I am well positioned to guide and support you in achieving your goals, because

1. Passion for helping others grow: I feel self-fulfilled when I could help others grow, therefore I have been teaching, mentoring, and coaching throughout my career. For the same reason, I moved into engineering management career track after being a software engineer for years.
2. Extensive work experience: I weathered multiple tough job markets, earned promotions, and transitioned among IC, tech lead, manager, and manager of managers roles at several FAANG companies. I've been through 100+ job interviews as a candidate and 500+ job interviews an interviewer. I have reviewed 1000+ resumes. I hired 40+ and promoted 20+ people. I have scaled a team from 0 to 20 as well as led up to 40+ individuals.
3. Proven teaching, mentoring, and coaching skills: I recognize that excelling at something and helping others achieve it are very different skills. To excel at both, I’ve invested significant effort in honing my ability to grow others, including teaching Software Product Management at the University of Washington for 6+ years and being a career mentor at the Seattle University for 4+ years. I am also a certified career, executive, and life coach. 

The combination of passion, experience, and a commitment to professional development equips me to help you achieve transformation in your career growth.