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.

Career Overview

Fieldway, LLC

Founder

2022 – Present · Springfield, MO

Founded a product management consulting practice focused on forensic analysis of delivery problems. I help companies figure out why things aren’t shipping and build concrete plans to fix it. Client engagements have tripled productivity and reduced cycle times from 4–6 weeks to 5–7 days.

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 a Big Four professional services firm with 120,000 employees. 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