Groundwork Data

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Co-Founder

Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute

May '21 - Present: Conduct research at the intersection of city administration and energy systems transformation.

Sept '20 - May'21: Conducted research in the field of Urban Technology to support recovery and long-term prosperity of New York City. Co-Author of Rebooting NYC: An Urban Tech Agenda

https://urban.tech.cornell.edu/rebooting-nyc/

May '18 - Sept '20: Conducted research in the field of Urban Technology on behalf of the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech for the purpose of developing an "Urban Technology Hub and Degree Program.

https://tech.cornell.edu/news/jacobs-technion-cornell-institute-at-cornell-tech-launches-the-urban-tech-hub/

Visiting Researcher, Urban Technology

City of Holyoke

Chief of Staff to Mayor Alex Morse 	May 2019 – December 2020

-Mayor’s liaison to 26 departments heads representing 2,100 municipal employees in a city of 40,000 residents.
-Worked to deliver progressive social and economic agenda with examples including: Requiring police use of NARCAN to combat opioid overdoses; proposing a $132m middle school construction project, authoring an equitable energy transition grant in partnership with the Conservation Law Foundation, Rocky Mountain Institute, and Neighbor to Neighbor MA.
-Led city’s budget committee and department head budget review process. Passed a $142m zero-layoff budget despite COVID-19 disruptions.
-Represented the Mayor’s Office in union bargaining, grievances, and evaluation of city insurance plans.

Acting Director of Emergency Management 	March 2020 – June 2020

-Led the city’s coronavirus response task-force. Served as liaison to Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. 
-Established an ongoing partnership with Harvard Medical School and Mass General to embed experts into the city’s board of health to assist with data gathering and analysis as well as community-based testing and a serology study.

Director of IT	May 2019 – December 2020

-Concurrent with work as Chief of Staff; Oversaw city IT budget and a transition to a Managed Service Provider. 
-Spearheaded an ongoing next-generation public wireless pilot project with Nokia, Holyoke Public Schools, Holyoke Gas & Electric and the city’s Managed Service Provider and led efforts to provide public internet access to families at the onset of COVID-19.

Chief Of Staff to the Mayor

Bloomberg for Pittsfield

Democratic Candidate for Massachusetts House of Representatives for the 3rd Berkshire District (Pittsfield, MA)

Challenged the incumbent Democrat in my hometown of Pittsfield of Massachusetts, ultimately losing 53-47% in a September 8th Primary. - http://www.berkshireeagle.com/local/ci_30343433/farley-bouvier-clinches-democratic-nomination-rep-seat-race

Candidate for Massachusetts House of Representatives

Bridgewater Associates

Conducted weekly analysis meetings of full-cycle recruiting and hiring process with Bridgewater
Technology managers to find, attract, and hire industry leading technology candidates for world’s
largest (AUM) Global Macro Hedge Fund.

Managed candidate and agency communications throughout the evaluation and offer process;
provided synthesized interview feedback, conducted compensation discussions, and provided
search calibration feedback to agency partners.

Refined and adapted internal evaluations in partnership with technology departments to allow for
faster and higher quality candidate evaluations; decreased average candidate processing time by
~50%. (from 6 weeks to 3)

Absorbed Bridgewater's unique culture of truth, meritocracy, and self-relefection, and have taken it with me as a cornerstone of my values

Kora Management LP

Operations Coordinator

United States Olympic Committee

Operations coordinator for Team Processing of 1100+ athletes/staff in London for 2012 Olympic Games

Intern - International Games

Working at the intersection of cities and technology in order to help the version of you that isn’t on LinkedIn.

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