I currently serve as the Chief Operating Officer for the Executive Dean’s Office in the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. In this capacity, I help craft and implement school policies, best practices, and strategic plans to nourish a $500M annual operation which includes a $130M research portfolio, a $190M clinical practice pan, and a high-fidelity curricular program for the country’s largest medical school. A snapshot of a few key assignments helps to contextualize my impact within the University of Illinois College of Medicine. In the financial realm, I helped modernize operations by establishing a database to monitor the College’s financial commitments to its academic departments, programs and new recruits. Within the clinical enterprise, I implemented the College membership in the Faculty Practice Solutions Center by collecting and schematizing billing and revenue data from the physician practice plan’s three professional billing units. This has allowed the College to benchmark clinical activity metrics against national comparators and identify best practices among the 90+ participating faculty practice organizations. And finally, in the research arm of the College, I conduct ongoing analyses of the College research productivity by linking laboratory assignments to extramurally funded research expenditures, grant applications, departmental recruitment efforts, and faculty publications. The resulting report is now used by the Dean’s Office to implement a standard for research space allocations in order to optimize the resources of the College.