Cece Wren
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Edmund Kwan
Cece has been an exceptional leader and mentor during my time working with them at Weedmaps. Their dedication and support as my manager has played a crucial role in my professional development and growth. Cece’s commitment to the team's success, combined with their unique and quirky personality, creates both an inspiring and enjoyable work environment. It was an absolute pleasure working with Cece.
Alaina Fortune
I had the pleasure of working with Cece on the Growth squad at Weedmaps. We partnered closely on various initiatives, including but not limited to A/B tests on consumer features (often running several at once), overhauling the taxonomy of the marketplace, and increasing registrations on our site/apps. In addition to managing a team of 10 engineers, Cece led all of our scrum ceremonies, maintained a spreadsheet of all of our ongoing projects and their statuses, and floated up feedback from ICs to leadership. Despite the massive workload and packed schedule, Cece was always positive, driven, and efficient as a teammate. Their upbeat energy, sense of humor, and commitment to pushing the team to get projects across the finish line made work enjoyable, as well as made our team an unstoppable force. One of the best parts of product development is reviewing data on a successful experiment - and then converting that experiment into a permanent feature. Cece's leadership and dedication made this a common occurrence on the Growth squad. This in turn made the team feel motivated and valued, which has helped with retaining developers on our team. In the last year, we have had 0 IC engineers leave the Growth squad - and I believe this is largely due to Cece's leadership. I always felt that Cece was candid, approachable, and genuine in our conversations - whether about work or our personal lives. I have nothing but good things to say about Cece and hope to cross paths with them again in the future. Any engineering team would be lucky to have Cece at the helm.
Edmund Kwan
Cece has been an exceptional leader and mentor during my time working with them at Weedmaps. Their dedication and support as my manager has played a crucial role in my professional development and growth. Cece’s commitment to the team's success, combined with their unique and quirky personality, creates both an inspiring and enjoyable work environment. It was an absolute pleasure working with Cece.
Alaina Fortune
I had the pleasure of working with Cece on the Growth squad at Weedmaps. We partnered closely on various initiatives, including but not limited to A/B tests on consumer features (often running several at once), overhauling the taxonomy of the marketplace, and increasing registrations on our site/apps. In addition to managing a team of 10 engineers, Cece led all of our scrum ceremonies, maintained a spreadsheet of all of our ongoing projects and their statuses, and floated up feedback from ICs to leadership. Despite the massive workload and packed schedule, Cece was always positive, driven, and efficient as a teammate. Their upbeat energy, sense of humor, and commitment to pushing the team to get projects across the finish line made work enjoyable, as well as made our team an unstoppable force. One of the best parts of product development is reviewing data on a successful experiment - and then converting that experiment into a permanent feature. Cece's leadership and dedication made this a common occurrence on the Growth squad. This in turn made the team feel motivated and valued, which has helped with retaining developers on our team. In the last year, we have had 0 IC engineers leave the Growth squad - and I believe this is largely due to Cece's leadership. I always felt that Cece was candid, approachable, and genuine in our conversations - whether about work or our personal lives. I have nothing but good things to say about Cece and hope to cross paths with them again in the future. Any engineering team would be lucky to have Cece at the helm.
Edmund Kwan
Cece has been an exceptional leader and mentor during my time working with them at Weedmaps. Their dedication and support as my manager has played a crucial role in my professional development and growth. Cece’s commitment to the team's success, combined with their unique and quirky personality, creates both an inspiring and enjoyable work environment. It was an absolute pleasure working with Cece.
Alaina Fortune
I had the pleasure of working with Cece on the Growth squad at Weedmaps. We partnered closely on various initiatives, including but not limited to A/B tests on consumer features (often running several at once), overhauling the taxonomy of the marketplace, and increasing registrations on our site/apps. In addition to managing a team of 10 engineers, Cece led all of our scrum ceremonies, maintained a spreadsheet of all of our ongoing projects and their statuses, and floated up feedback from ICs to leadership. Despite the massive workload and packed schedule, Cece was always positive, driven, and efficient as a teammate. Their upbeat energy, sense of humor, and commitment to pushing the team to get projects across the finish line made work enjoyable, as well as made our team an unstoppable force. One of the best parts of product development is reviewing data on a successful experiment - and then converting that experiment into a permanent feature. Cece's leadership and dedication made this a common occurrence on the Growth squad. This in turn made the team feel motivated and valued, which has helped with retaining developers on our team. In the last year, we have had 0 IC engineers leave the Growth squad - and I believe this is largely due to Cece's leadership. I always felt that Cece was candid, approachable, and genuine in our conversations - whether about work or our personal lives. I have nothing but good things to say about Cece and hope to cross paths with them again in the future. Any engineering team would be lucky to have Cece at the helm.
Edmund Kwan
Cece has been an exceptional leader and mentor during my time working with them at Weedmaps. Their dedication and support as my manager has played a crucial role in my professional development and growth. Cece’s commitment to the team's success, combined with their unique and quirky personality, creates both an inspiring and enjoyable work environment. It was an absolute pleasure working with Cece.
Alaina Fortune
I had the pleasure of working with Cece on the Growth squad at Weedmaps. We partnered closely on various initiatives, including but not limited to A/B tests on consumer features (often running several at once), overhauling the taxonomy of the marketplace, and increasing registrations on our site/apps. In addition to managing a team of 10 engineers, Cece led all of our scrum ceremonies, maintained a spreadsheet of all of our ongoing projects and their statuses, and floated up feedback from ICs to leadership. Despite the massive workload and packed schedule, Cece was always positive, driven, and efficient as a teammate. Their upbeat energy, sense of humor, and commitment to pushing the team to get projects across the finish line made work enjoyable, as well as made our team an unstoppable force. One of the best parts of product development is reviewing data on a successful experiment - and then converting that experiment into a permanent feature. Cece's leadership and dedication made this a common occurrence on the Growth squad. This in turn made the team feel motivated and valued, which has helped with retaining developers on our team. In the last year, we have had 0 IC engineers leave the Growth squad - and I believe this is largely due to Cece's leadership. I always felt that Cece was candid, approachable, and genuine in our conversations - whether about work or our personal lives. I have nothing but good things to say about Cece and hope to cross paths with them again in the future. Any engineering team would be lucky to have Cece at the helm.
Experience
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Claira
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Developer
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Jul 2023 - Present
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Weedmaps
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United States
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Software Development
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400 - 500 Employee
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Senior Manager, Software Engineering
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Aug 2022 - May 2023
- No-coding manager of a growth squad of 11 engineers (direct reports) and cross-functional colleagues in Product, Design, and Data/Analytics for a total squad size of 14+ members. Informal mentor to a fresh Engineering Manager. - Managed change as the company went through multiple reductions-in-force and lost key members through attrition. - Fostered an environment of safety, trust, self-management, goal-setting, empathy, and humility. - Our growth experiments increased KPIs such as Add to Cart, User Signup, and User checkout on the scale of 2-10% per successful experiment. - Trained employees in Architectural Decision Records, self-management, and collaboration frameworks to reach fast consensus on decisions in large groups. - Used Jellyfish metrics to customize my management approach to the team and individuals to maximize their performance. - Empowered and transformed a QA department of 8 from manual testers to SDETs-in-training. Creating efficiency by eliminating our dependence on 3rd party vendors for our E2E testing, and creating new rubrics and career paths for them. - Performed regular Squad Health Checks to understand needs, problems, friction, and ultimately improved team performance and wholeness. - Founded "Test Chapter" with Quality Engineers to spread testing best practices within the company's Chapters and Guilds system (Spotify Model). Show less
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Eaze
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Financial Services
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Engineering Manager
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Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
- Hands-on Manager (33% full-stack coding) of 4 engineers for the cross-functional team responsible for maintaining the "Money Hose." - We created an ACH payment processing platform using TypeScript, React, Express-like Eaze Internal Web Framework, AWS, Finicity, and a partner Bank. This system was projected to save the company $20mm. - One of two core designers of the ACH processing information and systems architecture, utilizing AWS EC2, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB, and API Gateway. - Facilitated Engineering Organization-wide decisions as a council of Engineering Managers. - Implemented and trained engineers in scoping and estimation practices, and Architectural Decision Records. - Mentor to 2 junior Engineering Managers. Responsible for the production of 6 engineers, and other project members. Show less
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Atypical Digital
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Associate Director, Delivery
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Aug 2018 - Aug 2020
Responsibilities: Manage and mentor software developers. Remotely lead cross-functional teams. Create, maintain, and present project plans, timelines, and client-facing status updates. Create requirements and architecture documentation. Scope research, price and time estimation, and copywriting for project proposals and SOWs. Perform technical interviews of developer candidates. Perform 1-on-1 and team based code reviews. Run sprint planning meetings. Participate in software engineering efforts. Business development and solutions architecture (pre-sales activities). Interface directly with clients as primary technical contact. Show less
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Associate Director, Delivery
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Feb 2015 - Aug 2018
Responsibilities: Manage and mentor software developers. Remotely lead cross-functional teams. Create, maintain, and present project plans, timelines, and client-facing status updates. Create requirements and architecture documentation. Scope research, price and time estimation, and copywriting for project proposals and SOWs. Perform technical interviews of developer candidates. Perform 1-on-1 and team based code reviews. Run sprint planning meetings. Participate in software engineering efforts. Show less
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Chief Technical Officer
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Jan 2012 - Jun 2015
Startup company. Managed and created systems and software architecture. Create support system framework and support agent resources. Business development and cross functional team management. Startup company. Managed and created systems and software architecture. Create support system framework and support agent resources. Business development and cross functional team management.
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goCruso.com
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United States
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Food and Beverage Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Vice President of IT
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Feb 2010 - Feb 2015
Startup company. Managed systems and software architecture. Create support system framework and project managed offshore development team. Startup company. Managed systems and software architecture. Create support system framework and project managed offshore development team.
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Education
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2010 - 2012
SUNY Albany
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science -
2008 - 2010
Ulster County Community College
Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science
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