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Product Leadership • AI • Team Builder • Growth Agent

Modern product leadership for growth, clarity, and sharper judgment.

I build product organizations and digital experiences that feel current, commercially sharp, and executionally credible. The throughline in my work is simple: raise the bar, sharpen the story, modernize the system, and help teams ship with more confidence.

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New York, NY 19+ years Product, strategy, CX, AI Open to CPO / VP Product opportunities
Executive value Strategy with operator depth, modern product sensibility, and the ability to make growth feel organized instead of chaotic.
Leadership style Curious, demanding, collaborative, and current. Serious about standards, but never stiff. Built for teams that want range, momentum, and taste.
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Signature work

Featured work

Gaming • 0 to 1 product build • monetization

FanDuel Faceoff

Executive sponsor • Lead strategist

Led strategy, discovery, user research, GTM framing, and platform monetization for a mobile-first skill gaming product launched from scratch. This is the kind of work I love most: defining the opportunity, shaping the product system, aligning stakeholders, and launching with commercial clarity.

0 to 1 launch Mobile-first gaming marketplace $1M in month one Product strategy + GTM
Data visualization • public platform • conservation

Audubon Bird Migration Explorer

Chief strategist • Client lead

Directed strategy and executive client leadership for a high-visibility digital platform that turns complex migration data into a public-facing experience that is elegant, educational, and useful.

Award-winning platform Complex data made accessible Public impact
Hospitality • service design • operational transformation

Carnival Global Gaming

Transformation strategy

Led strategic reimagination of the onboard casino ecosystem across guest experience, crew workflows, and operational realities. A strong example of multi-audience product thinking applied to a highly nuanced environment.

1000+ hours of research Guest + crew + ops Experience redesign
Wealth platform • AI roadmap • enterprise advisory

EFT Accelerator for Goldman Sachs

Client executive • Strategy lead

Led executive strategy, client leadership, delivery oversight, and sales support for an AI-powered wealth platform initiative aligned to large-scale wealth management transformation.

Enterprise AI advisory Roadmap alignment Transformation context
No public project URL available. Presented as confidential enterprise work.
AI-first application • crisis response • workflows

Crisis Management Tool for Smith & Co.

Chief strategist • Product oversight

Helped shape an AI-powered brand reputation and crisis response application, bringing product clarity, workflow direction, and executive-level framing to an enterprise-grade initiative.

AI-first product vision Real-time workflows Enterprise-grade framing
No public project URL available. Positioned as confidential product leadership work.
Thought leadership • podcast • executive voice

Industry voice and product leadership content

Speaker • Host • Guest • Writer

The portfolio should not only show shipped work. It should also demonstrate market perspective, communication range, and executive presence. This card surfaces that layer of the brand.

G2E speaker Podcast appearances Executive thought leadership
Resume in portfolio form

Leadership experience

Recent leadership

Executive Director, Vice President of Digital Strategy and Design
ProfitOptics • Feb 2024 to Present
Practice builder

Built and scaled a digital strategy practice from zero, generated more than $2M in net-new revenue, led AI MVP incubation, advised on platform modernization and AI readiness, and improved delivery velocity through better operating discipline.

Executive Director, Senior Client Manager
Launch by NTT DATA, formerly Postlight • Nov 2020 to Feb 2024
Enterprise transformation

Led 20+ enterprise engagements across gaming, fintech, nonprofit, and marketplace environments, including FanDuel, Carnival, Audubon, Uber Drizly, and the MTA. Worked across strategy, GTM, product framing, user research, and executive alignment.

Senior Technical Product Manager
Jack Henry & Associates • Jul 2017 to Nov 2020
Scaled platform leadership

Helped scale digital banking users from 100K to 10M while partnering with C-suite banking leaders on roadmap quality, risk frameworks, analytics, CX, workflow enhancement, and API modernization.

What this experience adds up to

My career has been less about staying in one lane and more about leading at the level where product, business, experience, and operational systems intersect. That is exactly what modern CPO-level work demands.

  • Experience spanning fintech, gaming, enterprise software, media, nonprofit, healthcare, and public sector contexts.
  • Comfortable building both the strategy and the operating model behind it.
  • Strong with executive communication, coaching teams, and raising the quality bar without slowing momentum.
  • Able to move fluidly from portfolio-level thinking to specific product decisions when the situation requires it.
Capabilities

What I bring to the table

Product strategy

Product vision, portfolio prioritization, roadmap quality, monetization logic, GTM collaboration, and durable decision frameworks.

Operating model

Team design, cross-functional rituals, KPI discipline, planning quality, product hygiene, and execution systems that scale.

Customer experience

Research-led product direction, multi-audience service design, workflow redesign, and experience modernization.

AI and innovation

AI MVP incubation, AI-readiness advisory, applied experimentation, and connecting emerging capabilities to real business value.

Industry voice

Speaking, moderation, and thought leadership

Presence

  • National conference speaker, including G2E Las Vegas.
  • Guest and host across numerous podcasts on product strategy, innovation, and leadership.
  • Moderator for executive roundtables and senior leadership conversations.

Perspective

  • Hundreds of thought pieces across digital strategy, product, customer experience, and executive leadership.
  • Strong ability to turn complexity into narratives that executives, teams, and clients can act on.
  • Comfortable representing product strategy externally as well as internally.
Let’s talk

For companies that want modern product leadership with real executive range

Whether the need is a full-time CPO or VP Product hire, a transformation mandate, or strategic advisory support, I bring product leadership that is commercially grounded, operationally credible, and customer-centered.

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