Turning Data
into Movement.

I build the data and AI products behind advocacy that wins — finding the right people, reaching them with the right message, and turning campaign wins into capability that lasts.

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What I Do

I'm Chief Intelligence & Insights Officer at Iron Light, leading product, audience modeling, and the AWS data infrastructure behind it. I came up through product — Head of Product, Surveys at Civis Analytics — and still build hands-on: SQL, pipelines, and the roadmap that turns them into reusable capability.

Current Focus

  • Turning audience intelligence into reusable tools — for our team and for clients — instead of rebuilding it every engagement
  • An agentic data program for audience identification and reach: identity resolution, intent signals, and activation coordinated as one pipeline of agents
  • A five-stage operating model that converts client services work into durable platform capability
  • AWS data pipelines (Athena, Redshift, Glue, S3) feeding campaign decisions in real time
  • Opinion-research design and the strategic analysis that turns it into action

Technical Expertise

  • Data Engineering — AWS Glue, Step Functions, Athena/Iceberg, Redshift, S3
  • Audience Intelligence — identity resolution, audience modeling, attitudinal segmentation, intent signals
  • AI / LLM — agentic data pipelines, research automation, model integration into strategy workflows
  • Data Security — AWS threat modeling (STRIDE / CIA Triad), encryption (KMS, TLS), IAM least-privilege, audit logging, multi-tenant data segregation
  • Research — opinion-research design, polling analysis, message testing

Data into Movement

  • Swing State GOTV, 2024 — 1.89M voters engaged, 91.6% turnout vs. 68% statewide; adding SMS to digital lifted turnout +3.12 pts (+17% relative) among low-propensity voters
  • Swing Demographic Voter Initiative, 2024 (multi-state) — 3.2M-voter modeled universe; 87% early-vote turnout in target states vs. a 39% baseline
  • Higher-Education Alumni Advocacy — 4× response-rate lift from verified-audience targeting vs. an unverified list
  • Non-profit issue advocacy — ~1M CRM records matched to the voter file with statewide over/under-index analysis
  • National issue advocacy — 16.4M-voter universe built via multi-model proxy scoring across three policy dimensions
  • Real-time activation — delivery into Meta, El Toro, and SMS, with returned ballots suppressed automatically
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Experience

Iron Light — Chief Intelligence & Insights Officer
Lead intelligence & insights for advocacy clients — audience modeling, opinion research, and the AWS data infrastructure behind them. Authored the five-stage operating model that turns client engagements into reusable product, and productized recurring deliverables (audience briefs, polling memos, match-quality reports, dark-voter-pool analyses) into modules the team and client analysts reuse.
Civis Analytics — Head of Product, Surveys
Owned the survey product line at one of the leading data-science firms in politics and social impact.
Previously
Cigna, Brighter, Ipsos, MarketShare, OTX

Community & Interests

  • Data ethics and civil liberties
  • Urban analytics and quantified self
  • Cryptocurrency and blockchain
  • Community: Liberty on the Rocks, Techqueria, Hack for L.A., Bastiat Society

Connect

Best way to reach me is on a platform — most active on LinkedIn and Substack.