Tactician for Hire

Helping organizations reframe their activities in changing environments, through decades of experience in decision support, risk management, predictive modeling, and tactical planning

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Related Experience


2020 - 2025
As Sr. Advisor and Acting Director of Budget & Admin
U.S. DHHS Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals

- Played a primary role in predicting, tracking, reducing, and eliminating a 900k backlog of appeals
- Led annual risk assessments and related audits, reviews, and internal control improvements
- Developed projections, estimates, and narratives for Congressional Budget Justifications

2007 - 2019
As Sr. Analyst and Acting Branch Chief of Budget
U.S. DHHS Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals

- Developed consistently accurate workload forecasts for Congressional Budget Justifications
- Replaced formal audits with collaborative internal reviews - to better weather external audits
- Received clean audit findings from external auditors in every subsequent year of my tenure

2001 - 2006
Management and Program Analyst
U.S. DOI Bureau of Land Management

1999 - 2000
Graduate Student and Consultant
University of Colorado and Western Governors' Association