30 years of enterprise engineering leadership, distilled into frameworks that actually work.
30 years in the trenches
I've been an Engineering Manager in environments where "agile" meant "just ship it faster" and "psychological safety" was an HR checkbox, not a lived reality.
After decades of building and leading teams in banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, and SaaS, I noticed a pattern: the frameworks that worked were rarely the ones in the books.
The real breakthroughs came from operational thinking — treating management like a system to be optimized, not vibes to be cultivated.
OperableHQ is everything I wish I had when I was drowning in 1:1s that went nowhere, performance reviews that surprised everyone, and stakeholder relationships held together by heroic effort.
Started as a developer in banking systems
First engineering management role at a telco
Scaled engineering org from 15 to 120 at Series B startup
VP Engineering at enterprise manufacturing company
Founded OperableHQ to share what actually works
Give every Engineering Manager the systems and tools to reclaim 10 hours per week — not to work more, but to finally think strategically about their teams.
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