The work is personal before it is professional.

"I didn't set out to build a business. I started telling friends how I'd obtained my dual citizenship, and so many of them wanted to do the same but had no idea where to begin. This practice exists for anyone who finds themselves in that situation."

A foundation in law and regulation

For more than a decade I have worked at a professional services firm in Arlington, Virginia, leading project teams across a range of clients. The thread running through all of it is the same: take dense, unforgiving regulation and translate it into guidance people can actually act on, then deliver results that survive scrutiny. That is not a bad description of citizenship-by-descent work either.

I hold a Juris Doctor from Villanova University and a Bachelor of Science from Ithaca College. I do not practice immigration law in the United States or in any EU country. What my legal training gives me is the ability to read a statute closely, follow a requirement back to its source, and think critically through the kind of complicated, document-heavy cases this work demands.

A discipline for complicated projects

A citizenship case is, at its heart, a long and intricate project. It crosses borders and languages, it depends on records held in archives that do not always answer quickly, and it unfolds over months or years rather than weeks. I manage that work the way I manage any complex undertaking: as a defined project, run in stages, with a clear deliverable at each step and a decision point before the next one.

That approach is backed by formal training. I am a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and I hold three Scrum credentials: Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Master (CSP-SM), Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM), and Certified Scrum Master (CSM). In plain terms, I am trained and certified to take complicated workflows from initiation all the way through to completion, keeping them organized, on track, and moving toward a clear outcome. It is the same discipline that shapes how every Karte Global engagement is built: one path, charted in stages.

Service on the civic side

Outside of my professional responsibilities, I serve as Vice Chair of the Arlington County Transportation Commission and President of the Columbia Forest Civic Association. Recently I drafted policy briefings for government officials comparing the transportation systems of Aachen, Germany and Arlington, Virginia; which gave me a closer understanding of how American and European localities really differ.

Both roles also mean working patiently inside bureaucratic systems to get something done, which is much of what the work that Karte Global focuses on asks for as well.

One pathway, and another

European citizenship is one way to build a life with a foothold in Europe. A visa-based move is another. Through MoveMeTo.EU, a companion practice, I help families exploring relocation on its own terms: digital nomad routes, the EU Blue Card, freelance visas, and the broader question of where in Europe to land and how to settle there. I built it because the existing tools tend to funnel people into a hard sell or bury data behind a contact form. Whether you and your family's path runs through ancestry, a visa, or both, my aim is the same: a clear, honest read on what is possible, and a steady hand through the work of getting there.

Where I stop

I am not an immigration lawyer. I have legal training, but I am not licensed to practice immigration law anywhere. I am not a tax advisor, and I am not a relocation agency. I do not file applications on your behalf, I do not represent you to a consulate or a court, and I will not tell you what your tax obligations look like. Where you need any of that, I will point you to people I trust. What I do is research, document procurement, translation, and the coordination that holds a complex case together from the first call to a passport in hand.