Leading, building, growing

For fifteen years I have served my teams with creativity, curiosity, and a collaborative spirit.

Together we’ve built some excellent software products and delivered real, measurable value for all kinds of organizations.

Why?

I love to build things that people value. I love to discover, structure, and solve important problems. That moment when we break through? When we can suddenly imagine new possibilities? I love that.

I love to grow great teams. Teams where we lift each other up and find our best stride. Teams that pursue mastery of their craft, have the autonomy to self-organize, and share a common and meaningful purpose.

I lead to serve, to connect, to enrich lives, to clear the way, to see farther and communicate a compelling vision, to create spaces where cool things can happen.

How?

I believe that building great software products is all about establishing a great learning culture. A high performing product team is a machine for exploring and discovering insights about our users.

As we develop reliable, measurable, repeatable, and sustainable ways to experiment and learn - we increment towards an increasingly scientific method for developing great software.

Over my fifteen years in tech, I’ve served as a product manager, business analyst, product owner, scrum coach, consultant, and Lean 6S process engineer.

I’ve defined and overseen the strategy and development of software products for customers in sales, professional services, operations, finance, marketing, insurance underwriting, business development, oil & gas monitoring, not-for-profits, and state governments.

That’s a lot of range, but every project has been an opportunity to get better at the core work:
learning about the users and solving their problems.

What’s next?

There are people out there right now working hard to address the climate crisis - and they need software to help them do it.

There’s a climate business out there that needs to understand their customers better - and they are looking for someone to make a connection.

There’s a dev team out there looking for autonomy, mastery, & purpose - and they need a leader who can help them define and build something the world has never seen before.

That’s where I need to be.

That’s who I’m looking for.

B.A. w/ honours - philosophy, anthropology, & history - University of Toronto
Climatebase Fellowship - Cohort 5
Air Miners Bootcamp
Product Management Foundations - Pragmatic Institute
Comprehensive Business Analysis certification - McGill University
Six Sigma greenbelt - Softchoice
Certificate of Competency in Business Analysis - IIBA
Certified Scrum Product Owner - Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance

Work is great, but have you tried play?

I bring the best of myself to my work, and to do that I need time to be a whole person. My family, my friendships, and my hobbies are sources of energy, creativity, and inspiration.

Some of my hobbies are an extension of my profession, like the no-code mobile apps I build for community organizers, or the Carbon Removal game I’m coding.

But you should also look for me out in the wilderness - camping, canoeing, hiking, skiing, or cycling.

Or maybe in the woodshop, the garden, or curled up with a good book.

Later, you’ll probably find me hosting friends: cooking great food, playing board games, and building community.