Twenty years, five eras, one throughline.
Five eras, each with a narrative, three headline metrics, and the signature project that defined it — the shape of a 20-year arc without the day-to-day detail.
Founded Straventis Advisory Group as an independent execution and program governance practice, taking on a 4-vendor healthcare delivery engagement for Ascension Health alongside building ContentIQ, a self-directed content analytics product shipped end-to-end from parser to public beta.
- At-risk program restored to 95% on-time delivery in a 6-week cadence
- Engagement extended into a $3M contract
- ContentIQ shipped as a live public beta product
Owned two enterprise platforms at Xperi: OnePipeline, an ML-driven metadata and recommendation engine processing 240M records/month, and a Salesforce Quote-to-Cash platform governing product certification and royalty revenue. Also led the AWS Control Tower cloud governance implementation.
- $7.9M modeled net benefit / $11M legacy cost avoidance (OnePipeline)
- ~$1M/year revenue leakage recovered (Salesforce Q2C)
- ~90 AWS accounts brought under centralized governance
Pivoted from infotainment into Harman's 0-to-1 entry into the ADAS market, moving from lidar proof-of-concept work into a camera-first Edge-AI perception platform as Platform Product Manager. Made the technical and financial case that redirected the roadmap away from an unproven $1,000+ lidar bet.
- $3.2M internal venture funding secured
- $700–900/vehicle BOM savings via camera-only fallback variant
- 2–2.5x revenue uplift via multi-line platform reuse at L2+ SOP
Took ownership of Ford's global infotainment program as Customer Technical Program Manager, absorbing a major scope change when Ford discontinued the US Focus and the program shifted to EU/APAC manufacturing. Ran delivery across 3 international factories from design through mass production.
- $36M program, 100% on-time launch, zero program-caused delays
- $224M+ in lifetime sales
- 22% BOM cost cut via VA/VE without warranty risk
Started as a systems integration and embedded controls engineer on Honda-Yazaki instrument cluster work, then spent over a decade building HIL validation, telemetry, and simulation infrastructure for Caterpillar's mining truck engine controls. Grew from individual contributor into Engineering Program Manager, leading a 5-person validation team and running Agile/Scrum delivery across distributed engineering sites.
- ~40% cut in manual test effort via HIL automation
- 40% faster root-cause analysis via telemetry
- 85% improvement in defect detection through Agile/Six Sigma coaching