Houston, Texas, United States
At NASA, I translate both scientific breakthroughs and fragmented products into adopted, funded software platforms now supporting Moon and Mars missions. Across Adobe, Avenue One ($2B valuation), and multiple startups, I’ve turned products at any stage. From zero-to-one to stalled platforms, into scalable, high-impact systems generating over $1B in value. I bring structure to chaos, momentum to what matters, and build what sticks.
- Executive Portfolio Authority: Direct manager for 5 engineers and final authority over a multi-product (PersEIDS, MAVRIIC, Hippo, and more) division-wide, mission safety platform. - Matrixed Leadership: Directing a 40+ stakeholder network of cross-directorate leadership, engineering, medical, operations and more, to evolve solutions into cohesive division-wide platforms. - High-Stakes Product Transformation: Rescuing flailing or stop funding programs (e.g.PerSEIDS, MAVRIIC) into successful systems securing funding and adoption by multiple mission branches. - Technical Systems Leadership: Spearheading the transition to cloud-native deployments and championing a radical shift toward AI-driven product delivery across the directorate. - 0-to-1 Product Incubation: Leading end-to-end incubation of new innovative products from initial concept to rapid prototyping, securing funding and achieving production-ready status.
- Strategic Alignment: Devised a strategic roadmap and platform optimization for A1, a $1BN fintech scale-up, directly supporting aggressive valuation targets and operational scalability. -Generative AI Architecture: Generated $18MN+ in value for Pictory AI by architecting the technical roadmap for OpenAI-integrated video synthesis and engineering proprietary ML algorithms. -0-to-1 Venture Engineering: Led the ideation-to-launch of high-yield products for clients including Seamless, generating $100MN+ in value and boosting delivery efficiency by 75%. -Operational AI Transformation: Engineered ML automation frameworks that recovered $25MN in lost revenue and slashed operational costs by 50% across venture-backed portfolios.
- Executive CEO Partnership: Worked directly with the CEO to define a product roadmap leveraging AI and Cx data, delivering $300MN+ in organizational value. - High-Impact Product Leadership: Awarded Leader of the Year for driving a 3x surge in acquisition via strategic redesign and scaling portfolio output to 3x above performance targets across 6+ products. - Technical Quality: Established a comprehensive quality engineering and release management framework that accelerated deployment velocity and product quality by 50%. - Global Risk & Compliance Infrastructure: Developed a scalable global compliance system that mitigated high-stakes legal risks, resulting in $100MN+ in cost-avoidance and remediation savings. - Market Expansion Strategy: Launched an AI-driven custom travel generator producing 16 million+ sites, contributing $25MN in value and driving a secondary 300% increase in user acquisition. - Data-Driven Optimization: Shipped 300+ product improvements and 60 A/B tests, resulting in a 40%+ lift in conversion and $50MN in additional value via BigQuery/Mixpanel analytics.
- Product Operations & Infrastructure Scalability: Awarded 'Excellence in Innovation & Leadership' for a Kubernetes-driven DevOps transformation that increased deployment velocity by 50%. - Operational Governance: Founded a QE Center of Excellence and standardized Agile practices, improving company-wide efficiency by 80% and product reliability by 40%. - Systemic Technical Architecture: Developed cloud-based infrastructure that shortened test cycles 4x and automated stakeholder reporting to optimize cross-functional output. - Strategic Product Planning: Engineered high-fidelity roadmaps and KPI frameworks that optimized actionable insights and organizational output by 30%.
- Global Scalability & Growth: Guided cross-functional teams to launch applications across 7 countries, scaling the user base to 112M and generating $200MN+ in revenue (6x above performance target). - Technical Innovation & AI: Earned Adobe’s 'Future Creator Award' for engineering ML algorithms to analyze customer needs, resulting in $5MN+ in operational cost savings. - Ecosystem & Platform Adoption: Built and maintained a product extensions developer community, driving a 75% increase in platform adoption and ecosystem growth. - Infrastructure & Compliance: Architected a complex regulatory testing strategy and Kubernetes-based framework that improved deployment reliability by 200% and lowered defects 30%.