About Me

I’ve spent 20 years learning what makes technical organizations actually work, and the answer has never been the technology.

My career started in the classroom. I spent five years teaching computer science and building IT infrastructure from the ground up at a 1,200-student high school in Los Angeles, growing a computing fleet from 30 desktops to hundreds of laptops for the school’s first 1:1 computing program, improving core infrastructure, and teaching programming to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. The dual instinct I began to develop then — building systems and developing people — has defined everything since.

When I moved into the tech industry, I brought that instructional DNA with me. At Twitter, I co-led Flight School, a technical onboarding program for employees, while designing zero-touch deployment workflows that scaled across six continents during 75% company growth. At Tinder, I created a year-long technical upskilling curriculum and grew a 2-person team into a multidisciplinary organization. At Netflix, I led cross-training programs, performance frameworks, and a global support merger. At Snap, I built a multi-organizational OKR process and mentored new leaders through Snap’s Manager Bootcamp.

At Docker, where I’ve spent the last four years as Director of IT & Workplace Operations, I’ve authored a company Culture Memo, designed and delivered leadership training on feedback and situational leadership, led the numerous AI initiatives, built security awareness curricula, and refined the OKR program, all while managing enterprise technology strategy, a multi-million-dollar budget, and compliance across numerous frameworks.

Along the way, I’ve consulted for organizations including Nike, Adidas, Cisco, Verizon, eBay, and the U.S. Department of Energy. I’ve spoken at the Gartner IT Symposium, the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit, and industry conferences on topics from inclusive interviewing to building high-performance IT organizations. I’m a published author in Chief Learning Officer Magazine, a featured subject in Reboot Magazine, and have led my team to recognition as the subject of numerous case studies.

The pattern I’m focused on — building operational systems while investing in human development—became a research question. I’m now pursuing a Doctorate of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership at the University of Southern California, where my research focuses on how leadership behaviors shape working environments that elicit maximum performance from individuals and teams. I also hold a Master’s of Education in Learning Design with AI and Emerging Technologies from USC, a SHRM-SCP, and certifications from the Chief Learning Officer Accelerator Program and Korn Ferry’s Chief Learning Architect program.

In 2024, I founded Leadership Bootcamp, a structured, measurement-backed leadership development program built from two decades of observing how technical organizations underinvest in the behaviors that actually drive retention, execution, and trust. I design and facilitate cohort-based programs for executives, managers, and individual contributors, with measurement built in from the start. I also host the Leadership Bootcamp Podcast.

Outside of work, I lead job skills workshops for young adults aging out of foster care through Jacaranda Rising and mentor through the Association for Talent Development.

I’m interested in the space where learning science, organizational design, and technology converge, whether that’s building better leadership development programs, designing AI-augmented learning systems, or helping technical organizations become genuinely better at growing their people.