Experience
Group Product Manager
watsonx Assistant & Orchestrate — IBM
2023 → Present
I own the vision, strategy, and technical roadmap for IBM's AI assistant portfolio and manage 15+ product managers. Established voice partnerships with Deepgram and ElevenLabs.
Principal Product Manager
watsonx Assistant — IBM
2022 → 2023
Led 20 engineers and 4 designers on core authoring and algorithms. Cut enterprise time-to-live by 65% and shipped IBM's first generative AI feature inside an assistant.
Product Strategy Lead
Watson & Customer Care — IBM
2020 → 2021
Set market and roadmap strategy across Assistant, Discovery, and Speech. Lifted portfolio gross profit from under 30% to over 70% and established a Twilio Segment partnership for event streaming.
Lead Product Manager
Computer Vision — IBM Watson
2018 → 2020
Repositioned the product for industrial visual inspection, putting model training in the hands of quality engineers on the line. 10x revenue growth, 5x better margins.
Product Manager
Developer Experience — IBM Watson
2016 → 2018
Launched the Watson developer suite and seven SDKs that still carry over 90% of customer usage. Doubled API conversion and raised IBM Cloud sign-ups 50%.
Finance Lead
Watson Group — IBM
2012 → 2016
Managed a $1B budget through the founding years of IBM Watson — M&A, the Apple partnership, pricing, and lab expansion.
Education
Bachelor of Arts — Finance
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan