhoods to engage citizens in co-planning and decision-making on infrastructure investments to improve safety, transit, and housing.

Led software engineering projects including full-stack web hosting services and consulting services to property developers, state and local governments, and electric utilities. • Responsible for all facets of project management and product support: budgets, resourcing, requirements, user experience UX workshops, testing, QA/QC and backlogs. • Responsible for customer success and business development within client portfolio of municipal and county governments.