Own AI program charter and quarterly/annual roadmap planning, driving adoption toward a 65% target while ARR grew from $9M to $13M during the company's shift to an AI-native platform.
Coordinate the three AI agent programs (Design, Field, Synthesize) and the Sprig MCP connector, managing dependencies across Design, Engineering, and GTM.
Manage AI cost-versus-quality as the program's top risk, building the mitigation plan behind the shift to token-based pricing and packaging.
Built the AI Adoption Dashboard for leadership, lifting Langfuse-based AI quality scores from 60% to 80%.
2018 – 2025
Director of Technical Program Management
San Francisco, CA
Hired and scaled a cross-functional program team of 5 program managers across a 70-engineer team; ran OKR governance and quarterly roadmap planning.
Coordinated five concurrent AI workstreams (AI Agents, Rovo Chat, AI Summary, AI Feed, Agent Builder, MCP) for Atlassian Team Conferences.
Led program and integration management for the Trello, OpsGenie, and Statuspage M&A, reaching 100M+ end users.
Owned the AI Quality plan, driving 17% engagement growth and a 90% AI quality benchmark.
Owned budget/resource allocation across four AI monetization phases against a ~70% AI gross margin target.
2016 – 2018
Director, Technical Program Management
San Jose, CA
Ran program management for Eng and UX orgs, accelerating revenue growth 5% and cutting churn 3%.
Led acquisition integration strategy and program management for three companies.
2014 – 2016
Principal / Lead Technical Program Manager
San Jose, CA
Ran the end-to-end program for mobile video streaming app Go90, 5M+ installs and 200K DAUs against an ad-based revenue model.
2012 – 2014
Director, Technical Program Management
Mountain View, CA
Ran the program for UX teams behind 0-to-1 B2C launches; managed the Ask.com partnership reaching 75M monthly search queries.
2007 – 2012
Sr. Program Manager, Checkout
San Jose, CA
Ran Checkout modernization for 100M+ users, including the Bill Me Later M&A, lifting BML sign-ups 5%.
Managed a multi-country checkout expansion (UK, FR, DE, AU), tracking $300M+ in digital transaction growth.
2001 – 2007
Early UX Career
San Jose, CA · Folsom, CA
Manager, UX Design and Research, PayPal checkout, financial products, international payments.
Sr. UX Design and Research, eBay Seller Tools.
Sr. UX Design and Research, Intel wireless networking and ERP.
Education
MS
Clemson University
Industrial Engineering, focus on Human Computer Interaction, Clemson, SC