Career Timeline

Service jobs through high school and college: plant nursery and greenhouse work, theatrical productions, B&B hospitality. Shaped the work ethic and people-first instincts that still hold.

First tech job: Certified Scrum Master at a web development agency, building webapps and marketing sites for clients in Gainesville, Florida and Atlanta, GA. I was so into the vibe - I won the Office Culture Champion award two years in a row.

I'm eternally grateful to the developers on Team Orange for everything they taught me. We got to work on some seriously cool software - and even won support for our hackathon project that eventually took over PlanningPoker.com.

After a short stint as a Product Owner at a hospitality enterprise, I was recruited to join Pivotal Labs as a consulting Product Manager. I'd never been happier.

I learned from the sharpest folks in the biz, collaborating in user-centered product discovery, research, and lean design and validation practices. Our balanced product teams followed eXtreme Programming (XP) practices to a tee, with Gherkin acceptance criteria, Test-Driven Development (TDD) and persistent focus on Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD). Our clients were ambitious and driven to find sustainable ways to "go fast forever."

Shoutout to Team HAM - two women in every single role (Product, Design, Engineering) on a product team. What a dream. #PivotalLife

I also taught Product Management and Agile Software Development workshops and immersive courses at General Assembly Atlanta - right up until I made the move to SF in 2018.

I had an awesome time working with Zendesk's Platform product teams, giving customers ways to weave their crucial business data into Support workflows to help agents resolve tickets even faster. It was so cool to see how different product verticals across the company operated (Support, Voice, Chat, Sell) - quite a few teams, each with shared or connected goals.

Once the pandemic hit and I had moved to an in-house product role, I got antsy to get back out there to help clients. I joined the Toptal consulting network to begin my own freelance Product engagements (with B Lab), and I started Product Manager and UX Design mentorship and career coaching. I love getting to nerd out about Product stuff with cool people.

I landed a full-time Product Coaching role at Kaiser Permanente, getting to work alongside some familiar ex-Pivots from ATL and SF, and learning even more cool coaching techniques from new faces. I split my time between coaching leadership and product managers within the member-focused software arm (KP Digital) and building interactive Product Model workshops for teams throughout the rest of the IT org going through a digital transformation.

In parallel, I began consulting with some awesome Air Force folks I'd known back in my Pivotal Labs days through Sagely. And I had my first-ever paid interview assignment: prioritizing a product roadmap at a developer webtools startup (Gatsby/Netlify), where I led discovery, interviews, and pricing strategy.

I joined Rise8 as Staff Product Portfolio Lead, embedded with Space Launch Delta 45 at the U.S. Space Force to coach modern software delivery for the Digital Spaceport of the Future. We cut MVP cycle time from 6 months to 2 weeks. I managed 20+ projects across 3 portfolio pillars, designed the K8 Playbook training curriculum, and got to keynote at the AFA Air, Space & Cyber Conference in DC.

Then Artium, where I served as Product Manager and AI Practice Lead. I built a 340+ skill AI agent system that became the foundation for the practice. I shaped how product teams integrate AI into discovery, delivery, and operating models, and led product on two client engagements: an AI-powered clinical trial simulator for a $2.7B CRO and an Asset Library MVP for a 50K-customer edtech platform.

Today I'm independent again, exploring full-time product leadership roles while selectively taking consulting engagements. The 340+ skill agent system runs my consulting practice and powers this site. I write, I coach, and I am open to talking about what is next.

Independent again. Open to full-time product leadership roles and selectively consulting. Currently running this site, the agent system that powers it, and the writing practice that comes with it.