ABOUT ME

Work Experience - see LinkedIn profile (button on right) for more.
- Human Resources Consultant for Salo, a firm which connects HR executives with at least 10 years of professional experience to companies needing HR transformation work
- Former Vice President of Learning and Program Management at PIMCO (2021-2022)
- Former Learning & Development/Client Service Manager at Gerson Lehrman Group (2011-2018)
- Former Admissions Instructor for Yale Medical School (2009-2011) - oral and written communications training for prospective MDs
- Guest communications instructor for Yale School of Management (SOM)
- Harvard Kennedy School Galbraith Fellow in Social Policy (2005)
20 years experience admissions coaching (inc. MD, JD, PhD, undergrad)
- 2020-2021 clients won approx.: $1.5 million in merit aid
- 2019-2020 clients won approx. $600k in merit aid
Achievements as applicant:
- Full rides at: Duke Engineering (one of 7 University Scholars), Yale Ph.D (2% accept rate), UCLA Ph.D. (Diversity Fellowship), University of Pennsylvania, total merit aid: ~ $550,000.
- National Achievement Finalist and winner of $2,000 scholarship from State Farm Insurance
- Also accepted to: Columbia (Eng), Rice Eng (10k scholarship), Wash. Univ. St. Louis, Wash and Lee, WPI.

Debate and Public Speaking Coaching Expertise
- Coached National Champion of Lincoln-Douglas Debate at 2021 National Catholic Forensic League Grand Nationals.
- 18 years coaching national level Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 4 students qualified to nationals in 2020; international champions in 2017 (TOC Public Forum)
- 2018 "America's Greatest Thinker" - Champion of the Great American Think Off
- Managing Director, Victory Briefs Debate Institute (2018-2020)

Want to learn more about me? See my Linked In profile at the button below!