From the classroom
to systems design
I spent 14 years teaching World History at Newton North High School — one of Massachusetts's most demanding public high schools. But teaching was only part of the job. Simultaneously, I was managing the master schedule for 2,100+ students, evaluating and implementing SIS software across a 21-school district, and training over 1,000 colleagues on tools they'd never used before.
I was doing program management, product management, data analysis, and user research before those were my job titles.
When I stepped out of the classroom in 2023, I brought all of it with me. At The Possible Zone — a Boston nonprofit serving 1,000+ students annually — I drove 250% enrollment growth in 12 months by treating an under-resourced organization like a product company: building the systems, defining software requirements, and making the data visible to leadership.
At TalkingPoints, I partnered with schools and districts across the country to implement a community engagement platform. I built the implementation playbook, the KPI framework, and the internal tooling that turned an ad hoc process into something structured and repeatable.
What I've learned across all of it: most organizations aren't struggling because of their people. They're struggling because of their systems. I now work with schools, districts, and small organizations to fix that — combining deep operations experience with a teacher's understanding of how real people actually adopt and use tools.
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