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Director, AI & Automation

May 2026 – Present
Frontier Door & Cabinet
  • • Rolled out Claude Enterprise company-wide, enablement first, then stood up an internal chat platform and a multi-vendor model gateway behind company-owned identity, logging, and cost controls, with a model and vendor strategy that ensures the company is never locked in.
  • • Shipped a defect tracking app for operations, a warehouse forecasting dashboard, a door configurator that produces bills of materials, and a work-tracking board in Microsoft 365, all on Power Platform and Azure; now rehosting an AI estimating takeoff tool.
  • • Created a version-controlled data layer in Dataverse with Fabric and OneLake, managed as code; mapped an ERP with no documented API and automated workflows across SharePoint, OneDrive, and meeting capture, with a full Digital Thread as the north star.
  • • Launched a citizen developer program where the people closest to the work build with AI; now building the agent-driven pipeline that promotes their tools into architected software, with a governed source of truth for each tool's data so the foundation grows from real demand. Two checks stay human: what a tool does, and that its rebuild matches.
  • • Stood up an Azure landing zone with containerized services, Key Vault for every secret, least-privilege Entra ID identities with a tested kill switch, and a team password manager, with static analysis and secret scanning on every push; now hardening the supply chain.
  • • Published an AI & Automation Hub on SharePoint, a public work board showing every initiative's status, a company knowledge base, and a design system for everyone who builds at the company, so the executive team sees what is built, why, and where it stands.
  • • Established an AI-native engineering practice: agentic development with written decision records for every architectural choice, independent multi-model review before anything irreversible ships, skills and templates that encode how software is built, and AI standards adopted with IT. The practice is the product.

Senior Technical Product Manager - Data Engineering & AI

Jan 2022 – Apr 2026
Blue Origin
  • • Owns the product roadmap for internal data, analytics, and AI platforms across the Engines business unit. Defines KPIs, OKRs, and release cadence with engineering, data science, finance, and operations stakeholders.
  • • Drove an API-first strategy for manufacturing execution data, opening consumption to teams outside the business unit and feeding centralized analytical tables used for cross-domain reporting. Team operates on AWS GovCloud with containerized services on EKS/Kubernetes.
  • • Built and shipped a production data governance and mastering platform in 3 weeks after enterprise solutions (Collibra, Anomalo) failed twice to gain traction. Designed around DAMA-DMBOK principles with all business logic in PL/pgSQL, bidirectional Jira integration, and ITAR-compliant permissions at the logic level. Estimated at 25% of licensed alternatives over 3 years, with early quality improvements projected at approximately 35% error reduction on governed datasets.
  • • Built "Marty," a conversational data agent giving any user natural-language access to the team's PostgreSQL datamart, Dagster pipelines, Tableau dashboards, and platform APIs. Deployed via Teams and a web interface, reaching 90% adoption across the business unit and reducing recurring data requests by approximately 75%.
  • • Shipped AI-assisted workflow automation and predictive prioritization that cut planning cycle time approximately 25% and reached 90% adoption in 60 days.
  • • Defined product-health KPIs (accuracy, latency, adoption, cost-to-serve) and built dashboards linking features to outcomes and executive goals. Recognized in top 5% of 11,000 employees.

Business Process Analyst - System Engineering

Jan 2017 – Dec 2021
Chelan County PUD
  • • Partnered with engineering and operations teams to digitize business processes and apply analytics for infrastructure projects.
  • • Drove ERP modernization roadmaps that reduced rework 40% and cycle times 25%.
  • • Delivered Tableau and Power BI dashboards to visualize infrastructure KPIs, providing leadership with immediate visibility into project latency and resource utilization.

Technical Project Manager - ERP Systems

Jan 2016 – Dec 2017
Microsoft (Contract)
  • • Supported global SAP rollout for Procurement and Supply Chain.
  • • Orchestrated the global rollout execution for a supply chain system across 21,000 users, achieving over 95% workflow compliance within the first 90 days.
  • • Partnered with Operations to model process impacts and build change readiness, translating technical system constraints into clear operational procedures that ensured business continuity.

Technical Product / Project Manager

Jan 2011 – Dec 2016
Mosaic
  • • Delivered 15+ full SDLC software projects with budgets up to $3M. By aligning technical deliverables with client business goals, achieved adoption rates 30-50% over industry baselines.
  • • Co-invented the "Tapestry" competency platform, architecting the underlying data model that mapped workforce skills to operational requirements (Named Inventor on US Patent App. 2016/0247094).
  • • Built data-aligned performance models that translated abstract business needs into measurable KPIs for operations and finance.

Program Manager / Communications Center Supervisor

Jan 2002 – Dec 2011
U.S. Coast Guard
  • • Managed communications systems and high-stakes operations. Security Clearance: Previous Top Secret Level (Inactive).
  • • Led communications center operations supporting global mission readiness.
Skills
🔄Process Management
BPMN 2.0 ModelingProcess Maturity ModelsProcess Analysis & DesignChange ManagementKaizen / Lean Methodologies
🤖AI Program Leadership
Specification Precision & Clarity of IntentEvaluation & Quality JudgmentMulti-Agent Task Decomposition & DelegationFailure Pattern RecognitionTrust & Security DesignContext ArchitectureCost & Token Economics
👥Leadership & Management
Team Leadership & DevelopmentStrategic PlanningPerformance ManagementCross-functional CollaborationStakeholder Management
📊Technical & Analytical
Data Analysis & ReportingRisk AssessmentQuality ManagementRegulatory Compliance
🗄️Data Platform & Governance
PostgreSQLPL/pgSQLData Modeling & Schema DesignData Governance FrameworksData Quality ManagementMetadata ManagementData LineageDagsterETL / ELT Pipelines
💻Software Engineering
TypeScriptReactFastifyNode.jsZodREST API DesignState ManagementComponent ArchitectureData Visualization
☁️Cloud & DevOps
AWSAmazon ECSAmazon EKSDockerKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD PipelinesObservability & Monitoring