OPENING /Currently exploring product and program leadership roles in autonomy, robotics, defense, and physical AI.
Boeing taught me flight test, clean-sheet aircraft development, and what factory automation looks like when it meets a real production line. Also that "it works" is not the same as "it's certified." Amazon taught me what it's like to run full-speed during a pandemic, obsessive customer focus, operator experience, and how people interact with highly automated systems. If you don't have the fundamentals down and the math doesn't add up, you don't have a real product.
Zoox taught me what happens when a company falls in love with its own demo video. I still launched the first purpose-built robotaxi on public roads. Aurora is where I shipped yet another autonomy platform: first commercial autonomous trucking service in the US, to start scaling. Tapped to lead launch readiness teams across Eng, Ops, and Product. Worked directly with Sterling Anderson (then CPO, now GM) and Chris Urmson (CEO). Owned the operating plan. Held the line when "wishful" wasn't an option. DoorDash taught me robotics is a margin problem dressed up as a robot problem. Clean-sheet autonomous platform, concept to operating product in five months. Stealth program, now flying toward certification.
What I'm good at: the operating plan. The first ten customers. And the unglamorous prioritization meeting where a smart engineering org learns the difference between shipping a product and shipping a demo.
Same problem in five different costumes: the gap between "the demo works," "this is a real product," and "this is a business."
BUILD.
Operating plans. Roadmaps. The first ten customers. The thing that ships.
TINKER.
Aerospace, robotics, autonomy stacks. Hardware-software seams. AI/ML evals.
LEARN.
Cert. Regs. Field ops. The customers who'll tell you the truth.
