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

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

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

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

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