My experience

Product Management Leader

15+ years leading cross-functional product and program teams

Summary

  • 15+ years leading cross-functional product and program teams across HealthTech and AI, overseeing global initiatives for organizations ranging from startups to $500M+ in revenue.
  • Coordinated enterprise AI delivery across engineering, data science, and compliance, ensuring architecture reviews, governance guardrails, and business-aligned outcomes.
  • Delivered a 32% ($5.7M) YoY sales increase by aligning multi-sided marketplace stakeholders around validated AI use cases, ROI metrics, and scalable delivery plans.

Professional Experience

Founder & CEO

Vetta – Guilford, CT

Mar 2025 to Present
  • Launched AI-driven hiring platform (Vetta) with a full GTM strategy, achieving 10%+ weekly audience growth and 300+ early access signups in 90 days.
  • Designed NLP-based matching system that prioritized candidate outcomes over keywords, driving 3x improvement in perceived match quality during early testing.
  • Built #UnshitifyHiring content series, generating 100K+ organic impressions and 2K+ engagements to establish Vetta as a bold voice in hiring innovation.

Freelance Product Consultant

Consultant – Guilford, CT

Apr 2024 to Mar 2025
  • Authored a comprehensive technical product requirements document for an emerging start-up, enabling accurate estimation of development and hosting costs over the first three years; critical for attracting $500k in funding.
  • Consulted with Identity start-up to help define product market fit and deliver a roadmap leading to the release of two new products for the suite.
  • Engineered a ChatGPT-powered Interview Coach application that provided tailored mock interviews and assisted over 300 candidates, 127 of those securing new positions.

Associate Director of Program Management, AI/ML/NLP

IQVIA – Bridgewater, NJ

Feb 2023 to Apr 2024
  • Accelerated adoption of AI-enhanced product versioning, achieving 70% user migration five months ahead of target by coordinating cross-functional rollout strategies based on revenue and infrastructure impact.
  • Reduced sales onboarding time by 50% through process redesign that aligned roadmap delivery with end-user needs and internal enablement requirements, prioritizing business-ready outcomes over feature output.
  • Led cross-functional privacy and compliance reviews for AI-driven products, ensuring alignment with consent, data governance, and enterprise risk standards; established repeatable frameworks used for future reviews.
  • Scaled NLP/ML-driven content contextualization 10X, enabling monetization of 50% more content while managing infrastructure capacity and ensuring model performance aligned with operational SLAs.

Manager, Engineering Program Management Office

WHELEN ENGINEERING COMPANY – Chester, CT

Aug 2019 to Oct 2022
  • Transformed a fragmented hardware and software engineering room into 5 cross functional collaborative teams that decreased development time of strategic products by 12 weeks.
  • Delivered a SaaS/IoT solution for first responder vehicles, including architecture planning and remote configuration infrastructure; reduced offline time from 2–4 days to zero.
  • Expanded the headcount of the PMO from 4 to 8 members over 3 years which doubled the capacity of hardware products the Engineering department could deliver simultaneously.
  • Established a product funnel, roadmaps, and onboarded a new Product team within the first 120 days that reduced work in progress by 75% and allowed Senior Leaders to prioritize strategic products and innovation.

Business Product Owner, IoT Operations (6-month contract)

HARTFORD STEAM BOILER (Consultant) – Hartford, CT

Jan 2019 – Aug 2019
  • Transformed cross-functional product development practices, fostering effective communication among diverse stakeholders; resulted in a streamlined workflow that accelerated time-to-market for new features by an average of four weeks.
  • Liaised with engineers and data science to deliver a SaaS/IoT device used to understand conditions before an equipment breakage to preemptively deliver alerts.

Senior Agile Coach (6-month contract)

YALE UNIVERSITY (Consultant) – New Haven, CT

May 2018 – Dec 2018
  • Drove a cross functional team to develop MVP requirements, success criteria, vendors, and strategic brief for replacing Yale's SaaS Identity and Access Management system within the first 120 days.
  • Finalized the migration of digital assets for the three Yale museums to a new hosting provider and archival service along with all the display rules saving the university $40K per year.

Director, Product Management

UBM MEDICA – Norwalk, CT

Aug 2010 to Jan 2018
  • Directed a team of 11 direct reports across 4 business units. Managed product owners, mentoring to build skills, industry research, product requirements gathering, design reviews, and product strategy.
  • Solved challenge of product location on separate platforms by rolling out an integrated Drupal platform encompassing 30+ websites.
  • Implemented NLP, ML, and AI to scan and categorize partner content for a $4M per year increase in Ad revenue.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology

Florida International University, Miami FL

Skills & Expertise

AI & Technology

AI/ML/NLP Implementation
SaaS/IoT Solutions
Enterprise Architecture
Data Governance
Compliance & Privacy
Technical Requirements

Leadership & Strategy

Cross-functional Leadership
Product Strategy
Team Building
Agile Methodologies
Go-to-Market Strategy
Stakeholder Management

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