Senior Product Manager who ships AI products, with the finance rigor most PMs lack. 10+ years in product, on a foundation of finance and operations. CPA, M.Sc. in Strategy and Design Management, and Acting CFO of a $35M healthcare nonprofit.
Experience
Director of Finance / Acting CFO, Hawaii Residency Programs
May 2024 - Present- Lead finance for a $35M+ healthcare nonprofit running 21 GME residency programs and 300+ residents, and direct AI adoption across finance and operations.
- Hold 90-95% budget accuracy on a $30M operating budget (actual spending against budget).
- Saved about $500K a year by reviewing historical spend and resident expenses and reducing budgets in areas that were not being used.
Founder / AI Product Consultant, Vibemotion Labs
Apr 2023 - Present- Design and ship AI products for founders, nonprofits and startups: multi-agent systems, LLM workflows and native iOS apps.
- Placed 2nd of about 30 teams at the Hawaii Tech Week hackathon (Sept 2025). Launched AI PM Docs with 20 beta users whose feedback shaped the roadmap.
Founder, Hero Minutes
May 2023 - Present- Built an AI training iOS app (TestFlight beta) that writes each session around how the athlete feels and stops to point to a professional when it should.
- 23 competitive athletes in active use, 15 interviews synthesized into themes, and 34 rounds of feedback and testing so far, with testing continuing.
Senior Product Manager (Consultant), Everyday Speech
Oct 2022 - May 2023- Led a 19-person engineering team through an Agile transformation: prioritized every bi-weekly sprint and owned the product strategy and roadmap across 500+ tickets and backlog items.
- Time-to-market improved 35% (weeks per feature) and engineering efficiency 30% (capacity planning accuracy and sprint throughput).
Product Manager, Technical Safety BC
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022- Owned a provincial licensing and permit platform (4,000+ licenses and $5M+ a year in transactions) and launched a self-service client portal.
- Customer satisfaction rose from 35% to 75-80% (about 76 CSAT surveys), with portal use up 60% and gains in engagement, renewals and license payments.
- Built the economic forecasting tool leadership used for pricing decisions during COVID-19.
Earlier roles
Senior FP&A, Vancouver Coastal Health (2017-2019). Senior Product Consultant, Saje Natural Wellness (2017). Global Product and Sourcing Manager, Kit and Ace (2015-2017). Senior Product Manager, Dorel Sports (2014-2015). Senior Product Developer, Kenneth Cole (2014). Product Manager, Digital Media Group, Marvel Entertainment (2013-2014). Senior Accounting Manager, City of Burnaby (2010-2012).
Education and credentials
CPA, CMA specialization, CPA Canada. M.Sc. Strategy and Design Management, Parsons School of Design (capstone research of 100+ interviews, 20 of them with C-suite executives). BBA Accounting, Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Certified Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Alliance.