Product Leader · B2B SaaS & AI
I create products that drive revenue — AI features in production, 200%+ ARR growth in consecutive years, and scaled the flagship product from $20K to multi-million ARR. After six years as founding PM and SVP at a venture-backed AI SaaS company, I've learned that my highest leverage is being close to the product and users. I'm ready to bring that to a senior IC PM role at a company that's serious about building something that matters.
The Uncommon Profile
For the past six years, I was the head of product at a venture-backed AI SaaS company. That meant I wasn't just writing PRDs. Sitting at the executive table helped me shape company-level bets, and ultimately translate that strategy into the actionable details that make products ship successfully.
At the Executive Level
Multi-year product vision & strategy
At the Product Level
Customer discovery interviews
VC pitches & board presentations
Feature definition and design collaboration
OKR & roadmap alignment
Product analytics configuration and analysis
Product org & team building
PRDs, user stories, prioritization
Outcomes Driven
Success Stories
Elate · SVP Product · 2026
Strategic plans live in PowerPoints and spreadsheets, and Strategy Leaders needed a way to accelerate moving those into Elate.
→ Reduction in migration time and accelerated upsell velocity
Elate · SVP Product · 2025
Strategy Advisor is the AI layer powering Elate that gives strategy leaders functionality that meets how they actually work.
→ Two highest upsell quarters in company history
Elate · VP Product · 2023
30+ customer interviews uncovered a pain Strategy Leaders have with current reporting processes. We shipped a module to meet them how they already work.
→ Increased NRR and 3-month admin retention
Elate · Founding PM · 2020–2026
Joined at $20K ARR and <10 customers. With no product function, no analytics baseline, no standard delivery process, and no roadmap, my job was to create and deliver a differentiated product strategy, while building the product org and processes.
→ 100+ customers · multi-million ARR · 200%+ growth consecutive years
Experience
SVP of Product
Elate
Led AI product suite that drove the company's highest upsell quarters. Unified Product, Design, and Engineering into a single department following the Head of Engineering's departure.
VP of Product
Elate
Shipped reporting module that significantly increased NRR. Hired our first product manager and product designer to grow the department. Led collaboration feature expansion resulting in increased engagement for every major product metric.
Director of Product — Founding PM
Elate · Employee #5
Built the product function from scratch. Owned roadmap, discovery, PRDs, prioritization, delivery, and cross-functional alignment systems from day one. Heavily involved in leading marketing and brand, shaping strategy, and other functions we didn't have full-time roles for at that stage.
Senior Product Manager & Product Manager
Innovatemap
Consulted across 10+ clients — early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Took a healthtech startup from concept to shipped MVP and first customer. Led a 20+ person cross-functional team at a Fortune 500 company through a full UX overhaul: customer research, design, market positioning, and roadmap sequencing.
Product Owner
PSI Talent Measurement
Led strategic sunset of a $5M+ ARR acquired product suite to create a significant reduction in infrastructure spend and support hours. Improved team delivery speed and efficiency by implementing agile processes.
Recognition
Tech 25 Award
Recognized by TechPoint as one of Indiana's top 25 tech professionals. Nominated by CEO Brooks Busch.
Read the feature →Supra Member
Member of an invite-only network focused on connecting, supporting, and growing Product leaders.
Learn more →Published on Mind the Product
Wrote for one of the world's largest product management communities with 170k+ subscribers.
Read the article →Elate Series A
Part of the early team that scaled from $20K ARR and <10 customers to Series A and 100+ customers.
Read the announcement →AI Product Leader · Modules in Production
I've led teams that shipped four AI modules to production using Gemini LLMs — features that drove two of the company's highest upsell quarters and turned AI into a standalone revenue layer. Now I'm going deeper: building personal AI projects, studying agentic design patterns, and developing the fluency to do it again at the next company.
AI Success Stories
01 — Flagship AI Product
Elate's flagship AI product, built on Gemini LLMs and integrated into core strategy workflows. I led the overall product vision, solution definition, and cross-functional collaboration to activate it. Validated AI as a standalone monetizable layer — not just a feature.
→ Two highest upsell quarters in company history02 — Sales Accelerator
AI feature using structured input parsing and LLM evaluation to analyze a customer's existing strategic plan documents (PPTs, Docs, CSVs, PDFs.). After analysis, the plan was translated into a strategic planning framework and imported into the product.
→ Reduction in migration time and accelerated upsell velocity03 — Early Warning System
An early warning system that scans across teams, timelines, and outcomes to catch risks before they spiral. We scoped a Risk Score, blending a combination of data in Elate with comment sentiment analysis to help customers understand the severity of risks in their organization.
→ Increased Stickiness at a User and Account Level04 — Reporting Engine
An AI reporting tool that transforms updates, risks, and outcomes into clear, audience-ready reports in minutes. AI generation of the report helped speed up time to value to drive adoption of the platform.
→ Increased NRR and 3-month admin retentionAI Strategy
Generative AI and the pace of innovation over the past few years has fundamentally changed how we use products, build solutions, and run companies. The companies and people who adapt and innovate now will define the next decade. Standing still isn't a neutral choice.
It's easy to bolt an LLM onto a product and call it an AI feature. What's harder — and what actually works — is starting with a real customer problem, understanding the domain deeply, and asking whether AI is genuinely the right tool. The fundamentals of product still apply: know your users, know the market, and build things people will pay for. AI doesn't change that. It just raises the stakes for getting it right.
Reading about LLMs and taking courses builds the foundation. But fluency comes from building. I actively use these tools — Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cowork — to learn design patterns firsthand, understand how the tools actually behave, and develop intuition for what customers will expect from AI-powered products. Every project I build teaches me something I couldn't have learned in a course.
Personal AI Projects
The best way to understand how AI tools work — and what customers will expect from them — is to build with them yourself. These are projects built outside of work to deepen fluency with agentic tools, LLM workflows, and AI-native product patterns.
● Live
I don't just ship AI features — I use them. My AI Financial Advisor is a Claude project I built from scratch: scoped the workflow, wrote the prompt architecture, and iterated until it reliably surfaces trends from years of personal financial data. A monthly output I actually make decisions from.
● Live
My Calendar Assistant is a Claude skill I built to solve a real problem: two people, one shared calendar, and no consistent rhythm for planning the week ahead. It maps our events by color code, flags conflicts, and generates a structured weekly summary every Sunday night. Designed for me first — with a share summary output so my wife gets the plan too. A clear job to be done, an agent scoped to do it — that's the pattern behind every AI feature worth shipping.
● Live
This site didn't come from an agency or a template. It came from a clear strategy brief, fast iteration, and Claude as my co-pilot across content, design, and code. Scoped, built, and shipped — the same way I approach every product problem.
◌ In Progress
Actively exploring Claude Projects, Artifacts, Cowork, and Claude Code. Projects are added here as they're completed. All builds are meant for AI learning, but also should solve a real problem and be useful.
Education & Credentials
Shipping AI products taught me what I didn't know. These courses are how I've been closing those gaps — with a deliberate focus on agent design, LLM evaluation, and the data foundations that make AI products reliable.
Anthropic
DeepLearning.AI
DataCamp
Podcasts & Content