The record
Twenty-four years across consent and privacy, governance and risk, field service, insurance restoration, and production finance — usually as the person running the organization, often as the person writing the code.
Aug 2022 — present
ProdXP
Remote · Thomasville, GA
Chief Product Officer
Independent practice
Product and engineering consulting across insurtech, fintech, and SaaS platforms.
- Advise client leadership on product strategy, roadmap planning, and tactical execution across four years of engagements. LinkedIn · Aug 2022–present
Hands-on build0 → 1
Aug 2022 — present
Proga Digital
Remote
Co-Founder & CTO
Go · SvelteKit · GCP Cloud Run · Cloud SQL · Spanner
Releap — a product management and engineering intelligence platform that answers as-built questions from a connected codebase.
- Built Releap alone: an engineering intelligence platform, now operating with paying customers, in a category I had spent eighteen months inside advising product organizations. Releap · lens.releap.app
- Reached SOC 2 Type I attestation (Security) as a one-person engineering organization — clean, unqualified opinion on both description and design of controls. Prescient Assurance · Jul 23 2026
- Lead the implementation services team building internal finance, tax, and audit applications for an enterprise client. Proga Digital · implementation services
0 → 1Platform rebuildHands-on buildRegulated domain
Feb 2021 — Feb 2024
Westhill
Remote
Senior Director of Product → VP of Product
Go · Spanner · Next.js · SvelteKit + Capacitor · GCP
Multi-portal contractor management and job orchestration for insurance disaster recovery programs.
- Scaled product management and engineering capacity from 5 engineers to more than 30 in six months. VP of Product · Jan–Aug 2022
- Led product management, software engineering, and engineering support — roughly 30 internal and third-party staff. VP of Product · Jan–Aug 2022
- Delivered a full platform rebuild and cloud migration from AWS to Google Cloud in under six months. Platform rebuild · 2022
Scaled a teamPlatform rebuildHands-on build
Oct 2019 — Feb 2021
Acoustic
Atlanta, GA
Principal Product Manager
Digital marketing platform · formerly IBM Watson Marketing
Digital marketing platform for CMOs and marketing managers building interactions with customers and prospects.
- Launched a central user management system spanning seven products and more than 15,000 users. Résumé · Jan 2021
- Rebuilt how the product team worked: PM onboarding program, roadmap planning tooling, and go-to-market practice. Résumé · Jan 2021
- Ran customer communications through the company's separation from IBM — business, legal, technology, agreements, and branding all moving at once. Résumé · Jan 2021
Platform rebuildRegulated domain
May 2018 — Oct 2019
Aha!
Remote
Senior Manager, Customer Success
Roadmap software · 250,000+ users · fully distributed company
The roadmapping tool product and marketing teams use to connect strategy to execution.
- Advised dozens of product teams every week on how they plan, prioritize, and ship — more than 400 product organizations over eighteen months. Résumé · Aha! 2018–19
- Negotiated procurement and value exchange with large enterprise buyers. Résumé · Aha! 2018–19
- Fed use-case patterns from that volume back into Aha!'s own product team. Résumé · Aha! 2018–19
- Four hundred product organizations, seen from the inside — how they actually operate, not how they describe themselves afterwards. Aha! · 2018–19
Scaled a team
Jan 2017 — May 2018
dESCO / FieldEdge
Atlanta, GA
Head of Product (Senior Director)
Field service management · web, mobile, partner API
Service management, dispatching, and accounting applications for field service technicians.
- Grew bookings from $800,000 to $4 million in twelve months by doubling engineering throughput with structured product management practice. Résumé · key achievement
- Member of the senior management team through a run from roughly $20M valuation to a private equity acquisition above $100M — a five-fold move in fifteen months. Advent International + Clearent · Mar 2018
- Built the product organization from nothing to three product managers and a designer in six months. Résumé · FieldEdge
- Sponsored, evaluated, and negotiated more than a dozen strategic partnerships. Résumé · FieldEdge
“proactive nature, approachable leadership style, and vast knowledge”
Alistair Greer · Colleague · 2020
0 → 1Scaled a teamThrough an exit
VP of Product Development → Senior Director → Senior PM
Compliance 360 · GRC platform
Governance, risk, and compliance platform for enterprise financial services, insurance, and health systems.
- Product strategy rated #1 in the 2016 Forrester Wave for GRC software, with the offering also named among industry leaders in execution. Forrester Wave · GRC Software 2016
- Obtained board approval for more than $6M in capital initiatives annually at 40–200% IRR, projecting net new annual revenue growth above 29%. Résumé · SAI Global
- Led 30 people across development, QA, scrum, product ownership, technical writing, and technical services against a $4M+ annual budget. VP · Sep 2016–Jan 2017
- Held delivery quality and release cadence steady through the departure of a long-tenured executive, with minimal retention impact. VP · transitional period
- The platform still ships as the core of a GRC suite now serving roughly five million users and a third of the Fortune 500. sai360.com · 2026
Scaled a teamRegulated domainPlatform rebuild
Director, Product Architecture → Product Manager
MyPreferences · consumer preference management
Consumer preference and consent management for large-scale direct marketing — bulk data tooling and APIs integrating with enterprise CRMs and marketing databases.
- Zero-to-one product management for a third-generation SaaS platform in a domain where getting consent wrong is a regulatory event, not a bug. Résumé · PossibleNOW
- Deployed and integrated with Fortune 200 customers across financial services, telecommunications, and B2C insurance. Résumé · PossibleNOW
- Ran pre-sale through execution — solution design, proposal writing, and contract preparation. Résumé · PossibleNOW
- MyPreferences is still sold as a commercial preference and consent platform today, thirteen years on, and appears in Gartner's market guide for the category. possiblenow.com · 2026
“incredibly bright and talented, cares about people, and always delivers results”
Rob Tate · COO, PossibleNOW · 2013
“a level-headed, detailed and timely manner”
Joshua Scism · Client · 2010
0 → 1Regulated domainHands-on build
2002 — 2006
Madison Internet Technologies
Milledgeville, GA
Founder
Web application development · IT support · technical writing
Freelance web application development and IT support practice, run alongside undergraduate study.
- Ran the practice end to end — finding the work, scoping it, pricing it, and delivering it alone. Madison Internet Technologies · 2002–2006
- Researched and wrote a security education series for the university newspaper on behalf of the campus CIO — translating technical risk for readers who had no reason to care about it yet. The Colonnade · GCSU
Hands-on build0 → 1
Earlier: Account Director, HHB Advertising (2007–2008) · Constituent Services, Office of U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (2006–2007).