AI Ops & Strategy Consultant
Early in my career, if I had told a college admissions board I was pursing a career in social media, the response would have been, "What’s a social media manager?" Yet, mastering those then-nascent platforms opened doors that were typically closed to someone of my tenure, including designing and teaching social media curriculum as a university professor by age 25.
AI feels a bit like that, because the problem I see is similar. What’s different is most businesses took a long time to notice the potential to reach customers with social media, but most organizations already recognize AI has plenty of potential.
There’s just not a lot of clarity on what’s possible now versus maybe later.
There is no "standardized right answer" for how a business should integrate AI. I am firm in my belief that unless you are the engineer building the underlying models no one is an expert in all things AI just yet. However, I have spent my career finding practical applications for emerging tech and in environments where there are no guidelines and only a few examples.
If I’ve reached out to you …
Or you’re just interested in my work…
Why AI can be inefficient even if it’s fast.
If AI drives the cost of inputs toward zero but also produces results with little or no value, the system is not truly efficient.
Relevant Skills & Experience
Workflow Design
I am a process-focused strategist who builds frameworks for efficiency. My approach to any objective is to map out the workflow path, identify risks, build in contingencies, and automate or streamline cumbersome tasks to maximize ROI.
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Content Strategy & Performance: Successfully transitioned the publication cadence from quarterly to monthly. By analyzing Google Analytics, I identified that high traffic was landing on outdated "backdoor" content. I implemented a "foyer-first" strategy, refurbishing legacy content to align with the new high-frequency workflow.
Result: Increased resource traffic by 342%.
Operational Efficiency (Mental Health Association Oklahoma): Conducted a full audit of the marketing tech stack to align costs with actual utility. I eliminated high-cost, low-ROI software in favor of leaner, more effective alternatives.
Result: Saved the department $24,000 within months of starting.
AI Integration & Brand Governance (K12 Coalition): To ensure consistency following the launch of new brand voice attributes, I developed a custom GPT programmed with a proprietary tone-of-voice scale. This tool allowed staff to instantly audit their work against a brand rubric and receive context-specific recommendations.
Process Architecture & Scholarship Strategy (Early Career): Authored a book and hosted a podcast centered on a systematic approach to student debt. I built a scholarship "ranking engine" that categorized opportunities by effort, probability of success, and reward amount. I also developed a centralized response repository to decrease application time through iterative efficiency.
Result: Secured $113,000 in personal scholarships using this workflow
Implementation & Teaching
I specialize in closing the "knowledge gap" that often stalls implementation. With a background as a technical writer in complex fields (financial regulation, tax law, data engineering, and cloud software) and a college instructor, I often help others learn and apply new tools and strategies.
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Since 2023, I have focused on helping people use AI in ways that make sense for their work:
Nonprofit Enablement: Partnered with the United Way of Tulsa to teach AI strategies, helping organizations leverage emerging tech to scale their social impact.
Academic Consulting: Joined the committee for a new AI curriculum for a local university and integrated AI-driven tooling into my own business courses to prepare students for the modern workforce.
Course Development: Built multiple comprehensive AI courses designed to take learners from conceptual understanding to practical application.
Administration & Change Leadership
I believe the long-term winners with AI will be those who use technology to make their teams better, not their work cheaper. In product management, a "race to the bottom" on pricing is a losing game; similarly, businesses that replace entire departments with AI take on massive systemic risk. Relying solely on third-party models means a company is one "service outage" or "algorithm update" away from losing its core functions.
Instead, we could be workplaces where confident to master these tools (and gain efficiency as a result), rather than inconsistent adoption out of fear they are giving away their hard-earned skills to a future robot replacement.
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I have lead teams through transitions, most notably during the shift to remote operations:
Event & Project Pivots: Led the transition from fully in-person operations to a remote-first workflow during the pandemic. This included pivoting an 800-attendee flagship event to a virtual format and supporting my team’s ideas they wanted to test like launching a daily podcast to maintain a information flow during an information deficit.
Improving Engagement in Novel Environments: While many institutions struggled with remote student engagement, often resorting to strict "cameras on" mandates, I drove participation by flipping the classroom. I delivered lectures via a pre-recorded podcast format, utilizing live sessions exclusively for breakout groups and project collaboration.
Result: Students naturally turned their cameras on because they found genuine value in the peer engagement, eliminating the need for top-down enforcement.