PORTFOLIO / 2026 ENABLEMENT · L&D · KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

I build enablement functions — end to end.

LMS architecture. Course suites. Knowledge bases. Onboarding programs. The whole stack — designed, built, and run by one person who treats enablement as the operating system of a growing company.

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Single-operator function

I run enablement at the scope normally split across two or three roles — content, systems, and program design under one owner.

02

Built for the messy middle

I work best at companies past startup chaos but pre-bureaucracy, where systems need to scale faster than headcount.

03

Evidence over opinion

Every framework I build is grounded in usage data, completion rates, and real conversations with the teams I serve.

§ Selected Work

Three projects, one function.

Each of these represents a discipline I own end-to-end. Click through for the full case study — what existed before, what I built, and what changed.

CASE 01

LMS Administration

Owning the platform that owns the learning. Configuration, governance, user lifecycle, and the migration that nobody else wanted.

PlatformMigrationGovernance
CASE 02

Course Suite Creation & Maintenance

Designing, authoring, and maintaining a full curriculum — from first-day onboarding through advanced product certification.

Instructional DesignAuthoringMaintenance
CASE 03

Help Center Structure & Maintenance

The knowledge architecture customers and CSMs actually use — taxonomy, voice, lifecycle, and the discipline of keeping it accurate.

Knowledge ArchitectureContent OpsTaxonomy
§ How I Think

Frameworks I use, not borrowed.

Anyone can ship a course. The harder skill is knowing what to build, who it's for, and how to measure whether it worked. This is how I do that.

FRAMEWORK 01

The Scope-Before-Solution Principle

Every enablement request arrives as a solution: "We need a course on X." My first move is to refuse the request as stated and re-open the underlying problem. Most "course" requests are actually documentation gaps, process gaps, or hiring gaps in disguise — and a course will not fix any of those.

  • Question 1 — What outcome would tell us this worked?
  • Question 2 — Who specifically is failing at that outcome today?
  • Question 3 — Is the gap knowledge, skill, system, or motivation?
  • Question 4 — If we built nothing, what's the actual cost?
FRAMEWORK 02

The Three-Tier Content Lifecycle

Content has a half-life. Treating every article and course as permanent is how knowledge bases rot into liability. I sort everything I author into three tiers, each with its own review cadence and retirement criteria.

EVERGREEN Annual review Concepts, principles, "why" content.
VERSIONED Per release Product-tied "how" content. Dated and stamped.
EPHEMERAL Auto-expire Launch-specific content with a built-in sunset date.
FRAMEWORK 03

Measuring What Enablement Actually Does

Enablement teams get measured on completion rates, which measures the wrong thing. Completion proves people clicked. I track three layers, and I make leadership choose which one a project is being judged on before the project starts.

  • Activity — Did the learning happen? (Completions, engagement.)
  • Capability — Can people now do the thing? (Assessments, observation.)
  • Outcome — Did the business result move? (Ramp time, ticket deflection, CSAT.)

The framework forces the conversation up the stack. If a stakeholder won't commit to a capability or outcome metric, that's a signal the project shouldn't be built.

FRAMEWORK 04

The Help Center Triage Loop

A help center is not a content library — it's a feedback system. Every search with no result, every article with high views and low ratings, every ticket that quotes an article back is data. I run a weekly triage on three signals:

  • Zero-result searches → content gaps to fill.
  • Low-rated high-traffic articles → rewrites in priority order.
  • Recurring ticket themes → new articles or product feedback.
§ Earlier Work

Before enablement was the title, it was the work.

Two years at Verano (Zen Leaf) — the multi-state cannabis operator — where I went from budtender to Regional Training Manager covering 23 retail locations across Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The training foundation was built here. The relationships that brought me to Sweed started here too.

2022 — 2024 Verano Holdings (Zen Leaf)
JAN 2022 Budtender
JUL 2022 Shift Lead
MAR 2023 Regional Training Manager PA & WV · 23 locations
PROJECT 01

Training Manual Redesign

Inherited a wordy, unengaging manual that hadn't kept pace with the business. Rebuilt it from the ground up — restructured the content, added flowcharts, timelines, and visual references, and expanded it to cover the new training plan. Printed and distributed at orientation across both states; every store kept reference copies on hand. Used by every regional trainer as the backbone of new-hire onboarding.

PROJECT 02

Classroom Training Program

Designed and delivered in-person training at least twice a month — classes of 2 to 10 people covering cannabis education (how it works in the body, product knowledge, history), compliance and regulations, customer service, and HR policy. Took an inherited curriculum and made it my own with interactive elements: terpene identification contests, mock dispensary scenarios, hands-on packaging reviews. Lunch on me, every class.

PROJECT 03

National Launch & Implementation Support

Selected to support implementations and launches outside my home region — Sweed POS rollouts in Nevada, Florida, and Arizona, and adult-use launches in Connecticut and Maryland. The cross-market work meant adapting training approaches to different state regulations, store cultures, and team sizes on tight timelines.

PROJECT 04 · FLAGSHIP

Verano University & the Pin Program

Co-designed and authored a national learning curriculum — three tiers (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) covering cannabis knowledge and role development — paired with a rewards system I designed end-to-end: physical pins for each course completed, patches for milestones, and a custom letterman jacket awarded at full graduation.

Authored 22 of 40 courses. Got the program budget-approved at the corporate level for national rollout. Started distributing patches to early participants, who began moving through the early courses before the broader launch.

The program didn't reach launch. I was laid off in December 2024 before rollout — the work shipped without the launch, but the work was real, and so were the people who started it.

§ About

I started behind the counter. That's why this works.

I came up through the front line — budtender, then shift lead, then regional trainer at a multi-state cannabis operator. From there I moved into Sweed Support, then into the Enablement Manager role I have today. Every step taught me something the next one needed.

The transition into Sweed wasn't accidental. While I was running training at Verano, I helped lead the rollout of Sweed's POS across our markets. I built relationships with the Sweed team through that work — and when the support role opened, the trust was already there. That's a pattern I keep finding in my career: the next role usually starts as a relationship in the current one.

That whole progression is the lens I bring to every course, every article, every onboarding path. I'm not designing for an idealized learner. I'm designing for the person who has six tabs open, a customer on hold, and forty-five seconds to find the answer — because I was that person, and I remember exactly how it felt.

Currently building enablement at a growth-stage SaaS company. Open to conversations about roles where the function needs to be designed, not just staffed.

§ Contact

Hiring for enablement?
Let's talk.

The best conversations start with context. Tell me about the function you're building and where it's stuck.