Writing & Talks
Published Work
Articles, conference talks, and videos on product management, engineering collaboration, scaling teams, and making complex work understandable. Published in HubSpot, Agile Alliance, Product Coalition, Women in Product, and more.
As an Attacker, I Want Your Data: Anticipating Security Threats
Co-presented with Eleftheria Stein (VMware Spring Security Engineer). Introduced the attacker persona framework: writing user stories from a malicious actor's perspective with Gherkin rejection criteria, then validating defenses with automated tests before shipping.
Ask Women in Product: Does Domain Expertise Really Matter?
Contributed perspective on whether PMs need deep domain expertise or whether strong product fundamentals transfer across industries. Argued that curiosity, rapid learning, and structured discovery matter more than prior domain knowledge -- a pattern proven across healthcare, defense, fintech, and developer tooling.
10 Best Practices to Streamline User Onboarding
Actionable framework for reducing onboarding friction and improving time-to-value for new users. Covers progressive disclosure, clear first actions, trust-building before commitment, and measuring activation milestones.
Which Game of Thrones Character Style Product Manager Are You?
Maps PM archetypes to Game of Thrones characters, making abstract leadership styles concrete and memorable through shared cultural reference. Uses humor and pop culture to teach real lessons about product leadership approaches.
How to Help Non-Technical Teammates Understand Your Tech-Heavy Product
Practical guide to making complex backend systems understandable for cross-functional stakeholders. Uses a Home Depot product catalog integration as the running example, showing how personifying systems and simplifying data flows builds shared context across technical and non-technical teams.
So You Want to Be a Product Manager, But You Don't Know Where to Start
Career entry guide for aspiring product managers covering core skills, recommended resources, and what to expect. Drawn from experience teaching 150+ PMs at General Assembly and coaching across enterprise and startup clients.
Manage the Growing Pains of Scaling an Agile Team
Lessons from scaling a 7-person agile team to 24 on AutoTrader's MakeMyDeal platform (Cox Automotive's fastest-growing business unit). Covers velocity recalibration, sprint structure changes, cross-team coordination, and honest 'Hard Truths' about what breaks when teams grow fast. Includes real burndown charts and team composition data.
Crafting User Experience Personas
Episode 29 of 352's Noodles & Doodles video blog series. Teaches persona crafting methodology including research triangulation, realistic naming conventions, behavioral descriptions, capping persona sets at roughly six, and using persona-driven user stories to guide product decisions.