I solve complex problems—sometimes with financial engineering, sometimes with software, usually with both.

CIRM is an interest rate risk advisory firm founded in 1981. We've advised on more than $116 billion in debt over the past three years, helping real estate developers, investors, and corporate borrowers manage interest rate exposure through derivative solutions and hedging strategies.

I spent nearly a decade at CIRM earlier in my career, advising institutional clients across $20B+ in assets. Interest rate caps used to be a rounding error in real estate deals. Then 2021 happened, and suddenly they were seven-figure decisions. The environment changed, but most borrowers' approach didn't—they hedged because lenders required it, not strategically.

We helped clients think about hedging strategically rather than reactively—analyzing structure, strike, and term across their portfolios instead of deal by deal. When you're spending seven figures on rate protection, the decisions deserve more attention than they typically get.

At PCCP, I managed a $2.5B levered real estate debt portfolio. When the market got difficult, I re-underwrote collateral assets and structured loan modifications that secured $25M in cash equity on $230M in troubled loans—work that combined borrower financial analysis with rate environment strategy.

I'm now back at CIRM, helping real estate investors manage rate exposure. The firm has over 40 years of expertise in interest rate risk, and we use that knowledge—combined with the right tools and technology—to help clients make better financing decisions.

MAKE Literary Productions is an international arts nonprofit connecting writers between Chicago and Mexico City. When the founder of 17 years departed, I stepped in as Interim Executive Director to lead the transition.

The work involved major governance restructuring and organizational strategy to position the nonprofit as a fundable, sustainable venture. I worked with staff and the board to run a highly competitive search process to identify our new Executive Director, Sofia Samatar—a World Fantasy Award-winning author and professor at James Madison University.

I also built the organization's CRM from scratch—contact management, donation tracking, grant deadlines with year-over-year feedback analysis, pipeline management. The system ingested 17 years of QuickBooks data, matched transactions to contacts, deduplicated records, and built out the donor network automatically. The team is using it now, and I'm continuing to develop the platform for other organizations.