Proven product catalyst: clearing noise to codify adoption.
Product management leader who’s done the work from strategy to design shipping. Team autonomy for AI workflow adoption.
Anxiety to action: CPOs, CMOs call me to move stalled product or AI pilots in regulated complexity into adopted, governed products in weeks months. 11 AI & PM certifications.
Prudential
Samsung
Stellantis
United Airlines
Vanguard
ADP Wisely
T-Mobile
Marriott
Caterpillar
Northeastern U.
Amway
Dow Chemical
Duke Energy
Blackrock
TIAA / nuveen
Merck
CenterPoint
CVS
Prudential Samsung Stellantis United Airlines Vanguard ADP Wisely T-Mobile Marriott Caterpillar Northeastern U. Amway Dow Chemical Duke Energy Blackrock TIAA / nuveen Merck CenterPoint CVS
Connecting product teams with clarity and care.
Product is what is seen and unseen. 18+ years on executive goals to aligning holistic products, from what to build strategy to shipping in weeks. Conveying the root problem, solution, and business risks of inaction that rallies team success.
Ambitiously work through chaos to find clarity with storytelling.
A product executive who has shipped 29+ product transformations in operationally complex orgs, including TIAA, United Airlines, and F100 enterprise (Accenture) and MarTech (Sapient) work. My focus is not deployment, but human adoption, now more relevant for teams within AI-pilot success. Recent delivery performance exceeded prospecting targets at 63%, improving intake t-shirt sizing delivery velocity up to 41%, hitting 100% WCAG compliance, and raising subscription rates 97%. Lead with data-driven storytelling, and coach teams on decision autonomy to apply AI workflow alignment pilots in Jira, sharpening team agreements in CX focus. Aligning C-suite roadmaps to mentoring my global teams, I deliver with business focus. I make it stick.
Good vs. great criteria: AI-informed with human-qualified decisions.
AI upskilling is falling short. At TIAA, I outlined “good” versus “great” criteria for team decisions to significantly remove stalled decisions on delivery, building critical-thinking autonomy with competitive differentiation. Defined 12 years of playbooks for teams (Pivotal Moments™), which now adopts agentic skills for team evaluations as a human-layer harness for AI workflows. With 29 certifications across AI, PM, and business strategy, I close gaps between AI investments and adoption.
Team decision autonomy with clarity drives adoption with trust.
Adoption: this product solutions portfolio validates my holistic product with a systems/operations approach, from zero-failure operational-driven deployments at United to heavily regulated, bi-weekly delivery at TIAA from teams I established in India and the U.S. I define team autonomy with trust-building to raise their hand on issues before they become hard-encoded problems. Paired with Emmy Award-winning design craft, I run lean/flat, globally-synchronized teams to ship quick, and stick.
I empower team ownership with decision clarity and prioritized risk.
Before the product investment,
executives need narrative problem framing…
Product Leadership applied
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Executives need confidence in investments. I bridge gaps between customer demands and business barriers for decisive executive clarity in narrative insights and data storytelling. At United, we discovered that fliers valued compensation when it was immediate, lifting our CX scores. At Nuveen, I raised a design system urgency critical to enterprise deployments.
Quantitative, Qualitative Research, Ethnography, Segment Data Analysis, Discovery Workshops, UX Gap Research, Brand Messaging, AI-led Correlational Studies, Longitudinal, A/B Testing
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How do we get there? Executive top-down execution demands bottom-up cross-functional feasibilty for prioritizing parallel transformational success. At TIAA, evaluated research with KPI touchpoint scorecards to prioritize planning. At Caterpillar, aligned their global sales and product teams to adopt a planned rollout of a unified SFMC orchestration.
Product Vision, Gap Analysis Planning, Journey Maps, Service and System Blueprints, Omnichannel Journey Orchestration, Barriers to Success, Business Use Cases, Service Prototyping
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It takes a village, with tribal planning. 18 years bridging product, marketing, design, business, and engineering teams from roadmaps connected to CX journey/service blueprint feasibility. At Sapient, I applied Tech readiness with brand scorecards to prioritize sprint planning. At United, I co-led mobile strategies with WSJF, saving $8.4M YoY without 4.7K daily flights disruption.
Roadmaps, Business Prioritizations, Forecast Planning, PRDs, Backlog Sprint Grooming, Burn Down, Feasibility Epics, Jobs-to-be-done, User Stories, Design Requirements, Annotated Designs
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Good design weighs everything, from empathy, constraints, and the root "why" behind a problem. In 12 months at TIAA, my team applied scaled components in 42 deployments, a new 0-1 design system in 4 months, content storytelling, and design workshops to coordinate enterprise deployments. An AI PFM app in 11 weeks.
Figma Design Systems, Pattern Libraries, Design Playbooks, Content Strategy, Narrative Frameworks and IA, Rapid Prototyping, Annotated Delivery, Templates, Visual Branding, Vibe-coded prototypes
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Lastly, there is no finish line. I measure to optimize behaviors across journey and loyalty engagements while improving ROI. At Samsung, I ran weekly segmentation analytics to optimize site-wide deployments. At Stellantis, I applied omni-channel CRM team playbooks for measuring ownership care management.
Engagement Analytics, CX Analysis, Customer Segmentation & Targeting Optimization, Personalization, Omnichannel Journey Orchestration, Brand Development/Messaging Marketing Playbooks
Last 14 months I’ve led:
Discovery research into confident bets:
Connecting global researched KPIs drives aligned vision in leadership adoption.
From strategy to tactical execution:
Layering CX with front-line feedback drives prioritized PRDs with adoption.
From execution to optimized scale:
AI demands systems intelligence to drive efficiency with QA adoption.
35 executive adopted case studies, turning ambiguity into executive-action storytelling.
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Product strategy and vision management: Led “the why” execution of 29 B2C and B2B2C applications and e-Commerce experience transformations across financial services, travel, consumer retail, hospitality, automotive, and healthcare by mapping customer insights in in-the-moment journey strategy to maintain development focus across data, technology, and product design teams for adoption: engagement, conversion, loyalty, and enterprise performance.
Subscription CRM research that led to Nuveen lifting 97% in subscription retention and conversion. Contributed to +212,000 new user enrollments from web journey optimizations and improved content storytelling CMS architecture.
Led strategic design of Amway’s $8.9 BN app and omnichannel e-commerce with business modeling. Product development roadmaps from corporate blueprinting, UX, content design, and search lifting revenue by $313MM.
Led T-Mobile’s product design pattern unification playbook work stream. Reduced deployment costs $22MM YoY by unifying e-Commerce, In-Store POS, and cutomer support applications, sunsetting two legacy applications.
Redesigned a $16.8MM Gerdau and Merck’s user experience of a global salesforce order scheduling management.
Managed Samsung’s NA (517MM visits) e-commerce product teams with eight product launch plans; connecting UX architecture with analytical segmentation optimization toward a $54.6 MM revenue lift. Organic ROI 22%. $390MM YoY revenue.
Unified and prioritized Caterpillar’s global B2B-2C Dealer Salesforce pipeline from global business research into a storyboard narrative use case, improving quoting 38% into 20% sales lift at $6.9BN YoY
Drove market and user research for change management confidence in Prudential’s $27MM experience transformation (with $1.55T assets) by crafting data analysis into investor storytelling that aligned with leadership’s performance goals.
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Directed complex product portfolios over operational, regulated, and design systems spanning mobile, web, in-store, e-commerce, workforce, and CRM marketing technologies on and enterprise platforms that mapped barrier work-arounds with CX researched and business priorities on product roadmaps, PRDs, prioritized backlogs for scalable releases.
Deployed a 0-1 design system for Nuveen’s site that accelerated development velocity 41% while defining token strategy for a 2025 rebranding launch.
Led a systems team to expand an existing (TIAA-branded) design system by developing and developing a pattern library documentation across 95+ components for development adoption across several federated software teams. Migrated from Angular to React (storybooks) for cloud platform transformation in five months.
Managed United’s global App suite, improving operational efficiencies 6% (1.6MM) by prioritizing and reducing defects in agile releases. Research drove agent change management for measured CX lift.
Led T-Mobile’s product design pattern unification playbook on systemized patterns that reduced development and deployment costs $22MM YoY.
Redesigned a $16.8MM Gerdau and Merck’s user experience of a global salesforce order scheduling management.
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Delivered and influenced $500M+ in measurable revenue and business impact through customer-centric product strategies, e-commerce optimization, CRM and personalization, journey orchestration, digital platforms, and innovation for global Fortune 500 brands.
Managed United’s global 13-app product suite, improving operational efficiencies 6% (1.6MM) by prioritizing and reducing defects in agile releases. Research drove agent change management for measured CX lift.
Led strategic design of Amway’s $8.9 BN app and omnichannel e-commerce with business modeling. Product development roadmaps from corporate blueprinting, UX, content design, and search lifting revenue by $313MM.
Orchestrated Stellantis’ global OEM omnichannel marketing transformation (Media, Social Media, CRM) for ~23% marketing velocity to meet $720 MM in cost-cutting across global markets, developing journey research and engagement analysis. Led to a $2.4 BN agency consolidation win.
Managed Samsung’s NA (517MM visits) e-commerce product teams with eight product launch plans; connecting UX architecture with analytical segmentation optimization toward a $54.6 MM revenue lift. Organic ROI 22%. $390MM YoY revenue.
Unified and prioritized Caterpillar’s global B2B-2C Dealer Salesforce pipeline from global business research into a storyboard narrative use cases, improving quoting 38% into 20% sales lift at $6.9BN YoY
Innovated Prudential’s $27MM transformation ($1.55T assets) with requirements using compelling storytelling with data analysis to align leadership values.
Provided quarterly business reports to United Airlines’ operational IT budgets and ROI for roadmap planning and cascading improvement initiatives.
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Pioneered GenAI, agentic AI, intelligent insights, personalization, and chatbot strategies that transformed customer and frontline experiences while improving organizational CSAT/CES by approximately 32–62% and establishing responsible AI practices within regulated environments.
Launched an AI-assisted personal finance management app with behavioral spending patterns in just 11 weeks to exceed our wealth prospecting targets to 63%, and four months early.
Developed and deployed five data-maturity readiness heuristics for AI-driven personalization confidence scoring in segmentation and behavior patterns,
Developed nine product CoE standards to scale product teams over global offices for autonomous decisions to meet agile delivery cycles.
Deployed a 0-1 design system that accelerated personalization patterns by defining token strategies and documentation readiness ahead of a rebranding transformation.
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Coordinated with my established cross-functional frameworks that prioritize technology deployment transformations, including product and design systems that accelerated delivery 41%, reduced engineering/deployment costs, eliminated overbuilding, and improved product velocity by approximately 15–21% YoY.
Coordinated with my established cross-functional frameworks that prioritize technology deployment transformations, including product and design systems that accelerated delivery 41%, reduced engineering/deployment costs, eliminated overbuilding, and improved product velocity by approximately 15–21% YoY.
As head of the operational product design team at United Airlines, implemented a new agile methodology (from legacy waterfall) and coordinated development efficiencies over 7 global operational streams on 13-app portfolio with complex data and delivery cycles with zero downtime: 4700 daily flights in 356 airports.
Led a Jira and Confluence change management efficiency program on milestone development targets on requirements management.
Identified 11 agentic touchpoints across our product pipeline and matured 5 into skills to evaluate readiness and communication across cross-functional teams.
Improved (Adobe) Workfront intake funnel with T-shirt sizing of requests and team staffing to improve team delivery velocity by ~41%
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Led customer and product experience transformations across financial services, travel, retail, hospitality, automotive, technology, and e-commerce, connecting customer insights, journey strategy, product management, data, technology, and design to improve adoption, engagement, conversion, loyalty, and enterprise performance.
Led strategic design of Amway’s $8.9 BN app and omnichannel e-commerce with business modeling. Product development roadmaps from corporate blueprinting, UX, content design, and search lifting revenue by $313MM.
Managed United’s global App suite, improving operational efficiencies 6% (1.6MM) by prioritizing and reducing defects in agile releases. Research drove agent change management for measured CX lift.
Developed and deployed my own omnichannel framework (Pivotal Moments) on Northwestern University, Samsung, and Stellantis including KPI measurement signals to measure campaign efficiency and optimizations.
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Built and led multidisciplinary product, experience, design, technology, and strategy teams with decision autonomy to influence C-suite stakeholder agreements across complex global organizations. Recognized for developing high-performing teams, including increasing team sentiment to 87%, establishing career-growth frameworks, and developing talent resulting in multiple promotions. 67 product team members mentored for over a decade.
Recently hired, led, and mentored an enterprise-wide global team over 5 business units across two orgs. for 42 deployments/year in $24M+ P&L budget oversight on-target with executive-level 5-year transformation and efficiency plan milestones.
Owned daily stand-ups and weekly executive reporting to increase customer scorecards ~32–63% over B.U. roadmaps and segmentation focus. Successful global stakeholder alignments and collaborate with federated, agile software engineering dev teams.
Defined first enterprise-wide (TIAA and Nuveen) career growth path with HR for my team with leveling expectations, promotional targets, including AI-fluency upskilling.
Set T-shape competencies in project management, design, content, research, and systems skill focus for a 87% positive sentiment score by connecting individual OKRs to project performance. Zero employees resigned in three years.
Defined a yearly OKR Framework between goals for the team, yearly projects, and individual growth goals that align with organizational KPIs and values.
Head of a product design team at United Airlines, implementing new agile methodologies for efficiency on 7 global operations with a 13-app portfolio with complex data and delivery cycles with zero downtime: 4700 daily flights in 356 airports.
Provided quarterly business reports to United Airlines’ operational IT budgets and ROI for roadmap planning and cascading improvement initiatives.
“Companies maintain status quo to avoid new ventures; in keeping with competitors. Yet that is where product opportunities are most abundant.
New levels of product agility: AI is fundamentally challenging workforce decisions from market forces, requiring autonomy and adoption: critical thinking and rapid pilot testing for growth.”
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP
Product Managers
Developers
Content Strategists
UX Designers
Automation/AI Leads
System Designers
UX Researchers
Architects
Engineers
Product Managers Developers Content Strategists UX Designers Automation/AI Leads System Designers UX Researchers Architects Engineers
Certification Highlights
Explore my core leadership:
17 speaker & roundtables in product, AI, and design transformations.
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We’re at an AI crossroads today as workforce upskilling is not enough. I’ve been working on several white papers in the “invisible harness” that teams need to confidently apply AI in decisions, exploration, and workflows.
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With over two decades creating frameworks and playbooks for product teams in enterprise and marketing, I bring a unique view of how teams can come together, featuring my Pivotal Moments framework, and applicable to AI.
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With 95% of AI efforts failing, I take a process-centric appoach to evaluating risk and opportunities in AI, over a product-centric one. using data maturity heuristics from my proven Pivotal Moments framework.
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