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I find what is broken and fix it.
Operations & Brand Experience Leader — San Francisco
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About
About
A cafe that had everything it needed — except a system.
The Mill was a beacon of the city — peaking in popularity but drowning in costs and low morale. I joined the team at that moment.
Six months later there was a line out the door every weekend. The team was in tune. The quality was at its peak. All it needed was a leader with a vision and a system to get it back on course.
That was just the start.
What followed was leading a tight-knit team through the impossible — serving essential workers with the coffee and hospitality they needed during a global pandemic. What started as three operations grew to eight before being acquired. Each one built on the same foundation: systems, people, and genuine care for the guest.
That set the stage for the next challenge.
A regional program reopening after the pandemic. Four Bay Area cities. Over 45 locations. A fractured program that had lost direction, become complacent, and needed to be loved again.
Five years later the program has grown to 60 locations across five cities. Built on systems that give autonomy to the teams, insights to leadership, and quality hospitality to every guest — all while exceeding the expectations of one of the most discerning clients in the world.
98% NPS. Five consecutive years. The highest score on the account.
The foundation has been set. The teams are built. The systems are running.
Time to find the next foundation to build.
I am an operations and brand experience leader who finds what is broken and builds something better. A systems thinker with a hospitality soul. A maker who roasts coffee, films, and believes that everything created — a dashboard, a program, a perfectly pulled shot — is a form of craft.
Twenty years in San Francisco. Ready for what comes next.
Looking for a brand worth believing in.
— There is more here for those who look.
The Work
The Work
A decade of building programs, turning around operations, and designing systems that scale.
How I Think
How I Think
Four principles that shape how I approach every system, program, and team I work with.
- Find the constraint before you reach for a solution.
Every system has one binding constraint at any given moment — one place where everything is pinched and everything downstream is starved. Improving anything other than that constraint is an illusion of progress. I find it first. Then I fix it.
2. Build systems that run without you.
2. Build systems that run without you.
The highest standard of operational design is a program that delivers results whether or not you are in the room. I held 98% NPS through five management transitions because the system held — not because I was irreplaceable.
3. Leave room for the human moment.
3. Leave room for the human moment.
Build your systems tight enough that your team has energy left for genuine, spontaneous hospitality. If you expect 100% plan compliance, you leave no room for your people to be human. The best operational systems create space, not just efficiency.
4. Data finds the person. Connection keeps them.
4. Data finds the person. Connection keeps them.
Speed and personalization are the goal — but the real win is always the human connection underneath the data. I have managed a demanding enterprise client relationship for five years not because my dashboards were perfect but because the people trusted me.
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