Dec 2025 → Present
Consulting Product Manager (Contractor)
LakeRaven, LLC — Remote
Client: New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources, statewide Water Data Initiative
- Served as the initiative's first product manager, owning product strategy, V1 scope definition, and successful launch of a public data platform serving state agencies, researchers, and field teams, rebuilding the product on a compressed timeline following a 2024 cyber incident. Led ongoing V1.1 delivery.
- Maintained team cohesion and delivery through significant personnel transitions, interpersonal conflict, and extended leaves on a small government team, while introducing agile delivery practices, a triage workflow, and a working agreement that the team sustained through a PM transition.
- Facilitated a 2-day in-person roadmap workshop with a cross-functional government team, producing 10 strategic pillars, a prioritization framework, team values, and a feature-to-delivery process map that established shared product direction.
- Synthesized cross-bureau stakeholder research into a V1 product definition and long-term roadmap, rebuilding leadership trust eroded by years of missed timelines. Helped position the team as the Bureau's centralized data services team, securing additional project funding, including a statewide geothermal initiative, and cross-bureau partnerships.
- Planned and conducted 5 structured user research sessions with field staff, researchers, and data managers, synthesizing findings into design recommendations, requirements, and roadmap items that directly shaped V1.1 scope and a multi-horizon capability roadmap.
- Established a shared AI context repository for the development team, capturing institutional knowledge, product strategy, and domain expertise into structured files that AI coding tools reference automatically. Extended this approach to documentation, diagnostics, and reporting, standardizing async-first knowledge systems for continuity through staffing transitions.