Co-creating a web-based user interface for a mainframe utility application, including integrating Unix-based too chain into a z/OS mainframe environment. Unique requirement: existing long-lived (multi-decade) software code base with expectation that front-end code be similarly reliable and low maintenance. Defining multi-page architecture to leverage server architecture and browser platform longevity while using state of the art tools (including ChatGPT) for development.

Highlights:-- Architecting, designing, and constructing full-stack software to match technical and business requirements-- In-person and online teaching, educational team leadership, mentoring -- Rapid development and deployment of responsive web sites using Squarespace-- Email marketing strategy, content creation, campaign management.-- Worked with community college to develop their next-generation Software/IT curriculum.-- Worked with a stealth education startup to create new methods of teaching job skills in the context of mindfulness, collaboration, and design thinking to solve real-world issues.-- Mentored college-level interns working on community projects, creating mobile app and web sites. Example: http://www.pianopushplay.com/app (in service for only one season).2008-present: Designing and developing consumer & in-house web & mobile applications. Work includes business planning, gathering requirements, information architecture, UX, page design, client-side coding and server-side data modeling and programming. Marketing support including video production and trade show booth materials. Technologies include: Python, JavaScript, jQuery, React, web components, lit, CSS, HTML, Ruby on Rails, PostgresSQL, sqlite3, as well as Heroku (PaaS) & Amazon clouds. Clients: The Hartsdale Group, RecoveryRebooted LLC, Piano.Push.Play, Trident Services, Inc.2011: Created, edited, and published over 100 SAP online user training modules using uPerform. Improved production process and standards. Managed the publishing pipeline. Mentored employees in instructional design. Client: Nike2009: Developed and delivered an after-school robotics curriculum for middle-school children, building critical thinking & teamwork skills through creative, hands-on building activities. Client: PortlandWizKids.com

Online teaching and student support in groups and 1 on 1. In addition to teaching technical skills in web development technologies like React, Node, Express, PostgreSQL, etc., I helped students understand the software engineering career and practice their skills in critical thinking, collaboration, and design.

Care manager & caregiver for an Alzheimer's disease patient until her death in June 2020. Was responsible for care team coordination, medical research review and implementation, and patient support in activities of daily life. Became familiar with current neurological research and diagnosis techniques with specific research in skill formation and loss, meta-cognition, and caregiving technologies and techniques.

Created a consumer web application for transforming household clutter into memories captured in heirloom-quality picture books. Activities included business formation and operation, market planning and testing, product design and development, and investor relations.

Lesson planning & classroom delivery; student mentoring; teaching assistant team coach. Topics included: full stack software engineering, computer science fundamentals, career counseling. Languages included: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, Java, SQL.

Contracted through Pragmatic Design studio, I was responsible for curriculum development, instructional design, and classroom teaching for introductory and advanced design & development courses. I worked to ensure that all PCS classes provide the unique educational elements and reinforce the brand identity PCS was known for: team orientation, test-driven design, and employability.Classes placed an emphasis on learning coding and programming in a business environment. Students learned idiomatic coding, teamwork, pair programming, and conquered increasingly difficult and useful code challenges as self-managed project teams.Special emphasis was on coordinating the PCS program with needs of employers & placement agencies. We collaborated with companies & students to create employability.

Instructional design and online & in-class teaching of computer programming, networking, databases, and web application development. Continuous improvement & redesign of instructional materials taking into account student learning outcomes and changes in industry practice and technology. Desire2Learn v10.1 LMS experience.

Improvisational comedy at Curious Comedy, ComedySportz Portland Farm Team, Vancouver’s Magenta Improv Theater, and Capitol City Theatre, Salem. Studied and practiced listening to, accepting, and ensuring the success of team members. Became adept at understanding a person's needs and providing that through the twin lenses of character and humor.

Designed, deployed, and supported distributed, global software development environments for software engineering teams in seven countries. Responsibilities included: Tool selection, vendor selection, contract negotiation. Collaborated with corporate IT departments. Developed & taught classroom & remote training. System design, security analysis and software process consultant. Support and engineering team management. Hiring and personnel development of software engineers and college interns. Distributed project management. Perl and Java programming. Web design. System administration of Windows, Solaris, Linux, and OSX systems and networks.In one multi-year project, led a team of seven to deploy a worldwide change management system upgrade that provided the company over $1 million in cost avoidance and improved productivity.

Performance support specialist. Wrote manuals, job aids, and course materials. Trained software engineers on software configuration management (SCM) with CVS and ClearCase. Developed company-wide SCM, build, and release management system. Web design. Software development with Perl.

Wrote manuals & course materials for software development tools product line. Developed and delivered both pre- and post-sales customer training in Structured Analysis/Structure Design tool usage and software development process.

Software technical lead on 4693RGB color video printer. Responsibilities included: System architecture, operating system design, video capture, embedded hardware control, user interface design. Programmed in C and assembler.

Developed image distortion correction software in C.

Hardware design engineer; Software design engineer and technical lead. Designed embedded software for graphics controllers and the world's first color electrostatic printer (earned Patent 4,829,326). Diagnostics, operating system, stepper motor control, and graphics management software in C and assembler. Unix system administration.

Computer hardware design, debug and manufacture on a bit-sliced computational processing unit of a 32-bit 16-way multiprocessor minicomputer. Hardware design engineer on a disk controller. Wrote PCB netlist manipulation tools in Pascal. Performed research in signal propagation in multi-layered large scale printed circuit boards.