Day job, side projects, and everything between.
What I do all day, where I’ve done it, and what I build after hours.
On this page: current role, background, skills, and projects.
What I actually do
Big software projects rarely stall because nobody can write the code. They stall because many teams are each building one piece of something larger, and those pieces have to arrive in the right order, fit together, and actually work for the people using them.
That’s the part I work on. I help teams figure out what to build next, spot problems before they turn into emergencies, and get releases out the door with as little drama as possible. Most days I’m translating between what the business needs and what engineers need to know, in both directions.
I coordinate delivery across several Agile engineering teams supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs: release planning, cross-team dependency management, production issue coordination, and technical risk.
Most of the work sits where product and engineering meet: modernizing legacy applications, supporting API development and integrations, turning business goals into well-scoped work, and tightening the delivery process so dates mean something.
Booz Allen Hamilton, supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs. Views on this site are my own.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Technical program and product leadership
I support the Department of Veterans Affairs, coordinating software delivery across multiple engineering teams.
Delivery
- Plan and coordinate production releases
- Manage technical dependencies between teams
- Track and reduce technical risk
- Make delivery more predictable
Technology
- Help modernize legacy applications
- Support API development and integrations
- Coordinate the response to production issues
- Improve engineering processes
People
- Work with customers and engineering organizations
- Turn business goals into actionable technical work
- Lead change management
- Keep stakeholders aligned
I describe this work in general terms on purpose; the specifics of client projects stay at work. Views on this site are my own.
Before that
InfoWorks
Consulting and business analysis
Before Booz Allen, I worked in consulting and business analysis: learning how organizations actually operate, and turning what people need into requirements teams can build.
Vanderbilt University
Class of 2022
Human & Organizational Development and Political Science.
What I’m good at
Delivery leadership
- Agile delivery across multiple teams
- Release planning and coordination
- Dependency and risk management
- Production issue coordination
Product
- Product management
- Requirements and backlog shaping
- Roadmaps and prioritization
- User experience and product design
Technical
- APIs and integrations
- Legacy application modernization
- Software architecture
- Automation and AI experiments
People
- Stakeholder alignment
- Change management
- Cross-functional communication
- Translating between business and engineering
On my own projects I mostly use TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native & Expo, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL & Prisma, Cloudflare Workers, Capacitor, and ONNX Runtime.
Things I build on my own time
I build software on my own time because I like knowing how things work all the way down. On these, I own the whole process: the idea, the product decisions, the design, the code, and the release.
TTSNativeNatural text-to-speech that runs on your own computer. TTSNative reads PDFs, EPUBs, Word documents, and plain text aloud with read-along highlighting, plus optional, consent-based voice cloning. Your documents, voices, and audio stay on your computer. It’s free and MIT-licensed.
I designed and built it end to end, from the reader and voice studio to the brand and the website.
Open source. Built with React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, and ONNX Runtime.
See ttsnative.com (external site), the source on GitHub (external site), and the case study (external site).
RecalenDump now. Recall later. A capture-and-recall app for thoughts, links, files, and voice notes, with organization, search, reminders, and calendar views across web and native mobile.
Currently in an ongoing private beta.
Private beta. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, React Native / Expo, and PostgreSQL / Prisma.
See recalen.com (external site) and the case study (external site).
PicPledgePrivate photo sharing for events. Guests add photos to a shared album, can find photos of themselves with optional facial matching, and download the moments they want to keep.
It launched at our own wedding. In my defense, it worked.
Live. Built with React, TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, and Capacitor.
See picpledge.com (external site) and the case study (external site).
The full case studies, with product decisions, walkthroughs, and engineering details, live in my product portfolio. Visit the portfolio.
The formal version
My full work history is on LinkedIn (external site). If you’d like a résumé, ask me.