An engineer who took a left turn — and never had just one job.
I trained as an electrical engineer. Then one Saturday at a conference in Minneapolis, I met the CEO of a small software company — and it quietly changed the direction of my career.
A few months later I quit my job, drove out to Southern California, and spent my first weeks working out of a small portable building behind a church, learning the company from the inside. That company was Liferay. I was somewhere around the 200th employee. We're many times that now — and I've been there, fully remote, ever since.
I grew up alongside the company, and I wore a lot of hats on the way: I wrote its first customer knowledge base, then led the global team that ran it, served as a kind of chief of staff to an APAC VP, and now handle programs and key projects for our fast-growing Revenue Operations department.
The title keeps changing. The work underneath doesn't. I sit next to a leader, help them shape and sharpen where we're headed, and then make it real — building the dashboards that show how the business is actually doing, keeping the people above and around them in the loop, and quietly making sure the few things that matter most don't slip. Why? So the leader doesn't have to hold all of it.