PRODUCT LEADER · BUILDER · AUTHOR
I bring enterprise depth and startup energy to the work between a promising idea and a product people actually use.
CURRENT FOCUS
Innovation enablement, operations, strategy, and communications with The Garage at Microsoft.
CURRENT WORK · THE GARAGE AT MICROSOFT
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The Garage empowers Microsoft employees to be innovative, push the limits, and explore what’s possible.
My role spans enablement, operations, strategy, and communications for the group behind the world’s largest private hackathon. We create the conditions for people to stay curious, think like a startup, build with their hands, and carry the strongest ideas toward measurable business value.
Explore The Microsoft Garage ↗WHAT I DO
I move comfortably from the executive conversation to the product detail—and keep the two connected.
I connect customer reality, business strategy, technology, and data—then make the choices visible in a product vision, roadmap, and measures that teams can execute.
From first workflow to enterprise adoption, I architect experiences that feel coherent. That means listening closely, prototyping early, and treating change as part of the product.
I work hands-on with AI-native tools, rapid prototyping, low-code platforms, and agentic workflows—while bringing the judgment to know what should be built and why.
I create clarity across executives, product, engineering, operations, and partners. The goal is a high-trust team that sees the same problem, owns the outcome, and learns fast.
SELECTED IMPACT
Global credentialing and assessment platform
Certification renewal program and custom BI
AI/ML supply-and-demand models
Post-merger identity and technology deployment
BUILDER’S NOTEBOOK
NEW BOOK · 2026
The New Playbook for Product Management
My field guide to AI-native development, prototype-first workflows, and the judgment product leaders need when shipping cycles are measured in hours—not weeks.
PRODUCT LAB · PRIVATE BETA
Less admin. More music.
A connected product suite for working bands—born from lived experience and built end to end with AI-native tools.
Visit GigForte ↗AI-ACCELERATED · PRODUCTION-MINDED
I use ChatGPT and Codex to explore, prototype, debug, and accelerate delivery. But the work is product engineering: translating real workflows into durable systems, making architecture and security choices, testing behavior, and iterating until the software works for actual users.
StageChart · Bandy · Visual ChordPro · GigForte
HOW I LEAD
The best work happens when talented people have context, clarity, and trust.
I ask questions before prescribing answers. I make the hard choices visible. I sweat the details without losing the larger story—and I share credit widely.
My range spans venture-backed product work, Microsoft-scale transformation, a T-Mobile merger, global learning platforms, music, and now a suite of products I’m building myself. The thread is curiosity: understand the system, find the leverage, help the team move.
EXPERIENCE
CURRENT
Enablement · Operations · Strategy · Communications
Helping empower Microsoft employees to innovate, push limits, and explore what’s possible. I support the team behind the world’s largest private hackathon—turning curiosity, hands-on building, and startup energy into business value.
2020 — NOW
Vice President, Consulting Services
Product and program leadership for Microsoft Worldwide Learning: an AI-enabled skilling platform, globally deployed assessment experiences, partner strategy, and a 25-person consulting team.
2019 — 2020
Post-Merger Transformation Consultant
Helped integrate technology for 40K+ employees, launched a flagship B2B UCaaS product, and accelerated internal app delivery 4× while avoiding $1M in legacy costs.
2004 — 2018
Director, Consulting Services HQ · Product & Program Leadership
Led products, portfolios, enterprise architecture, learning, deal automation, and ERP transformation across a $6B services business, 22K employees, and a $200M investment portfolio.
1999 — 2004
Product Manager
Built the product fundamentals in startup and enterprise settings: user research, prototypes, UX, requirements, launches, analytics, and go-to-market planning.
B.A. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
✦MICROSOFT AZURE AI ESSENTIALS
✦AGILE / SAFe · DESIGN THINKING · SIX SIGMA · PROSCI / ADKAR