Experience

Strong Force Design

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Special Projects

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Strong Force Design employs market-proven methodologies to unlock the strategic potential of intellectual property, creating sustainable strategic advantage. Leveraging a diverse mix of competencies, the approach captures key drivers of IP advantage, fuels a highly systematic, combinatorial invention process, and guides prioritization and resource allocation. We identify strategic and valuable inventive material often missed by product-driven approaches. Our designs have supported successful licensing programs and commanded high values in acquisitions.



Strong Force Innovation Portfolios

• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Special Projects

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Strong Force creates value in dynamic markets by building Innovation Portfolios. We embrace early-stage uncertainty and complexity to build comprehensive patent portfolios of combinatorial innovation in technology-driven ecosystems. This enables us to capture broad value before there are indicators of product-market fit, the trigger for conventional patenting activity. As trends converge, use-cases accelerate, and product roadmaps solidify, we then help ecosystem participants realize this broad value. Our diverse competencies, senior relationships, and market-driven approach enable us to see across boundaries that trap others in isolated silos and inhibit the discovery and development of strategically valuable IP. We use our proprietary Strong Force™ Matrix to organize and combine our insights into a strategic array of thousands of potential patents, unlocking a geometric level of creation in areas untapped by other processes.



Strong Force Catalyst

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Special Projects

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  Strong Force delivers strategic advantage by systematically innovating across technologies, use cases, and ecosystems and by combining innovative material from a wide range of perspectives to create large, comprehensive, category-influencing patent portfolios. This approach enables it to capture broad market opportunity well before use-case adoptions emerge to drive more typical patenting activity. To benefit innovators and other stakeholders, Strong Force Catalyst delivers thought leadership, dissolves market boundaries, contributes disruptive innovation, and drives ecosystem participation to catalyze categories. We have created billions of dollars in value across a wide array of sectors and helped hundreds of visionary inventors, market leaders, and capital allocators succeed.



Inly School

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of School Advancement

  • Aug 2011 - Jun 2015

  Scope: Manage the School’s development, communications, marketing, alumni and admission departments providing direction and management of staff and programs. Serve as one of the four top school administrators and as a member of Board of Trustee committees attending monthly Board of Trustee meetings. Accomplishments:  Restructured and aligned the advancement office increasing efficiencies across staffing and programs  Instituted an annual operating plan for the department to analyze and benchmark progress  Created enrollment metrics to analyze retention rates and new applicants resulting in an increase of 15% total enrollment in three years  Designed, marketed and directed a capital campaign resulting in $2.5 million in a six month period where the annual giving average is $185,000  Initiated and managed the implementation of a gift policy ratified by the Board of Trustees  Develop and implement a marketing and outreach plan using all appropriate internet and social media resources, web site enhancement, networking and print materials to best represent the School’s rich and unique program to a variety of constituencies including prospective students, parents and members of the wider community  Generate and implement a plan to increase awareness of the School’s mission through public relations, networking, establishing relationships with feeder schools, communications initiatives, and on-campus events



Harvard Law School Fund

• Associate Director

  • Mar 2007 - Aug 2011

  Scope: Served as a member of both the Harvard Law School Fund and the Alumni Relations team managing a large portfolio of 1000+ donor prospects including travel and personal solicitations. 200 prospect visits expected annually. Accomplishments:  Designed, planned, managed and executed five regional events around the nation to introduce the new Dean of Harvard Law School  Lead project manager across several departments on the creation and production of the Harvard Law School Volunteer Manual used by over 1,000 alumni volunteers  Cultivated and solicited annual gifts up to $250,000 setting four new reunion giving records  Managed staff and volunteers in planning and executing alumni and donor events including reunions and affinity celebrations such as the Celebration of Black Alumni event for over 1,000 alumni.  Directed and managed the acknowledgement and stewardship of all HLS Fund gifts



The New England College of Optometry

• Director of Institutional Advancement

  • Mar 2004 - Mar 2007

  Scope: Developed and managed the alumni, fundraising, marketing and communication efforts. Also served as the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of both The New England College of Optometry and New England Eye Institute. Served as primary representative to Board of Trustees, Alumni, Corporations, State and National Societies. Accomplishments:  Negotiated two new FTE positions for the office. Hired and managed staff  Through analysis of programs and improved marketing efforts, increased overall giving from under $50,000 to over $550,000 in three years at New England College of Optometry while increasing alumni association paid membership by 60% in one year  Established and directed the institutional corporate fundraising program resulting in new partnerships for the college with national brands  Implemented strategic planning for the development office  Served as Lead Project Manager in website redesign and new branding initiatives including rebranding the school from NEWENCO to NECO  Developed and managed department budget and financial needs



National Youth Leadership Forum

• Program Director

  • Nov 2001 - Mar 2004

  Scope: Developed and directed an annual leadership conference for over 900 high school students. Accomplishments:  Managed the design, content and structure of curriculum used by over 8,000 students nationally  Served as Lead Trainer to prepare eight National Program Directors and over 300 Faculty Advisors to execute the curriculum materials  Hired and managed three Associate Directors and 30 program staff  Marketed and built partnerships to over 150 hospital administrations and over 1,000 doctors and healthcare professionals  Managed program budget of just under $1 million and all financial needs