Experience
Director of Engineering, Fair Trade USA
2015 – Present
Building effective teams by recruiting, supporting and coaching individuals. Particularly good at creating clarity from ambiguitiy and keeping teams moving through continuious introspection, communication and right sized process and tools. I am a highly user focused engineer that can quickly understand and appreciate user needs and find solutions that are technically well integrated, buildable and supportable.
Accomplishments to date
- Managing a team of staff and consultant web application, Salesforce and QA engineers
- Responsible for designing and developing secure and scalable platforms, applications and system integrations
- Delivered the organization's core tech product which is the primary interface for our partners
- Introduced Scrum to the organization, providing agile coaching and leading teams as a Scrum Master
- Migrated dispersed application assets to a modern build, deploy and hosting platform powered by Kubernetes
Tools: Scrum, JavaScript, Vue.js, Salesforce, Dell Boomi, PHP, SQL, DevOps, HTML, CSS, Sass, Linux, AWS, Docker, Jira, Tableau
Technical Lead, Parallel Public Works
2013 – 2015
Utilized Scrum skills to manage Drupal website development projects for government and non-profit clients. Managed development and production hosting environments for long term clients. Recruited and managed contract developers.
Accomplishments
- Led development and site building of Drupal sites
- Architected and utilized Scrum skills to manage the development and launch of several large and complex sites
- Developed a text-to-give product including integration with Twilio and Stripe APIs and Arduino driven physical outputs - migrated product to load balanced and fault tolerant environment on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Migrated all client sites from shared hosting service to the Red Hat Openshift PaaS
- Migrated all client and internal source code from Subversion to Git
Tools: JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Python, SQL, HTML, CSS, Scrum, Drupal, less, Linux, Twilio API, Stripe API, LAMP system administration, Vagrant, Openshift PaaS
Non-Profit Technology Advisor
2002 – 2015
Supported non-profits in the areas of custom web development, web CMS, Salesforce CRM configuration and management, network engineering, and server and desktop support.
Accomplishments
- Designed and developed a new website for www.cityfruit.org using Drupal, Bootstrap and AngularJS. Site includes a Salesforce integration, user friendly content editing tools and automated Git deployment to the Openshift PaaS
- Implemented a Wordpress site with Click & Pledge donation API integration for One By One at www.fightfistula.org (offline)
- Migrated One By One to Salesforce for donor management integrated with Click & Pledge for ecommerce
Tools: Salesforce, AngularJS, PHP, Drupal, Wordpress, Bootstrap, jQuery, Openshift PaaS, Mailchimp, MyEmma, Linux, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Google Maps API, networking
Senior Technology Project Manager, King County
2010 – 2013
Managed multiple large IT projects, both new application development and commercial off the shelf system implementations, from requirements and business case development to procurement and implementation.
Accomplishments
- Managed $1.5 million project to procure, configure and implement a new organization-wide asset management system
- Developed curriculum and trained users
- Designed and delivered multiple system integrations with new Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft HR systems
- Developed user interface designs and delivered as flowcharts, wireframes and functional prototypes
- Implemented technical solutions as needed using knowledge of various platforms and development technologies
Tools: PMI Standards, Scrum, Lean, SQL, IIS, .NET, ESRI, MS Project, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, contract negotiation, facilitation
Web Application Developer, King County
2005 – 2010
Designed and developed data driven web applications using ColdFusion and MS SQL Server.
Education
University of Washington
BA Community, Environment and Planning – College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2000
AWS Certified Developer – Associate, #CDGXS75DKJQ41LSJ
Certified Scrum Master, 2013 - Present, License #000238925
Awards
10th Place – 2014 Salesforce Hackathon — Force.com and Heroku Category
As a team of one, created a Leaflet map-based app that leveraged the Salesforce, Twitter and Twilio APIs to connect in real-time locally harvested fruit with organizations that can distribute it.
Community Contributions
Board Member, City Fruit: 2012 – 2015
Non-profit that promotes the cultivation of urban fruit in order to nourish people, build community and protect the climate
Board Member, Pomegranate Center: 2004 – 2006
Non-profit committed to improving the lives of underserved communities through the creation of community designed and built gathering spaces
Technology Mentor, FosterClub: 2015
Mentored junior web developers as they entered the technology job market
References
Available upon request