Intro 👋

• He/his
• Born & raised in rural Massachusetts
• Former theater kid
• Actually started undergrad in Fire Protection Engineering because it seemed like a safe career path during the ‘08 Recession — but ended up double majoring in Film & Journalism 🤷‍♂️
• Bounced around the USA in my 20s, spending time in NY, MA, Portland, & Los Angeles before landing in Seattle
• Outside of work, I’m often playing D&D, learning guitar, rock climbing, paddle boarding, hiking, or volunteering on trails

Environment & Communication 🎧 🌐

• I’m usually in the Bellevue office Mondays & Tuesdays and the occassional Thursday.
• Meeting Availability: I prefer 8:30a-4p PST for meetings, but I am more than happy to meet later/earlier as long as I have 24hr notice
• Action Items: If we’re in a meeting and an action item comes up — lets try to deal with it or open an issue in real time
• Zoom: Zoom (or face-to-face) is the best way to have a conversation with me
• Slack: Slack messages are the second best and preferred for quick questions or async chats
• Email: Email is somewhere far down the list, probably after smoke signals

Communication Quirks 🙋‍♂️

• Sometimes I jump to question-asking mode without considering it might not be what you need from the conversation. If it’s clear I’ve misread, PLEASE interrupt and redirect me. I don't want to have wasted your time
• Sometimes when I’m presented with a lot of new ideas or information all at once, I get very quiet and I am slow to take initiative. I’m present and I care, I'm just processing and digesting
• I’m overly-cautious about celebrating major milestones or accomplishments before they’re official/shipped/signed or otherwise un-takeback-able
• I LOVE virtual whiteboards

Support 👨‍💻

• Talk to me about career stuff! As someone who has already has a few serious career pivots under their belt, I really enjoy thinking about how to find work that’s valuable and interesting
• I’m always more than happy to chat about SEO, content, wordsmithing, brainstorming, leadership, public speaking, data visualization, and data storytelling
• In what appears to be a theme for the team — I’m also very passionate about mental health and am always happy to talk openly about managing depression, anxiety, panic attacks, burnout, and insomnia
• Superpower: Systems Thinking. I like to map out and explore systems, finding pitfalls & blindspots, before I return to the problem at hand and get to the solution
• Secondary Superpower: Ingenuity. Once I completely understand what has to get done, I'll as scrappy and resourceful as I need to be to get it over the finish line

Business & Leadership Books I Unabashedly Recommend Despite The Cheesy Titles 📚

• Getting to Yes
• Radical Candor
• Finding the Space to Lead
• Storytelling With Data
• Feminist Fight Club
• Dare to Lead

Peeves 👎

• Drivers who don’t use their turn signals (bonus hatred if they weave in traffic)
• The phrase “it is what it is” — 99% of the time it ‘is’ what someone else made 'it'. Hold people accountable
• Notifications
• Overuse of the word "that" in online writing
• Whenever someone insists everyone needs a personal brand
• Any time someone says they don’t want to adopt a pet from a shelter because “you just don't know what you’re going to get”
• Lawns
• Golf

Faves 👍

• Biking along the canal on a warm summer night with no one else around, passing by quiet docks and sleeping storage facilities
• The podcasts ‘Ologies’, ‘The 538 Politics Podcast’, and ‘The Anthropocene Reviewed’
• Going through the full 360 of a revolving door before exiting
• Introducing people to D&D for the first time
• Drive-in movie theaters
• Em dashes (these things —)
• Old dusty cats in old dusty bookstores