Abby Holdeman Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Managed and provided professional coaching to 13 program participants. Conducted regular one on one and staff meetings with the participants. Provided guidance and training to develop crew. Set performance standards and gathered feedback on participants throughout their time in the program.• Developed, managed and executed large scale projects aligned with the Technology Leadership Program priorities around participant learning and development. Communicated progress, issues, and solutions… Show more • Managed and provided professional coaching to 13 program participants. Conducted regular one on one and staff meetings with the participants. Provided guidance and training to develop crew. Set performance standards and gathered feedback on participants throughout their time in the program.• Developed, managed and executed large scale projects aligned with the Technology Leadership Program priorities around participant learning and development. Communicated progress, issues, and solutions to senior management to obtain input or buy-in as appropriate. Show less

• Managed time between people leadership and technical coding on a development team. Dedicated approximately 60% of time to people management and 40% of time towards technical coding, shifting priorities and timing based on need.• Inspired, grew, and led a chapter of 2-6 developers at a time through peer coaching, training plans and mentorships. Advocated and advanced chapter standards and best practices in collaboration with other chapter leads and chapters.• Calibrated on crew… Show more • Managed time between people leadership and technical coding on a development team. Dedicated approximately 60% of time to people management and 40% of time towards technical coding, shifting priorities and timing based on need.• Inspired, grew, and led a chapter of 2-6 developers at a time through peer coaching, training plans and mentorships. Advocated and advanced chapter standards and best practices in collaboration with other chapter leads and chapters.• Calibrated on crew performance each quarter, at mid-year, and at year-end. Gathered feedback from crew’s team members and used feedback to determine strengths and opportunity areas for each crew member.• Conducted 36+ behavioral and technical interviews as part of identifying and securing talent for Vanguard. Interviews were for both internal and external candidates and ranged from internships, Technology Leadership Program candidates, entry-level developers, and mid-level developers for Retail and PAS divisions.• Served as player-coach on development team, completing assignments while coaching developers, monitoring completion of deliverables, and recommending new coding standards and best practices.• Led body of work to deliver new webservice, integral to enabling intra-day trading on Vanguard’s trading platform. Gathered requirements from stakeholders, broke work into small features, presented plan to interested parties, and worked with development team to refine work. Show less

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Third Rotation, Developer on Kubernetes platform offer for internal developers • Contributed to cost effective and highly available infrastructure of future state DevOps platform for company• Drove process for new tool to get approved for use as a continuous delivery tool, documented necessary controls and worked with involved teams to coordinate requirements and elevations while navigating through ambiguity in process• Leadership Focus: Directed work on committee by matching people… Show more Third Rotation, Developer on Kubernetes platform offer for internal developers • Contributed to cost effective and highly available infrastructure of future state DevOps platform for company• Drove process for new tool to get approved for use as a continuous delivery tool, documented necessary controls and worked with involved teams to coordinate requirements and elevations while navigating through ambiguity in process• Leadership Focus: Directed work on committee by matching people to best-fit assignments, delegated work to empower sense of ownership while still fostering group collaboration, set clear objectives and followed up on progress against themSecond Rotation, Developer on Personal Advisor Services trading platform • Architected new functionality for advisors to overwrite trade worksheets, planned out work to be done and met with business and technical stakeholders in order to gather necessary thoughts and approval• Served as project manager and tech lead for team of developers working on a cross-departmental project collaboration, coordinated work to be done, taught technical skills and best practices, delivered progress reports to stakeholders• Leadership Focus: Coached a group of summer interns as a pod leader, collected and delivered feedback during biweekly one-on-ones, tracked progress throughout summer against crew standard and assessed performance during calibrationFirst Rotation, Developer on daily portfolio management advice platform • Worked on batch process to rebalance financial portfolios, coordinating with other teams and multiple business lines to test functionality and deploy thin slices of work to production• Led team scrums, sprint retrospectives and sprint planning by following Agile software practices• Planned future work for team and fielded business asks in order to help team prioritize work according to business impact Show less

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Worked on batch process to rebalance financial portfolios, coordinating with other teams and multiple business lines to test functionality and deploy thin slices of work to production• Improved existing Splunk dashboards in order to display pertinent information for team while making information easy to understand for business partners• Collaborated with other interns in project using MEAN stack development and Lean methodology, scheduled and ran project check-in meetings

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Updated existing documentation for how to access and use the High Performance Computing clusters managed by Research Computing as well as the packages and software available on the cluster.• Wrote user tutorials on how to use select software on the cluster with sample code and job scripts, including MATLAB, Open MPI, Quantum Espresso, and virtual environments for Python and R.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Worked on a cross-site team using Agile software development methodology to develop cloud development tools on the Amazon Web Service platform• Migrated AWS Kinesis stream subscriptions from departmental control to team control, making it easier for the team to make changes to logging subscriptions• Designed and implemented standardized sizing for Amazon EMR clusters in order to facilitate users creating clusters for big data analysis• Collaborated with other interns to develop an… Show more • Worked on a cross-site team using Agile software development methodology to develop cloud development tools on the Amazon Web Service platform• Migrated AWS Kinesis stream subscriptions from departmental control to team control, making it easier for the team to make changes to logging subscriptions• Designed and implemented standardized sizing for Amazon EMR clusters in order to facilitate users creating clusters for big data analysis• Collaborated with other interns to develop an event scheduler and calendar for the company’s resource groups using MEAN STACK development and Lean methodology Show less

Marietta, South Carolina

• Worked in a supervisory role over other staff, led staff training, evaluations, and managed conflict resolutions; received staff-nominated Staff of the Summer award• Planned and implemented girl-led activities in individual programs and broader all-camps• Utilized strong interpersonal skills to interact with parents on check-in and check-out days as well as during the week

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Programmed robots to help students improve their multiplication skills using techniques previously found to be effective in teaching and connecting with students• Worked with graduate researchers on how to better utilize robots to assist with human needs• Edited and formatted research papers for publication and professional review