I didn't plan on a career in product. I fell into it through professional baseball — six years across the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, and San Diego Padres, building systems like BEEST, Beacon, and Basetek before I had "Product Manager" on a business card.
At the Los Angeles Angels, things scaled up fast. I led a staff of 40 across eight countries, built Diablo to replace the legacy Halo platform, and helped move the organization from a league-worst ranking to a top-15 ranking in under two years — while also building training materials to help players from Latin America adjust to life in the U.S.
Now I'm at The Walt Disney Company, leading product for a PLM SaaS modernization and a robotics program that's delivered 39 robots to sites so far, on a roadmap toward 100+ by 2027. I lean hard on Claude and Copilot for the grunt work — SQL cleanup, PRDs, risk logs, process maps — because I'd rather spend my time in meetings with the people building and using what I ship. AI handles the documentation. I handle the relationships.