Technical program leader · Builder · Writer
I make priorities, ownership, risks and dependencies easier to see, so good people spend less time coordinating and more time building. Outside of work, I’m curious about a lot of things: our family, life on our farm, money, chess and whatever project comes next.
Impact
Outcomes from more than five years of coaching Agile teams and leaders, including about 20 connected data initiatives across more than 15 leaders. The full stories are on my Work page. The credit belongs to the teams. My role was helping them see clearly and move together.
Planning predictability
63% to 82%
+19 points
Throughput predictability
68% to 91%
+23 points
Quarterly initiative carryover
33% to ~1%
32 points less
Team-health score (out of 10)
5.3 to 8.9
+3.6 points
Experience
I make priorities, owners, risks and dependencies visible, so leaders across product, engineering, data, risk and privacy can make decisions and move together. That includes regulated work where mistakes affect real customers.
Pods, epic ownership, flexible capacity, living roadmaps and operating reviews: the system that lets an organization keep its commitments even as priorities change.
Coaching Scrum Masters, Product Owners and new leaders, and covering for teams when they need it. Two Product Owners asked me to stay with their teams permanently after I filled in.
I use AI every day to build faster. It has helped me ship dozens of apps, games and tools, and more than a dozen are live sites people use today. You can see them on my Projects page. The ideas, the product calls, the testing and the final say are mine. AI speeds up the building, but deciding what’s worth building and knowing when something isn’t right still takes a person. That’s the same judgment I bring to delivery work.
Outside work
Building a comic business, paying down debt and helping others budget, becoming a first-generation farmer, and building apps and games for fun. Every new challenge teaches me something I bring back to work.
Featured writing
Work and leadership
How curiosity, clarity, and helping people work together have shaped my career and the things I create.
Life and resilience
What a difficult season taught me about exhaustion, perspective, and taking the next step.
Time and priorities
A practical look at defining success, making a plan, and treating time as life’s most valuable currency.