An eCommerce leader building a passionate and fun team with digital marketing, CRM and web development skills previously at Urban Decay Cosmetics and now Drunk Elephant Skincare! A listener who as a Project Manager in the past joined multiple in-progress implementation projects in order to provide fresh direction and motivation through conscientious relationship and team building among internal and external team members. A fitness enthusiast who believes that the mind and body work best when constantly stretched, pushed and challenged.

Analytics leader with a passion for bridging the gap between data science and business strategy.

President and Chief Development Officer at Granite Management

Extensive experience propelling business growth, transformation and profitability in the insurance industry ecosystem. Bring deep P&L management expertise in P&C, Life & Annuity (Structured Settlements) and Software Development, and is often called upon as a subject matter expert in pricing, product development, sales, systems, marketing and complex project management. Known for: • Identifying and capitalizing on revenue opportunities by leveraging actuarial skills with a deep understanding of risk and pricing. • Accelerating the path to profitability by optimizing operations and workflow through smart distribution agreements. • Leadership style that empowers teams to actualize both organizational and individual goals by supporting a culture that values excellence, collaboration and professional development. Highlights: • Built three P&C carriers and MGA's for domestic and foreign carriers, including Lloyds of London syndicates, achieving profitability within the first 12 months with a direct loss ratio under 7%. Included three specialty lines property insurers across all 50 U.S. states. • Grown several small business units into national programs across the entire P&C market by driving new product development, implementing best-in-class underwriting, policy and claims systems, establishing distribution networks, and hiring technical staff and building teams. All achieved $100s of millions in DWP. • Created cloud-based, scalable and integrated systems and software for multiple carriers and MGA’s, including policy and claims, quoting, accounting and bordereau ledgers. • Managed large, complex policy and claims digital transformation projects for several Tier 1 P&C carriers on time and under budget. • Created a new economic ecosytem that enables a network of disparate parties to a severe workplace injury claim mutually benefit by finding the best financial solution for the injured party.

I am most passionate about the epic transformation of economy and society under way (and only just beginning), thanks to technology. This includes a radical evolution in the ways humans share and trust in news; the use of algorithms to feed us information and the use of AI to create it; the promise of limitless information and the peril of limited critical thinking; and new approaches for the future of my profession: strategic communications. I lead a team of highly talented pros at Raffetto Herman Strategic Communications (DC, Seattle, NY) – an award-winning “Fastest Growing Company” and “Best Places to Work” – as we provide the innovation economy’s most inspiring leaders and promising companies with a platform to share their ideas with the world, and shape our shared future.

I help Paycor's clients empower their leaders to build winning teams. Leaders who have been given the right tools can increase engagement, productivity and the output of their team members. I am able to consult with our clients on people management best practices and the right technology to achieve these results. My extensive background in the Human Capital Management space as an individual sales contributor, a sales leader, a product leader, a leader of sales enablement functions, and as a leader of pre-sale functions enables me to share the knowledge I have gained through these experiences.

I post a lot about being a human, AI, and pushing GPTs like ChatGPT to their limits. Architect, developer and mentor with extensive experience in creating distributed, fault tolerant and highly scalable systems utilizing utility and cloud computing for low latency processing of real time "big data." • Designer of Lean Architecture Frameworks • GCED (Certified Enterprise Defender) • CSM (Certified Scrum Master) • Cloud architect with experience in both AWS and Azure systems • Created cloud control infrastructure which allows tracking of more than 100 million cloud based elements • Architected novel solutions for the first ever interlinking and coordinated use of a TLD for the public good • Database architect with experience in performance tuning and administration • Designed and developed a custom .Net based MapReduce Framework for distributed index server queries, query result processing and delivery to cloud based storage, AWS SimpleDB and SQL Azure • Mentored junior and senior level developers, project managers and security analysts • 15 years of Lean/Agile Development and Coaching experience • Co-lead of AgileForce Employee Resource Group for agile methodologies • Builder of high functioning teams • Experience in security assessments, identifying risks, mitigating vulnerabilities • Information security practitioner • Participated in IT Security Audits covering procedures, practices and technical controls • Co-creator and visionary of Coding4Kindness hack-a-thon for non-profits