Business professional and bar owner/operator with expertise in business operations, associations and nonprofits, and technology.Skilled at forming partnerships to accomplish goals, starting new businesses, putting operational systems and processes in place, fundraising in for profit and nonprofit contexts, business transformation, implementing cost and revenue side improvements. Significant experience working with groups, coalitions and consortiums of like minded individuals with different backgrounds but rallying around a common goal.As a former engineer in software, most of it in health care, I enjoy leveraging operations and technology skills and understanding and applying them to business problems and opportunities. I understand why associations matter and have had a front seat to their strategy and operations, big and small. I have been an active member in professional associations, served on nonprofit boards, staffed committees and task forces and have served as chair.I am an experienced craft cocktail bartender having worked in a variety of restaurants and bars around Chicago including Schubas / Tied House and several chef-driven restaurants. I am an active member of the management and service team at Lemon, and have a new bar project in development, to be announced soon.