Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Remote

• Advise an a16z-backed AI recommendation engine (130M+ onchain interactions, live in Coinbase Wallet) on go-to-market and growth strategy. Founded by former Chainlink Labs ML Lead and ex-AWS Senior Data Scientist.

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• Run the recruiting and people operations practice, embedding teams inside crypto and technology companies for organizational scaling, executive advisory, and people infrastructure buildout
• Maintained client delivery and advisory relationships through a prolonged crypto market contraction while pivoting practice focus toward AI-readiness assessments and organizational design

Jul 2020 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Juan · Remote

• Scaled the organization from 43 to 500+ in under three years, built and ran a 17-person distributed team delivering 150+ specialized hires per year across engineering, research, BD, and go-to-market
• Operated as strategic partner to the CEO and executive team on org architecture, headcount planning, and growth sequencing during 10x+ growth
• Designed the operational frameworks and systems (Lever ATS, structured processes, KPIs) that became company standard reduceding cost-per-outcome 30% while increasing throughput
• Managed multi-million dollar operational budget across three functional areas spanning globally

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 · 6 mos · Greater Denver Area

• First People Team hire for Near at 20 Employees and scaled the company to 60+ people.
• Build the people function from 0-1 while working with A16Z on best practices.
• Oversaw and led initiatives in Talent Development, Compensation, Benefits, Culture/Engagement, and Employee Relations
• Own performance management and goal-setting process implementing Lattice
• Driving the full spectrum of recruiting and selection activities
• Creating and implementing talent acquisition strategies for leadership, mid-career, and graduate hiring
• Designing and driving the adoption of consistent recruiting, interviewing, and hiring practices that support a strong candidate experience
• Partnering with leaders within the organization to track the ongoing hiring needs of their business
• Managing end-to-end recruitment

Jan 2019 – Dec 2019 · 11 mos · Greater Denver Area

• Facilitate all growth within hiring, growing the organization from 25-65.
• Working with executives to understand current market conditions and timing of hires.
• After working with them for six weeks with several hires completed, this turned into an ongoing assignment through end of year.
• Facilitate benefits management for all employees.
• Migration from internal payroll to PEO

May 2018 – May 2020 · 2 yrs · New York

Nov 2017 – Feb 2023 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Denver Metropolitan Area

• • Created and grew the world’s largest Web3 developer event from scratch to 15,000+ attendees. Spun out as an independent organization with its own VC arm (Bufficorn Ventures)

Nov 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Denver Metropolitan Area

• Advised Dr. Jeroen Joukes (PhD Neuroscience, Rutgers; BA in AI, University of Amsterdam) on go-to-market and operational strategy for a neuroscience-derived recurrent neural network for spatiotemporal prediction
• Demonstrated real-time trading inference on a Raspberry Pi at AI World Boston lightweight edge AI before edge AI was an industry category
• FAIM can analyze any kind of space-time dataset quickly, efficiently, and economically. Specialized in space-time computations, FAIM can provide high quality predictions for datasets in various industries, such as sales, finance, weather forecasting, product recommendation, DNA sequence classification, anomaly detection, sentiment analysis, text generation, music generation, energy utilization, image caption generation, and video classification.

Sep 2014 – Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Opolis is a decentralized protocol for employment. Three components make up the core role of technology for human capital; identity, connection & employment. Opolis will give users (job seekers and employers) ownership of their data, a public utility connection engine and fully portable employment & benefits.
• Successfully built relationships with PWC, TCS, E&Y, IBM and many other marquee organizations helping build their internal Salesforce practices for many of the largest software implementations in the US. Placed several CTA's, SFDC Practice leads, Delivery managers, Technical Architects, Solution Architects, Tech Leads, Consultants, Business Analysts, Developers and Admins across all clouds in the into new roles.
• Opolis is an organization that was officially established in 2017 from an internal start-up venture at Lakeshore.

Nov 2012 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Denver Metropolitan Area · On-site

• Personally billed $1M+ in revenue; team generated $4–5M annually at 45% margins. Led the national ERP/CRM and Salesforce practice with full P&L ownership. Enterprise clients included Deloitte, NTT, Accenture, DaVita

Feb 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• I specialized in the placement of Microsoft Dynamics professionals throughout the United States & Canada

Oct 2008 – Oct 2010 · 2 yrs

Jun 2008 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• I performed live entertainment and also featured in EDC the Experience documentary .

Jan 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos

Mar 2005 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Denver Area

Feb 2002 – Mar 2005 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Greater Denver Area