Principal Product Manager

Product Leadership

Senior Product Manager | Software & Platform Strategy | Digital Commerce | AI & Optimization

I help organizations solve complex business and customer problems by connecting product strategy, technology, and operational execution. My focus is improving enterprise platforms, simplifying business processes, and building products that create measurable value for customers, employees, and the business.

Throughout my career, I have partnered closely with business stakeholders, Engineering, UX, Data, Operations, Marketing, and QA to translate ideas into practical technology solutions and guide products from discovery through delivery and continuous optimization.

What motivates me most is understanding how a business works, identifying where friction exists, and building scalable solutions that improve how people, processes, and technology work together.

Product Leadership

I operate at the intersection of strategy, customer experience, business needs, and technology, helping teams move from complex problems to practical, scalable solutions.

Strategy & Direction

Define product vision, roadmaps, priorities, and trade-offs that connect customer needs and business objectives with achievable technology strategies.

Business & Technology

Translate business challenges into actionable product and technical requirements while balancing customer priorities with engineering realities.

Discovery & Decisions

Use customer insight, behavioral data, experimentation, feedback, and technical analysis to identify problems and make informed investment decisions.

Cross-Functional Delivery

Align Engineering, UX, Data, Operations, Marketing, QA, and business teams from discovery and prioritization through development, validation, release, and optimization.

Platforms & Systems

Look beyond individual features to understand integrations, data flows, dependencies, workflows, and the interconnected systems responsible for the customer experience.

People & Growth

Lead, mentor, and develop product professionals while creating opportunities for others to take ownership, grow their capabilities, and increase their impact.

How I Approach Product Management

I believe the best products are built by first understanding how a business works, how people use the tools available to them, and where unnecessary complexity gets in the way. Technology should support the business, not force the business to adapt to technology. My approach is simple: understand the problem, listen to the people closest to it, simplify wherever possible, connect the right teams, and build solutions that create measurable value for customers, employees, and the business.

Platforms, Technologies & Product Practice

My technical experience supports product decision-making and enables me to work effectively with developers and architects without trying to be the developer in the room.

Product Strategy & Delivery

Product Vision Roadmaps Prioritization Product Discovery Requirements Discovery User Stories Acceptance Criteria Gap Analysis SDLC Agile / Scrum QA / UAT Jira Jira Service Management

Technical Product & Integrations

REST APIs JSON System Integrations Source-to-Target Mapping Data Transformations Cross-System Data Flows Technical Requirements Dependencies & Risk Workflow Automation Troubleshooting

Digital Commerce

eCommerce Strategy Product Discovery PLP / PDP Product Information Pricing & Availability Cart & Checkout Order Processing Digital Merchandising Customer Journey Optimization Conversion Optimization

Search & Content Platforms

Coveo Sitecore CMS Enterprise Search Search Relevance Facets & Filters Metadata Taxonomy Product Catalogs Structured Content Content Architecture Digital Assets

Customer Insights & Optimization

Qualtrics XM GA4 Behavioral Analytics A/B Testing Multivariate Testing CSAT Event Tracking Analytics Instrumentation Personalization Recommendations

AI, ML & Emerging Experiences

AI-Assisted Product Discovery AI Strategy Rapid Prototyping AI-Supported Search Guided Discovery Personalization ML Optimization

Enterprise & Experience Platforms

SAP-Supported Commerce BrightSign Digital Signage Enterprise CMS Platform Integrations Slack Integrations

Professional Experience

Product leadership across consulting, B2B digital commerce, enterprise platforms, innovation, and complex technology environments.

Independent Product & Digital Consultant
April 2026–Present

Lead paid product and digital consulting engagements from discovery and strategy through implementation, helping clients identify customer needs, evaluate opportunities, improve experiences, and translate objectives into actionable solutions.

Focus Areas

  • Apply AI-assisted product discovery and rapid prototyping to accelerate research, requirements development, technical analysis, solution design, and evaluation of new concepts.
  • Develop practical AI product strategies focused on identifying high-value use cases, prioritizing opportunities, improving workflows, and defining paths from concept to implementation.
  • Conduct product R&D and technical prototyping across digital and physical concepts using customer discovery, feasibility analysis, systems thinking, iterative experimentation, and hands-on testing.
  • Advise clients across UX, analytics, accessibility, responsive experiences, and conversion optimization while managing initiatives through stakeholder alignment and delivery.
Senior Product Manager | Digital Experience Platforms & eCommerce
Legrand AV | 2021–April 2026

Owned product strategy and roadmap for a B2B software and digital commerce platform supporting a broader ~$500M business ecosystem, with direct accountability for a ~$50M digital revenue channel.

~$50M Digital revenue channel ownership
~15% YoY development velocity improvement for 3 years
~30% Increase in completed development & enhancement work
~50% Improvement in break/fix ticket-to-close performance

What I Led

  • Led Engineering, UX, Data, Operations, Marketing, QA, and business stakeholders across discovery, prioritization, development, release, and continuous optimization.
  • Directed the end-to-end commerce journey across search, PLP, PDP, product information, pricing and availability, cart, checkout, and order processing.
  • Drove search and product-discovery strategy using Coveo, including relevance, facets, filters, product attributes, indexed content, taxonomy, personalization, and guided experiences.
  • Partnered closely with developers and architects across Sitecore, Coveo, REST APIs, JSON payloads, integrations, mappings, transformations, commerce logic, and SAP-supported processes.
  • Used experimentation, behavioral analytics, customer feedback, and Qualtrics XM programs to identify friction and guide product decisions, helping improve CSAT from approximately 3.2 to 4.0+.
  • Established and championed Jira Service Management break/fix capabilities and workflow automation, improving operational visibility and coordination around customer-impacting issues.

Technical Product Leadership

Worked end to end across product data, Sitecore, Coveo, APIs, integration layers, commerce logic, SAP-supported processes, and downstream systems. This technical fluency allowed me to translate business needs into actionable requirements, identify dependencies, troubleshoot cross-system issues, and work effectively with developers and architects throughout delivery.

Product Owner | Innovation R&D & Enterprise Platforms
Optum / UnitedHealth Group | 2012–2021

Led product strategy and roadmaps within Innovation/R&D and enterprise platform environments, translating emerging business and customer opportunities into scalable software capabilities and digital experiences.

What I Led

  • Directed Engineering, UX, Operations, and business teams through requirements discovery, technical specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflow definition, development, QA/testing, validation, and release.
  • Shaped enterprise platform capabilities spanning search, metadata, taxonomy, content models, publishing workflows, and scalable digital experiences.
  • Directed integrations and cross-system data flows, partnering with Engineering to identify dependencies, troubleshoot integration issues, validate expected behavior, and manage technical and rollout risks.
  • Evaluated platforms, vendors, and emerging technologies through Innovation/R&D initiatives, translating business needs and technical considerations into product recommendations, prototypes, and implementation strategies.
  • Led digital experience capabilities supporting interactive and passive digital signage environments, including BrightSign, within broader enterprise platform ownership.

Strategy grounded in how products actually get built.

I bring a combination of product strategy, customer understanding, technical fluency, cross-functional leadership, and practical execution. Whether the challenge involves enterprise platforms, digital commerce, search and discovery, integrations, AI, or operational workflows, I focus on connecting the customer problem, the business opportunity, and the systems required to deliver a scalable solution.