Experience

Modern Classrooms Project

• United States
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Product Innovation

  • Oct 2023 - Present



Soft Heart Studio

• United States
• Retail Art Supplies

• Owner/Artist

  • Oct 2018 - Present

  Remote - Artist and small business owner creating art and cultivating spaces to foster community connection and care. - Has participated in 3 gallery shows and 1 solo show See more at softheartstudio.com



Microverse

• United States
• E-learning
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Director

  • Mar 2023 - Oct 2023

  Remote As Product & Learning Director at Microverse, I owned defining and delivering on our product strategy through a crucial time of change for the company.

• Head of Product & Learning

  • Aug 2021 - Mar 2023

  Remote - Designed, grew, and led product development into a team of product managers, designers, and curriculum managers from one person (me!) to 8 people working in 3 Agile squads - Rolled out Asana to our 35+ person company to improve collaboration and transparency - Led a rebuild of our core platform that enabled us to scale cohorts by 3x without hiring and gave us clear data insights to our user flow to enable future data drive product development

• Head of Career Services

  • Jan 2020 - Aug 2021

  Remote - Strategically grew the Career Services team from 1 to 9 people with clearly defined separation of roles and responsibilities - Developed job searching best practices and drove placements as our alumni population grew 10x to over 300 students - Led multiple content improvement projects reducing time to land a first job by 10% - Developed and implemented changes to coaching strategy to 4x coach:student ratio without a decrease in quality of service or coach happiness

• Technical Career Coach

  • Jun 2019 - Jan 2020

  Remote - Started the Career Services department as the first career coach at the company - Coached 30+ students 1:1 on how to land a remote, international job - Set up scalable systems for student support using No Code tools like Airtable, Zapier, Integromat, Process St. and more. - Wrote our first iteration of the Career Prep curriculum to ensure students had access to the information they needed to job search effectively without always needing 1:1 support - Developed forecasting for… Show more - Started the Career Services department as the first career coach at the company - Coached 30+ students 1:1 on how to land a remote, international job - Set up scalable systems for student support using No Code tools like Airtable, Zapier, Integromat, Process St. and more. - Wrote our first iteration of the Career Prep curriculum to ensure students had access to the information they needed to job search effectively without always needing 1:1 support - Developed forecasting for hiring needs, then developed and ran a hiring process to bring on two other coaches as the support needs grew



Adventure Scientists

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Recruitment and Social Media Consultant

  • Jul 2023 - Sep 2023

  Bozeman, Montana, United States Adventure Scientists ensure the availability of critical field data that accelerates conservation and climate solutions by mobilizing and training outdoor enthusiasts and local communities to collect high-quality scientific data. In this part time consulting role, I am supporting on targeted projects to ensure the successful recruitment and training of enough volunteers.



Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Development Engineer

  • Oct 2016 - May 2019

  Seattle, WA AWS Insights / Commerce Platform - Created and maintained highly scaleable and distributed systems with 99.9% uptimes using AWS services. - Developed full stack features on multiple web consoles with millions of views per month in Angular (JavaScript) and Java. - Mentored junior team members while leading complex projects. - Ran an org wide engineering-focused book club that helped foster cross team connections and improve relationships across the organization contributing to… Show more AWS Insights / Commerce Platform - Created and maintained highly scaleable and distributed systems with 99.9% uptimes using AWS services. - Developed full stack features on multiple web consoles with millions of views per month in Angular (JavaScript) and Java. - Mentored junior team members while leading complex projects. - Ran an org wide engineering-focused book club that helped foster cross team connections and improve relationships across the organization contributing to better communication during development.

• Software Development Intern

  • Apr 2016 - Sep 2016

  Seattle, WA Billing Console Team - Worked in Java, Javascript & AngularJS on the 3rd most visited console in AWS with over 1M hits per month. - Designed and implemented multiple customer facing features with a focus on latency and efficiency. - Redesigned D3 visualizations to be more useful and intuitive for customers.



Ada Developers Academy

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full Stack Software Development Student

  • Aug 2015 - Apr 2016

  Seattle, WA - Intensive program of study in Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as part of the full-stack developer training curriculum. - Learned TDD, Agile development, and pair programming techniques to grow collaboration and team development skills.



Unique Chic Studio

• Business Owner

  • Sep 2013 - Nov 2014

  Hood River, OR - Created repeatable recipes for hand dyed yarns; sourced high quality yarns from a number of vendors. - Built and maintained an Etsy site and Wordpress powered website + e-commerce platform. - Processed large volume wholesale orders between $300-$15k