Results-driven Senior Product Leader with 7+ years of experience building enterprise, consumer, and AI products at Meta, VMware, and startups impacting 2 billion+ users. Proficient in delivering high-quality products at speed and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver value while improving processes. Successfully founded an automotive services startup, leading product and developing a $3B go-to-market strategy. Technical experience in software development and building dashboards.
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Cross-functional collaboration
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Product Roadmapping
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Process Improvement
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Leadership
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Stakeholder Management
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CI/CD/Dev Experience
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Scrum
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Agile
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Lean
​Career Highlights
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Decreased misinformation on Facebook by 30% for 2+ billion users.
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Launched CI/CD product, decreasing security review time from 90 days to 48 hours, and saving the US Army, Navy, and Air Force an estimated $4.8M in the first 6 months of launch.
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Won Antler VC’s 2025 startup accelerator hackathon with a prototype built in 48 hours using Lovable, Eleven Labs, and Cursor.
Work Experience
Buckled.io, Austin, TX, Founder
October 2024 - September 2025
Customer experience software for the automotive services industry.
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Interviewed 30+ users to define the initial customer profile, top pain points, and vision.
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Recruited engineers, led design workshops, and developed an MVP wireframe.
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Designed web and mobile apps using Figma and Builder.io.
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Won Antler VC’s 2025 startup accelerator hackathon with a prototype built in 48 hours using Lovable, Eleven Labs, and Cursor.
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Developed a go-to-market strategy for a $3B valuation and 5 year exit.
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Prototyped consumer user flow and conversational AI using OpenAI API, Cursor, Vercel, and Builder.io.
VMware, Austin, TX, Senior Product Manager
January 2022 - April 2024
Cloud Infrastructure giant with a client services division.
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Interviewed 15 app teams to identify pain points, share findings with leadership, and lead a new developer experience team.
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Launched CI/CD product, decreasing security review time from 90 days to 48 hours, and saving the US Army, Navy, and Air Force an estimated $4.8M in first 6 months of launch.
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Navigated team through complex stakeholder requirements across R&D, operations, and leadership, shipping product in 30 days, and increasing the speed of U.S. Army arctic operations by 50%.
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Implemented Agile and Lean practices within my teams, establishing a cadence of 30-day product launches from problem discovery to MVP.
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Led monthly Agile and Lean practice talks to the entire software organization.
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Presented publicly on building and managing AI products.
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Co-authored a VMware white paper on managing data science products.
NDWA Labs, Austin, TX, Director of Product
June 2021 - December 2021
HR Software and employee benefits for the gig economy.
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Led user journey mapping to identify and prioritize pain points and features.
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Increased adoption of flagship product by 75% over two quarters.
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Researched state fintech laws to identify viable markets and fiduciary partners.
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Pivoted team from beta product, saving the organization a projected $9M in development expenses.
C.J. Product Consulting, Austin, TX, Product Manager
January 2020 - March 2021
Startup and non-profit product growth and Agile consulting.
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Implemented Agile to drive the completion of 75% of sprint tasks for an organization, up from 50%.
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Interviewed 10+ CEOs to identify market trends, publish articles, and drive credibility for the organization, enabling the raising of $30+ million in capital.
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Doubled followers for client using a data-driven social media growth program.
Meta, Menlo Park, CA, Project Manager
January 2017 - November 2019
Facebook’s News Feed Integrity team.
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Interviewed product teams to identify pain points, implement SLAs and observability, doubling adoption from 25 product teams to 50.
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Led fine-tuning of an ensemble machine learning model to decrease misinformation on Facebook by 30% for 2+ billion users.
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Interviewed 2 global operations teams to identify pain points, design solutions, and negotiate with leadership to allocate engineering cycles.
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Launched 3 operations tools to increase speed of investigations from 7 days to 24 hours.
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Implemented scrum practices, increasing team quarterly goal completion from 50% to 85% quarter-over-quarter.
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Built KPI dashboard for operations team, increasing team alignment and speed.
Shift Paradigm, Austin, TX, Marketing Analyst
June 2016 - December 2016​
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Frontier Logistics, Houston, TX, Business Analyst
June 2015 - June 2016
Education
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B.B.A. in Finance, Texas A&M University
Python and Calculus, Austin Community College
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Alliance
Certificate in Designing and Building AI Products, MIT
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Awards
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Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. Army
Elevate Our Best Award, VMware