About Me
- 25+ years in product, from full-stack engineer to senior product manager
- Owned an 18-product web, mobile, and SMB SaaS portfolio serving 24.8M customers across SDG&E and SoCalGas
- Wrote requirements for and led delivery of 95 features from May to September 2026 with an AI-built requirement pipeline
- As principal program manager, led the ATO and DoD IL4 certification and deployment of the Marine Corps MAKE system
- Tools: Claude and MCP connectors, JIRA, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Figma, React, Python, Node.js, Google Analytics
Career Highlights
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Senior Product Manager
Preston Ventures | 2023-PresentAI/ML and data platform roadmap
Agentic AI delivery system
95 features shipped May to Sep 2026
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Senior Agile Project / Product Manager
PG&E | 2022-2023Backlog, roadmap, and 6 releases of the Your Projects portal (16M customers)
Your Projects on pge.com is a one-stop shop for applications, document tracking, document storage, internal approvals, and billing for 250K+ yearly applications
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Senior Technical Program Manager
US Navy | 2017-2021SMSMDS Program: 35-person division
$7M+ budget
Azure IL4 migration
Security backlog and ATO workMarine Corps MAKE: led ATO and IL4
Best in Breed (DoD Explosives Safety Board)
Funding grew 10x
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Owner / Technical Consultant
Pavlak Consulting | 2016-2022Azure migration
50+ senior hires for GitLab before its IPO
Clients: GitLab, Jack in the Box, EIZO
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Senior Technical Product Manager
SDG&E | 2006-201718-product portfolio
24.8M customers
Outage map
First utility-owned mobile app in the US
Built the 0-to-1 B2B2C energy API that delivered customer data to Google PowerMeter
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Senior Software Engineer
SDG&E | 1999-2006Built a seminar management portal for 24.8M+ commercial and residential customers
Co-designed an API standard for the Microsoft and White House emergency notification system
Built a B2C energy management billing portal for 3.7M+ commercial and residential customers
Products Developed
Selected products and the results they delivered.
Agentic AI
Claude, multi-agent workflows, and MCP connectors produce a daily status digest, risk and drift report, and audited run log.
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Improve Personal Consumer Onboarding
Mission: improve onboarding for Backblaze Personal Backup consumers. Signup to the first safely saved files in one browser session: no install, no password, and a green check on every file.
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Incident After Action Review Prototype
A clickable prototype that turns AI-generated incident response findings into a CISO-approved after action report, built with Claude agent pipelines across 16 versions in 13 days.
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MAKE
8 ammunition management tools; named Best in Breed by the DoD Explosives Safety Board; ATO and IL4 certified; approvals 30x faster; later adopted by all five service branches.
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Outage Map
Cut outage data updates from every 4 hours to sub-300ms; outage calls fell 20%+ per event, saving $1M+ a year.
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Mobile App
The first utility-owned mobile app in the US (iOS and Android), built in-house and shipped 6 months ahead of schedule.
Read the case study →Skills and Expertise
25+ years across product, AI, platforms, security, and delivery.
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Product
Strategy and roadmap, customer research and usability testing, PRDs, prioritization (RICE, MoSCoW, Kano), launches and go-to-market with Marketing
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AI
Agentic AI workflows (Claude, MCP), GenAI prototyping, AI governance
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Platforms
APIs, data models, cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), object storage
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Security and Compliance
HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST RMF, ATO, IL4
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Delivery
Agile, Scrum, JIRA, Azure DevOps
Contact Me
Open to Senior Product Manager conversations.