About Me

Staff TPM @ WalmartI lead operational excellence inside the SRE org — production readiness, chaos engineering, continuous delivery. The work powers PeopleTech, the platform that keeps Walmart's 2 million associates running.Founder @ TPM UniversityTPM University is where technical program managers come to learn from people who've actually done the job. I write practical, scenario based content and host the TPMU podcast — real talk about TPM leadership, GenAI, and agile practices that hold up under pressure.President @ High Woodlands HOAI serve my local community as HOA President — pushing for transparency, dragging old processes into the modern era, and finding ways to actually bring neighbors together instead of just sending compliance letters.Chapter Director @ TPM EventsI run the Pacific Northwest TPM community — meetups, guest panels, educational talks. We bring practitioners together to share what worked, what broke, and what they'd do differently.Board Member @ Kirkland National Little LeagueI volunteer on the digital side — building tools, streamlining operations, and helping the league spend less time on paperwork and more time on the field.

Launched Filmmaker Mode on Prime Video — a first of its kind collaboration with LG and Samsung that lets viewers switch their TV into a director's intended picture mode, bypassing the motion smoothing most sets ship with.Led a FedRAMP certification program for Axon's federal law enforcement platform. Coordinated eight teams across multiple agencies to get the platform authorized for government use — the kind of program where the paperwork alone can sink you if you don't run a tight ship.Built a Video Player as a Service at Amazon that powered playback for IMDb TV, Amazon Music, and other properties across platforms. One player, many tenants, zero excuses for drift.Spearheaded machine learning driven product optimization at Samba TV. Ran A/B experiments on the opt in flow across Europe and lifted conversion by 65% — not by guessing, by measuring.Authored Continuous Delivery for Mobile Apps (Packt Publishing) and produced technical courses for LinkedIn Learning.

I got into TPM work because I like seeing things actually ship. Not just plans, not just roadmaps — real systems running in production, real teams getting better every quarter. The best programs I've run all had the same thing in common: clear ownership, short feedback loops, and enough trust that people could say "this isn't working" without fear.Outside of work I'm usually building something — a community event, a podcast episode, a better way to run the HOA board. If you're launching a platform, standing up a TPM org, or just want to talk shop about AI and reliability engineering, reach out.

Charles Sturt University, Australia. This program combines MBA coursework with Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer training — business strategy and hands on engineering in one program.

University of Wollongong, Australia. This degree covered computer science and eCommerce — code plus the business of selling online. I also completed a minor in Geosciences, because I've always been curious about how the physical world works, not just the digital one.