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Summary

Senior AI Product Leader building the Google platform that grounds and evaluates the factuality of generative AI responses across Search and Gemini. 20+ years shipping at scale before this: Amazon, Marriott, Walgreens, Albertsons, U.S. Bank. Next: senior IC leadership at AI-native companies where AI is the product. Crafting the next generation of AI products people love and trust.

Experience

Senior Product Manager — AI Grounding & Factuality Jan 2022 – Present

Google · Knowledge & Information · New York

  • Sole PM on a 30-engineer team building Google's factuality agent infrastructure — the platform that measures and evaluates the factuality of generative AI responses across Gemini and AI Search. Co-built with Research, who provide the models powering our agent's reasoning
  • Cut ungrounded AI responses by 50% (30% → 15%); brought platform response time from 120 seconds down to under 20. Our factuality autorater is also used as a reward signal in post-training, contributing to a 16% reduction in factuality errors Search-wide
  • Extended the platform to support multimodal content — now also grounds and fact-checks images and videos, tables, and structured data inside AI-generated responses
  • Won executive investment and additional headcount to scale; 20+ teams across Google now depend on it — including Gemini, Search, Workspace, and Research
  • Built FreshServe, the real-time data platform now standard across Sports, News, Weather, Finance, Elections — 70× faster, 90% fewer on-call alerts; earned a spot bonus for cross-Search reliability impact
  • Run an AI-powered PM operating system — using Gemini and internal Google tooling daily for requirements, critique, communications, and prototyping features before handing them to engineering
Associate Director, Product Management Jun 2018 – Jan 2022

Publicis Sapient · New York

  • Marriott (HVMB + Personalized Offers): Owned full demand-side product for Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy — scaled pilot to 140K+ premium properties serving Marriott's 147M+ loyalty members; Gartner case study. In parallel, ran the AI personalization and offers platform across web, mobile, call center, and on-property — +288% traffic, +7% conversion during COVID; migrated real-time decisioning from Salesforce Marketing Cloud to Adobe Target
  • Walgreens — myWalgreens AI Wellness Companion: Transformed loyalty from transactional points into an AI-powered wellness companion delivering real-time health insights and hyper-personalized experiences — $1B+ attributed revenue, 105M+ active members (1 in 3 Americans), 5.1M daily transactions, +100pt retail sales, +20 NPS
  • Albertsons (Google partnership + CDP): Drove digital transformation across the second-largest U.S. grocer — 2,250+ stores, 20+ banners. Led the multi-year Google strategic partnership (conversational commerce, predictive list-building on Assistant, Search, Maps using Google Cloud Vision AI and Recommendations AI), and directed the ML-powered Customer Data Platform enabling self-service segmentation for business users. Required exec alignment across two Fortune 100 companies and ongoing mentorship of client-side product teams
  • U.S. Bank: Drove digital transformation of the bank's mobile banking experience — launched top-rated iOS/Android app in under 8 months, 5-star rated, ranked #2 nationally. Established the playbook the bank has used for mobile delivery since

AI & Product Skills

AI/ML Product

Grounding & factuality systems, LLM evals & measurement design, agentic system design, tool-use & retrieval, prompt & context engineering, production model quality, latency–quality tradeoffs, multimodal product, AI safety & responsible AI

Platform & Infrastructure

0→1 platform product, inference latency & cost optimization, real-time data infrastructure, API/SDK design, developer experience, knowledge graphs, semantic search

PM Craft & Leadership

Cross-functional leadership, exec alignment on AI tradeoffs, multi-team coordination (research × infra × safety), mentoring senior ICs, research-to-production translation, north-star metric design, driving prototype to scale

Tools

Claude, Gemini, Figma, SQL

Certifications

PMP® Certified Scrum Product Owner® Certified ScrumMaster®

Education

Univ. of Technology Sydney

B.Sc. Information Technology · 2002–2007

Univ. of Texas at Austin

International Exchange Scholarship · Aug–Dec 2005

Patent

Rich recording and playback of program execution
US Patent · Amazon · 2013

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Experience, continued

Senior Product Manager — Appstore for Android & Kindle Jul 2012 – May 2013

Amazon · Seattle, WA

  • Launched Amazon's web-based mobile app marketplace globally — scaled to 100+ countries alongside the worldwide Kindle Fire rollout
  • Drove 2× customer acquisition and 300%+ growth in app downloads through Appstore mobile web improvements
  • Issued US patent for innovations in program execution and recording
Manager, Digital & Mobile Advisory Nov 2013 – May 2016

KPMG US · New York

  • Founded and scaled KPMG's Digital & Mobile practice from 2 to nearly 200 consultants — established a high-performing division focused on human-centered digital transformation
  • Advised Fortune 500 executives on digital strategy, experience design, and product innovation across financial services, retail, and public sector
Senior Product Manager, Mobile Jun 2011 – May 2012

Merrill Lynch (Contract) · New York

  • Launched Merrill Lynch's first Android mobile application; advised on mobile strategy across iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and mobile web portfolio
Earlier Roles 2006 – 2011

Razorfish · ActiveHealth Management (Aetna) · BearingPoint

  • Razorfish (2010–2011, New York) — Product Manager, digital product and experience design
  • ActiveHealth Management (Aetna) (2009–2010, New York) — Product Manager for an award-winning health portal serving 1.6M customers
  • BearingPoint (2006–2008, Sydney) — Senior Consultant, technology strategy and transformation across banking, telecom, and FMCG

Selected Impact

50% Reduction in ungrounded AI responses across Google Search
$1B+ Revenue attributed to myWalgreens AI Wellness Companion (105M members, 1 in 3 Americans)
140K+ Premium properties scaled on Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy
#2 U.S. Bank mobile app nationally ranked, delivered in under 8 months
100+ Countries for Amazon Appstore global launch; 2× acquisition

Discovery & Validation

User research synthesis, eval-driven product validation, A/B experimentation design, customer engagement at scale, qual + quant mixed methods

Domain Expertise

AI Grounding & Factuality LLM Evals & Autoraters Search & Knowledge Platforms Marketplace & Commerce Financial Services Travel & Hospitality Retail Healthcare

Tools

Claude, Gemini, Figma, SQL, internal experimentation & analytics platforms

POV

"The cost of implementation is collapsing. Taste, judgment, and customer understanding are the new bottleneck."

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