About Me
I learned how to code because I wanted to build self-driving cars. I never got very far there, but it propelled me into the world of software. My current work is in Mission Operations at Nominal, helping cutting edge hardware companies accelerate test and bring sophisticated technology to market faster.
I have a funny career arc.
I started my career in ecommerce at a company acquired by Walmart. I thought I was too cool to work for Walmart in 2018 (with the benefit of experience, talk about an insanely effective group of people) so left to join Palantir. I was a Forward Deployed Engineer, doing everything from demoing and selling supply chain readiness workflows, writing PySpark, and tracking spend for the Army. I loved Palantir and thought I'd never leave.
The startup bug hit me in 2021 though, and I left to co-found and lead Product for a sports tech company. We caught lightning in a bottle and were acquired within a year by Beckett.
Integrating into an acquiring company with a different culture than your startup is always difficult. I made the choice quickly to leave and be one of the first 5 employees at Adonis, a healthcare technology company focused on Revenue Cycle Management. This was my longest tenured role. I led the Customer Success organization from zero customers to >30 over 3 years. I built the team and saw us grow from a small Seed stage company of 5 to a Series C company with 130% NRR. But I'm most proud of the team we built and the scrappy culture we embedded into the company.
I'm interested in most everything, but top of mind for me now is:
- How the best hardware companies in the world test and iterate on their products
- The decline of a shared culture in the US; the conditions that lead to it and the conditions that created it in the first place
- How we develop new skills. I'm testing this out with woodworking.
- Getting better at Tennis, specifically my net game
- Becoming a great parent and learning how to teach a toddler to read
I also love vibe coding and journaling. I built AI Note Copilot, a tool for anyone (especially myself) to have a meaningful conversation with any of their notes.