Résumé
A concise view of clinical experience, leadership scope, education, and community involvement.
Summary
Director of Physical Therapy at Legendary Pediatric Therapy (Draper, Utah), building and leading an outpatient pediatric PT department from the ground up. Pediatric physical therapist with prior experience as Manager of Clinical Operations at Strides Pediatric Therapy, including multidisciplinary supervision, hippotherapy programming, and torticollis specialty growth. Doctor of Physical Therapy (University of Utah, 2023).
Experience
Director of Physical Therapy
- Lead outpatient pediatric physical therapy as Director of Physical Therapy: direct patient care and department strategy for a growing PT program.
- Start, develop, and run the clinic's physical therapy department from the ground up, including clinical workflows, program design, and standards as caseload builds.
- Apply program-development experience from scaling pediatric PT in a multidisciplinary setting, with greater ownership of PT-specific growth and operations.
- Provide family-centered, evidence-informed care for pediatric outpatients, including torticollis, cerebral palsy, and complex developmental presentations.
Manager of Clinical Operations · Pediatric Physical Therapist
- Directed clinical operations and supervised a team of 30 therapists across Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, and Mental Health disciplines.
- Designed and implemented automated scheduling and onboarding systems, optimizing complex hippotherapy barn sessions and streamlining the new patient intake process.
- Led integration of new clinical programs and selection of standardized outcome measures for high-quality, data-driven patient care.
- Served as primary liaison for university relations: managed student placements, facility tours, candidate interviews, and long-term partnerships with academic institutions.
- Facilitated onboarding for new hires with specialized training in hippotherapy; conducted regular clinical in-service presentations on emerging pediatric therapy topics.
- Scaled the Physical Therapy department from a part-time service to a thriving practice with full-time and part-time caseloads; maintained a consistent waitlist.
- Leveraged TMR TOTS Level 1 & 2 certifications to establish a torticollis treatment program, with a 400% increase in physician and patient referrals specifically requesting my care.
- Provided play-based and hippotherapy interventions for patients birth–22 years with diagnoses including cerebral palsy, POTS, developmental delay, and arthrogryposis multiplex congenita.
Clinical Rotation: Sports Focus
- Provided high-level care focusing on high school and collegiate athletes.
Clinical Rotation: Neurological Focus
- Treated patient populations involving stroke, traumatic brain injury, and neuro-post-operative care.
Clinical Rotation: Pediatric Outpatient
- Managed long-term care for patients with torticollis, plagiocephaly, and other neurological disorders.
Education
University of Utah
Graduating class of 2023.
Dixie State University
Graduating class of 2019. Research: The Correlation Between Ball-Bat Contact Speed and Trunk Flexibility by Degree of Shoulder and Hip Separation. Academic paper: The Effect of Diet on Telomere Length.
Dixie State University
Skills
- Outpatient pediatric PT program development (startup and scale)
- Clinical operations and multidisciplinary supervision
- Hippotherapy program coordination and barn-based scheduling
- Torticollis and plagiocephaly (TMR TOTS)
- Pediatric physical therapy (birth–22 years): cerebral palsy, developmental delay, POTS, arthrogryposis multiplex congenita
- Student clinical education and university partnerships
- Standardized outcome measures and program integration
- Sports-focused and neurological rehabilitation (clinical rotations)
Certifications
- TMR TOTS Level 1 & 2
- Active Physical Therapist License (Utah)
Community and Volunteer Activities
The Train Station Fitness & Kickboxing
- Assisted Parkinson's patients with training and performance.
Special Olympics
- Track and field coach for athletes ages 11–15, focusing on javelin.
Dixie State University Soccer Clinic
- Organized and launched a youth soccer clinic and trained coaches.
St. George Marathon
- Provided recovery massages under medical supervision.