Things built, lessons learned, and communities worth showing up for.
A resume tells you what happened, not how I think. I started The Third Seat to write down the cases and templates behind my work as a Chief of Staff, starting with one template and a first case now in progress. The hardest part is choosing what to write, because so much of how I work lives in my head.
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I wanted to test my judgment against other Chiefs of Staff on a real problem with a real clock. We had three hours to turn a $30M partnership, a leaked deal, a risky IP clause and a CTO ready to quit into a five slide CEO brief, then trade feedback with the operators around us. My call was to take the deal, put the CTO in charge of the IP risk, and tell the team it was a growth story. Funding doesn't destroy culture. Inaction does.
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A career transition became a chance to learn how to run a company end to end, not just the functions I'd already led. The module that stayed with me was organizational power: mapping who really shapes decisions, and being honest about my own relationship with power. My capstone looked at how companies can become AI ready by transforming their workforce instead of defaulting to layoffs, and meeting my cohort in Philadelphia was the highlight.
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Tangle is a side project that lets me see how a company works at the earliest stage. As a COO advisor to a three person team, I own go to market, provider onboarding, pricing and operations, and we've shipped the MVP, signed our first providers and landed our first paying customers in Austin. Startups are hard work. Doing every function myself has given me more respect for the teams that run them at scale.
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I wanted to share what I've learned about leadership with the next generation of Filipino professionals. I spoke on the strategy and innovation panel to 100+ people at Silicon Labs, about growing up in Mindanao, building a career at Microsoft and Oracle, and why we need to advocate for ourselves and open doors for each other. Filipinos are in tech too, and humility isn't invisibility.
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I wanted to understand AI tools deeply enough to build with them, not just talk about them. I completed Stanford's AI for Leaders and Oracle's Cloud AI certification, and I'm now taking Claude 101, while building this site in Lovable, a newsletter in Beehiiv, decks in Gamma, a recruiting agent in ChatGPT, and the agents that run my week. The tools are the easy part. The operating system around them is what makes them useful.
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I wanted time to grow as a leader alongside LGBTQ+ peers who are shaping the future of tech. Over two days in New York we covered AI and the new shape of power, leadership and tech accountability, the role of managers in an AI world, and the organizational machinery behind burnout. My takeaway: AI makes good managers more important, not less.
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I wanted to connect with fellow Chiefs of Staff and operators and trade notes on the craft. I spent a day with 100+ senior Chiefs of Staff on "The Art of Human Alignment," how organizations actually get people moving in the same direction. The idea I brought back: make AI your own operating system first, so you can do the same for your company.
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The founder of Ambition in Motion invited me after we connected on LinkedIn, and I've attended their executive symposiums across Texas since 2025. The sessions covered leading change without burnout, through experimentation, and toward measurable wins, at a time when AI and layoffs are reshaping every team. My takeaway: upskilling is no longer optional, for leaders or for the people they lead.
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I wanted to learn how local founders start and grow businesses from the ground up, using Tangle as my test case. Over the Round Rock Chamber of Commerce program I worked through customer discovery, outreach and investor pitching, and presented Tangle at 1 Million Cups Round Rock. Customers care about solved problems, so build the smallest thing that proves you can solve one.
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I joined Generalist World in 2025 to find people who work across functions the way I do. What started as events became real friendships and ongoing conversations about how generalists build careers. It reminded me that the people who connect the dots across teams are often the ones holding the work together.
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I judged the innovation track for a 3rd grade technical challenge, where teams built a game show with circuits, pulleys and a surprise reveal on a $250 budget. The kids were smart and resourceful with very little money, and it was a good reminder that constraints make people more creative.
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I rode 45 miles with Austin FrontRunners and raised $750 for HIV services across Central Texas. Together, 525 riders and volunteers across 51 teams raised $386,590 for a cause and a community that matter to me.
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I volunteered on the SXSW innovation track, running large sessions, keeping lines moving and handling logistics, including a debate between a neuroscientist and an AI CEO. It's my way of giving time to the festival that brings Austin's creative and tech communities together.
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