Resume
20+ years of product management, engineering leadership, and organizational transformation – from university IT to CoinDesk Director of Product, across the Atlassian ecosystem, enterprise consulting, and media tech.
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Career Overview
Fieldway, LLC
Founder and Principal Consultant
2022 – Present · Springfield, MO
Founded a product strategy and research consulting practice built as a reproducible system, not one-off advice. One engine, three stages – research to answer a high-stakes question with rigor, managed intelligence to keep that answer current as the market moves, and product strategy to turn evidence into a direction teams can defend – with 20+ years of senior judgment layered on top. Client results: 3x productivity, 8x cycle-time reduction, and teams shipping within 90 days of engagement.
Case studies: FirstStepsHQ, Spec to Scale
CoinDesk
Director of Product Management
2022 – 2025 · New York, NY (Remote)
The VP of Product hired me as Senior PM while seeking approval for a Director title – I did director-level work from day one and was promoted within six months. Led the migration from Arc XP to Sanity and Vercel, reducing 80+ components to 23 and cutting development cycles from months to weeks. Managed 30 concurrent projects with 3x engineering throughput increase and simultaneous defect reduction.
Case studies: CMS Replatform, Cryptocurrency Prices, Video Player, Machine Translation
Stride
Director of Product Management
2022 · Herndon, VA (Remote)
Stepped into an 80-person team with no product leadership and no direction. Built a 6-month product roadmap from scratch, integrated a recently acquired product, pushed through critical tech debt, and rebuilt the team’s sense of purpose. Delivered multiple releases in five months.
Case study: Career as a Platform
Adaptavist
Head of Education
2016 – 2022 · London, UK (Remote)
Built and led Adaptavist’s education practice. Worked with a psychometrician from Alpine Testing and Atlassian partners to design and launch Atlassian’s certification program. Created Learn for Jira, an in-app training product after a Big Four client was quoted $6.5M by Atlassian for classroom training. Defined product strategy for the Adaptavist Library and launched the Atlassian Ecosystem Podcast.
Case studies: Learn for Jira, Atlassian Certification, Documentation Migration, Training Videos, Ecosystem Podcast, Adaptavist Library
Adaptavist
Senior Consultant
2014 – 2016
Enterprise Agile consulting across four continents. Led an Atlassian pilot for 20,000 at a Big Four professional services firm, building the case for the global rollout to 140,000 that followed. Consulted for organizations ranging from health insurance startups to teams needing large-scale Confluence migrations and documentation unification.
Case studies: Agile PM Consulting, Confluence Upgrade, Atlassian Implementation
Missouri State University
IT Project Manager & Help Desk Manager
2003 – 2014 · Springfield, MO
A decade spanning student worker to IT project manager. Managed the help desk operation that won "Best Service on Campus" multiple years running. Led enterprise-scale projects including a domain name conversion for 6,000+ machines, a SunGard Banner ERP implementation, and a help desk website redesign that measurably reduced call volume.
Case studies: Banner ERP, Help Desk Website, Fleet Management, Printer Procurement, Domain Name Conversion
Education & Certifications
Education
MSc Project Management
Missouri State University, 2015
BA Religious Studies
Missouri State University, 2011
Certifications
- •Certified Grief Counselor
- •Atlassian Certified Jira Administrator
- •Atlassian Certified Confluence Administrator
- •Atlassian Certified Jira Service Desk Administrator
- •Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
- + 7 additional certifications