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My Career Roadmap

My road to Product Management.

A living view of the path I’m taking into Product — what I’ve completed, where I am now, and the work I’m choosing next. I’m trying to build the transition the same way I want to build products: evidence first, useful moves, real feedback, and constant iteration.

Current quest: validate a real customer problem before designing the solution.
Completed

Build the technical foundation

Learn how software gets built so Product decisions can stay grounded in technical reality.

  • B.S. in Computer Science
  • M.S. in Computer Information Systems
  • Hands-on software projects and technical delivery experience
✓
Completed

Learn the Product + Scrum operating model

Strengthen the language, accountability, and decision-making principles behind effective Product teams.

  • PSM I — passed
  • PSPO I — passed
  • Scrum Master experience across two teams
✓
Completed

Turn shipped work into Product evidence

Move beyond “I built something” and explain the problem, tradeoffs, decisions, and outcomes behind the work.

  • uTip product case study
  • Portfolio positioned around Product thinking
  • Technical projects reframed around user value
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Current quest

Validate a real customer problem

I’m actively researching a day-of group context handoff problem: when one person carries the plan, context, and “what’s next?” decisions for everyone else.

  • Gathering real customer/community evidence
  • Narrowing the user segment and job-to-be-done
  • Looking for contradictions before committing to a solution
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I am here
Next

Prototype the smallest useful answer

Only after the problem survives discovery: map the journey, choose the critical moment, and prototype the lightest experience worth testing.

  • User flow + low-fidelity prototype
  • Explicit MVP tradeoffs
  • Testable assumptions, not feature wishlists
5
Then

Test, measure, and iterate

Turn the case study into proof that feedback changes the product, not just a polished mockup.

  • Usability feedback
  • Success metrics and instrumentation plan
  • Documented iteration based on evidence
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Build leverage

Make the evidence easy to hire

Translate the work into clear stories that show discovery, prioritization, technical fluency, stakeholder alignment, and outcomes.

  • Two strong Product case studies
  • Interview story bank
  • Product analytics examples
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Target: Aug 2027

Land the first true Product role

Use the portfolio, network, applications, and interview reps to move into a role with meaningful Product ownership.

  • Consistent targeted applications
  • Active Product network
  • Ownership of real user + business outcomes
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Long-term Goal

Build meaningful products in tech.

The destination is bigger than one company or one job title: become the kind of Product leader who understands users, aligns teams, makes smart tradeoffs, and ships technology people genuinely care about.

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