An Open Letter

"Let's Get Together" - by Al Green

Originally, upon deciding to build a new resume website, I found myself wanting out—out of the endless cycle of contract-to-contract work with projects that came and went. Never having team members for more than six months, navigating 3 a.m. meetings through translators, and juggling third-party task management companies just to align stakeholders—it left me feeling unanchored, without a professional home.

But I needed that life. Like many women, I prioritized flexibility and lower responsibility to be a mom who could drop everything at a moment’s notice or pick up fewer projects to fit the schedule of little ones with their childhood complexities. It has worked for this season of life, and I've embraced it wholeheartedly.

Now, as that season begins to sunset, my desire to return to a career—a career built from years of experience and shaped by tenacity—grows stronger.

How should I pivot my experience? I’ve spent over five years working in training layers for some of the most utilized AI platforms, diving deeply into areas like white-labeling, custom directories, safety, domain focus, rubrics, Likerts, dimensions, and their effects. Do I onboard with a stakeholder I’ve already been working with? Teach others to prompt effectively and understand how models think? Build an e-commerce or service business I can scale and grow with a team? Or start an agency to scale and foster collaborative innovation?

Being a learner at heart, I began digging into possibilities. My prior career in technology, operations, entrepreneurship and ultimately project management and the modern need for most companies to have a CTO, either full time or fractionally, insight immediately resonated, and I realized this could very well be the droid I was looking for, the positions I had fulfilled and performed most of my life. 

What I do know is that the CTO role feels like a perfect fit for someone like me—a professional shaped by resilience, adaptability, and a drive to make an impact.