Product leader · engineer · musician · Knoxville, Tennessee

I build teams that turn vision into products, and products into results.

Product leader at Clayton Homes: 60+ engineers, product owners, analysts, and designers, and the MyHome app and platform they build. Trained as a nuclear engineer, still writing code, still playing in a band.

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Open G

G D G B D, one string per section: open G the way Keith Richards plays it, low D off. My favorite tuning to write songs in.

Work

Problems worth working on.

A few things my teams and I have built, and the people they were for.

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For homeowners, after the keys
MyHome
Once a family closed on their home, we lost touch. They were left flipping through manuals and in the dark on service.
We built a companion app with an assistant that can do everything the app can.
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For every product that comes next
Digital Home Platform
Home information was scattered and often mistyped, so there was nothing reliable to build on.
We built a record of every home, with AI that corrects bad data and finds the right manuals.
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For the people on my teams
AI in everyday work
AI was something people talked about, not something they used in their own work.
Everyone built one real AI tool for their own work and shared it with the team.
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ProductOps

An AI-first operating system for product leadership.

You can't skip great leadership. A leader's real asset is judgment, and judgment doesn't scale on its own. Shared context, distributed decisions.

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Two rules

Every judgment call names its expected outcome.
Every number has an owner who explains it when it moves.

One boundary

Guardrails are never traded.

The series

One idea a week, written in public.

Eighteen short posts for people who'll tell me what's wrong with it.

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Next up · 18 posts in all

00The status meeting is the reportcoming soon
01Judgment doesn't scale by itselfcoming soon
02Autonomy or alignment is a false choicecoming soon

Leadership

Leadership, open-handed.

What I believe about leading people, where I picked it up, and how I practice it. None of it is finished. If you've learned it differently, I'd like to hear how.

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Vision made tangible
See where things need to go, then make it real fast, so people can react to something instead of a slide.
Picked upA redesign stalled for months on business questions. A working prototype let executives see the choices instead of debating them.
Intent over instruction
Pass down the reason, not just the request. A team with the why often finds a better answer than the one you asked for.
Picked upStephen Bungay, The Art of Action.
Invite, don't pitch
Bring ideas as invitations to build together, not finished answers to approve.
Picked upFeedback that I could come across as arriving with the answer already decided.

What's shaped how you lead?

Send me the book, the boss, or the mistake that shaped how you lead. I'll trade you mine.

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Outside work