EdTech · AI · Product management
I design learning around the real job — then use AI to build it and prove it.
I'm a product leader in education technology. For the last few years I've led innovation and the ground-up rebuild of the IT programs at Western Governors University — redefining what students actually have to prove they can do, then rebuilding the courses and assessments around that. Before WGU I was a product manager at Udacity, and before that a teacher and district technology lead. Fourteen years in education, most of it spent on the messy, hands-on part: making learning work at scale.
What I care about now is using AI to build education faster and better. I've built an AI content pipeline on Claude that moves a course from concept to sign-off in a fraction of the time it used to take, and work-based simulations where students do realistic jobs — real tools, real deliverables, AI personas they have to communicate with — instead of bubbling in answers on a test. The through-line is the same one I've had since the classroom: define what competence looks like, build the assessment that proves it, then build the content that gets people there.
What I do
The through-line across every role: define what competence looks like, build the assessment that proves it, then build the content that gets people there — now with AI compressing the middle.
Led a ground-up rebuild of four IT programs and 22 courses — a five-person core team with fifteen to twenty more working in parallel — serving thousands of active students.
Designed a content pipeline on Claude that compresses course development from months toward weeks — with human gates kept where machine judgment isn't reliable yet.
Work-based simulations and performance assessments students can revise and resubmit — they do the real work, not a multiple-choice proxy for it.
Helped launch WGU's first product management master's degree, and modernized IT degrees that had drifted out of date.
Experience
Western Governors University
Lead Product Manager, Innovation · Acting Director, IT & Operations programs
Rebuilt the IT program portfolio around work-based assessment and an AI-assisted content pipeline.
Udacity
Product Manager · Curriculum Manager
Owned the content-creation platform; cut content-creation time and shipped the first content quality checklist.
St. Norbert College
EdTech & the Tech Bar
Created and ran the Tech Bar; grew a student team and a digital-literacy program across faculty and staff.
K–12, Wisconsin
Teacher & district technology / innovation lead
Taught, coached, and built the Technology Innovation & Problem Solving course around real student projects.
M.Ed., Educational Technology — Marian University
Writing
Thinking out loud about product, AI, and education.
The first lesson came back as a notebook full of Python that a student had no chance of following. Breaking a problem back down is a separate skill from being good at it, and most of us with expertise have never been asked to learn it.
Read →I prepared for years to teach. None of it stuck until a room of teenagers, a week I couldn't plan for, and later a stack of scenario cards taught me the job. Why experience is the real teacher — and why we have to build it on purpose.
Read →Everyone called him lazy — until he got to solve a real problem instead of pass a test, and floored the room. Why I stopped testing students and started having them do the job.
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