Greater Seattle Area
Partnered with Shagamed Endoscopes, an FDA-cleared breast cancer prevention technology company, to build business strategy and $5M seed investor materials using AI-powered methodology to rapidly structure and validate their California market approach.
Led team through major pivot from multi-state Series A to focused California validation program.
Built and maintained living knowledge base using Claude as strategic advisor—synthesizing market research, financial modeling, and 40+ critical business questions while managing team alignment and client deliverables across 13-week engagement.
Designed audience-specific fundraising materials (medical peers + impact investors) including pitch decks and talk tracks that shifted positioning from detection to prevention, creating differentiated narrative for category-defining technology
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Execution partners for late Seed/Series A founders in life sciences, deep tech, and cleantech
Partnered with Yonder Materials, an AI-driven materials discovery company, to translate breakthrough lab technology into a customer-facing product platform—designing the LeapLab experience (“SuperAgent” AI interface and Dashboard) through strategic facilitation and interactive prototyping to support go-to-market and investor readiness.
Facilitated working sessions with cross-functional teams to distill complex scientific workflows into clear, actionable product requirements.
Delivered strategy documentation, design concepts, and interactive prototypes that guided the development of a multi-stage MVP platform.
Provided leadership perspective that helped the team move from technical possibility to market-ready product direction.
2024 — 2025
Redmond, Washington, United States
Explored and shaped the product direction for emerging agent-based systems designed to automate complex
Enterprise workflows. Balanced strategic vision, technical feasibility, and customer insight to move ambiguous concepts into structured product direction and early-stage validation.
Defined and prototyped end-to-end agent workflows for supply chain and invoice scenarios—turning abstract system models into tangible use cases that informed product planning and roadmap priorities.
Led cross-functional concept sprints with product, engineering, and industry advisors to validate feasibility and establish a framework for how multi-agent systems could deliver enterprise value.
Created key product artifacts—including experience maps, decision models, and systems diagrams—that aligned internal stakeholders and clarified long-term vision for agentic capabilities.
Partnered on early user research and real-world scenario development to ensure solutions addressed both technical complexity and user needs in regulated, high-stakes environments.
Contributed to product guidelines and design standards now adopted across multiple Microsoft teams working on next-gen automation and Copilot extensions.
Partnered with PM and engineering teams to identify and validate new opportunities for intelligent automation within Power Platform. Contributed directly to early product definition, concept testing, and enterprise readiness planning for agentic feature sets.
Conducted stakeholder interviews across product, engineering, and marketing to synthesize insights into decision frameworks that influenced roadmap prioritization.
Facilitated cross-functional envisioning workshops and built concept prototypes to de-risk strategic assumptions and gain alignment on automation system capabilities.
Collaborated with customer advocates and industry partners to surface unmet enterprise needs and align early stage concepts with real-world use cases.
Delivered product recommendations and experience prototypes that informed feature scoping, GTM alignment, and investment decisions for next-phase development.
Presented early-state product concepts to executive stakeholders, driving clarity on strategic fit, user value, and technical implications.
Business Apps Group - C+AI Design Studio
Led design strategy, product definition, and execution across Power Automate’s key product surfaces. Built and scaled a global design team while staying hands-on in driving roadmap development, cross-functional alignment, and feature delivery across the automation ecosystem.
Co-owned product direction for features across Cloud Flows, Desktop, Process Insights, and AI Builder—working closely with PMs and engineers to define requirements, validate solutions, and deliver measurable UX and business improvements.
Launched Power Automate’s first AI-powered natural language interface—leading cross-functional efforts to define user flows, align platform capabilities, and deliver an intuitive experience that broadened adoption and executive visibility.
Created and led prioritization frameworks with product leadership to balance technical constraints, user needs, and business goals across product investments.
Supported customer-facing initiatives by surfacing key feedback loops, facilitating user research, and translating findings into actionable backlog items.
Grew and mentored a high-performing design team embedded across key areas of the platform—ensuring design quality while helping scale process and planning discipline across the org.
Education
1991 — 1994
University of Oregon
BFA
1991 — 1994