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Product Director · Venture Operator · Venture Architect
Built in ambiguity. Executed with precision.
Twenty years in hard markets. Today: eight live ventures, five agent teams, one command layer.
## Operator
One operator directing five agent teams across nine live ventures.
I run product strategy, interface design, growth operations, technical architecture, and legal compliance in parallel. Judgment stays human. Execution runs continuously, at agent speed.
Twenty years across digital healthcare, civic tech, logistics intelligence, restaurant trade, and scientific university research.
Veradigm (VP) · ZappRx (Employee #1, acquired 2019) · Avero · Public-sector platform leadership
- 20+ Years building
- 9 Live ventures
- 50+ Teams led
- 1 Acquisition
## Operating model
Four phases. No consultancy overhead. From signal to repeatable velocity.
- 01
Signal
Read reality before reacting.
Map user pain, market pressure, and delivery constraints. Separate noise from strategic signal.
→ Risk map, opportunity frame, decision context.
- 02
Decision
Turn ambiguity into focused bets.
Convert signal into priorities, trade-offs, and measurable commitments tied to business movement.
→ Priority stack, sequencing logic, ownership model.
- 03
Build
Execute with craft at operating speed.
Agent workflows across design, product, engineering, and growth. Quality control stays human.
→ Shipping system, quality gates, live iteration loop.
- 04
Scale
Institutionalize what proves durable.
Harden process, metrics, and cadence so performance compounds instead of resets.
→ Repeatable system, compounding velocity, durable edge.
## Agent system
One command position. Five dedicated lanes. Security and compliance embedded at build time.
- 1 Operator
- 5 Agent lanes
- 5 Engineering pods
- 24/7 Cadence
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Product Strategy
PRDs, roadmap sequencing, user flow mapping.
Linear, Notion
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Interface Design
Design systems and high-fidelity execution.
Figma, Framer
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Growth Operations
Campaigns end-to-end — attribution, funnel velocity, CAC to conversion.
GA4, HubSpot
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Technical Architecture
System design, code orchestration, security, CI/CD. Pods: backend, frontend, testing, security, DevOps.
GitHub, Terminal
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Legal & Compliance
Contracts, policy, privacy checks, audit-ready documentation — aligned to how the product ships.
Policy, DPAs, audit trails
Principle. Each lane runs in its own domain with dedicated tooling and no cross-contamination. Security, infrastructure, and legal compliance are embedded at build time — not layered on after the fact.
## Ventures
Different markets. One philosophy: human judgment at the controls, agents on execution.
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Calm issue tracker and repo wiki on GitHub — portfolio, board, and docs in one mobile app. GitHub holds the work; shipwithjot is the daily UI. Built for solo founders and small teams. 7-day trial at shipwithjot.cloud.
"Stop configuring. Start shipping."
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Minimal writing app for journalists, essayists, novelists, and students. Markdown desk, research beside the draft, Ask roono and Writing Coach — guidance when you ask, without rewriting your voice. roono-jr brings the same desk to grades 3–9, free for classrooms.
"Write like no one is watching."
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Disruption intelligence for freight forwarders and logistics operators — what is delayed, what is exposed, and what to do next.
"Signal before consequences compound."
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Structured workspace for high-stakes US and UK visa pathways — guidance, deadlines, and route-level processing insight.
"Confidence under pressure."
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Colour priority-mode camera for iPhone — shutter and aperture priority on one brass ruler, ProRAW DNG or JPEG. One screen, no menus between you and the frame. Sister app to thewhistler.app.
"Shoot the street, not the menus."
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Film-look editor for iPhone — nine looks, five tonal controls, one screen. The while-you-wait darkroom for frames you shot in basic. No subscription, no accounts.
"The photograph is already made. Whistler finishes it."
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Deliberate 6×6 square film camera for iPhone — twelve frames, eight film stocks, wind-on crank, and manual exposure meter developed as a contact sheet.
"Slow down. Twelve frames are waiting."
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Platform leadership for CRM and MyMassGov — identity, constituent experience, and agency coordination for ~7M Massachusetts residents.
"Civic systems people can actually trust."
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Editorial Desk
Confidential news-aggregator feeds, journalism workflows, and distribution across beat reporting, columns, and field-led publishing.
"Reportage instinct at editorial velocity."
Selected advisory work includes additional confidential operating and editorial mandates.
## Outcomes
Numbers that stayed after the work shipped.
| # | Outcome | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 7M | Constituents at state scale | MyMassGov-connected initiatives serving roughly seven million people in Massachusetts. |
| 50+ | Healthcare organizations | Product footprint across provider systems covering 10,000+ lives. |
| 2 | Institutional rounds | Series A and Series B readiness through narrative discipline and market proof. |
| 1 | Acquisition | ZappRx acquired by Allscripts, 2019. |
| 3 | Functions unified | Product, engineering, and UX under one accountable direction. |
## Lens
Documentary practice that sharpened product judgment.
My first craft is seeing — light, distance, and silence until a frame confesses what a room has been trying not to say.
Since 2010: documentary and reportage across streets, docks, borderlines, and civic environments where every moment carries consequence.
That discipline became product instinct — weak signals before noise, context before prescription, narrative clarity before feature complexity.
For teams, it means cleaner judgment under uncertainty and products shaped by lived evidence, not presentation theater.
## Connect
The model is live. The ventures are running. If the problem is real, start here.