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CEO / Board member, leading B2C and B2B enterprises. Leading, building, transforming, and operating businesses at scale.
Chief Executive Officer, Opry Entertainment Group
Opry Entertainment Group (OEG) produces multi-platform entertainment experiences through its growing portfolio of entertainment venues, including the world-famous Grand Ole Opry, the iconic Ryman Auditorium, WSM Radio, the Blake Shelton-inspired Ole Red brand, the Luke Combs-inspired Category 10 brand, ACL Live at Moody Theater in Austin and the home of Austin City Limits, music festivals through Southern Entertainment, and amphitheaters, including Ascend Amphitheater. Through concerts, tours, music-inspired restaurants, retail, publishing, digital content, and more, Opry Entertainment Group connects millions of music fans to the artists they love through experiences they’ll never forget.
Previously:
- EVP, North America Retail at Carter's (NYSE: CRI; ~$3.5B revenue). Led eCommerce Direct-To-Consumer digital business as well as Brick & Mortar stores. Omnichannel DTC Division includes ~$2.5B in revenue, the leading eCommerce sites and mobile app in children’s apparel, ~1,100 stores, and ~15k team members. Led product management, data science and analytics, UI / UX, design, digital technology, buying, planning, allocation, pricing, store operations, all eCommerce sites including mobile app, etc. Largest business / division at Carter’s, which is $3.5B in total. Carter's is a consumer brand that also sells to Amazon, Target, Walmart and other partners through its wholesale channel.
- McKinsey Partner leading businesses through Digital, Sales, Ecommerce, and Operational Transformation. Advised CEO / Chief Executive Officer / COO / President and leadership teams.
- EVP, Chief Strategy Officer leader for YP (YP.com), the leading digital platform for local business search (Cerberus Capital Management Private Equity (PE) portfolio company; Private Equity backed)
Public Company Board Director / Member / Board of Directors:
Interpublic Group. (NYSE: IPG). Board Director. Member of Audit and Compensation Committees.
Ryman Hospitality Properties (NYSE: RHP). Board Director. Chairman of Human Resources Committee and Member of Nominating and Governance Committee. Previously Chairman of Audit Committee. Stepped off the Board to lead Opry Entertainment Group as CEO. OEG is owned by RHP, Atairos, and NBCUniversal.
CEO / Chief Executive Officer / President / COO / Chief Operating Officer level of scale and scope. Appointed to multiple public company Board of Directors. 
Project manager with experience facilitating cultural change, developing teams, and revising processes for increased efficiency and efficacy across multiple industries.
I am an experienced project manager who enjoys working with companies and organizations in transition who are looking to improve their departments and processes. I am adaptable and can work in fast paced, dynamic environments while bringing a calm, grounded approach to managing change.
Building a successful project management program is about both processes and people. The right processes are not just efficient, but work comfortably and well for the people who need to use them, resulting in buy in from key stakeholders, whether they are employees, vendors, or clients.
I spent several years developing project management for new product launches at one of the top refrigerated foods manufacturers in the United States (ranked in the top 100 food and beverage processors in the U.S. and Canada for 2015 by Food Processing Magazine).
Some key successes:
- transformed a dreaded meeting which often lasted 1.5 hours into 15-30 minutes of efficient, data rich interaction considered invaluable by participants
- influenced change in multiple departments through fostering a culture of accountability and openness to feedback, resulting in better communication and team cohesion
- improved planning processes and accuracy of estimates to dramatically increase the number of projects completed on time
- developed revised project initiation documents and improved project management processes to clarify scope early on, resulting in reduction of rework and fewer scope changes occurring later in the project schedule
You and your team are the subject matter experts on your company's policies and processes. I bring additional tools and fresh eyes that can assist you in refining and improving your processes more efficiently. If you would like to discuss developing project management at your company, please feel free to contact me. 
• Experience leading development teams
• Experience developing iOS and Android apps
• Experience working with Blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum
• Experience working with Ethereum DeFi protocols such as Uniswap, DyDx, Compound, 1inch, etc
• Experience building complex, high traffic, and high-performance applications
• Worked with large and small teams in a fast-paced and challenging environment
• Experience working in startups and large teams
• Experience scaling databases, mobile apps, and backend services
Specialties:
• Languages: Swift, Kotlin, Objective-C, Java, Ruby, Python, TypeScript, Go, and Solidity.
• Databases: MongoDB, SQLite, BerkleyDB, MySQL, Postgres, LevelDB, Membase, and Caché
• Blockchains: Bitcoin, and Ethereum
• Tools, Libraries, and Frameworks: iOS UIKit, OS X AppKit, GCD, Core Data, SearchKit, Core Location, Core Graphics, Xcode, Git, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and Web3 
