Experience

I’ve worked across enterprise SaaS, big tech, and academia to help teams understand and build complex systems. This page keeps it high-level—just the companies, focus areas, and academic background.

Work History

Arena by PTC — Product Team

AI & Integrations product management for PLM/QMS SaaS, focusing on agentic workflows and API modernization.

Google — AI Ethics

Instructional design and narrative framing for responsible AI practices across engineering teams.

University of Alberta — Director of Digital Humanities & Associate Professor of Digital Culture

Led programs in digital culture and computational media; taught AI history, technical writing, and data-driven research methods.

Education

  • Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies — UCLA
  • B.A., English — UCLA
  • Professional Certificate in Coding: Full Stack Development with MERN — MITxPro
  • AI Product Management Certification — Product School
  • Generative AI for Software Development — Deeplearning.ai

Research & Writing

Research on AI, digital ecosystems, and computational creativity; published books on algorithms, media, and social change.

  • Very Special Episodes: Televising Industrial and Social Change, Rutgers UP
  • The Burden of Choice: Algorithms, Recommendations, and Digital Culture, Rutgers UP