He came to Bernstein in 2001, the youngest analyst at the time, and two years later joined the tech strategy group run by the estimable Vadim Zlotnikov, captain of his high school mathteam in Brooklyn and an electrical engineering double-degree-holder from MIT.
The team conducted a review of alternative math programs, and Harlem Academy soon became the first school in Manhattan and one of the first in New York to use Singapore Mathematics in its core curriculum.