About

Inverted Ventures

General Partner

Mar 2021 - Present · 4 yrs

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Inverted Ventures backs early stage entrepreneurs who dare to invert the status quo.

Mariner

Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo

Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

Mariner acquired Spring in 2023 and with my transition from CEO and Founder at Spring to Managing Director at Mariner, I am charged with creating and leading the Financial Wellness efforts at Mariner, a national wealth advisory firm with 86 locations in 34 states serving tens of thousands of individuals, business owners, and organizations.

Spring

Founder & CEO

Jun 2015 - Jan 2023 · 7 yrs 8 mos

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Spring was acquired by Mariner Wealth Advisors in 2023. Spring was rebranded to Mariner Financial Wellness. I was asked to stay on to create and and lead the Financial Wellness business unit at Mariner. As part of Mariner, we continue to be on a crazy mission to help hundreds of millions of Americans learn about their finances so they can reach their financial goals and dreams. We're building the first 100% free and 100% unbiased financial health benefit for employees. Companies that care about their employees financial health use Spring to help them reach their financial goals.

Google

Computer Science Teaching Fellow

Jun 2013 - Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Charleston, South Carolina

CS First (https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home) is designed to empower all students to create with technology through free computer science clubs. CS First provides free, easy-to-use computer science (CS) enrichment materials that target and engage a diverse student population. 2M+ students globally have used CS First.

As a Teaching Fellow at Google, I have had the opportunity to work on developing CS First from the ground up with an incredible team. Since our fellowship started, I have worked on and contributed to:

• Scaling, growth, and adoption of CS First nationally with a focus on several key strategic markets
• External event presentation, education, and stakeholder understanding, buy in, and adoption
• Research, data analysis, UX analysis and site improvement/design
• International logistics and supply chain management
• Curricula framework, design, writing, editing, and production

CS First is a marquee education solution at Google and, among other various federal and state level mentions, was mentioned in President Obama's Press Release regarding updates to the national CS For All initiative.

Teach For America

2011 Corps Member

Jun 2011 - Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Greater Chicago Area

Middle School Teacher - Mathematics

Key Highlights:

• 3.5 years of average growth across all students, outpacing state average of < 1.0 year, and Teach For America Chicago average of 1.5 years.
• Several projects funded through Donorschoose.org to embed resources into classroom valued at over $10,000. Most importantly, integration of laptop computers that allowed students to access college courses.
• Overlaid innovative synthetic economy to invest students in learning and to advance financial knowledge and behaviors.

Capital Good Fund

Director of Programs

Jun 2010 - Jun 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

Providence, Rhode Island Area

I worked on developing and implementing several curricula designed to empower individuals overcome the prevalent barriers of poverty. The innovative holistic approach that addresses multiple barriers is expected to yield much stronger results than utilizing a single pathway or focus.

Acquired Specialties and Skills:

• Loan underwriting and origination
• Curricula development
• Teacher training
• Training manual development
• Group lending construction and execution
• VITA Tax Site Coordinator