I'm a product and technology leader with eight years of experience spanning software engineering and product management. I've partnered with startups and technology companies to translate complex problems into scalable, human-centered products. My experience across engineering and product strategy gives me a practical understanding of what it takes to build, validate and scale technology businesses. I'm now bringing that operator perspective to venture capital. Through the GoingVC program, I'm developing my skills in investment thesis development, deal sourcing, due diligence and early-stage company evaluation. I'm particularly interested in AI and emerging technologies, and in supporting founders as they navigate product-market fit, growth and critical product decisions. With connections across the San Francisco Bay Area and South Florida startup ecosystems through founder relationships, technology communities and nonprofit board service, I'm passionate about identifying promising founders and helping innovative ideas reach their potential. As I transition into venture capital, I'm looking to combine my technical background, product judgment and founder-centric approach to contribute to sourcing, evaluating and supporting early-stage companies.
Experience
Growth & Operations Specialist
Verita AIApr 2026 – Present
Embedded with a seed-stage founding team. Close range exposure to early company building.
Senior Product Manager
UKGApr 2024 – Apr 2026
Led two product teams, driving strategy, prioritization, and execution across platform and internal product initiatives that improved consistency, scalability, and development efficiency across the organization. • Owned UKG’s enterprise-wide Design System, which powers customer-facing experiences across the company. • Partnered with UX and engineering to align around a unified, scalable language of components, patterns, and guidelines, enabling more consistent user experiences and faster, higher-quality product development. • Drove roadmap decisions for the Design System by balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business priorities to increase adoption and strengthen long-term platform value. • Led product management for an internal schema-driven webpage generation platform that enabled developers to submit schemas and automatically generate webpages through business logic and rendering engines rather than hard-coding from scratch. • Improved development efficiency by enabling a more scalable, reusable approach to webpage creation, reducing manual effort and accelerating delivery across internal teams. In addition, I: • I used LLMs extensively to improve product management workflows, including drafting and refining PRDs, synthesizing stakeholder feedback, and translating large amounts of qualitative input into structured product requirements. My prompt engineering approach focused on providing clear context, specifying constraints, and structuring the desired output so results were consistent and actionable. • Applied product leadership across discovery, roadmap planning, execution, and stakeholder communication, keeping teams focused on measurable outcomes and business impact.
Product Delivery Sr. Manager
Fidelity InvestmentsApr 2023 – Apr 2024
• Helped spearhead the modernization of Wealthscape™, leveraging deep insights into Product Management and Business Analysis to drive strategic enhancements and ensure alignment with evolving market demands. • Drove business deliverables throughout the Product Development Life Cycle, utilizing comprehensive knowledge of industry best practices and methodologies to streamline processes and optimize efficiency. • Demonstrated proficiency in identifying pain points across stakeholders and effectively communicating requirements to agile teams through the creation of comprehensive epics and stories. • Lead the refinement of all user stories for the squad. • Fostered collaboration between UX designers and developers, ensuring the cohesive delivery of work that meets both user experience standards and technical requirements, ultimately enhancing product usability and customer satisfaction.
Senior Software Engineer
Fidelity InvestmentsMay 2021 – Apr 2023
• Helped lead the development and implementation of Forge, a robust Salesforce application and platform for family offices. Leveraged expertise in Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning components to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to business requirements for the fastest-growing peer-to-peer network of single-family offices. • Provided mentorship and technical guidance to junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the team. Actively participated in code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions to ensure code quality, consistency, and long-term maintainability.
Software Engineer
Financial Recovery Group (FRG)Apr 2020 – May 2021
- Communicated and collaborated with business and team members on a healthcare application system - Implemented and designed solutions based on emerging technologies and researched results (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, ColdFusion, Treegrid) - Adapted to a remote role by using Jira to keep track of workload
Software Engineer
CITY FurnitureAug 2019 – Mar 2020
- Coordinated with a team of six developers and two designers to implement and launch two new iPad applications within 6 months - Incorporated confluence to document internal tools and technologies such as how to deploy team members changes to the production server. - Facilitated the development of 5+ NodeJS applications - Technologies: NodeJS, Docker, JSON, Swift, AWS, Git, Jira, Slack, BitBucket, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Trello, TypeScript, UI, Web Design, Framework, Production Deployment, Drone, Application Architecture, JQuery, Code, Review (Pull Requests), Front-end Design, API - Prepared to engineer innovation into products and employ design thinking practices Switched jobs due to Covid
Software Engineer
CriteoNov 2018 – Aug 2019
- Launched new campaigns using the Manage platform and provided clients end-to-end testing - Optimized 15+ campaigns towards client KPIs (Scale, Retention, ROAS, etc) - Managed operational tasks such as Creative Uploads, Tracking, Testing, Creative Resizing, Creative Pruning, Campaign Setup and Ad Group Setup
Software Engineering Consultant
The Greater Fort Lauderdale AllianceFeb 2017 – Nov 2018
- Facilitated the team in the 2017/2018 Amazon relocation project for the South Florida are - Directed the Magic Leap One project where I was able to influence 50+ clients to buy the product - Implemented technical projects (example: https://www.techgateway.org) and information retrieval projects - Researched innovative strategies that relocated 5+ companies to the Broward County area within 3 months
Education
Venture Capital
Sep 2026 – Dec 2026
Masters, Computer Science
Aug 2016 – May 2018
Bachelors, Information Technology
Aug 2012 – May 2016
Skills
Languages
- English