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I’m a former tech/telecom leader who made a bold pivot into commercial real estate—and never looked back. Today, I consult with my clients across the country, helping them navigate complex lease negotiations, optimize portfolios, and align real estate decisions with their people and purpose.
Before real estate, I spent 23 years in senior leadership roles at some of the country’s top telecom firms, where I led high-performing teams and drove transformational growth. That experience shaped my leadership style and sharpened the negotiation and relationship-building skills I now bring to the table for my clients.
My superpower? Seeing real estate not just as square footage, but as a strategic tool that can elevate culture, efficiency, and performance. I operate with intention, lead with authenticity, and always aim to make people feel seen, heard, and empowered...because real estate transactions are about more than just the numbers. 
Accomplished, resourceful, hands-on IT Director with 20+ years’ experience driving change, mitigating risk and infusing new ideas to take enterprise system performance and productivity to the next level. Committed to achieving maximum benefit from IT infrastructure investment, through meticulous system administration, skillful vendor negotiations, unparalleled end user support and on time/budget project deliveries. Innovative and creative customer service professional with a proven track record in providing all call center support while driving brand growth and improving customer service initiatives and experience.
● Enterprising technologist and “go to” resource, reconciling the strategic direction of applied technology with business initiatives, improving performance and accountability in all directions
● Innovative problem solver, with a “make it happen” attitude; proactively implementing solutions with careful consideration to the bottom line, long-range goals, feasibility, and ease of use
● Mentor and builder of self-sustaining dream teams, promoting consensus, creativity, and team cohesiveness; retained IT staff members for 10+ years
KEY COMPETENCIES
IT Operations Management
Technology Rightsizing
$MM Budget Accountability
Hardware Refreshing
Helpdesk & Desktop Support
Data Center Build Out and Consolidation
Infrastructure Architecture & Design
Voice & Data Communications
Client Services/Support
Asset Management
Strategic Planning
Application Development
Project Management
Policy & Procedure Documentation
Vendor Management
Disaster Recovery & High Availability
Contract Negotiation
Sarbanes-Oxley, System and Organization Controls
Staffing/Team Building
Due Diligence & Compliance
Virtualization Technologies
IT Infrastructure Library (Service Desk)
Penetration Testing Security and Risk Management
Identity Access Management
RFP Security Audits 
Results oriented security & compliance leader with 20+ years of successful experience including management of information technology systems and teams, security operations and IT management, governance and risk management, vendor assessment and risk management, compliance with regulatory bodies, and leading large teams via a secure application deployment onto secure systems and cloud infrastructure.
Expertise in:
Knowledge of secure deployment in container based world (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
Data Management/Disaster Recovery/Continuous Delivery
Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Fault tolerant and highly available design using load balancing and clustering
Leading teams on sensitive, short time line projects
Implementing new products within 24x7 environments that align with business needs
Deep knowledge of public cloud services and their impact on technological and financial systems
Interfacing with board members and executive management on risk management and treatment
Threat management, assessment and treatment
Security Operations and engineering
Governance and compliance oversight e.g. SOC2 & PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO, SOX
Data Privacy regulation e.g. GDPR & CCPA
Vendor planning and risk management management that aligns business needs with technology solutions 
