I spearheaded the implementation of corporate COVID-19 health and safety protocols, adapting to evolving guidelines to ensure a compliant and safe workplace across all productions. I led a team of 20+ in health and safety operations, ensuring adherence to industry, government, and union standards. My responsibilities included managing workplace transmission control through daily screenings, continuous education, systematic testing, and rigorous cleaning. I also oversaw the management of suspected and confirmed cases, including contact tracing, for clients like Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM Studios, and Media Res Studio.

Responsible for managing MSF’s South Sudan research and international advocacy project. Duties include internal stakeholder engagement & management; remote & in-person interviews; qualitative research; and authoring a published report.

Responsible for strategizing, planning and directing MSF's first emergency response in Canada. Duties consisted of managing an operational team, including four regional coordinators, developing a national network, overseeing assessments and recommendations to Montreal's long-term care facilities, and Toronto's shelters, supporting Indigenous communities pandemic planning; disseminating technical guidance on outbreak prevention to front-line organizations.

Responsible for simultaneously overseeing the day-to-day operations of multiple medical programs in four separate humanitarian contexts. Duties included managing a six-person inter-departmental headquarters’ team and four Heads of Mission. Engaged in annual planning and monitoring for six projects totalling 1,600+ full-time equivalents (FTEs) and CAD$43 million budgets collectively. • Opened a community based mental health project, providing free care to 1,350 people with previously undiagnosed disorders.• Led the closure of the Ethiopian mission — a CAD$4 million medical programme with 300+ FTEs. The change management was designed, communicated, and implemented methodically, transparently, and successfully concluded without incident.• Successfully created and led a plan to resolve significant conflicts within MSF’s country management team in Haiti.• Appeared frequently as a guest panellist in MSF webcasts with tens of thousands of viewers.

Responsible for advising and supporting MSF’s emergency South Sudan mission and the West African Ebola response in Sierra Leone. Contributed to South Sudan’s country policy, Sierra Leone’s new project proposals and the development and implementation of advocacy and communication strategies. • Deployed to Sierra Leone during the West African Ebola Epidemic as MSF’s Emergency Manager.• Represented MSF to the United Nations Secretary-General.• Successfully resolved a violent work stoppage in Kenya.• Trained departing aid workers at MSF’s Ebola Training Centre in Amsterdam.• Lectured at Dutch universities and medical schools on the history of Ebola outbreaks and MSF’s responses.

Over seven years of diverse management experiences, aptly and inclusively leading interdepartmental, multilingual, and multinational teams in complex operational environments. Continually drove results by building culturally appropriate working relationships with national and international heads of department, providing nonjudgmental support and encouragement for managers working with me.

Responsible for the supervision of four Project Managers, accountable for the operations of three hospitals and a Tuberculosis and HIV programme in South Sudan. Responsible for the management and resource allocation of the Nigeria Mission’s support departments (Finance, Human Resources and Logistics). Directly managed the department heads.• Designed & implemented annual plans with budgets of CAD$18 million. Met key medical objectives, remained under budget, resulting in free, quality healthcare for tens of thousands of people in northern Nigeria and South Sudan. • Devised MSF’s Outreach Strategy. Providing focused and practical guidance to junior managers tasked with implementation. • Authored MSF’s Jonglei State Emergency Response Plan. Communicated our team goals while driving daily accountability.• Created and implemented a new monthly Situation Report allowing Project Coordinators in Nigeria to quantify medical action, resource allocation and humanitarian impact in a single reporting tool.

Responsible for humanitarian medical activities, including hospitals and emergency responses, that treated 50,000+ patients annually; meeting MSF’s medical targets; security of MSF staff, programs and property. Designed, implemented, and monitored operational cycles that reflected on, and captured the experiences of field teams to improve our operations for the benefit of the populations we served.• Supervised international medical and logistical teams of 10+ people, cultivating the development of new ideas and solutions.• Led MSF’s Nigerian Emergency Response Unit, providing early warning and rapid response to seasonal outbreaks of infectious diseases in the northwestern states. Treated over 5,000 people for cholera and 200 people for meningitis. • Developed and safely steered change management strategies by successfully implementing the Planned Transition and Program Reduction Strategy for two MSF projects during periods of challenging operational transitions.

Managed construction projects; supply management, including international and local supply chains; IT maintenance and support; fleet and transportation management; warehousing; logistical staffing for MSF hospitals and outpatient clinics. • Fostered transparent workplaces to better manage, coach, and evaluate national workforces within the limitation’s underdevelopment, remote locations and severe climates.

Edited, wrote, and indexed technical documentation on MSF humanitarian field operations, to ensure overall consistency, final product quality, and meeting deadlines. Supervised the design, layout, and production on time and budget.

As the owner of an award-winning production company oversaw hiring, financial development, and budgeting. Coordinated multiple departments and motivated teams of 50+ on several large-scale film productions in Los Angeles and Toronto. Formed strategic partnerships with the National Film Board of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario; vendors and cooperate sponsors. • Produced Cold Morning, Canada’s official entry for the 53rd Venice Biennale.• Produced Backstory, a film selected to screen at the Rotterdam, Toronto, and Vancouver International Film Festivals.• Developed a 30-minute comedy for House of Films and CBC Television titled The Madding Crowd.

• Assisted with all aspects of television commercial productions, including client services; budget administration; petty cash reconciliation; hiring vendors and union workers. • Clients included: Coors Light; Hess America; Kraft Foods Canada; McCain Foods; Mitsubishi Motors.