Experience
Different environments. Same work.
2024 — Present
Heart of South Downtown
CEO / Executive Director
Executive Leadership · Economic Development · Workforce · Community
Bringing years of organizational strategy and operating experience into place-based economic and community development.
- — Leads strategy, operations, governance and funding
- — Builds public-private, corporate and philanthropic partnerships
- — Drives workforce and economic-mobility initiatives
- — Partners with city, higher-education and community stakeholders
2022 — 2024
Calendly
Senior Manager, People Operations
Scale · People Operations · Technology · M&A · Global Workforce
Built and led the People Operations Center of Excellence during rapid scale, including systems, governance, global expansion and the people-side integration of Prelude.
2012 — 2021
Atlanta Ventures / Hannon Hill
Director of Human Resources
Startups · Founders · Venture · Organizational Scale · M&A
Nearly a decade advising founders and building people infrastructure across venture-backed companies.
Selected portfolio exposure: Salesloft · Terminus · Pardot · Rigor · Hannon Hill
2011 — 2012
Auto Customs
Human Resources Manager
Frontline Workforce · Operations · HR Leadership
Owned HR across corporate and warehouse environments — hiring, operations and frontline workforce leadership in a multi-site business.
2010
National Restaurant Development
Human Resources Generalist
Hospitality · High-Volume Workforce · New Market Launches
Supported restaurant franchise workforce buildouts and new-location launches.
The throughline
Technology. Warehouses. Restaurants. Startups. Nonprofits. Communities.
At first glance, the environments look different. The problems aren't.
- How do we get the right people in the right roles?
- How do we create accountability without creating bureaucracy?
- How do we build systems before chaos becomes culture?
- How do we help leaders lead?
- How do we scale without losing what made the organization work?
- How do we make strategy executable?
That's the throughline of my career.