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Expertise & Experience

Broad pattern recognition. Specific operating judgment.

18+ years in product, the last 11+ almost entirely inside identity, fraud, and compliance data. Six domains where that experience translates directly to your roadmap.

01 · Identity

Identity Verification & CIP/KYC

Directed the USIS Credit Header API and a Purpose View data-governance framework at Equifax — permissible-use rules mapped directly to CIP, KYC, and KYB requirements. Also led DIT 1.0/2.0 (Digital Identity Trust) and the internal RAE (Risk Assessment Engine) — used across my.equifax.com, my.equifax.ca, Contact Center and IVR authentication, ID Watchdog, and Equifax Workforce Solutions. RAE served 11 tenants across 17 identity-verification, device-assessment, and authentication workflows, completing end-to-end risk assessment and decisioning for every consumer registration, login, and account-takeover event.

02 · Fraud

Fraud Prevention & Risk Decisioning

Hands-on testing and comparison of device-intelligence and fraud vendor stacks — ThreatMetrix, iovation, Kount, Socure, Prove — not secondhand vendor comparisons.

03 · Architecture

Platform & Data Architecture

Built FReD (frequency/recency/duration) — a patent-pending identity-resolution model — aggregating 7–11 data sources via graph technology at Equifax scale.

04 · Regulatory

Regulatory & Risk

Fluent in FCRA, GLBA, KYC, KYB, and AML — and in the legal line between identity verification and FCRA-governed creditworthiness decisions most fraud teams miss.

05 · AI Ops

AI-Enabled Product Ops

Operational, not theoretical: Gemini, NotebookLM, and Claude run against real compliance datasets, plus custom Python/Co-Lab data-processing scripts.

06 · Leadership

Team & Org Leadership

Ran a 45-person cross-functional product and engineering org through Agile transformation, with direct throughput accountability for multiple years.

Career History

18 years across Jarden Consumer Solutions, NTT, LexisNexis, and Equifax.

2026 4 yrs
Apr 2022 – Jun 2026

Senior Director, Product Management — Identity, Fraud & Compliance

Equifax, Alpharetta, GA

Directed the Contact & Locate Suite — six products building an $8M+ enterprise sales pipeline — and the USIS Credit Header API and Purpose View governance framework. Extended a RAE vendor-consolidation initiative begun in the prior role, capturing a further ~$6M in annual savings.

2022 1 yr
May 2021 – Apr 2022

Director, Product Management

Equifax, Alpharetta, GA

Launched 16 new use-case workflows in under a year and directed the RAE & DIT suite's AWS→GCP migration — a 69% cloud cost cut with zero downtime, on a $4M budget. Also directed a fraud-signal vendor-consolidation initiative for RAE — leading the rules-editor team to substitute overlapping third-party signals with existing vendor data and newly available in-house cloud datasets, saving $4M annually.

2021 2 yrs
Jan 2019 – Apr 2021

Senior Product Manager, Customer Identity Access Management & Fraud

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Alpharetta, GA

Drove the Risk Defense Platform's expansion into insurance for KYC/AML, introduced device-intelligence strategy via ThreatMetrix, and architected a Bundled Solutions pricing strategy.

2019 3 yrs
Jan 2016 – Dec 2018

Senior Product Manager, Identity & Fraud Management Solutions

LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Alpharetta, GA

Owned the Risk Defense Platform's growth strategy, drove a 45-person org through Agile transformation, and authored the business case that won $6M in executive funding.

2016 3 yrs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

Manager, Product Management — Business Applications

NTT America & NTT Communications, Boca Raton, FL

Built and coached a 9-person product marketing and management team; secured 25 new products in 18 months onto Verio's OSS/BSS platform.

2013 3 yrs
Jan 2010 – Dec 2012

Senior Product Manager

NTT America & NTT Communications, Boca Raton, FL

Partnered with stakeholders to drive new functionality for a $28M product line growing at 10%, supervising teams across development, QA, support, sales, and marketing.

2010 ~2 yrs
c. 2008 – Jan 2010 (dates approximate — confirm)

Product Manager, Portable Heaters & Humidifiers

Jarden Consumer Solutions (brands: Sunbeam, Bionaire, Holmes, Oster — now Newell Brands)

Owned the product category for portable humidifiers (5 technology platforms) and heaters (4 technology platforms) — secured funding for new tooling and led a design firm through form factors adaptable across brands and private label. Sold through major hardware, pharmacy, and big-box retailers.

c. 2008 Career start
Tools & Platforms

Hands-on, not theoretical.

Socure Prove ThreatMetrix Kount iovation Telesign Zumigo OAuth WebAuthn AWS → GCP Neo4j / Graph FCRA · GLBA KYC · KYB · AML Gemini NotebookLM Claude Python / Co-Lab