Experience

Grand Ole Creamery & Grand Pizzeria

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Financial Officer

  • 2019 - Present

  Manage accounting and company finance for a multi-generational, multi-location family business serving small batch gourmet ice cream and New York-style artisan pizza. Sustained profitability throughout economic, social, and political distress experienced in 2020 following the tragic events surrounding George Floyd’s homicide and the Covid-19 pandemic.Analyzed the local market and economic climate to develop a diversification strategy that expanded brand recognition and established multiple corporate revenues streams through brick-and-mortar stores, wholesale opportunities, and vendor operations. Negotiated contracts to sell product in more than fifty grocery stores throughout Minneapolis. Co-own a third retail location at Potluck Food Hall, Minnesota’s first local-only food hall; received recognition as Vendor of the Year every year since 2019, outselling high-profile restauranteurs and celebrity-chef owned food retailers. Secured a three-year contract with Allianz Field to serve as the exclusive ice cream vendor for Minnesota United FC with customized Loons dessert. Directed all three Sub-S Corporations through a lengthy and in-depth Sales and Use Tax audit conducted by the state of Minnesota, closing in 2021 with below average liability.



Best Practice Partners

• Co-Founder

  • 2021 - Present

  Spearhead development and startup operations to empower behavioral health practitioners, including recent graduates, to become entrepreneurs and open their own medical practices. Offer administrative and front/back of house services to practitioners with access to services such as coders, medical billing, scribes, schedulers, licensing, credentialing, patient referral, and TMS equipment so that individuals who lack access to essential behavioral health services, especially in rural areas, can use telehealth to see practitioners that are typically only found in major cities or large healthcare networks. Practitioners gain full autonomy of the interventions and medications to prescribe so they are no longer limited by restrictive formularies, treatments, and scheduling. Pitched startup to CIO and the Board of Directors at Cedars-Sinai Hospital; currently onboarding and mentoring new practitioners that strive to offer cutting edge treatments and desire to operate a medical practice.



Self-employed

• Strategic Business Consultant

  • 2020 - Present

  Work with small businesses, pass-through entities, and startup businesses to develop operating plans, accounting practices, owner and employee compensation, and tax planning. Work with small businesses, pass-through entities, and startup businesses to develop operating plans, accounting practices, owner and employee compensation, and tax planning.



Claremont Graduate University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

  Course: Surveys, Grants & Contracts with Debra Fruend, Professor of Economics & President Emerita

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2017 - Dec 2018

  Research Topic: Federal Income Tax Policy with Tom Kniesner, Professor of Economics

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2017 - Dec 2018

  Research Topic: Public Health Policy with Debra Fruend, Professor of Economics & President Emerita

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2018 - May 2018

  Course: Public Health Policy Analysis with Debra Fruend, Professor of Economics & President Emerita



Claremont Graduate University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Dec 2010 - Jun 2013

  Course: Economics of Organization & Management with Thomas Borcherding, Professor of Economics Course: Economics of Organization & Management with Thomas Borcherding, Professor of Economics



Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

• United States
• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2009 - Apr 2009

  Course: Applied Economics Analysis of Public Policy II with Louisa Blanco, Assistant Professor of Economics

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2008 - Apr 2009

  Research Topic: Political Economy with Gordon Lloyd, Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy



The Grand Tan Club & Skin Spa

• Owner

  • 2006 - 2008

  Identified a consumer need in the local niche market delivering seasonal skincare services; oversaw all startup and day-to-day operations to include administration, customer service, marketing, advertising, accounting, human resources, procurement, reporting, budgeting, and P&L.Timed grand opening to coincide with the start of the winter season and leveraged minimized exposure to daylight (only 7 hours/day) to promote spa memberships and services, exceeding forecasted sales projections. Designed a sustainable organizational structure by defining roles and responsibilities and mapping out operational processes; efforts led to the profitable sale of the business in 2008.