Career Journey
Eighteen years, five companies, one through-line.
From a teenager teaching himself BASIC on an Apple IIc to modeling the olfactory system of honey bees using artificial neural networks, to scaling Oracle's cloud analytics apps business from ground zero, what stayed constant was an instinct to use data and AI to solve real problems.
GVP
Oracle
Group Vice President, Product Management
Built a cloud analytics & AI apps product line from 0 to several hundred $M in ARR.
"The head-of-product job is to create the conditions under which the organization makes good product decisions repeatedly. Focus creates leverage. Sprawl creates drag."
Multi-hundred-million ARR
Built from zero
Leadership
MicroStrategy
Head of Product Management
Led the company's transition from on-premise software to BI as a cloud service.
"Manage toward outcomes, not tasks. Organize teams around major problems and opportunities, not around the technical architecture. Customers experience outcomes, not stacks."
On-prem → SaaS
Platform pivot
Strategy
SAP
Product Lead, Location Intelligence & Analytics M&A
Owned location intelligence; led M&A strategy for SAP Analytics, including Paxata assessment.
"Knowing what NOT to do is one of the most important disciplines in product leadership. A product is ready when the company can actually run a business on it, not just when features ship."
Build vs. buy
Strategic call
Startup
Birst
First Product Management Hire
Joined as PM #1; helped scale Birst into a Gartner Magic Quadrant Challenger for Analytics.
"Roadmaps should not be lists of features. They should express the problems the company has chosen to solve. A feature list creates activity; a problem-oriented roadmap creates focus."
Triple-digit growth
Multi-year revenue growth
Foundation
Siebel Systems
Product Manager, Advanced Analytics
Shipped Siebel Real-Time Decisions, generated $5M+ in license revenue in year one.
"A product is much more than the software that ships. Product management requires leading without authority. The buck stops with PM. Credit gets distributed, blame doesn't."
$5M+
First-year license revenue