Hello and welcome!
My name is Christi. I'm a San Francisco based operations professional with 20 years of experience in the finance, tech, and sports sectors.
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My areas of expertise lie in organizational infrastructure building, project management, people management, and stakeholder relations. I am experienced in creating and implementing company policies, and managing finances, people, projects, and events. I’m also an effective communicator with a strong technical skillset.
I operate with a high level of integrity, taking pride in the degree of transparency, reliability, efficiency, and accuracy I bring to my work. It's important to me that I lead by example, motivating those around me to put for their best effort, with advanced interpersonal skills and a healthy sense of humor. As a direct report I can be counted on to rise to any challenge, on target and on time. As a leader I can be trusted to make my team feel valued and appreciated through seeing the impact of their work.
My Philosophy
Honesty and integrity matter. We live in a time when "faking it until we make it" is considered just another stretch of the road we all must travel on our path to "success." And please don't get me wrong, I can appreciate an honest hustle as much as the next person. But, as a society, I feel we've become obsessed with, and entitled to, personal gain, caring little that we've sacrificed our commitment to our fellow person and our community as a result. Because, when we "fake it," we often forget the entity on the receiving end of our inauthenticity: our peers, our employers, our clients.
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It's important to me that my character and the value of my services are never called into question, and for that reason I am committed to representing myself and my skills authentically, honestly, and with integrity.
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The same applies to my work in operations. I'm a firm believer that if a business plans on success, it's not a matter of if it puts a focus on its operational infrastructure, but when. There is a crucial point in every company's timeline when this infrastructure is no longer a nice-to-have but a necessity, And when that moment arrives it's important to build solid, comprehensive, and scaleable processes and policies rooted in structural integrity.
My goal is always to build for a future I may or may not be a part of, but one in which the infrastructure I've contributed to building is still standing strong. The key? Hard work. It's easy to build in a vacuum with a lot of assumptions about how things should work in an ideal environment. But in business, as in life, conditions are rarely ideal. So it's important to do the hard work of listening to, and learning from, superiors, peers, and direct-reports to set a company up for long-term growth and success. In an efficiently run organization, every person's contribution matters so when I build infrastructure it's as important to me to hear from entry-level staff as it is c-suite executive. The leadership team knows where the company wants to go, but the operators usually have the best insight into where the company is. And it's my job to bridge the gap between the two, building the roadmap, policies, and processes that will take the company in the direction it wants to head for many years to come. My commitment is that I will do this with honesty, integrity, and transparency.
