Experience

product management // operations // customer experience

General Manager

One Stop

Georgia Jan 2024 - Current

Family-owned convenience store open 365 days a year serving the local community since 2002

  • Refined all administrative & operational systems to enable fully remote management, cutting on-site time in half while maintaining compliance and vendor relationships

Senior Product Operations Manager, Capbase

Deel

Remote Jan 2023 - Jan 2024

Global HR/payroll + compliance platform enabling distributed teams to hire and pay globally.

  • Led post-acquisition integration of Capbase's fintech platform into Deel's core product suite to meet operations and strategy goals while maintaining product & compliance continuity
  • Grew 3x product adoption managing a cross-functional team of 9 (engineering, product, legal, CS, marketing) through an integration roadmap and feature releases

Chief of Staff, CEO + CTO

Capbase

Remote June 2021 - Dec 2022

SaaS platform for startup compliance, legal structuring, and fundraising

  • Translated leadership vision into engineering reality through resource allocation framework that balanced technical debt, feature work, and customer escalations
  • Executed operational due diligence and execution for 2 funding rounds and final acquisition by Deel, ensuring a clean technical and financial audit across all workstreams
  • Managed board meetings, prepared shareholder communications, and drove cross-functional alignment to ensure customer success and team productivity
  • Built the recruiting pipeline that reduced time-to-hire by 40% while scaling the team

Project Manager, Customer Experience

Capbase

Remote Nov 2020 - June 2021
  • Instituted project management discipline to surface technical blockers and resource constraints earlier, leading to a 65% drop in average customer issue resolution time and enhanced visibility into engineering progress
  • Built and iterated on customer support infrastructure (guidelines, documentation, process)
  • Standardized all contracts into scalable templates
  • Achieved 11× growth in product adoption (1,000+ users) by designing repeatable onboarding workflows and establishing 30+ partner integrations while leading the entire user experience across marketing, legal, design, and customer success teams

Solutions Engineer

Automattic, Inc

Remote Jan 2015 - Nov 2020

The parent company behind WordPress, an open-source CMS for website development

  • Reduced customer churn by 90% through data analysis to identify root causes and cross-team initiatives
  • Designed and maintained a concierge service for all paid plan users
  • Authored 300+ technical guides, ensuring accuracy and clarity for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Spearheaded 50+ interviews to support DEI recruitment goals for building robust, diverse teams
  • Established critical feedback loops by synthesizing QA data & user feedback to directly improve experience
  • Delivered 50+ conference presentations on accessibility and security to audiences totaling 5,000 developers

Skills & Tools

Operations & Strategy

  • Operating system design
  • Process scaling
  • SOPs & triage workflows
  • OKRs & KPI ownership

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Product-Engineering collaboration
  • Executive alignment
  • Team development & retention
  • Change Management

Technical & Data Acumen

  • SQL/Python
  • BI dashboards
  • LLM/AI Automation
  • PM: Jira, Linear, Notion, etc

Education

Bachelor of Science in Science, Technology, and Culture
[media track]

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA August 2009 - December 2012

I studied how technology, media, and communication shape organizations and society. This interdisciplinary approach shaped how I build systems, assess risk, and turn complex problems into scalable solutions.