• Led planning and implementation for launch of online platform for client in educational services business.• Led business planning, marketing strategy development and fundraising strategy development for food & beverage start-up.

• Took professional sabbatical to volunteer for this important community service-oriented role.• Led ISBE-registered committee charged with passage of referendum for USD 89.8 million education bond, managing a team of 25 committee volunteers.• Led strategy development and implementation.• Engaged with stakeholders from both public and private sectors to develop community awareness and drive voter engagement. • Implemented social media campaigns and gave interviews to local and national media.• Advised on communications, media releases and community outreach.

• Led initiative to introduce and develop a new managed security service offering based on new cybersecurity technology• Built new internal security operations policy creation and dissemination procedure, including process flowchart, policy RACI analysis framework, automated change management tracking components and new centralized policy database• Led transformation initiatives with stakeholders from platform operations, platform engineering, service operations, threat intelligence, detection engineering, security operations, solutions engineering, product and sales teams• Initiated and led program to fully map EDR and SIEM tool service readiness• Built product education curricula and training packages for all teams connected to service delivery and operations for new corporate service offerings• Worked across multifunctional teams to identify latent internal security risks and operational gaps, surfacing identified issues to appropriate leadership teams and working with those teams to develop and implement remediation plans• Completed multiple Splunk accreditations and certifications, primarily around Splunk Enterprise/Cloud and Splunk’s SIEM and SOAR platforms

• Built and managed implementation of strategic expansion programs, guiding cross-functional teams in the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions, comprising legal, compliance, data, digital payments, trading systems, accounting, treasury, localization and other functions• Led process of turning new regulatory requirements into actionable product/platform changes• Curated strategy team’s data analytics and market intelligence tools, developing data dashboards, BI decks and other tools to measure firm-wide KPIs, assess potential opportunities in new markets and build business cases• Built global market assessment matrix, identifying and collecting data for over 40 key metrics to prioritize new markets for launch• Built international HR/talent program and process management tools for personnel sourcing• Managed rapid deployment team tasked with critical operational changes, including market exits and customer off-boarding in response to changing regulatory pronouncements• Mentored teammates in data analytics and BI tool creation/deployment and efficient use of modern program management tools

• Founded consulting business focused on providing GTM services to firms navigating governmental regulatory requirements, localization, marketing and international joint-venture partnership establishment.• Led successful market entry campaigns in China, Zambia and Singapore.• Led engagement with financial regulators to enable development and successful launch of multi-million USD financial inclusion fintech product.• Developed business transformation roadmaps for North American, European, African and Asian businesses seeking to enter new international markets.