McLean, Virginia, United States
I’m a product leader who blends data, design, and AI to build products that make decisions smarter and experiences simpler. I’m passionate about turning complex analytics into insights that drive business outcomes, improve customer journeys, and inspire teams to innovate. With 15+ years across finance, technology, and federal transformation—including roles at Capital One, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, EY, Bloomberg, and now Cherokee Federal—I’ve led cross-functional teams that launched enterprise platforms, modernized analytics, and brought AI into everyday decision-making. I thrive at the intersection of vision and execution: translating data into strategy, connecting business goals to technical delivery, and helping teams move fast with purpose. MBA in Corporate Finance and BS in Engineering, with certifications in Senior Product Management, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, and AI for Product. Active DoD Secret and IRS MBI clearances. ▬▬▬▬▬▬ SPECIALTIES: Product Strategy & Roadmapping • Data-Driven Decision-Making • AI & Automation • Business & Financial Analytics • Agile Product Leadership • User Experience & Insights • Data Visualization (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik) • Cross-Functional Team Leadership • Stakeholder Engagement • Process Optimization • Capital Markets & Risk Analytics TECHNICAL TOOLKIT: SQL • Python • R • SAS • Power BI • Tableau • Tableau Prep • Qlik • Databricks • Salesforce • Jira • Confluence • ADVANA • Excel (Advanced Modeling)
❖ Advised DoD leadership on enterprise Agentic AI strategy, delivering implementation roadmaps, prioritization frameworks, and vendor selection criteria to accelerate mission-aligned adoption. ❖ Directed development of an interactive Tableau decision platform that modernized contract evaluation and selection, improving transparency and data-driven procurement outcomes.
Directed enterprise analytics and product initiatives for the IRS that modernized decision-making and operational transparency. Set product vision, led a multidisciplinary data team, and partnered with executives to deliver scalable tools that improved accountability, speed, and user experience. ❖ Product Leadership: Defined roadmap and priorities for enterprise dashboards replacing manual reporting with real-time visibility for agency leaders. ❖ Executive Scorecards: Integrated FOIA, eTrak, and Tracker data (12+ sources) into a unified scorecard to track responsiveness, cutting delays and improving oversight. ❖ Operational Insights: Analyzed 700K+ ServiceNow tickets to identify root causes and improve self-service, reducing volume and enhancing user experience. ❖ People Leadership: Mentored analysts and developers, instilled agile delivery practices, and fostered collaboration and continuous improvement. ❖ Strategic Impact: Delivered automation and data integration that supported workforce planning and informed executive organizational redesign decisions. ❖ Data & AI Enablement: Guided teams on integrating AI into analytics workflows to drive automation and predictive insight, applying market and GovWin data to uncover new business opportunities.
Drove the strategic launch and continuous innovation of DPA One, enhancing lender experience and platform connectivity while leading cross-functional teams to leverage data insights and customer feedback to improve product functionality and satisfaction. ❖ Product Strategy & Launch: Led the roadmap and release of DPA One’s lender experience, delivering innovative, customer-centric features that achieved adoption by 4,500+ loan officers within six months. ❖ Innovation Leadership: Spearheaded initiatives such as Future of Search, AI-powered lender chatbots, Web Scraping, and Generative AI pilots, fostering a culture of continuous product innovation. ❖ Design & User Experience: Partnered with designers in Figma to prototype and refine features that elevated the overall user journey. ❖ Go-to-Market & Training: Directed product demos, user research sessions, and lender enablement—training sessions reached up to 800 participants. ❖ Platform Integration: Led the Lender API integration, enabling direct platform connectivity with DPA One. ❖ Data-Driven Improvement: Leveraged analytics and Tableau visualizations to refine features based on performance metrics and user behavior. ❖ Agile Delivery: Partnered with developers to pre-refine and refine stories, managed sprint capacity, and wrote user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira. ❖ Measurement & Insight: Defined Google Analytics and internal reporting requirements to track usage and recommend enhancements to the marketing site and platform.
Directed the design and delivery of predictive analytics applications at the Pentagon that enabled the Navy and Department of Defense to improve energy efficiency and operational decision-making. Combined product strategy, data engineering, and agile delivery to scale enterprise analytics capabilities across multiple defense organizations. ❖ Product Leadership: Defined the product vision and roadmap for predictive analytics tools that transformed fragmented datasets into actionable insights for senior military and civilian leaders. ❖ Agile Delivery: Established a 2-week sprint cadence in Jira to accelerate enhancements and align development with evolving client priorities, embedding agile product practices within a mission-driven environment. ❖ Data Integration: Unified cross-departmental data across DON and DoD systems, advancing the enterprise PULSE analytics platform and enabling energy consumption modeling through Databricks and Qlik. ❖ Executive Impact: Delivered predictive dashboards and insights used by the Assistant Secretary (EI&I) and Deputy Secretary of Defense’s office at the Pentagon to inform major investment and operational planning decisions. ❖ Stakeholder Alignment: Partnered with PIO and CDAO offices to define success metrics and data strategies, improving data quality and consistency across defense analytics initiatives. ❖ People Leadership: Managed and coached a team of 6, developing skills in analytics, visualization, and agile delivery, while fostering a high-performance culture of innovation and accountability.