Senior Product Manager
Decision rights break down, outcomes stop being measured, roadmap and architecture drift apart. I diagnose the real constraint and drive the decision that moves the program.
Most teams add process. I remove the constraints that make process necessary.
My Story
I started as an engineer, building the systems that power media delivery, ad platforms and security infrastructure. That foundation never left. It's why I can diagnose a stalled program and tell you whether the problem is the roadmap, the architecture or the operating model.
I specialize in the moments when a platform needs to grow faster than its current structure allows: a migration with no shared plan, a product with adoption metrics nobody is measuring, a zero-to-one build that needs both technical judgment and business discipline.
The pattern I keep finding: most programs aren't stuck on execution. They're stuck because ownership is unclear, outcomes aren't defined and roadmap and architecture have drifted apart. Fix those and delivery restores itself.
I've done this at Disney, Yahoo!, Cognizant, Accenture and Bank of America across media, security, healthcare and streaming. Ascendvent is my own AI product, currently in active development.
I write code too. My GitHub shows how I use AI as a PM, not just manage it.
Selected Work
3 teams, 1 stalled SIEM migration, 0 shared roadmap. Decision rights were undefined, outcomes were capability lists. $60K/month was burning in coordination overhead. I defined ownership, set the migration sequence and delivered the first plan security ops, engineering and compliance could all execute against.
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Security customers struggled to find and adopt detection content scattered across three systems. I unified engineering and product around a centralized discovery platform, driving a 12% adoption lift and cutting onboarding from 10 weeks to 3.
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Live-stream viewers had no way to pause, rewind or replay. It was a growing retention risk. I led the zero-to-one launch of session-based playback, driving a 35% engagement lift while reducing cloud storage costs by 18%.
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Took over Abbott's BinaxNOW population management platform and recruited a cross-functional team to scale from pilot to 50 million tests per month, enabling mass-market at-home COVID testing when the country needed it most.
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I started building a B2C AI confidence app. Structured discovery killed that hypothesis and I pivoted to the real customer: coaches, tutors and mentors drowning in ops. I'm now building the software layer that lets them focus on the relationship instead of the spreadsheet.
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Led ESPN's migration from Flash to HTML5 live streaming, drove a 25% uplift in video engagement and 60% increase in ad insertion success and architected the platform pivot from FreeWheel to Google Ad Manager across Disney.
View →From People I've Worked With
“Showed grace under pressure and still tried to help everyone be great at their roles. That kind of leadership stays with you.”— M.J., Former Peer
“Challenged rigid ways, coached junior PMs to always evolve, and pushed us to question the status quo instead of trusting playbooks blindly.”— M.R., Former Peer
“His ability to quickly get proof of concepts to working code enabled deeper conversations with stakeholders about the what-ifs.”— C.W., Former Peer
“A relator who reads the room, connects one-on-one, and knows when to push and when to back off. He understood the reality of the situation.”— K.T., Former Peer
“Convinced us to adopt Lean Canvas as part of our product process. I still use it to this day and now recommend it to others.”— E.K., Former Peer
“I've never seen him give up. Strong, optimistic, and dedicated. That's the opinion I've formed over years of working together.”— A.S., Former Peer
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