About me

My career started in production, chasing childhood dreams of filmmaking. But my passions for storytelling and problem solving eventually steered me toward building products and technology, where I found my true calling. Over the past decade, I've had the privilege of leading product teams across industries, from scrappy startups to Fortune 500 companies. Each stop has taught me something valuable about turning good ideas into great products.

Currently, I'm at Walmart where I’ve led two AI initiatives:

  • A multi-modal shopping assistant to redefine how millions of customers globally interact with their devices to discover and buy products

  • A pioneering GenAI platform that's revolutionizing content creation across the enterprise

Hard lessons I've learned:

  • Most product failures come from solving the wrong problem

  • Your assumptions are probably wrong - test everything

  • A focused team with clear goals beats a brilliant strategy every time

  • Good ideas can come from anywhere - especially from the people doing the work

I keep things simple: find talented people, give them clear and meaningful outcomes to pursue, and get out of their way. When that works well, you get products that do what they're supposed to do and teams that stick around to make them better.

AI is changing the game, sure, but the basics haven't changed. Know your users, test your ideas, build with care, and fix things when they break.

More about me…

Motives

Learn and evolve, solve big problems, build cool things, foster community, give back and pay it forward.

Superpowers

  • Empathy

  • Abstract reasoning

  • Communication

  • Strategic thinking

Values

  • Curiosity

  • Self development

  • Integrity

  • Community

  • Candor

Mindset

  • Attitude is everything.

  • Courtesy is king.

  • Personal integrity should guide every action.

  • Today is always better than tomorrow.

  • The flow state is where the magic happens.

  • Expectation is the ancestor of disappointment.

  • There are no failures — only results to learn from.

Workplace motto

Be the person good people want to work with.

On leadership

  • Nobody will ever exceed your expectations if they don’t feel appreciated.

  • Your team shouldn't fear you. They should fear disappointing you.

  • Creativity is cultivated through comfort in context.

  • Empowerment is the fertilizer for meaning and purpose.

Pleasures

  • My wife

  • Cycling

  • Philosophy

  • Music production

  • Photography

  • Bartending

  • Power napping

  • Laura Marling

  • Complimenting strangers

  • Messing with spam callers

  • Beating my brother-in-law in darts

  • Suppressing office politics

Fears

  • Aphantasia

  • A roadmap in Excel

  • Status meetings about status meetings

Unsolicited advice

  • Be honest with yourself.

  • Be honest in your work.

  • Challenge your default settings.

  • Relentlessly seek out biases.

  • Let decency define you.

  • Stay intent and alert.

  • Always have a goal and visualize the outcome.

  • Know how to measure impact.

  • Maximize your minutes and digest your days.

  • Systematize your life while expanding your humanity.

  • Resist taking the first or last of anything.

  • Don’t take the escalator unless you must.

  • You must become admirable before you can be admired.

  • If a company can afford nationwide advertising, don’t passively consume what they're selling.