Biography
Defense, health innovation, and AI leader with 26 years of cross-sector experience spanning military service, university research leadership, digital transformation, and public-private partnerships.
Joining PIF…
Having come from a military family, my instinct toward public service is what led me to enlist in the United States Air Force over a quarter of a century ago. Though I was obliged to leave the military after four years on active duty due to the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, my desire for public service never left. After 26 years building across defense, academia, health innovation, and entrepreneurship, including founding the Office of Strategy Management at Johns Hopkins University, launching the Inclusive Innovation Initiative to address social determinants of health, and leading change through the deployment of multimillion-dollar regional digital health exchanges, PIF offered something rare and I couldn’t pass it up. The chance to bring that full range of experience back into federal service at a moment when AI and digital transformation are converging. I wanted to be in the room where those decisions are being made.
To work on…
Delivering AI-ready datasets, developing an AI platform for federal tool-building, and creating applications that enable federal employees to accelerate support energy infrastructure deployment, supporting American Energy Dominance and positioning American industry to lead in the global AI competition. My approach will leverage lessons learned from building collaborative initiatives between academia, community organizations, and stakeholders to solve complex public challenges, now applied to the critical intersection of energy security and AI capability.
Department of Energy, Office of Geothermal
