I founded WeMadeThis.World to empower tabletop role-playing game masters and their players to collaboratively build, maintain, and evolve their custom campaign settings. Our suite of tools integrates AI-driven organization and world management with player participation, ensuring every detail—from NPC stat blocks to rich cultural histories—stays true to the GM’s original vision. I lead product strategy, oversee development, and work directly with creators and players to continuously refine a platform that sparks authentic creativity, fosters engagement, and keeps the game world ever-growing and alive.

Woot! is a Subsidiary of Amazon.com, offering daily deals at deep discounts.- Responsible for defining, refining and executing on strategic vision and team practices for the Woot Experiences (front-end) team.- Product, people, and operational management over a team of 5-22 developers tasked with designing, building, and solving complex software problems in the retail web, checkout, app, Alexa, and Shenanigans (limited time marketing events) experiences.- Collaborate with leadership, product, and marketing teams to define product and technology innovation roadmap helping to solve complex business problems within the bounds of technology innovation.- Responsible for developing and driving collaborative processes for reporting project and operational status up and out.- Managed career and technical growth for a cross functional team of Software Engineers and Front-End Engineers- Responsible for managing a parallel team of contractors to modernize legacy front-end systems to modern AWS, aligning this with the Woot Experiences and product roadmap.- Responsible for driving investment in operational and compliance projects.- Responsible for developing team and organization processes for road-mapping, operational review, event SOPs and project execution.- Responsible for interviewing and hiring.

AWS Marketplace is a second and third party marketplace for software configured on AWS services and metered and billed with AWS consolidated billing.- Built a greenfield team to define and develop a process and technology to allow AWS Marketplace to support value added resellers and channel partners enabling large B2B transactions.- Worked closely with business development teams and external customers to define VAR/CP business process and define strategic product roadmap to support these business cases.- Responsible for writing product definition and implementation plan to drive approval and funding from AWSMP technology director and SVP.- Hired and developed a team of software engineers to implement these solutions and integrate them in to existing AWSMP technology.- Responsible for iterative release plan and training customers on tools built to enable these sales.

- Responsible for design, tasking, release, and leading the seller self service team in implementation of software enabling automated product ingestion (data input, approvals business process workflow, automated AMI building and scanning) reducing contact to listing time by 90%- Responsible for building out testing and release automation for seller self-service systems.- Responsible for operationally maintaining and continuing to drive a high operational bar for seller self-service systems.- Mentored new engineers and interns.- Developed and lead effective scrum and planning processes for the seller self service team.- Responsible for collaborating with product managers through development and reporting up and out - to product stakeholders.

City State entertainment is a game company founded by Mark Jacobs (Mythic Entertainment, EA) and Andrew Meggs (Bethesda, EA) initially as a mobile games company and eventually branching into the MMO space.- Responsible for gameplay engineering CSE's first mobile title March on Oz, a 3d tower defense game targeted for iPads.- Contributed to precursor work, website integration and reward system development for the Camelot Unchained Kickstarter campaign.- Helped develop client/server proof of concept work for online rendering/scaling to support the Camelot Unchained Kickstarter.- Developed messaging queue for Camelot Unchained service communications.- Helped develop foundations of proprietary game engine to support the concurrent user rendering requirements of Camelot Unchained.- Responsible for website server administration and development.- Responsible for engineering and creating music, sound and foley art for March on Oz and Camelot Unchained

Responsible for game-play and engine code. Worked primarily in Torque and XNA game studio.

Worked on several major projects including visual redesign of library web sites, and database tools for specific services. I also oversaw and designed learning search engines, self manageable tag clouds, and admin side management tools for library databases.