Resume
I started in 1976 hand-coding hex on an HP 8080 learning kit, and the curiosity hasn’t really changed since: how do these machines actually work, and what can I build with them that didn’t exist before? The career that followed has run through Microsoft, Tweddle Group, Disney, Amazon, Google, and Meta — building products meant to be useful to the actual humans in front of them. Photography has been a parallel discipline since 1999, and right now I’m hands-on with AI / RAG systems for the same reason I was soldering boards in 1977: the only way to learn it is to build it.
At a glance
- Senior PM with 30+ years across consumer products, productivity software, and large-scale cloud systems. Currently leading product for Amazon AMXL.
- Shipped at Microsoft (Word for Windows 1, Flight Simulator), Tweddle Group (Toyota / Lexus connected-car), Amazon (Cloud Drive Photos seeded Rekognition; now AMXL), Disney Parks, Google (Automotive), and Meta (Proton).
- Strengths: synthesizing technical / UX / business into clear product strategy, experimentation and metrics, cross-functional leadership, AI-first features, scaling to millions of users.
- Currently building real RAG / AI / hyperlocal-weather projects — each its own excuse to learn something I couldn’t learn by reading about it.
- Based in Seattle.
Selected work
Amazon — Senior Product Manager, Technical (Last Mile / AMXL)
Bellevue, WA · 2024 – present
Lead the product side of Last Mile technology for Heavy & Bulky deliveries (AMXL), so delivery associates can complete in-home and business services, not just drop a box on a porch.
- Defined the technical architecture for expanding AMXL services into stand-alone, consolidated, and return workflows.
- Drove a 20%+ reduction in incomplete service deliveries across the U.S. through structured experimentation and UX work on the associate-facing app.
- Partner with engineering, UX, and applied-science teams on service flow design, performance evaluation, and adoption with delivery partners.
Google — Senior Product Manager, Automotive Developer Platform
Kirkland, WA · 2022 – 2023
Owned product strategy for the developer ecosystem behind Google-built-in vehicles — the platform partners use to bring their apps into the car.
- Shipped in-car gaming four months ahead of plan, which made the Google I/O announcement possible.
- Mapped the technical and UX gaps between Android Mobile and Android Automotive so partners had a clear migration path instead of a folkloric one.
- Ran partner onboarding, app testing, and certification end-to-end, keeping app behavior compatible with the constraints automotive imposes — driver attention, latency, hardware variability.
Meta — Product Manager, Internal Design Tools
Seattle, WA · 2019 – 2020
Led product direction for Proton, Meta’s internal React-based interface design tool used by engineers and designers across the company.
- Doubled engagement (100%+ increase) in six months by focusing UX work on the highest-friction workflows.
- Aligned Proton with modern React engineering patterns so it became the default design tool internally instead of one of several.
- Worked with engineering, design, and research to set roadmap priorities and lift sentiment among internal users.
Disney Parks & Resorts — Lead Product Manager, Mobile Commerce
Seattle, WA · 2017 – 2018
Owned mobile commerce for tours, parties, and special events across Disney Parks. The job was figuring out how to sell the non-ticket experiences inside the app guests were already using.
- Delivered new commerce flows projected to add $10M in annual revenue.
- Shipped Special Event Ticketing months ahead of schedule and at half the planned budget — three months for the MVP instead of the planned twelve — by ruthlessly trimming scope.
- Ran agile development across engineering, design, and the business stakeholders who actually live with the merchandising decisions.
Amazon — Senior Product Manager, Cloud Drive Photos
Seattle, WA · 2013 – 2016
Directed product strategy for the photo and video processing services behind Amazon Cloud Drive (the consumer Prime Photos product).
- Scaled content processing to 50M photos and 1M videos per day while bringing per-unit cost down and improving P90 latency.
- Built the photo tagging engine that later seeded Amazon Rekognition’s consumer-facing capabilities.
- Launched Cloud Drive APIs that simplified integration across Amazon’s storage and media services.
Microsoft & earlier career
1990s – 2010s
Started as a software engineer on the original release of Word for Windows, then shipped consumer and developer products across Microsoft Answers, Partners in Learning, Rich Media Group, Expression, Flight Simulator, the Moab photo editor, and Microsoft Games. Earlier still: automotive connectivity for Toyota Entune / Lexus Enform via Tweddle Group, and mobile services / e-commerce at Techwave / Network Commerce.
- On the original Word team, built automation frameworks and the performance / stability evaluation systems for the first commercial release — a foundation in productivity workflows, reliability, and user trust I’ve leaned on ever since.
- Across later Microsoft PM roles, drove clarity between engineering, design, and business teams on what to build, in what order, and why.
- Toyota / Lexus connected-car work was the first time I built software where shipping wrong meant a guest stranded in their car — useful instinct for everything that came after.
Career timeline
Early in High School, I am introduced to microprocessor. I can program a computer that can fit inside a suitcase. The programming was straight 8080 Hex entered by a keypad.
Sophomore year of high school, I had access to a Northstar Horizon microcomputer. I worked to help assemble them at the Byte Shop in Walnut Creek. My first major project was a Star Wars game written in assembly using ASCII characters for the display. I also added some updates to the operating system user experience.
My first engineering clinic project was experimenting with unusual options for pasteurizing beer for Anheuser Busch. We were able to get good results with ultrasound, but the end cost was too expensive to implement.
My senior clinic project was building a finite-elements model of the Large Deployable Reflector for NASA.
Started graduate school at the UW Department of Zoology. My first work was building instrumentation. I needed a viscometer and mechanism to measure the speed of blood in a lugworm.
Hunting for lugworms. My research was measuring the efficiency of blood flow based on temperature.
I worked on the Mac for a few years. But I believed that Windows was a more object-oriented environment, so I started learning Windows 1.0 programming. (in Pascal).
Started at Microsoft as a Software Engineer in Test. Creating test code for Word for Windows. Testing the coding environment (Word Basic), performance, and stability. Built test apps for Dynamic Data Exchange and Dynamic Linked Libraries.
Eventually moved to Program Management. Release multiple versions of Flight Simulator, add-ons, and other games.
I learned to fly the Cessna 182, the model in the early version of Flight Simulator.
Started doing photography more seriously. Worked with early digital cameras and 4×5 film.
Started teaching digital photography. Most photography teachers didn’t think photoshop was a serious tool for photography. Taught workshops and summer intensive classes at Rocky Mountain School of Photography and workshop and semester classes at the Photographic Center Northwest. I wrote three books on Digital Photography and Color Management and taught hundreds of students.
Developed a process to reliably create fine art prints using large format contract prints from a digital inkjet printer. Learned to create cyanotype, platinum, palladium, gold and iron prints. Wrote a book on digital negatives.
Returned to Microsoft to work on Project Moab – a photography organizing and editing tool similar to Adobe Lightroom. The project was cancelled during Microsoft’s first major layoff.
Worked at Tweddle Technologies. Partnering with Toyota, Lexus and Chrysler on connected systems in cars. I visited car dealerships to better understand the sales and setup experience for infotainment systems.
Went to work at Amazon Cloud Drive and helped launch Prime Photos. This work included using ML for face clustering and image tagging; technology that later become Amazon Rekognition.
Worked at Disney Parks as product manager for digital ticket sales. Launched Special Events sales with a fast, agile product launch for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. Sold $10M in tickets through the mobile app during the first season.
Joined Google Automotive to deliver Parked Apps for cars. Ship first wave of Games in Cars for Android Automotive.
Product Manager with Amazon AMXL – delivering services to customers buying heavy/bulky, expensive and complex product for their home and business.
Laid off from Amazon. Working with Claude Code to build vibe projects – RAG systems, image generation, ML weather-forecasting. Enjoying the chance to build something creative.
Skills
Product
Product-led growth · Customer research · Experimentation & metrics · Roadmapping · Cross-functional leadership · Agile development
Technical & platforms
AI / ML / RAG · Computer vision · Cloud services · Developer platforms · Performance & reliability · UX & interaction design
Domains
Consumer products & productivity software · Photo & video at scale · Automotive (in-car software, connected car) · E-commerce & last-mile logistics · Design tooling & internal platforms
Education & certifications
B.S. Biology / Engineering, Harvey Mudd College · Certified Scrum Master · Certified Product Owner
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The PDF below is the structured, single-page version for ATS systems and formal applications.
Outside work
Photography is the parallel discipline — landscape work since 1999, teaching since 2000, and alt-process printing / digital negatives published and taught at conferences. See the Gallery →