Building Products and Teams
Founder-minded senior product + engineering leader building with AI and the latest tech.
What I’m About
Over my career, I've worked with all different types of companies, from startups to established businesses. I’ve spent years building web and mobile apps, and more recently layering in AI to speed up feature development, marketing, and internal ops. I’m happiest when I’m creating software and workflows to solve hard problems. I love collaborating with smart, decent people who respect focus and working toward a shared goal.
Fun fact: I was the 903rd user to sign up for Twitter.
What I’m Looking For
Product-focused SaaS and B2B companies and teams building pragmatic products and tools, especially those who need a steady hand on product engineering and are interested in injecting AI into their workflows.
Currently based in Santa Barbara, CA, and partnering remotely across US-friendly time zones.
Leadership Roles
Chief Technology Officer
Mountain Goat Software (2016–Present)
Lead the digital product, platform, and data strategy for a premier Scrum and agile consultancy. Translated course IP into software like Team Home (real-time learning system), the MGS AI Toolkit (team coaching), and related tools. Pair closely with the CEO and operations leads to align product-engineering output and infrastructure decisions with the business roadmap.
Co-Founder
EZ Golf League (2015-Present)
EZ Golf League is a SaaS platform for golf courses, league administrators, and tournament organizers. Including Web, iOS, and Android components, I’ve led all aspects of development and contributed heavily to feature selection.
Director of Technology
Foraker Labs (2011-2016)
Managed a product engineering team building Web and native apps for a wide range of clients and small-business partners. Balanced discovery and delivery across mobile apps, custom SaaS builds, and modern Rails backends so projects shipped on schedule while the consultancy scaled responsibly.
Co-Founder
Liberation Media (1998-2010)
Liberation Media created custom Web apps and CMS tools, primarily for music industry customers (musicians, record labels). In nearly 12 years operating, we built tools for bands helping to sell millions of records. I was the principal engineer responsible for architecting and building our products.
Recent Work
Accelerating marketing while staying on-brand
Ability to move fast to create on-brand marketing and landing pages for an established product website.
Created an AI-powered tool that could analyze existing pages for style and structure and then apply that analysis to create new pages, with or without pre-existing copy. Reduced new page creation time from 2 weeks to 1 day, enabling a much higher rate of experimentation.
Always-on coaching for training alumni
Mountain Goat Software training customers wanted access to 24x7 post-course resources to practice new skills and get answers to real-world questions without adding load to their training staff.
Built an AI toolkit with a RAG-powered Retrieval-augmented generation, a technique for bringing enterprise content into an LLM session. agile coach, specialized story-splitting and backlog tools, and MCP integration Model Context Protocol, a common instruction set to integrate tools with AI. so teams can use the experience inside their preferred chatbots. Achieved high user retention and moved from concept to beta in about 3 weeks.
Immersive live-online training at global scale
When COVID-19 hit, Mountain Goat Software needed to shift from in-person instruction to online training effectively overnight and needed a learning platform with custom exercises and simultaneous cohorts around the world.
We created Team Home, a suite of 75+ collaborative exercises with instructor dashboards to monitor progress and facilitate breakdowns. It has served thousands of learners and received rave reviews.
Products
I have been building native apps since the earliest App Store days, and that experience still informs how I evaluate product-engineering tradeoffs for today’s Web and AI platforms. The focus now is leadership and modern product systems, with native expertise serving as added proof that I ship real things.
Launched (2008) and re-imagined 1M+ download travel app VegasMate for iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS.
Migrated from Objective-C to Swift (UIKit) and ultimately to SwiftUI.
Contact
I’m open to full-time roles, fractional CTO work, and targeted engagements to ship AI-powered features or modernize product-engineering systems. Send a quick note that covers your company stage, what you need to ship in the next 6–12 months, and where you need the most help.