Resume
Senior Technical Product Manager
Product manager with 14 years in billing, payments, and infrastructure. At Maxio, I write the strategy, the specs, and the code, with 110+ production pull requests in the last 12 months. Previously led engineering teams and automation programs that saved $1.5M.
Skills
Experience
Product Manager & Builder, Event-Based Billing
May 2025 – PresentOwn metering, wallets, entitlements and pricing for a B2B SaaS billing and revenue platform, end to end: customer discovery → product brief → implementation plan → production code → functional testing → public API docs.
- Discovery: Ran customer feedback sessions and turned the findings into prioritized Jira work and fast-follow releases, including Monthly Accruals for Metering and clearer zero-usage invoice lines.
- Product brief: Scoped the Wallet & Entitlements MVP to subscription-level wallets so the foundation for AI-platform billing could ship quickly without replacing existing prepaid billing.
- Implementation plans: Wrote engineering deep-dives and milestone plans, including segment-level custom pricing for Maxio Metering.
- Code: Shipped across Rails (Advanced Billing) and Django (Maxio Core), including prepaid rollover and expiration, wallet balances and expirations, entitlements, invoicing fixes, and a customizable dashboard.
- Functional testing: Tested each feature end to end through the API and the UI on a dev deployment before release, backed by regression tests; caught and fixed bugs in prepaid expiration overrides before customers saw them.
- API docs: Wrote the public Wallets, Entitlements, and Hybrid Pricing API documentation on developers.maxio.com.
- Go-to-market: Wrote a billing best-practices article that became a 5-day marketing campaign.
Software Engineering Manager
2022 – 2024Led the software engineering team overseeing seven critical applications on AWS for core payment processing in an event-based architecture. The primary application was a platform handling $20B in transactions annually.
- Directed the migration of 65K merchants to a new payment processing backend, improving system scalability and supporting $20B in annual transactions.
- Delivered $870K in monthly savings through interchange rate optimization features.
- Hired 2 key full-time engineers and promoted two high performers.
- Led development of a new Usage application to replace the legacy system with zero downtime.
Software Development Manager
2019 – 2022Directed global automation and application engineering teams for a technical support organization across the US and India, reporting automation KPIs to C-level executives quarterly.
- Aligned CRM, Support, Legal, Marketing, and Training organizations to integrate an AIOps engine, reducing operational costs by $1.5M.
- Reduced monthly alert ticket volume from 4.3M to 195K through alert automation and tooling optimizations.
- Saved 323,245 Racker hours annually by driving diagnostics and remediation automation across six support teams.
- Managed a portfolio of 11 production applications serving 1,200+ employees in Global Technical Support.
Product Manager – Managed Hosting Operating Systems
2015 – 2018Led cross-functional Linux and Windows engineering teams building and maintaining automated operating system fleets, and negotiated long-term vendor and licensing contracts.
- Passed through $1.1M in annual Microsoft licensing costs, informing 6.5K customers of the change.
- Migrated 20K+ devices to a new patching infrastructure, saving $1.2M.
- Rolled out seven new operating systems over three years (Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04; RHEL 7; CentOS 7; Oracle Linux 7; Windows 2016).
- Created the company's first product end-of-life process, reducing the legacy OS fleet by 15% annually; later adopted company-wide.
Technical Change Management Advisor
2012 – 2015Ran the weekly Change Advisory Board, presenting high-risk changes to Directors and VPs.
- Reduced change-related incidents by 20% annually.
- Developed and trained 40+ change sponsors.
- Led ~40 root cause analyses a year using Fishbone and 5-Why methods.
Education & certifications
- Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
- SAFe 5 Agilist · Prosci Change Management (ADKAR) · ITIL v3 Foundations
- MVP of the Rackspace Emerging Leadership Program, 2015