Complete Innovation Portfolio

Cross-functional innovation across operational excellence, competitive strategy, and leadership impact. Strategic solutions built without formal authority or budget approval — proving value through results.

$630K+
Total Annual Value
5+
Departments Impacted
12+
Active Projects
95%+
Customer Satisfaction

CARA AI Support Agent

Customer Service Automation
Live

Intelligent customer service agent handling 95%+ inquiries with human-level accuracy while maintaining personal connection for complex issues.

Business Impact:
$500K+ annual capacity creation (8-12 FTE equivalent), 95%+ customer satisfaction maintained, 32 global agents enabled to focus on strategic relationships.
Claude API Node.js Zendesk Integration Production Scale
Departments Served:
Customer Support Product Engineering

RELAY Platform

Enterprise Replacement
Live v2.4

Complete Zendesk replacement platform built from ground up. 48 API routes, PM2 + Nginx deployment on Digital Ocean, eliminating $75K+ vendor dependency entirely.

Strategic Value:
$75K+ annual Zendesk costs eliminated, complete data ownership, unlimited customization, no per-seat licensing constraints. CARA AI integration live, serving 32 global agents.
Node/Express PM2 Nginx Digital Ocean
Strategic Impact:
IT Operations Finance Customer Success

SENTINEL Brand Monitor

Brand Protection & Fraud Detection
Live

Real-time brand protection platform monitoring unauthorized resellers, counterfeit listings, and pricing violations across major marketplaces. Surfaces actionable intelligence for the legal and channel teams.

Business Impact:
Identified 40+ unauthorized resellers in first 30 days. Eliminated manual brand monitoring process. Channel integrity reports delivered directly to leadership on demand.
Node.js Claude API Marketplace APIs Production
Departments Served:
Legal Sales Distribution

Feedback Intelligence Platform

Customer Intelligence & Trend Analysis
Live

AI-powered analysis of 12,617+ support tickets clustered into actionable themes. Identifies product pain points, support trends, and emerging issues before they escalate. Feeds directly into product roadmap discussions.

Business Impact:
Reduced weekly insight reporting from 8 hours to 30 minutes. Product team now receives data-driven feature priority input from support data. Auto-detects cluster spikes and escalates proactively.
Claude Clustering Zendesk API PostgreSQL React Dashboard
Departments Served:
Product Engineering Customer Support Leadership

SCOUT — CSAT Intelligence

Quality Analytics & Social Correlation
Deployed

Cross-references customer satisfaction data with social media signals to identify product experience patterns. Paste a social post and SCOUT finds correlated support tickets, surfacing the scope of any issue instantly.

Business Impact:
Social-to-ticket correlation previously took hours of manual search. SCOUT surfaces matches in seconds. Enables proactive response to emerging issues before they become PR problems.
Claude API Social APIs Full-text Search
Departments Served:
Customer Support Marketing Product

Distributor Intelligence Tools

Channel & Partner Enablement
Deployed

Suite of tools giving global distributor partners visibility into product data, warranty status, and support escalation channels. Reduces distributor-initiated support volume while improving partner satisfaction.

Business Impact:
Reduced distributor escalation tickets by enabling self-service access to product and customer data. Strengthened channel relationships through better information access.
API Integration Partner Portal Data Access
Departments Served:
Distribution Sales Customer Support

COROS Content AI

Competitive Response — Garmin Advantage
In Development

Garmin's dominant content library (tutorials, training guides, feature explanations) creates a competitive advantage in customer acquisition and retention. COROS Content AI matches this at scale — generating accurate, on-brand content across the full product line without requiring product specialists' time.

Strategic Rationale:
Garmin outpaces COROS 5:1 on searchable support content. This directly affects Google ranking, customer self-service rates, and purchase confidence. Closing this gap is a revenue play, not just a support play.
Claude API Product Knowledge Base SEO Optimization Content Pipeline
Departments Served:
Marketing Product Customer Support

MCP Integration Layer

AI Workflow Acceleration
Live

Model Context Protocol integrations connecting AI tools directly to COROS internal systems — Feishu/Lark, product databases, support platforms. Enables AI-assisted workflows that would otherwise require manual data extraction and context assembly.

Strategic Value:
Reduces AI workflow friction from 20+ minutes of manual context gathering to seconds. Enables the team to use AI tools effectively without deep technical knowledge. Positions COROS ahead of competitors on internal AI adoption.
MCP Protocol Feishu/Lark API Internal APIs Claude Integration
Departments Served:
All Departments Engineering Operations

Marketing Enablement Suite

Content Operations at Scale
Deployed

AI-assisted content workflows for the marketing team — campaign copy generation, product spec sheets, retailer enablement materials, and localization pipelines. Built to match the output quality of teams twice COROS's size.

Business Impact:
Marketing team produces enterprise-volume content with lean headcount. Campaign turnaround reduced significantly. Consistent brand voice maintained across markets through AI guardrails built into the workflow.
Claude API Brand Guidelines Multi-language
Departments Served:
Marketing Sales Distribution

Cross-Functional Leadership Model

"I don't wait for perfect conditions or formal authority. I identify business challenges, invest personal resources to learn new capabilities, and build solutions that prove their value through measurable results."
32 Agents
Global Team Leadership
Head of AI & Automation managing support operations across US, EU/UK, China, and Philippines. Zero prior management experience when stepping into the role.
5+ Departments
Without Formal Authority
Product, Marketing, Engineering, Distribution, and Operations all have systems I built or maintain — none required a direct reporting relationship.
10+ Years
Apple Team Lead
AMR Commitments Team Lead since 2014. Apple-grade operational standards inform how I approach reliability, user experience, and team accountability at COROS.
$0 Budget
Self-Funded Innovation
The majority of what's in this portfolio was built with personal time and resources — then proven valuable enough that the company adopted it. Results earned the investment, not the other way around.

AI Adoption Program

Organizational Change Leadership
Ongoing

Designed and implemented COROS's internal AI literacy and adoption program. Created training pathways, documentation, and support systems enabling 30+ team members across departments to incorporate AI tools into their daily workflows.

Leadership Approach:
Met people where they were. No mandates. Built tools that worked and made people want to use them. Adoption grew through demonstrated value, not top-down pressure. Now training new hires on AI workflows from day one.
Change Management Training Design AI Literacy
Departments Served:
All Teams New Hires

Strategic Reporting Architecture

Executive Intelligence & Decision Support
Live

Built the reporting infrastructure that gives COROS leadership visibility into support operations, customer sentiment, product issues, and team performance — in a format executives actually use rather than raw data exports.

Leadership Impact:
Weekly leadership reporting that previously required 8 hours of manual aggregation now runs automatically. Product team receives customer feedback analysis before sprint planning. Leadership makes data-driven decisions with same-day insights.
Executive Dashboards Automated Reporting Data Visualization
Departments Served:
Executive Team Product Operations

Portfolio Impact Summary

$630K+
Annual Value Created
5+
Departments Impacted
95%+
Customer Satisfaction
$130K+
Vendor Costs Eliminated

Strategic leadership through technical innovation, delivering measurable business results without formal authority or dedicated budgets. This portfolio demonstrates the ability to identify competitive threats, eliminate vendor dependencies, and create sustainable business advantages through strategic automation that amplifies human capabilities.