Full career experience

Current

Consulting + Exploring

Product strategy, design & full-stack development

AI-native student journeys. Building a context engine and temporal knowledge graph to power web and mobile apps that help high school students get into college. The platform brings education consultants, students, and parents into one shared interface, integrating college search profiles, task tracking, and support across the full student journey. Active since July

2025–Current

Nexus Games

Side research initiative

Powered by Carina Initiatives and LearnerStudio. Exploring how humans and AI agents learn and work together through collaborative games, using behavioral data to study reasoning, communication, adaptability, and teamwork.

2024–2025

Ziplines Education

VP of Product

Following Clicked’s acquisition, helped integrate our experiential learning model into college-certified, 10-week programs. Led the implementation of work simulations in the Salesforce Administration course to strengthen real-world skill development.

2020–2024

Clicked

CEO / Founder · Acquired

Founded Clicked to close the experience gap with low-pressure, high-challenge work simulations as an alternative to traditional internships. Built the peer-powered learning product from 0 → 1 and led the company through acquisition. Launched commercially in April 2022 and reached $1M in annual revenue by 2024.

Served over 60,000 learners, with an NPS of 84 and a 77% average wage increase. 97% of job-seeking users used Clicked assets to land their roles.

2019–2020

Flashtalking

VP of Strategy

Supported product development, go-to-market strategy, and sales for the Ad Serving platform. Left advertising to focus on education and human potential.

2017–2019

Deloitte

Google Alliance Practice Lead

Selected clients: Visa, Lenovo, Citi, and US Cellular.

Built a new AdTech and Media Solutions offering from zero at Deloitte Digital and helped establish the Google Marketing Platform alliance practice. Grew the practice from four to approximately 100 people.

Delivered approximately $11.5M in enterprise consulting sales, owning discovery, scoping, executive presentations, and delivery.

Project work spanned media analytics and frequency optimization, customer data platform implementation, audience segmentation, and marketing operations and technology roadmaps.

2014–2017

IPG Mediabrands

VP of Advertising Operations

Selected clients: Charles Schwab, Amazon, and Sony.

Led West Coast advertising operations, overseeing 20+ team members across four groups in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Connected product, creative, media, analytics, and executive teams around campaign delivery. Redesigned service offerings and team structure to expand internal adoption, earning the highest performance rating possible in FY2015 and FY2016.

2014–2016

Leadster

CEO / Founder

Founded Leadster to automate B2B digital lead generation. Built and launched the product in three months, generating approximately $250K in revenue before shutting it down. My favorite failure.

2008–2014

Advertising technology

Engineering & ad operations

Held roles from Engineer to Ad Operations Manager across digital media agencies and adtech startups. Built operational systems, led technical integrations, and managed cross-functional teams supporting large-scale campaign delivery.

1998–2007

Developer

Web developer

Built websites and web applications in full-time, part-time, and freelance roles. Worked across front-end and back-end development using JavaScript, CGI, ASP, and HTML/CSS.