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Waltham, Ma

Facilitated and hosted quarterly roadmapping sessions that involved all engineering teams, was open to the whole company, and involved multiple days of planning and presentations. Draft plans were reviewed and iterated on similar to SAFe recommendations. Plans were then reviewed twice each week until the next planning event.Scrum master for the largest engineering team at MH with 10-12 engineers working across all three client platforms. Identifying obstacles, chasing down options, using data to drive transparency, and the daily routines expected for ceremonies/events (plus followup).

Waltham, Ma

Built out the product team approach and practices alongside the Head of Product. Served as ad-hoc scrum master for the single engineering teams (20+) and transitioned into multiple teams. Introduced many best practices for triage, focus, and diagnosis of bugs in released versions. Set down standards for documentation with new releases, including: change logs, new features, known issues, fixed bugs, and improvements; regular review of the documentation with stakeholders and client representatives; shared data with Jira and other tools. Began and drove large-scale, organizational shift to Agile practices, ceremonies, and approach/mindset.

Boston, Ma

Managed the day-to-day and sprint-to-sprint plan for the team developing MeYou Health’s flagship product, Daily Challenge. Led the team through forming goals, reviewing designs, finalizing commitments, shipping features, and retrospecting on recent work. Crafted a roadmap for upcoming work, milestones, and experiments across email, web, iOS, and Android platforms. Collaborated with many functions including content, research, game design, and more. Accomplishments- Released MeYou Health’s first native Android app- Led a transition towards new, streamlined tools for planning and tracking work across all products at MeYou Health

Cambridge, Ma

Guided client teams through initial workshops, highlighted the major conclusions from collected feedback, and built consensus around an action plan for new work. Collaborated heavily with senior designers during brainstorming, internal refining, and managing client feedback while creating interfaces for innovative products. Utilized various tools for exploring design options such as collaborative whiteboarding, mockups, clickable demos, and high-fidelity comps. Managed a distributed team through design, development, deployment, and maintenance/support needed for the project.Accomplishments- Collaborated successfully with various healthcare-focused clients including Aetna, Analysis Group, and Verizon- Consistently delivered projects within scope and budget

Concord, Ma

Engaged researchers, curriculum designers, active teachers, and students to give feedback on piloted features via live demos, mockups, paper prototypes, and annotated screenshots. Provided ongoing support to developers via feature testing, triage support for incoming bugs, advocating for and representing the development team in company-wide meetings, and responding to principal investigators’ (project owners/creators) questions about development. Coached principal investigators regarding Agile practices. Maintained and advocated for internal practices around transparency, consistency, and communication across the company. Produced demonstrations of new features as well as project summary videos.Accomplishments- Directly project managed Concord Consortium’s largest grant, Rhode Island Technology Enhanced Science project- Led a company-wide transition to Agile practices including modern tools like Pivotal Tracker

Boston, Ma

Acted as a hub for communication between software developers and clients. Created proposals for user-interface design. Programmed in Flash, HTML, and XML. Managed freelancers and project employees. Performed quality assurance testing on Flash-based educational software. Oversaw distribution of resources between multiple projects. Created and edited audio, video, and graphics.Accomplishments- Worked alongside major educational publishing firms such as Oxford University Press, Houghton-Mifflin, Simon & Schuster, Prentice Hall, and Scholastic- Directly contributed to the interactive Oxford Picture Dictionary, Oxford University Press’s largest user-base

M.A., Applied Child Development

Focused on Applied Child Development and explored the intersection of kids, music, and technology. My first curriculum project was.

B.A., Double-Major In Psychology & Music

Majored in Psychology and Music. Also became a teaching fellow at the Lemberg Children’s Center, an internationally recognized early.