About

Background

I'm currently a Staff Program Manager at General Motors, working on autonomous vehicle programs. Before moving into program management in 2022, I spent years building .NET applications for internal business use and workflow automation at KUKA Systems NA, and led the Super Cruise lane map fusion software team as a controls engineer. That combination of building real software and running real programs is what Timeline Studio comes from.

Why I Built This

I created Timeline Studio because I needed it. My GM coworkers needed it too: Senior, Staff, and Principal Program and Technical Program Managers who all needed a way to efficiently generate leadership-ready timelines with the functionality I had always wanted in a timeline tool but could never find.

While there's a laundry list of pain points that Timeline Studio resolves, my personal favorite "feature," if you could call it that, is the ability to stack and visually arrange tasks into swimlanes to make full use of the horizontal space, and to truly go from rough concept to detailed planning to presentation-ready output, all natively in one tool. Years of building .NET applications for real end users (applications that needed to be user-friendly, efficient, and integrated into existing workflows) gave me a strong foundation for this. And my experience with Simulink as a form of visual programming mirrors how I think about dragging and arranging timeline elements, except here it's precision moves on an actual timeline with a full dependency engine underneath.

Try It Yourself

I could go on about the app and my plans to keep refining this into the perfect timeline tool that I and dozens of my peers use day to day. But honestly, the best way to see the care and attention to detail is to try it yourself. Notice the little touches: the format painter, the +/- days tooltip on drag, the built-in presentation tools that really shine in full-screen mode.

Once you experience building with Timeline Studio, and start getting positive feedback from your executive sponsors on your project timelines and from your team members on the clarity of the plan, you will not want to go back to waterfall-style Gantt editors or cumbersome Microsoft tooling with its poor licensing structure.