Research and strategy for the hardest technical audiences and the enterprise problems nobody else wants to touch. Speaks developer.
Currently at Meta doing research and marketing strategy for open source AI and enterprise products. Before that, eleven years at Intel figuring out what developers and enterprises actually needed from AI and making sure that changed what got built. The work is always the same. Find out what people need, then make sure someone does something about it.
Understanding what developers and builders actually need from AI and making sure that changes how it gets built and marketed.
Defined Intel's AI software strategy ($2B pipeline), shaped a $75M ARR cloud services business, and rewired $15M in developer marketing spend to actually work. Influenced at the executive level across AI, data center, and developer business units.
Research and consulting for Microsoft, SanDisk, Facebook, and Visa. The technically demanding clients: cloud deployment, developer tools, PaaS, database architecture.
Defined requirements for Office for Mac. Built a 1,500-person customer panel from scratch. Modeled the iWork competitive threat before it showed up in the numbers.
Market research and strategic consulting for technology, energy, and medical device clients.
Early internet. ABCNews.com. A Paul Allen startup. Celebrity correspondents reporting live from the wilderness.