Eight years of enterprise SaaS.

I left Workday in July 2025 to travel and follow a dream I've had since college, not to take a break from a career but to invest in the parts of life that matter to me outside of it. The whole year ran on the same muscles as the PM job, just pointed at the road and at building again.

The travel year

• I traveled the world for a year, starting in the Pacific Northwest in a rooftop tent and then going abroad to Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South America.
• I planned long and short term under real uncertainty, built option sets, budgeted monthly, and made calls in real time when things fell apart (Bolivia... ask me about it sometime).

Building again, this time with AI

• I built an operating system for my own product work, combining custom skills, scheduled agents, and tools like Claude Code and Claude Design, including an agent that keeps my skillset current as the space evolves.
• I put it to work on real projects like One Day Stronger, a personalized physical therapy app I built out of my own injury.
• The common thread is a context engineering practice I developed across these builds: I scope the work, give the model the right context, verify what comes back and its feedback loop keeps making it sharper on every turn. I treat it as a coworker I'm building a working relationship with, not a black box.

I was one of three PMs on Journeys, Workday's employee guidance platform, where I owned the 0-to-1 self-service product strategy and created the 3-to-5-year vision through execution. I pushed for the employee self-service problem space when the team's instinct was to stay focused on the administrator, and the bet paid off: half of requesting customers adopted within a release cycle of go-live.

• Ran continuous customer discovery (150+ interviews over my tenure) and established a design partner program with 10+ trusted customers for ongoing feedback
• Designed the annual strategic planning methodology that drove VP-level alignment across a 50+ person organization
• Drove the employee-centric AI product vision from POC through roadmap integration
• Led the information architecture modernization that set the platform up to scale
• Reduced customer time-to-value from six months to four through streamlined implementation and new self-service functionality
• Established the north star metric system that shifted the org from feature delivery to customer outcomes
• Delivered the product vision keynote to 2,000+ attendees across two years of Workday's annual conference

During my tenure Journeys grew to 1,300+ customers and $80M ARR.