Product strategy leader
prioritizing people, collaboration,
and innovation
AS TRUSTED BY:
I’m Leo. 🍊 I’m a product manager who
cares about solving problems the right way.
I’m passionate and curious about ambiguous problems, and I want to help you create the next breakthrough.
With almost 20 years of digital media roles, it’s safe to say I love making stuff and finding creative solutions to challenges.
My experience covers many domains, including web development, data analytics, UX design, software engineering, and media literacy.
The past year, I’ve worked on projects focusing on product management and software engineering (both frontend and backend) for web apps using WordPress, React, and custom e-commerce tools, plus relearning the Adobe ecosystem as AI enters its workflows.
I’m currently seeking my next staff role and am actively learning about cybersecurity and AI, and have long worked around the news/media publishing and web development ecosystems.
My current career interests include solving for transportation, aerospace, publishing, environmental sustainability, and the future of media… Especially in the context of literacy for journalism.
My most recent long-term staff role was as Head of Product, Strategy, and Partnerships at XWP, a leading enterprise web agency that doubled its revenue for two years in a row.
On a daily basis, I was in a client-facing role with execs from Fortune 500 companies and top media brands to provide foundation advice on real-world challenges. I started by working directly on projects (including a few with Google) before changing roles. I then built a partnerships program which directed revenue-positive strategic projects to major brands like Rolling Stone, Vice, Dow Jones, NewsCorp, and many, many others.
I’m currently looking for my next opportunity in product management and strategy roles. If it sounds like you might need someone like me on your team, let’s build something great together!
Work Highlights
Here’s a sampling of some of my work. If you want to know more about what kinds of results I can bring, check out my tailored 📈 Data+Product and 📱 Media case studies!
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Enabling the big CMS wins
How my former team helped Google build a better web
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Distilling the digital strategy
Insights from 15 Years of Crafting for Enterprise
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Improving page speed at scale
Advocacy, action, and impact through partnerships work
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Launching a movie studio’s college
How this venture shook up education and film
Me across the Web
I’m a storyteller at heart, and I love contributing to the discussions of all things tech, culture, and more. Here are a few links I thought you’d enjoy:
Solving complex problems,
brick by
BlOCKY brick
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Behind the Scenes of Product Innovation at Rolling Stone
View the Webinar » | Writeup »
(via WordPress VIP)
I meet with WordPress VIP and a PMC exec to share Rolling Stone’s digital innovation journey and how we relaunched rollingstone.com. We walk through how this 50-year old brand modernized its massive content library for new audiences.
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Pizza is Not a Perk
In response to a viral Malcolm Gladwell interview, I navigate how remote work went from a “fake internet job” to a common reality in this post-COVID world.
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WordCamp US ’18: What’s privacy got to do with it?
Conference Video » (via WordPress.tv)
In this new era rife with overreaching data collection, new cybersecurity threats, and overwhelmed site owners (and confused website visitors)—this still-relevant presentation on data privacy helps explain how we all should respond.