Experience
A career built on building products that matter, leading teams that deliver, and learning new domains quickly. Across every role the through-line is consistent: clarity of direction, rigorous execution, and outcomes that create measurable value for customers and the business.
Binary Defense
Senior Product Manager / Product Owner
- Owned strategy, roadmap, and delivery for BD Platform (MDR and XDR SaaS customer portal) and Vision EDR (agent-based endpoint detection), managing two concurrent product lines with planning readiness maintained one full quarter ahead for each.
- Built BD Platform from the ground up as the company's Open XDR initiative, reaching 80% customer adoption in year one and delivering seven major releases with zero moderate or severe release incidents.
- Integrated proprietary AI-based security event analysis as a user-facing product capability, collaborating with engineering to translate model outputs into contextual, actionable insights for customers and analysts.
- Partnered with Detection Engineering, SOAR Engineering, SOC leadership, and Security Automation and Enablement to ground product decisions in real threat intelligence workflows and operational data pipelines.
- Rescued the Vision Agent JET project after more than a year of stalled development, conducting structured stakeholder discovery, removing unnecessary scope, and coordinating multiple teams to deliver a GA-ready release in three months.
- Served as a player-coach for colleagues in Product Manager, Product Owner, and Scrum Master roles, raising the rigor, accountability, and consistency of the broader product organization.
- Presented BD Platform strategy and roadmap at RSA Conference, acting as the primary external product voice for the platform.
Lumension Security (now part of Ivanti)
Group Product Manager, Endpoint and Data Protection
- Managed Application Control and Device Control / Data Protection product lines on a shared platform deployed on more than two million endpoints globally, generating $16 million in annual revenue across Fortune 500 enterprises, U.S. government agencies, MSSP partners, and critical infrastructure operators.
- Products were deployed in OT environments including Toyota factory floors, nuclear power plants operating under SCADA requirements, water treatment facilities, and an F1 racing team, where operational constraints and risk tolerances are fundamentally different from traditional IT deployments.
- Served as Product Owner for up to four concurrent engineering teams distributed across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, driving four to six major releases per year.
- Earned NIST FIPS 140-2 certification for Device Control, directly enabling sales into U.S. federal agencies and regulated critical infrastructure operators.
- Introduced white-labeling capabilities for MSSP and MSP partners, opening a new market segment and establishing a repeatable partner onboarding process.
- Promoted from Senior Product Manager. Managed a Beta Manager, Technical Product Manager, and Certifications Manager as direct reports.
- Led customer research and competitive analysis across enterprise and government markets in the U.S., Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Zed Foundry
Principal Consultant
- Provided strategic product guidance, competitive analysis, and market positioning for technology and cybersecurity clients.
- Designed, built, and deployed multiple web applications including a custom scheduling application that delivered a 14x improvement in responsiveness over the commercial product it replaced.
- Delivered go-to-market assets including whitepapers, competitive analyses, SWOT frameworks, and executive content.
iCrossing
Product Manager / Business Unit Owner
- Conceived and launched BrandShadow, an enterprise behavioral data analytics platform that collected brand mentions at scale across the web, applied linguistic and influence analysis, and surfaced prioritized, actionable insights to enterprise marketing teams. An early instance of the behavioral data pattern now central to modern marketing automation and communications platforms.
- Built and launched AreaCodeLocal, a nationwide network of localized search sites monetized through small and medium business advertising, leading a 10-person cross-functional team from concept through live monetization.
- Delivered first-page and top-ranked Google results for major enterprise clients including Bank of America and Symantec using data-informed optimization.
Sonic Blue (GoVideo)
Technical Director
- Built and managed a $200 million product portfolio across consumer electronics, with 15 to 20 direct reports spanning Engineering, QA, Service, and Technical Writing.
- Developed and launched the world's first DVD+VCR combination unit, establishing a new product category and producing multiple IP licensing deals.
- Contributed to multiple patent applications as a named inventor, including patents for which the company collected licensing revenue for decades.
- Managed contract manufacturing across Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, England, and Germany.
U.S. Army Veteran
I served in the United States Army as a Multichannel Communications Equipment Operator, developing the discipline, resilience, and leadership foundation that continues to shape how I operate as a product leader. Military service instilled a bias for clarity, accountability, and execution that has carried through every stage of my career.
Education & Training
- B.S. Electronics Engineering — DeVry Institute of Technology
- Pragmatic Institute Product Management Certification
- Certified Agile Professional — Product Owner
- SAFe Agile Training
- CISSP Training