• Lead diverse cross-organizational partnerships to support the designing, implementing, managing, and evaluating of initiatives that positively impact CMU authorized charter schools, students, and staff. • Leverage technical, behavioral, and leadership skills to garner financial and human resource commitments to move the projects forward, and to strengthen relationships and networks with a wide variety of CMU departments, for the Center, and CMU chartered schools. • Establish opportunities that create successful charter high school student transitions to CMU, learning opportunities for charter schools staff, and opportunities for CMU students and staff.

• Implemented strategic leadership to establish goals and systems for the University Relations department, and to further projects that have an impact on the following stakeholders: high school students, middle school students, elementary students, school staff and administration, CMU departments, students and faculty, charter management organizations, and authorizers. • Identified, developed, and lead numerous cross-campus initiatives that built bridges impacting hundreds of students' perception, ability, accessibility, and future college trajectory annually.

• Development and established the Center’s Business Services Unit. I utilized my skills and experience to identify market needs for products that would provide value to the K-12 education sector. • Curated business plans, processes, and procedures for the Business Services department.• Managed and developed processes to innovate new tools, services, and projects while ensuring and assessing that products were packaged, marketed, and intellectual property cleared. • Managed over $1,500,000 in sales.

• Championed innovation at the Center by providing leadership in the area of intellectual property and innovation creation. • Spearheaded the exploration and development of initiatives and innovations, by creating, fostering, and maintaining positive relationships with cross-department teams. • Identified, packaged, marketed, protected, and licensed intellectual property innovations developed by the Center.

• Created, developed, and managed the Center’s Intellectual property assets. I created systems to identify, package, market, and develop systems, tools, services, and expertise created at the Center. • Established and strategically led the Center’s intellectual property assets by identifying the assets, creating licensing agreements, and managing these licensing agreements.

Instructor for Education Leadership Master on-line course on Education Law.

● Provided leadership and legal counsel for corporate, financing, real estate, and human resources to a multi-million dollar restaurant management and real estate holding company.

Legal research in the areas of business law, education law, personal injury, and trial litigation assistance.

Contracted legal research services for local law firms.

Neurological research focused on a component of myelin called proteolipid protein, which is thought to be a key trigger site in demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system in humans.