- Worked closely with the Utah Governor’s Office and UK’s Department for Business and Trade sector teams to coordinate the UK/Utah Memorandum of Understanding inaugural working group meeting in Salt Lake City enabling in-depth discussions on academic collaboration and workforce development, and identifying new opportunities in the life sciences and aerospace sectors, and public sector procurement.- Successfully built relationships with US state licensing board leaders across the Southwest and Hawaii to make the case for opting in to a UK/US Mutual Recognition Agreement for Engineering.

Ascendant provides contract support services to SelectUSA, a program within the U.S. Department of Commerce facilitating business investment into the U.S. - Acting Northern Europe Portfolio Manager providing oversight and support of investment promotion work consulting with c-level executives across all sectors looking to grow and expand their U.S. operations from Greenland, Iceland, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia. - Responsible for developing relationships with U.S. and international economic development organizations and U.S. FDI focused commercial officers and specialists working within U.S. embassies globally. - Contributing actionable insights to high level briefing papers for senior U.S. government officials when meeting with U.S. investors from Europe.

- Forged strong relationships with C-suite executives and business leaders and built and managed a pipeline of knowledge-driven projects to include R&D ventures between U.S. companies and UK universities and U.S. companies looking to grow their UK footprint.

- Served as interim Head of Trade and Investment (January 2017 – February 2017) and managed the Department for International Trade Boston team during fourth quarter. - Set a department record by delivering 200% of my foreign direct investment projects target. - Organized the London meeting program for the City of Boston’s Director of Growth Strategies and the Director of Business Strategy and participated in conversations around building ties between both cities among local government officials. - Spearheaded high impact targeted GREAT Campaign programs and events with press coverage e.g. Robot RUKUS (Robotics in the UK & U.S.) campaign launched at the MIT Museum, MIT EmTech 2016 UK Tech Panel, and London Technology Week activities. - Worked with internal and external stakeholders to orchestrate visits of ministers and other senior government officials to Boston. Crafted briefings and participated in meetings to help guide the conversation with executives in attendance around UK policy. - Helped U.S. executives navigate UK government sponsored Innovate UK funding competitions. - Represented the British Consulate-General at external functions, including speaking engagements and immigration and data privacy themed webinars.

- Reported directly to Vice Consul (Technology), built a pipeline of trade and investment clients, and met annual target of supporting 10 UK FDI projects (U.S. firms expanding UK operations). - Helped coordinate and write the business case for the UK government’s presence at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. - Developed a social media plan to highlight technology sector developments in the UK. - Assisted with incoming and outgoing trade missions, senior UK government official visits, panel discussions, receptions and other events to promote UK strengths in technology. - Served as Overseas Market Introduction Service (OMIS) champion – responsible for educating colleagues about a key UK government service.

- Developed anti-cyber bullying program for the Osaka Diversity Education Network and presented anti-bias programs to the Director of the Nagoya Board of Education School Education Department.- Co-facilitated anti-bias and anti-bullying training program for LAUSD elementary school students.