Build on strengths to deliver software people love. I ❤️ WordPress and work on quality, testing, and developer productivity at Automattic. Based in Arizona.🌵

Tucson, Arizona
Joined March 2007
University of Arizona Homecoming 2025 🌵 Fun to celebrate my 25th undergrad anniversary today on campus. Class of 2000 from the College of Humanities (B.A. French) and proud Pi Delta Phi member (French Honor Society). Wonderful to hear from and celebrate the career milestones for this year's two awardees: "Young Professional Achievement Award" recipient Florence Luna, MBA and "Alumna of the Year" Michelle Durham. Congrats to you both! (Past recipient is local basketball star Sean Elliott.) "Merci beaucoup" to our hosts Michele Murphy, Jenna Finfrock, Carine Bourget, and Alain-Philippe Durand (and all the COH faculty & staff). Bear Down! 🐻⬇️
2
163
Prolific quality output means a focus on the most important, highest value tasks and dropping the rest. Here's my take on putting the three words together into a mindset for work: fullstackleader.blog/2025/02…
1
130
Simple recipe when I need to level up on anything from product strategy, technology tends, and business growth via competitive intelligence and business insights. Ask for help. Listen. Then, apply the advice.
116
As a maker, I love to build. But I've made the mistake of focusing too much on one side: 1) a winning product or 2) a healthy team. With perspective & coaching I can now see that there is no separation—they are one and the same. *I ship leadership.* fullstackleader.blog/2024/07…
2
1
93
"You could be good today. But instead, you choose tomorrow." —Marcus Aurelius
109
Introducing a new blog title and URL: “The Full Stack Leader” to replace “The Sensible Leader.” Still hosted on @wordpressdotcom and now using a beautifully simple Full-Site Editing (FSE) block-based theme. fullstackleader.blog/
13
750
If You Need To Do Marketing, Did You Fail At Product? youtu.be/0liXn77ZOlY via @YouTube Love this short business lesson from @dharmesh (culture -> strategy -> product -> marketing -> sales). "Marketing is not simply advertising and promotion."
Path into Product is a podcast for college students or professionals considering a career in product management but don't know where to start. In lucky episode 13 I shared a few thoughts and notes on product as a craft and a career: anchor.fm/pathintoproduct
1