About

Two kinds of curiosity drive most of what I make. Figuring out how things work, a city's budget or a market broken down until it's clear enough to act on. And chasing what things mean, memory, identity, the things worth paying attention to. The same curiosity, aimed two ways.

Right now most of it points at Beverly, Massachusetts, where I live. The city's budget is tightening and the choices ahead will shape the place my kids are growing up in, so I write explainers, build tools, and lately summarize the meetings themselves. Staying informed about your own city should not take six hours of video a week, and at the moment it does.

I studied Classics at Boston University. Latin and Greek, Ovid, Homer, Catullus. Spending years on dead languages teaches you to think, to sit with what doesn't resolve and read for what's underneath, and that's done more for how I work than most of what came after.

By trade I'm a Principal PM at Grubhub, seven years now, most recently on retention and Care. Those two sit at opposite ends of the same problem, keeping people's trust and rebuilding it when something breaks. Before that I spent a decade building ecommerce for wine and spirits retailers, which is how I came into product sideways, through retail. My family runs a liquor store in New Jersey.

Outside the job there's the NYT crossword, Formula 1, live music, museums, plays, something creative most months if I can manage it. Two daughters who are sharper and funnier than I am, and who keep my ego correctly sized.

Always up for a conversation about wine, local government, or why the Ferrari pit wall keeps costing Charles races.