Head of Developer Relations & Experience

• Apr 2022 - Present

Director of Developer Advocacy

• Sep 2021 - Apr 2022

Senior Developer Advocate/Ambassador Program Lead

• Jan 2019 - Aug 2021

* Thought leader in multiple developer ecosystems, such as Jamstack, Vue, JavaScript, and APIs, by presenting in Live Streams, Podcasts, Conferences, Meetups, and various events.* Manage developers/contractors for content creation that meets our developer experience strategy that focuses on use cases and solving problems* Manage Junior level team members by delegating/tasking of DevRel related activities, tracking, that lead to better KPIs* Responsible for managing company partnerships and individual partnerships (developer influencers) that involve developer content collaborations, whether it's content, podcast, marketing, product feedback, that leads to mutual benefits related to advocacy to developers, content views, product sign-ups, etc* Responsible for managing developers as well as budgets, one including a developer experts program, managing over 40 developers with mentorship, budget approval, defining strategy, and processes* Develop and define DevRel strategy and goals, internally advocating DevRel value, and working with internal management for cross-collaboration of similar objectives that meet company objectives* Attend/Speak/Organize Live streams, podcasts, conferences, meetups, etc on thought leadership topics Show less

Developer Evangelist/Advocate

• Mar 2016 - Jan 2019

Driving through thought leadership, vision, and innovation on Cisco's products. * Delivering content and presentations to events globally * Engage and influence third party communities, especially open source communities * Prepare for hackathons and increase brand awareness * Travel to support events around the world * Locally representing Cisco in the Seattle area * Working with internal parts of Cisco to help drive DevNet and API usage * Specifically advocate cloud collaboration tools with Cisco Spark and Tropo API Show less

College Instructor / Curriculum Developer

• Apr 2013 - Mar 2016

Teaching classes in the web application development certificate and associate's degree. Classes taught: PHP, MySQL, CMS, JavaScript, jQuery+JS Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3, SEO, and several other courses Also the lead Instructor for the PACE-IT web development certificate. Developed a new course at the college: CIS243 (CMS) Teaching classes in the web application development certificate and associate's degree. Classes taught: PHP, MySQL, CMS, JavaScript, jQuery+JS Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3, SEO, and several other courses Also the lead Instructor for the PACE-IT web development certificate. Developed a new course at the college: CIS243 (CMS)

Web Application Developer

• Aug 2011 - Oct 2014

Maintain web applications built in asp and access databases. Redesigned and migrated all manufacturing websites from ASP to PHP and MySQL Maintain web applications built in asp and access databases. Redesigned and migrated all manufacturing websites from ASP to PHP and MySQL

Technical Support Engineer

• Dec 2011 - Aug 2013

Assisted people with debugging their websites and answering forum support questions related to CMS's and PHP. Assisted people with debugging their websites and answering forum support questions related to CMS's and PHP.

Teacher's Assistant - Web Development

• Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

Answering student questions, assisting with website projects, helping students with additional resources Answering student questions, assisting with website projects, helping students with additional resources