High-Growth Product
14 years across startup product and operations
From scaling a marketplace to hundreds of partners at a $4.4B unicorn, to building Watch Duty's flooding expansion for 18M users, to growing a B2C app from 2,000 to 500,000 accounts.
Product Leader / Operator / AI Builder
I build AI products and systems for complex operations.
14 years building products at the intersection of operations, scale, and ambiguity — from a $4.4B ed-tech unicorn to a disaster platform serving 18M users. Former CIA Officer. J.D. Most comfortable working close to leadership on hard problems.
Experience
Experience across product, operations, AI, and regulated domains.
CIA / Emergency Ops
Former CIA officer. Active EOC volunteer.
Former CIA, Disaster Tracking PM. Direct counterterrorism experience working alongside special forces in war zones. Active EOC Situational Awareness Volunteer. Former Principal at Watch Duty.
Scaling Systems
Built operating models through growth stages
Redesigned models to deliver Guild academic implementations 3x faster. Scaled supply-side from a small squad to a cross-functional department of six PMs, with no custom engineering per partner.
Applied AI Systems
From support tooling to agent workflows
Built GenAI-powered SMS support that outperformed all other channels in responses and conversion. Now building AI products, reusable skills, and agent operating systems.
Portfolio
Selected work that shows how I think and build.
Outpost
An AI-powered headless intel analyst for executives, operators and consultants, including source synthesis, insights, signals, and red team analysis.
Alpha — inquire for access
Agent OS
A public operating layer for AI agent collaboration: roles, skills, project conventions, and memory patterns.
AI Skills
A public skill library for AI-assisted judgment, learning, execution, and review.
Featured: Decision Monitoring, Pre-Mortem, After Action Review, AI Workflow Failure Review
Work With Me
For operators and founders working through ambiguous, high-leverage problems.
Open to focused advisory, project sprints, and fractional work where the problem sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and AI-enabled systems.
Product
Shape ambiguous product bets
Turn unclear ideas into scoped plans, sequencing, and decisions teams can act on.
AI Workflows
Build practical systems for AI-assisted work
Fit tools and workflows to real team behavior and maintenance constraints.
Strategy
Reason through complex plans
Refine positioning, systems, roadmap, and order of operations when the answer is not obvious.
Start lightweight
Send the context first.
If one of these problems maps to something you are working through, send me a note on LinkedIn with the context and what kind of help you are considering.
Message on LinkedInWriting
Recent writing, published elsewhere first.
Essays and field notes on AI-assisted work, operating systems, product judgment, and career transitions. Published on Substack and surfaced here.
Jan 3, 2026
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Contact
How to reach me.
Open to Chief of Staff, operations, and strategy roles where operational complexity and AI systems are part of the work. Also open to focused advisory conversations.