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Code to shipped product, U.S. Space Force
Senior Technical Product Manager
TS/SCI CLEARED
Most software fails before a line of code is written.
Over ten years leading cross-functional product teams from ambiguity to shipped software — for the U.S. Space Force, the Navy, and venture-backed startups. My method: strip a product down to the mandatory end-to-end capability first, then deliver engineering a specification precise enough that “done” was never in question — fast, and without the rework that comes from starting before the scope was ever clear.
Washington, DC
Clearance: Top Secret / SCI
8 mo
Kickoff to Increment Demonstration
10+ years in product
10
Engineers led on that build
50%
Faster reference lookups, U.S. Navy submarines
Scroll to travel 2015 → present
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Clarity before execution
Before anything gets built, I find the big picture the product is actually solving, then strip away everything that isn’t mandatory. What remains is the minimum end-to-end capability the system needs to stand on — the foundation, laid properly, so nothing has to be re-poured later.
02
Design from the user’s view
Before engineering starts, I design and prototype the solution from the user’s perspective — so the team can iterate rapidly through mockups and flows instead of through code. It’s far cheaper to change a prototype than a codebase, and it keeps future technical debt out of the system entirely.
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Specify the work
I define the specific scope of work before a line of production code exists — walking the full end-to-end flow, validating that what’s planned is actually what the system needs to do, and writing it up as a specification engineering can build against without guessing.
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Then engineers build it
Once the flow is validated, engineers build against a scope that’s already correct. Technical debt gets mitigated at the source: it’s cheaper to think clearly once than to refactor an unclear system twice.
“Understand the big picture first, then strip out everything that isn’t mandatory. What’s left is the foundation — get that right, and the engineering takes care of itself.”
Products shipped under pressure, for organizations that can’t ship twice.
MILE
2015
Mar ’15 — Sep ’16
NASA Center for Climate Simulation / NIST NCCoE
Web Developer II
Advised NASA’s Climate Simulation Department and NIST on prototyping future concepts, and managed a no-downtime migration to a new web platform and CMS.
MILE
2016
Feb ’16 — Jun ’23
DayShyft
Senior Technical Product Manager
Built the MVP roadmap, hired designers, and led a Ruby on Rails / AngularJS product from ideation to launch, architecting the AWS build and deployment environments myself.
MILE
2016
Mar ’16 — Jul ’21
Dynamic Solutions, LLC
Technical Product Manager, U.S. Navy consulting
Cut sailors’ reference-material lookup time by 50%, converting ~10,000 parts of Excel data into a relational database and pitching the solution to win two RFPs worth $2.5M.
Featured case study
Cutting sailors’ reference-lookup time in half for the U.S. Navy
As Technical Product Manager at Dynamic Solutions, LLC, I advised the U.S. Navy on a reference-materials system for sailors aboard submarines — scoping the end-to-end flow from raw Excel data to a queryable database before choosing a single line of the stack, then pitching the solution to win two RFPs.
- Wireframed and delivered reference software against government requirement guidelines
- Built ETL tooling to convert Excel spreadsheets into a relational SQLite database
- Designed the relational structure to hold ~10,000 parts per naval ship delivered
- Chose the language, framework, and database, then hired contractors to build the frontend
- Delivered a Python and Spring Boot interface, cutting operation processing time by 50%
- Pitched the solution to win two RFPs worth $2M and $500K
MILE
2017
Jan ’17 — Sep ’22
UnionBase
Senior Technical Product Lead
Architected the design, build, and deployment of an independently-funded platform in 7 months, managing 3 developers and 2 designers to serve ~3,000 members.
MILE
2023
Jun ’23 — Present
CACI International
Product Owner
Delivered a functioning DSP product to the U.S. Space Force from zero developed code within 8 months, leading a 10-person team using agile delivery on Docker and Kubernetes.
Featured case study
Zero to a fielded product for the U.S. Space Force
As Product Owner at CACI International, I led a 10-person team from zero developed code to a functioning DSP product delivered to the United States Space Force in eight months — defining scope with the mission in view.
- Built risk-mitigation plans to protect each Increment Feature Demonstration
- Ran agile delivery on Docker and Kubernetes, iterating and deploying continuously
Product & leadership
Product managementAgile methodology
Cross-functional leadershipStrategic planning
Risk assessmentUX design
Market research & analysis
Delivery approach
Scope definitionEnd-to-end flow validation
Rapid prototypingEngineering specifications
Technical-debt mitigation
Technology
Ruby on RailsGroovy on Grails
Spring BootJavaJavaScript
PythonAngularReact
AWSDockerKubernetes
Destination