Functional Skills

Agile Software Development
Product Marketing
Product Strategy
User Experience Design (UX)
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
User-Interface Design (UI)
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
Marketing Analytics
Interaction Design
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Operations Management
Leadership Development
Supply Chain Integration
Product Data Management
Business Analysis

Software Skills

AWS Lambda
AWS
Cloudflare
Go
TypeScript
Shopify
ASP.NET Core
GraphQL
ASP.NET
Next.js

Sector Experience

Business Services
Consumer Goods
Manufacturing
Retail
Travel & Hospitality

Notable Clients

Google
Kyocera
Motorola Solutions
Old Republic International
Samsung Electronics

Fortune 500

Experience

Hyperproof, Inc. Data Science / Analytics
Director of Product
1/2023 - 11/2024
Hyperproof enables companies to achieve compliance with multiple cybersecurity frameworks (i.e. ISO, PCI, SOC2, NIST) through an integrated platform that automates compliance tasks such as proof collection. I led a Product Management team responsible for Controls, Risks, Proof, Policies, Audits and Assessments.
● Key achievements include:
• Developed a RAG-based Generative AI system that provides customers with expert guidance on compliance frameworks and optimizes product usage
• Successfully closed major enterprise deals with Accenture, Grant Thorton and other strategic customers by providing key product features
• Designed and implemented an Access Review system that ensures the integrity of employee access permissions
• Developed a Policy module that incorporates policies as compliance proof while remaining compatible with customer's existing policy management approach

Boompop, Inc. Engineering
Chief Technology Officer
1/2021 - 1/2023
BoomPop delivers amazing yet affordable one-click Offsites to midmarket and enterprise customers
• Built a multi-sided Offsite planning Platform that included an industry-first group travel Budget Optimizer, a comprehensive FinTech system with real-time bank transaction monitoring and an automated hotel/airline pricing data acquisition system that powered customer-facing analytics tools
• Recruited, managed, and owned the engineering budget for a low-cost, high value 19-person offshore engineering team and a senior 9-person US team Moved the company to a modern tech stack – Serverless AWS, SST, Postgres, Next.js, MUI, GraphQL, TypeScript, GCP, and Cypress, resulting in a 24/7 CI/CD release pipeline

Giddy Up Inc. Engineering
VP of Product & Engineering
1/2015 - 1/2021
GiddyUp runs an eCommerce platform that generates $120M in revenue and $1 B+ in product sales.
• As the technical co-founder, I recruited, managed, and owned the budget for a 14-person onshore and 12- person offshore team
• Designed and built a highly scalable, multi-tenant eCommerce, Marketing, and Advertising platform with industry-best RPV, fully localized and doing business in 115 countries. Utilized Shopify, AWS (Lambda, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redshift, Kinesis, Athena, Glue, Event Bridge), Azure (ASP.NET Core), React, Node, and Cloudflare Workers. Payment APIs include Stripe, Adyen, and PayPal
• Established SCRUM best practices, comp structure, management hierarchy, and day-to-day operations, managed Product Roadmaps, OKRs, functional specs and worked closely with cross-function stakeholders

Touchfire, Inc. Start-Up
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
1/2010 - 1/2015
Touchfire was one of the first iPad accessory companies, developing an innovative on-screen keyboard and case.
• Raised funds, operated business, owned finances, recruited co-founder and an 18-person product development, marketing, sales, and fulfillment team
• Set up US and offshore supply chain, including product manufacturing
• Sold 120K units via Direct to Consumer and B2B channels at an $8M ARR
• Exited the business by separative selling both the product division and our fulfillment operations

Legalzoom Inc. Product Management / Strategy
VP of Product
1/2004 - 1/2010
LegalZoom's Earth Class Mail division transforms postal mail into a fully digital experience, at a massive scale
• Developed a system that automatically deposit checks from within our customer's mail stream – a groundbreaking B2B feature
• Brought retail business unit to profitability by shifting to a B2B SaaS model that focused on the SMB market
• Responsible for all aspects of Product Management - roadmap, OKRs, new feature research, functional requirements specs, user interface design, and agile development methodology

Microsoft Engineering
Group Program Manager & Engineering Manager
1/1993 - 1/2001
Helped drive Microsoft's evolution during the Internet, Mobile and .NET eras
• Led a 45-person Engineering and Product team that developed Internet technologies
• Invented Active Server Pages (ASP) and managed development of the first version. ASP went on to become a multi-billion-dollar industry
• Developed wildly popular customizable news, sports, music system for Internet Explorer's home page – aka msn.com. This led to msn.com being the #2 or #3 website in the world for the next decade.
• Created the world's first server-side, database-driven Web Personalization product – Microsoft Personalization Server (MPS). Responsible for Engineering, PM, test, release, etc.
• Defined first version of ASP.NET and built a WYSIWG development product for ASP.NET (Visual Interdev)
• Group Product Manager of a 12-person PM team for Windows CE, Microsoft's first mobile OS
● Prior Roles