Personal
I'm a generalist and enjoy filling life with variety.
Background
I grew up near Sacramento, California. Since then I've lived for multi-year stretches in Utah, Australia, Northern Virginia, and now Palo Alto. Over the years I've also lived temporarily in a few places for work and play (Boston, New York, Phoenix, Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh, Ft. Lauderdale).
Personal Interests
In general
- Obtaining knowledge and spreading it
- Continually reassessing truth, goodness, and beauty
- Connecting, uplifting, teaching, and entertaining people
- Making fun, memorable experiences for myself and others
Specifics
- History, philosophy, science, technology, religion, psychology
- Travel — 40+ countries
- Dancing — Swing (Lindy Hop) and ballroom
- Singing — Choirs (baritone) and the occasional karaoke
- Music — Drumming and piano
- Acting — A few musicals over the years
- Sports — Tennis, golf, football
- Vehicles — Cars, motorcycles
Professional
See my portfolio and LinkedIn profile for more info.
Career Summary
- 15 years in tech, 7 managing people
- 9 years in product at public companies in both customer-facing and technical platform roles requiring regular facetime with senior executives
- 2x startup co-founder
- Product strategy and operations experience in data, MarTech, AdTech, growth, AI/ML, privacy, consumer, social, retail, SMB, SaaS, and mobile apps
- Product experience across the customer journey: upper funnel marketing, landing pages, sign-up, onboarding, web and mobile UX, APIs, and backend platforms
- Experience in a variety of company sizes: 1-10 (4x), 10-100 (1x), 400-1000 (2x), 5,000-100,000 (3x)
Education
- BS Computer Engineering, BYU
- MS Electrical Engineering, BYU
- JD, Georgetown (Member, State Bar of California)
Work Interests
I love building products and organizations that help people flourish in their personal and professional lives, such as those that:
- help us form or enrich meaningful relationships
- improve, simplify, and automate business and personal processes
- open up new or more efficient modes of communication between individuals, groups, and the masses that may lead to increased understanding and fulfillment
- improve the quality and cost of accessing universal basic services
- improve allocation of resources and attention to things that matter