Alana Frome Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Toronto, Ontario, CA

HiMama is a leading early childhood education platform for preschools and early learning programs. With HiMama, programs build stronger relationships with their families, streamline business operations, and enrich child learning & development.

Dover, Delaware, US

We were a team of two engineers + the CEO for the first year I was there. The second year was expanding the product for enterprise customers. It was a formative foundation in MVP / running very lean and the education / marketplace spaces.

I held a few official positions (see above/below) while working as an independent developer, product strategist and attempted entrepreneur (RentShare, Loopr, Apollo, T-Tail, Zostels, Ovrviews...) based in NYC and abroad.Happy to talk about my many highs & lows:- Y Combinator interview!... and subsequent rejection- UX designs & pitch to re-imagine email!....

Lavington, Nairobi, KE

Managed the U.S. Consulate compounds of 80+ state officials in Juba, Sudan. Responsible for compound operations/logistics, personnel management and accounting ($400K in monthly revenue); oversaw 80+ employees. Any more details about this stint are probably best done over a beer:)

Paris, FR

To apply for the position, I enrolled in an evening French course at the community college after work, then convinced my network security professor from CMU (who is Swiss, and very generous!) to write me a recommendation about my French language "abilities".I was assigned to a small medieval French town where I ran 12 classes and taught 200+ high school.

Montreal, Quebec, CA

First job out of school - I wanted to work at the intersection of "software dev and people". Worked on large-scale government websites medicare.gov and cms.gov as a full stack engineer and technical consultant. Learned so much, but the corporate environment wasn't for me so I left to teach English in France.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

I designed bespoke USB hubs to specification; used Cadence and Allegro for schematic and PCB layout. Living in Shanghai and working at Celestica were awesome, but hardware component design wasn't really my thing so I transitioned back to software.

Farmington Hills, MI, US

I was the only intern at one of two Bosch R&D centers in the US. An amazing place with great people and a lot of very cool technology... Driverless car research back in 2003!