Melissa leads the back-end of growth: where systems either support the business or slow it down. She’s always been wired to find the simplest way to do something. From creating cheat sheets in school to mastering entire workflows across teams, she naturally sees how things connect and where they can be simplified. In enterprise environments like Wells Fargo and Ralph Lauren, Melissa became known for understanding systems end-to-end and improving them in ways that saved time, reduced manual work, and actually held up long-term. What makes her different is how she thinks. She often sees how a process should work before it’s fully built, which allows her to simplify it before automation is ever introduced. Her approach is simple: simplify first, then automate. Because if you automate a messy process, you don’t fix it you scale the problem.