Voraciously curious, I've built my career around exploring industries and projects that intrigue me.
I began by managing client relationships and marketing at an ag-tech startup in my college town of Boulder, CO, where I learned firsthand how to build a loyal online community and turn that following into a thriving e-commerce business.
My favorite part of the job was learning from and working alongside Steve Troy, who has spent over 60 years fighting the climate crisis by developing water-efficient irrigation products, educating communities on sustainable farming practices, and turning Sustainable Village into the top North American distributor of Blumats, a novel automatic watering system.
Upon graduation, I moved to New York and joined Microsoft, where I led a team responsible for onboarding thousands of sales reps onto the Seismic sales enablement platform. The role meant working deeply within the Office 365 ecosystem and building tools to help reps get more out of the platform, e.g. automated presentation templates that pulled client insights from Dynamics 365, page-level content heatmaps built from Seismic view-time data, and a content recommendation engine that surfaced materials correlated with faster deal closures by sales stage and competitor.
By this point, I'd been interested in crypto for a few years, having completed several fellowships that deepened my understanding of the principles and technology underlying this nascent movement.
After my contract with Microsoft ended, I decided to pursue crypto full-time, beginning my career in the industry at Kadena — a Layer-1 blockchain originally incubated within JPMorgan for JPMCoin before being spun out as its own company once the founders recognized its potential to stand on its own.
I joined to manage and automate their newly announced $100M grants program, transforming what had been a Rube Goldberg process of emailing Typeform submissions into an optimized end-to-end system for screening, scheduling, and evaluating applicants. Over the course of a year, we distributed more than $4M in grants and grew the team by three members to keep the program running smoothly.
I then transitioned into a Business Analyst role, building data pipelines to track metrics like account activity, DeFi usage, and network health.
Kadena's blockchain, Chainweb, had a unique 20-chain braided architecture that required a solutions engineer and me to manually adapt numerous ETLs, normalizing timestamps and block heights to roll the data into unified, actionable metrics. These metrics fed recurring reports for Kadena leadership and BD strategy meetings.
I also stayed current on industry developments through custom dashboards aggregating Telegram newsletters, X feeds, and crypto publication coverage, combined with active involvement in various crypto communities.
These experiences culminated in my final role at Kadena, where I led product and partnerships for DeFi and developer tooling. Our flagship product, the Kinesis Bridge, connected Kadena to six initial EVM chains and opened the ecosystem to the rest of crypto.
Alongside this launch, we took on the considerable task of building an entire DeFi ecosystem from scratch: securing the partnerships and integrations any team would need to bring Kadena compatibility to their own products — bridges, DEXs, oracles, wallets, indexers, node/RPC providers, validators, custodians, market makers, and more.
One constant throughout my career has been a desire to cultivate community and belonging.
In 2024, I was one of the core organizers of FarCon, the second annual conference for the Farcaster community, following the inaugural grassroots gathering held in Boston the year before. I led 'Art Night,' where the Gallery team and I curated work from over 200 digital artists, displayed across the many screens throughout our massive venue in Venice Beach.
The night also included an upstairs party for the 747crash community, live sounds from The Park and friends, a tarot tent courtesy of Zora, tattoos by Co:Create Ink, art installations from Bright Moments, and a fully staffed open bar provided by Base. In total, the evening drew over 1,000 attendees and generated more than $20,000 for the participating artists.
Later that year I joined the ETH Bushwick team. We spent months planning a big, ambitious conference aimed at reigniting crypto's weird, passionate spirit and bringing some joy back to a community battered by hacks and brutal price swings.
When a grant fell through, we pivoted and hosted an equally spirited event at the newly opened Carousel in Bushwick, where we convinced the venue to let us cover everyone's drinks for the night, much to the delight of those who had wandered in by chance.
It was a beautiful convergence of Bushwick's nightlife and crypto communities, which at the time were nearly indistinguishable from one another. Over the following months we hosted a series of events, from a Halloween party at the 'Rash' nightclub to an intimate Popeyes dinner at my friends' bodega.
This year I've worked primarily as a consultant, advising teams on go-to-market strategy, business operations, investor relations, and fundraising — work that has helped several protocols close substantial seed rounds, including Conduct Protocol ($3M) and Unofficial, Inc. ($2M).
I still believe these technologies — and the principles of decentralization, global access, and privacy behind them — will become increasingly central to the financial world. There is value in staying put in an industry that opportunistic actors have largely fled. Now that the noise has died down, it feels like a new dawn, and an ideal time to join a team committed to building an inclusive future.
I'm currently exploring opportunities in fintech, crypto, and traditional finance, with a focus on data and business analysis, BD and partnerships, and operational roles.