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             GTM and product-market fit instincts forged in the field.
           </h1>
           <p class="hero-copy">
-            Fifteen years of technical selling taught me what messaging lands
-            with buyers — and what falls flat. I bring that field perspective to
+            A decade of technical selling taught me what messaging lands with
+            buyers — and what falls flat. I bring that field perspective to
             fractional GTM and product advisory, data cloud architecture, and
             AI-enabled product development through MERA Consulting.
           </p>
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ <h1 id="hero-title">
             <h2 id="work-title">Where I Focus</h2>
             <p>
               A focused view of the work behind the career arc: fractional
-              advisory, architecture, technical selling, community growth,
+              advisory, architecture, technical selling, technical writing,
               product messaging, and product development.
             </p>
           </div>
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ <h3>
                 <h3>Solutions Engineer / Enterprise Architect</h3>
                 <p>
                   <span class="impact-line"
-                    >Mission-critical distributed database work.</span
+                    >Distributed database depth at startup scale.</span
                   >
                   Led technical onboarding and migrations to CockroachDB,
                   authored 80 technical posts, and helped establish customer
@@ -1212,8 +1212,8 @@ <h3>System Administrator / Database Administrator</h3>
                     >Operational foundations in healthcare IT.</span
                   >
                   Managed SQL Server environments, supported clinical systems
-                  infrastructure, and maintained reliability for
-                  mission-critical hospital operations.
+                  infrastructure, and maintained reliability for hospital
+                  operations.
                 </p>
               </div>
             </article>
@@ -1278,9 +1278,9 @@ <h3>Resume Highlights</h3>
           <div>
             <h2 id="skills-title">Skills and Signals</h2>
             <p class="muted">
-              The strongest signal is breadth with depth: hands-on systems
-              engineering, field credibility, pre-sales leadership, and
-              product-minded AI exploration.
+              Hands-on systems engineering across the full stack — from hospital
+              IT to distributed databases to data cloud pre-sales — with recent
+              work building AI-enabled consumer apps.
             </p>
           </div>
           <div class="skills-panel">
@@ -1289,9 +1289,8 @@ <h3>Technical</h3>
               <ul class="compact-list">
                 <li>Data Cloud Architecture &amp; Strategy</li>
                 <li>Distributed Database Systems</li>
-                <li>Technical Pre-Sales Strategy</li>
-                <li>Cloud Native Solutions</li>
-                <li>Agile Technical Delivery</li>
+                <li>Technical Pre-Sales &amp; SE Leadership</li>
+                <li>Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure-as-code</li>
               </ul>
             </article>
             <article class="note-card">