About ME

I am a California native, and after a 10-year stint in Idaho, I went on to receive my bachelor's degree in Global and Cultural Communication and Women’s and Gender Studies from Suffolk University in Boston.

After working in strategic communications and digital marketing, I made the switch to product in 2020 and didn’t look back.

I’m a twice Six Sigma-Certified Scrum Master and Product Owner and I’m currently completing a Professional Certificate in UX Design from Google.

I have a keen awareness of small details, which allows me to comb through requirements, designs, and prototypes with cross-functional team members to assess the value, quality, scalability, and cohesiveness of digital products.

I currently work in financial technology solutions for a leading business loan lender in sunny San Diego. In my free time, I’m reading with a cup of tea, baking yet another loaf of banana bread, taking a long bike ride to nowhere, enjoying the embrace of the ocean, training for a marathon, or planning future travels.

 My Values

  • This is what makes the world go round, and it’s the philosophy by which I operate my life. I believe that we each make more of an impact on others than we know, and that the impact of a simple kindness can change someone else’s world.

  • We all know the feeling of not being able to see the forest for the trees. Developing a vision for the future and working backwards to get there is how I believe life’s best experiences (and software’s best products) are had. (Disclaimer: I do not have a 5-year plan.)

  • Truly, I think this is why I am a Product Manager. It was all born of the idea that I could help a business owner solve for challenges via the infinite universe of software. I got excited by saying, “Yes, we can build that!” When I get to tell a QA engineer that I wrote the new feature’s test cases for them and they light up, it motivates me.

    It goes beyond work, though. Yes, I want to pick you up from the airport. Yes, I would be happy to pick you up a coffee on the way. Yes, let me grab you some eggs because I’m already at the store. Stain on your shirt? I have a Tide-to-Go pen in my bag. Forgot your lunch? I keep emergency tuna pouches in my desk drawer.

    You get the picture.

  • You don’t know what you don’t know. Sometimes it’s hard to ask questions because you don’t even know which questions to ask. I aim to remember that everyone has something to teach me.