Work Experience
Career journey and leadership track record
Lead Data & AI Product Manager
June 2021 — CurrentHumana
- Responsible for Humana’s FHIR and OAuth Server, enabling best-in-class consumer mediated data exchange.
- Incubate and accelerate healthcare learning and innovation through co-creation across diversified business units.
- Drive industry interoperability by supporting external client integrations and high-volume partner use cases.
- Actively participate in national FHIR standards advancement through HL7 and the CARIN Alliance.
Senior Product Manager
August 2018 — June 2021BestBuy Health / Lively
- Owned end-to-end product strategy for flagship lines (Jitterbug Flip & Lively Flip handsets), driving over $600M in annual revenue.
- Led continuous discovery to structure product roadmaps, partnering with cross-functional engineering teams across three countries.
- Established data-driven decision frameworks utilizing Firebase and Google Analytics to optimize engagement and user retention.
- Directed business cases and alignment for new active aging and connected health product concepts.
Data Scientist
March 2012 — December 2014Westar Energy
- Mined complex utility telemetry and structured data to guide predictive operations and optimization.
- Engineered machine learning models to forecast asset failures and trigger preventative field maintenance.
Technical Product Manager
June 2010 — March 2012TCL Communications / Alcatel
- Executed go-to-market plans for 6+ consumer device product lines with tier-1 carrier partners (Sprint, MVNOs).
- Managed complete product lifecycles from device PRDs through field trial acceptance (SFN, GCF, OTA) and carrier release.
Technical Product Manager
June 2010 — March 2012ZTE USA
- Spearheaded launch operations for 4 mobile handset programs across operator certification cycles.
- Coordinated validation between international R&D labs and third-party QA teams for hardware and firmware testing.
Education
Academic foundations
University of Kansas
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering
Class of 2011