What I actually do.
I have spent nearly twenty years leading at the senior level in municipal organizations. Most recently, I'm the Executive Chief of Staff to the Gainesville City Manager. In this role, my work is the decision log, the pre-brief, the agenda, and the action tracker: the scaffolding that turns a strategy into a thing that actually happens. The other roles I have held include finance director and budget director, with operating budgets up to $605M, a $1.7B capital program, and the multi-department systems work that came with each one.
The work shows up in different forms across roles: writing the budget book, standing up the federal grant governance, leading the audit response, designing the executive office workflow, sitting on the ERP stabilization team. The constant is the same: the executive office needs something to land cleanly, and I'm the person who makes sure it does.
My academic foundation is Wharton, a Villanova MBA, and the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. The credentials matter, but they aren't what makes people trust me.
What makes people trust me is that I have shown that high standards, real accountability, and decision-making can be effective through the right approach. For me, that means how I show up: someone steady who others can lean on and who can be trusted to get the work done.
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