How long have you been with the company? I’ve been with Booz Allen for more than 20 years. Prior to that, I was in the Navy, then went to business school for finance, as well as graduate school for operations research. I have been in both client-facing roles across federal and commercial markets, and rotational roles in finance focused primarily on driving financial performance, and enhancing analytics, metrics, reporting, forecasting, and planning activities.
What is the best business advice you have ever received? Be yourself, really understand what your strengths are, and try to maximize your performance—your broad performance, whether it’s functional delivery, client engagement, or staff management and career development—use your strengths to be able to maximize each of those. Similarly, learn how to recognize, mitigate, and ultimately, improve upon your weaknesses.
Another one, and at Booz Allen it’s particularly important: Take control of your own career. The way you succeed here is to be willing to take on those stretch opportunities, take on challenges that move you out of your comfort zone, and be willing to sacrifice in the short term to ultimately succeed in the long term.
What drives you, what makes you passionate about your work at Booz Allen? Being able to do interesting work—work that’s important to our clients’ missions—that drives me. I enjoy digging into the numbers and talking strategy, and I really value bringing the two together to advance our clients’ priorities in ways that even they aren’t aware are possible. Lastly, the people. We have the most talented and dedicated people in the industry. I’m honored and humbled to be able to work with them every day.
