Currently exploring ideas in observability.

Steward and conservationist - Buncombe Hollow Forest
Restoring native species to suppress invasives, improving beaver habitat, and fish passage on this award winning family tree farm.

CTO - Hasura
https://www.hasura.io/
At Hasura I helped clarify the product and technical strategies while I grew and matured engineering, product management, and product design.

• Hired strong leaders for engineering and product management; invested in developer experience, product quality, faster lead time and release cadence (from twice per year to every two weeks), architecture improvements, documentation team, and product analytics
• Reorganized Engineering, PM, and Design to increase connection to users, increase team satisfaction, reduce context switching, increase focus, increase ownership, and reduce lead time
• Made architectural improvements in all areas of the product and services
• Collaborated with the executive team on business strategy, product strategy, pricing, and packaging; increased transparency through weekly, monthly, and quarterly updates
• Improved processes, tools, and documentation to foster a psychologically safe learning environment that captured knowledge regularly; DORA metrics, incident response, first formal reviews, structure and checklists for improvements, releases, and launches

Limited Partner - Oregon Venture Fund
https://oregonventurefund.com/
Participated in diligence and investment in multiple companies.

Group VP of Engineering, Group VP of Product - New Relic
https://www.newrelic.com/
Progressively took on more responsibility starting in product management then moved into engineering as the company grew from ~350 to ~2200 people.

• At various times led engineering and/or product management for the APM, Infrastructure, Browser, Synthetics, Logging, Serverless, and parts of the platform (not all at once)
• Advocated for and sponsored New Relic's participation in OpenTelemetry and led the engineering group who published New Relic's proprietary agents as open source (some were source available before)
• Coached and mentored leaders; helped grow organizations and teams; fostered the culture
• Helped establish product management as a function

Director of Product - Cedexis
https://www.cedexis.com/
Responsible for product management and design for the RUM (real user monitoring) and DNS-based adaptive global load balancer products.

• Collaborated with the CEO and co-founder on product direction
• Worked closely with the VP of Engineering, engineering team, and designers on requirements and designs; programmed small parts of browser UI
• Worked with sales engineers to understand challenges and opportunities in the field
• Engaged customers around user needs, buyer needs, designs, and the roadmap

Product Manager - Jama Software
https://www.jamasoftware.com/
A brief tenure focused on product management for the company's requirements management product.

• Organized and led the company's first CAB (customer advisory board) meeting
• Collaborated with the CEO and co-founder on product direction
• Worked closely with the VP of Engineering, engineering team, and designers on requirements and designs
• Engaged customers, sales engineers, and sales reps around user needs, buyer needs, designs, and the roadmap

Senior Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Support Engineer - Jive Software
https://www.jivesoftware.com/
Joined when the company was bootstrapped and < 10 people; grew to about ~350 people.

• Started, led, and managed the customer engineering team which was brought in when there were particularly challenging technical issues with customer deployments
• Product managed Jive's XMPP-based IM server and client as well as the flagship Clearspace product
• Established the support department as the first support engineer focused on scaling and troubleshooting the Java-based server and interfaces to various relational DBs (usually Postgres, Oracle, or DB2)