Who I work with

I work with program leadership teams — systems engineers, program managers, and technical directors — who are exceptional at their core work but find themselves drowning in risk data, schedule uncertainty, and competing priorities. You know something is off. You're not sure what your real critical path is. Leadership is asking questions you can't confidently answer yet.

That's exactly where I come in.

What I do

I bring order to complexity. I take the overwhelming — tens of thousands of data points, cascading risks, schedule drift — and transform it into clear, actionable insight. I tell you what your program is actually telling you, what it means for your timeline, and what your next steps should be. When I'm done, leadership has the clarity and confidence to move forward.

Here's what I've learned across a decade of complex programs: a long, unmanaged risk list is not risk management and it can actually create more risk by burying the critical ones. The real skill is helping teams distinguish between concerns, risks, and issues, then building a process that keeps leadership focused on what genuinely drives program success.

What makes my approach different is where it comes from. Before I ever touched a risk register, I spent years teaching English as a second language to immigrants and refugees, creating spaces where it was safe to not know something, where questions were welcome, and where people transformed from uncertain and overwhelmed to confident and capable. That instinct never left me. Every engagement I take on carries it. I meet people where they are, without judgment, and I make the complex feel navigable.

What this looks like in practice

At NASA ESDIS — a program supporting 5 million users worldwide — I delivered a functioning enterprise risk database in 2 months against a 12-month goal. Leadership had real-time visibility into risk interdependencies across the program for the first time.

On NASA's Artemis program, I managed the IMS for the inaugural Orion capsule test launch, coordinating milestone tracking across thousands of data points through launch and post-launch telemetry analysis. I watched the SLS rocket roll out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center and felt the weight of what that moment meant: thousands of people, years of work, all converging into one extraordinary morning.

At a $760M program, I partnered with project managers to identify and mitigate risks affecting critical path delivery, leading quality and process improvement initiatives that improved delivery performance.

Credentials

PMP (certified 2022) · The Need for Systems Engineering (CU Boulder + Coursera 2026) · 10+ years in NASA and complex federal programs · MS Project, Jira, Excel (Advanced) · BA English & French, University of Colorado Denver (Honors) · NASA Space Flight Awareness Award · Letter of Commendation, ESDIS Migration Effort

A note on how I work

I'm based in Denver, Colorado, and work remotely with mission-driven organizations across the country and beyond. I serve clients in civil space, clean energy, climate technology, and complex infrastructure — anywhere the work matters and the stakes are real. I believe the best consulting relationships are built on trust, transparency, and genuine care for the people behind the program.

If that sounds like what you've been looking for — I'd love to talk.