Leadership

I’ve been fortunate to learn from and study top leaders in prestigious and respected businesses.

I want my team to do the best work of their life while they work with me. My core leadership beliefs are:

  1. Strengths-led. As a product leader, I seek to understand what gets a person out of bed every day, and then working to position them in the best way they can succeed.

  2. Action-oriented. I often dig into the details, and lead through collaboration, rather than delegation.

  3. Big-sky focused. Optimism is best served with a foundation of practicality and an understanding of the competition. I believe teams are most powerful when they maintain this perspective.

The Product Leader

The Product Leader

My experience combines three variables to deliver true product success:

  1. Strategic goals and metrics +

  2. Innovation +

  3. Bottom-line value

The green flags I look for in businesses to work with include:

  • A team that I can learn from, and hopefully teach. I want to work with colleagues who are innovation, growth-minded, and ambitious who I can learn from.

  • A team of solid business operators. This means a seasoned leadership team, with high integrity.

  • A team who values disclosing true expertise.

AMA

  • Stanford Graduate School of Business - Masters in Business

    Penn State University - B.S. in Management Information Systems

  • As a young software engineer, I found joy in writing code. But I soon discovered that the most satisfying moments came when my code solved real user problems. I vividly remember watching a user's face light up as they interacted with a feature I'd developed. That moment sparked a realization: technology's true power lies in its ability to improve people's lives.

    This insight drew me towards product management. I saw an opportunity to orchestrate solutions that could impact millions of users, not just lines of code. My engineering background became an asset, allowing me to bridge the gap between technical possibilities and user needs.

    In product management, I found a role that constantly challenged me to learn and grow. Each day brought new problems to solve and new technologies to understand. Most importantly, it amplified my impact. As an engineer, I wrote code that solved problems. As a product manager, I could shape entire products that transformed lives.

    This journey from code to product hasn't always been smooth, but each challenge has reinforced my passion. Every successful launch and positive user review reminds me why I love this field. I'm still driven by that initial desire - to create something meaningful that makes life better for its users. This is why I chose product.

  • Traditional AI leans on probability of predicting an outcome. Think statistics. I have over 30 patents in this area.

    GenAI creates new content based on a prompt. Here's my FastCompany interview.

  • When you start with responsible, everything else lines up.

  • In college, my brother and I wanted to overclock my processor so we could play demanding games.

    We built a water cooled system that required a hand-drilled metal block to be attached to the processor component. We pumped water through the metal block's channels to extract heat from the processor, and allow it to cool quicker.

    Although, we burned out a few processors, we eventually figured it out, and we became every college gamer's BFF.

    This is also why I didn't go to parties during college :)

  • Yep.

    It might be my parent's choice of name, but it has become an adjective that I apply to every challenge. There is always a positive reframe that we can work together to define in a product.

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

— Eleanor Roosevelt