About
This year I am positioning myself at the forefront.
I run a $20M portfolio of technical programs at Abbott Diabetes Care, spanning global customer support and quality. The scope puts me at the front of these programs, in steering committees with VPs, where communication and alignment are what actually move the work.
This year
What I am working on now.
Over a decade in tech and program management, focused on software and technology. My job is to inspire and align teams to move work forward. None of them report to me. Nothing happens because I have authority over them, because I do not. It happens because of how I lead, how I ask, and how I communicate.
That is the foundation. This year I am building two things on top of it: upleveling my communication, and continuing to expand my AI fluency.
Communication first, because it is what makes everything else I know land. So I started increasing my speaking opportunities. Most days I talk directly to camera. More presentations at work, in person and on video. Limited time to make somebody care, over and over, until it stops being hard.
The AI part surprised me. The biggest unlock has not been productivity, it has been creativity. I always had a list of things I wanted to build and no way to build them. AI is the reason I started posting on Instagram, and the reason this website exists. I could not have made it before.
I am starting to see it work. A promotion within a year. A nomination for a leadership program. People telling me they are including me in meetings, or putting me on copy, because it moves things along.
The work
Over a decade of making complicated things happen.
I work in an industry where being wrong is expensive, which is also why I am careful about what I claim.
2025 – now
Abbott Diabetes Care
Senior Manager, Project Leadership
A $20M+ portfolio of high-stakes programs across global customer service, IT, Quality and R&D, aligning more than 100 people across functions that do not report to me. Promoted a year in.
Alongside it, I am refining how I communicate by making content almost every day. Practical AI, plus what I am learning about building, and about work and life while I do it.
2024 – 2025
A career break
A year with my daughter
I spent the year learning AI properly, through courses from OpenAI, IBM and DeepLearning AI. I could see where the work was going and I wanted to be early to it.
2020 – 2024
Verily, then an Alphabet company
Program and portfolio management
Four years running programs where product, engineering, clinical, regulatory and marketing all had to arrive at the same place on the same date. Five functions that measure success differently, none of them reporting to me, shipping on schedule anyway.
2017 – 2020
Antidote.me, then Cecelia Health
Implementation lead, go-to-market
Go-to-market program management in digital health. Clinical trials at Antidote, enterprise healthcare programs at Cecelia Health, and the specific discipline of launching somewhere regulators pay attention. You learn quickly to say only what you can back up.
2015 – 2017
Affiliated Physicians
Where program management started
Multi-site annual health programs for Fortune 500 employers. My first real portfolio, and my first time finding out the work only moves if you can get people who do not report to you to move it.
Project Management Professional (PMP) · International MBA, iaelyon School of Management, Université Jean Moulin · BS Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
If you want the practical version of what I have learned, that is what the course is.