Last updated: 2025-11-11 · New York City
What I’m focused on
I’m good at jumping into tangled situations and getting decisions made. Short-term suits my metabolism: clear goals, fast feedback, and no pretending it’s working when it isn’t. Product work, the film, and the play are the same muscle for me: take a messy reality, find the spine, and move people forward. Everything Is Fake chases the seam between performance and reality; Choice asks what you’re willing to stand on after being seen. Values matter. The work should be good for the team and the audience.
- Short-term product management for B2B SaaS and zero-to-one startups
- Workshops & teaching for product teams and students
- Short film: “Everything Is Fake.” 15 minutes; festivals → feature (<$1.5M)
- Play: “Choice.” Two-hander, 10 minutes; New York Theater Festival prep
How I help (90-day format)
I design 12-week arcs because alignment decays unless you train it. We meet weekly and build the muscle of consistent decision-making: not heroics, just better choices, every time. Short-term lets us check the fit, adjust quickly, or walk away clean if it’s not working. I bring leadership experience plus pedagogy from teaching at MICA and Columbia, and range from enterprise coaching to zero-to-one builds. The deliverables stick after I’m gone.
- Structure: 1–2 weeks scope/setup → 10 weeks delivery → 1–2 weeks post-mortem and keep/stop decision
- Cadence: weekly session; tight async between
- Strengths: B2B SaaS, zero-to-one, getting ideas into customers’ hands fast
Workshops (12–15 people)
People remember the exercises. I teach for transfer: tools teams can actually reuse on Monday. Survival Metrics turns strategy into behavior by instrumenting what matters and ignoring what doesn’t. Product Story gets an org telling one coherent narrative so people stop rowing in opposite directions. Sessions are hands-on, opinionated, and allergic to vibe-only learning.
- Survival Metrics: prioritize and operationalize strategy; event schema + metric tree + six-week instrumentation plan
- Product Story: shared language for what the product is, why it exists, and how we’ll win
What I’m looking for
Three-month PM or fractional coaching gigs where outcomes beat optics. Practical film wisdom from people who’ve shipped shorts into festivals and navigated indie distribution; exploring an AVOD path (e.g., Tubi) after the circuit. Theater support for Choice: producing guidance, scheduling, PR/marketing, and light tech. If you’ve done this and want to trade notes, I’m listening.
- Short-term PM leads (3 months)
- Film advice on post workflow, deliverables, festival strategy, indie distribution
- Theater support for producing, scheduling, PR/marketing, light tech
Concrete goals
For Everything Is Fake: submit to a tight festival list, lock a clean post pipeline, and outline the feature under $1.5M. For Choice: sell 15 tickets per night and capture at least one substantive audience note per show. Client-side: run two Survival Metrics and one Product Story cohort this quarter, each leaving behind a usable metric tree, event schema, and six-week plan.
- Film logline
- “A work from home engineer chases a promotion fueled by his own polished persona, but a day back at the office makes the seams show.”
Availability & boundaries
Short-term is a feature, not a hedge. It keeps us honest, lets us adjust fast, and makes it easy to end if the fit isn’t there. I’m open to scoped advisory calls and workshop inquiries; I’m not taking full-time roles or open-ended “pick your brain” chats beyond 15 minutes.
