I enlisted in the Army at 18 and spent four years as an intelligence analyst — briefing generals in an underground bunker near the Korean border, driving tanks across the Mojave.
Then Berkeley: Political Economy and Finance (Haas BASE Program, 2021), splitting time between reading geopolitical theory and reconciling balance sheets.
Post-Berkeley I joined JPMorgan as an associate product manager, rotating across three teams — onboarding, an innovation team hunting the bank's next bet, and the platform behind the digital bank. That's where I figured out I'm a 0-to-1 PM. I'd rather ship scrappy and hand off at scale.
I moved to Wells Fargo for more ownership and autonomy. I was hired to build the new capital markets & investing experience, but my AI interests took over during the strategy phase: I recruited a senior architect and an engineer and delivered an end-to-end GenAI experience for Wells' FX clients — proof to the enterprise that safe, governed GenAI was possible. Adoption was thin. Not the AI's fault: roadmap dependencies and data migrations got in the way, typical at a big bank. A year in, I pivoted to a platform strategy that solidified the team's role in AI delivery, secured funding to build it out, and brought senior leadership in to clear roadblocks.
I'm coming up on two years at Wells and want to keep building with AI.
