I’m a Forward Deployed Product Manager at Gradial helping enterprise teams turn ambiguity, customer friction, and complex workflows into AI-era systems that actually work.
My work sits between product, implementation, customer success, engineering, and the operating reality of enterprise teams adopting new technology.
A few examples of how I approach messy, high-stakes work where the real problem usually isn’t what it first appears to be.
Working alongside a global team, we discovered that the bottleneck wasn't translation... it was the workflow surrounding it. Reimagining that workflow with AI dramatically reduced turnaround time while improving consistency—and fundamentally changed how I think about enterprise AI adoption.
Read how it changed my thinking →Agentic migration isn’t a magic prompt. It requires clear readiness criteria, careful calibration, reusable instructions, meaningful QA gates, and human judgment where it has the most leverage.
Read the field guide →Most delivery problems are system problems in disguise.
“Built the plane while flying it.”
“Makes complicated things feel workable.”
“Human-first without losing operational rigor.”
Short essays on AI, identity, product work, MarTech transformation, and the systems that make execution either easier or unnecessarily painful.
Every technology transformation plan accounts for data, systems, and timelines. Almost none of them account for the people who have to let go of who they were to use the new tool.
Read →The bottleneck in most rooms full of experts isn't expertise. It's translation. And AI is making that more true, not less.
Read →The problem was never that I didn't know better. It was that the version of me making the decision couldn't always access the version who did.
Read →I’m a Forward Deployed Product Manager at Gradial, based near Detroit, with a background in enterprise transformation, MarTech, and cross-functional execution.
I’m especially energized by ambiguous environments: places where the work matters, the constraints are real, and success depends on more than following a template. That usually means aligning teams, untangling incentives, building trust, and creating a path forward people can actually believe in.
At my best, I bring calm, clarity, and momentum to messy situations. I like building systems that make good work more likely without sanding off the human part in the process.