Here's where you can read all about me if you're interested. In a few short words, I'm a Product Manager | UX Researcher | Environmentalist available for hire, currently freelancing out of Biarritz, France.
Check out my resume here.
Pre-Professional Life
Born on small island in RI, I grew up raising highland cattle and sheep on an organic, grass-fed beef farm. My parents sent me to a tiny boarding school where the graduating class voted me Valedictorian, prefect of the freshmen dormitory (think Harry Potter), varsity soccer Captain, Head of Tour Guides and the Disciplinary Committee Chairman in 2012. After a serious knee injury, I gave up my Conn College soccer scholarship to attend Tulane University in New Orleans.
With the injury and some other , I decided to take a year off before attending Tulane. I first landed in Rwanda to work for a UN subsidiary who housed children after Kagame began the mass closure of orphanages across the country. A few volunteers and I founded a non-profit, Turi Kumwe, which bought a community center for orphans in Nyamirambo, Kigali.
After Rwanda, I went to tiny town in the south island of New Zealand to sheer sheep. Thousands of sheep wool a day funded my next venture as a conservation coordinator in the Annapurna Himalayan Mountains near Ghandruk, Nepal. We built the first database for flora and fauna in the region, mapped hundreds of contour lines to set camera traps, and captured rare mountain leopards on film to serve the Nepali government's conservation efforts.
With all the conservation work and organic farming, I received degrees in both Environmental Hydrogeochemistry and Applied Mathematics from Tulane in 2017. Throughout undergrad, I coordinated the St. Bernard's Project, which sent student volunteers to rebuild houses impacted by Katrina in the 9th Ward. I was also head of a fraternity with 160+ members while holding a management job at a local New Orleans restaurant.
Professional Life
In practice, I'm a SaaS Product Manager with 5 years of experience working with high-growth tech startups in the Bay Area. I'm passionate about environmental causes at the intersection of technology. Below is a brief overview of my career path:
I landed my first job in San Francisco to work for a construction-tech company, Katerra, as a SaaS Product Manager. My product line focused on cost estimation, sitework, sustainability, and building energy-efficiency. We worked with scrum teams across the world in Ukraine, Bangalore, Pune, and the US. Our claim to fame was automating the cost estimation process for our sales team, which generated $875M in revenue for the 2018 fiscal year. Unfortunately even with the $2 bn in Softbank investment, and growing from 300 to 7,000 employees over a ~3 year span, the company went under.
I took my next role as a Product Manager at Pantheon Platform, where I led two scrum teams focused on product growth and UX. We launched a 2-year long project in my first 3-months that resulted in 95% performance improvements, the basis for the Platform's new UX interface and some very happy engineers as we greenfielded the codebase. I facilitated the company's first UX design sprint, which resulted in their a 12 quarter roadmap to completely face-lift the product's interface.
I was then pulled in to work on a backoffice project to migrate all financial transactions to a new backend system. After launching the migration. the company was able to accurately report revenue for the first time in its 10-year history. Towards the end of my ~1.5 years, I was asked to manage the launch of Pantheon LocalDev.
Fluence, an energy storage company, recruited me to work on their digital trading platform in the Australian electricity market. I oversaw all aspects of digital product development (leveraging my expertise from Pantheon & Katerra). Although I joined 6 months before their largest software release (...ever), I managed to coordinate a successful launch, which resulted in $22M revenue uplift for all trading assets & customers. We then went on to double the volume of Gigawatts traded on the platform, and took two of the largest wind and solar farms live on the platform (Darlington Point Solar Farm & Stockyard Hill Wind Farm). Over a single year, I led 23 product releases, which resulted in $3.1M booked ARR and 100% customer retention.
