Founder of an independent strategy and innovation advisory helping leadership teams navigate complex challenges, identify opportunities, and turn ideas into practical action. Work focuses on strategic planning, innovation, organizational growth, partnerships, and complex cross-functional decisions. Engagements are designed to strengthen an organization's own capacity to solve problems and make better decisions.

Lead strategy, governance, and organizational development for a community-based soccer club competing in USL League Two and the USL W League. Responsible for long-term strategy, commercial partnerships, organizational structure, financial planning, community relationships, and strategic growth initiatives. Founded the club and subsequently built a broader ownership and leadership group around the organization.

Supported strategic business development and capture initiatives within the aerospace and defense sector, connecting complex customer challenges with Siemens capabilities across engineering and product development. Contributed to opportunity strategy, technical positioning, executive communications, proposal development, and cross-functional pursuit teams.

Spent more than 25 years at Altair in roles spanning product design and development, project management, innovation, sustainability, prototyping, and business development. Began as a mechanical product designer working on complex transportation and defense programs, developing concepts and physical products from early-stage problem solving through prototype development. Over time, my work expanded into project leadership, sustainable product design, industrial design consulting, prototyping and testing, and eventually business development. Led federally sponsored sustainable design initiatives supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency. Frequently brought into multidisciplinary brainstorming and early-stage design efforts to challenge assumptions, explore alternative approaches, and develop novel solutions to difficult product problems.