Serving as a leader, mentor, and Rails/mobile developer with thoughtbot!• Manage a team of Ruby-on-Rails developers• Work with other developers within thoughtbot to deliver high-quality applications to our clients• Represent thoughtbot at conferences, community events, and local meetups• Foster a work environment that is energetic, positive, and fulfilling"An ideal project for us is one where where our client cares about their users’ jobs to be done. We can help you get your first product off the ground. Or, we can work on new releases, internal tools, or re-write sub-systems. Contact us to chat about design thinking, bringing your product to market, or the trade-offs of various frameworks and back-ends."Please reach out to me if you would like to learn more about who we are, what we do, and how we can partner with you!

Designed and developed a prototype iOS app for the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council (MSDC). Functions include searchable database of providers, custom video playback, and views into the website. Created new MSDC website using WordPress. Manage technical decisions, styling, and updates.

Responsible for the roadmap, features, development, and release schedules for iOS and Android apps in multiple international markets, handling over $75 million in annual revenue. Collaborated with product development, software engineering, and QA teams in England, Ireland, Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Managed a team of iOS and Android developers to deliver on our strategy. Created, processed, and prioritized tasks on our Kanban board. Validated all new features and fixes.Piloted the mobile initiative to achieve compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Coordinated with legal, data governance, design, and QA teams to drive a successful and uniform approach across all platforms.

Manager of an iOS team assigned to developing experimental apps. I focused on empowering and inspiring my people to be at their personal and professional best.• Released three entirely-new iPhone apps under the Ticketmaster brand• Met with team members regularly to talk about concerns, career growth, challenges, interests, and brainstorm new product directions• Discussed strategy, direction, morale, and the needs of the office with senior leadership• Collaborated with Android and UI design managers to align goals, share concerns, and identify solutions to common issues• Personally created a Firebase solution to provide a unified source of social media information for multiple projects, quickly collecting more information than all other internal platforms• Performance-tested corporate APIs to discover issues that impacted our projects, and served as QA to ensure that deliverables met the highest quality standards

Member of the mobile development team that produced an Enterprise Resource Planning app for the iPad using Xamarin / C#. Created an intuitive user interface to synchronize with our server-side ERP.• Identified significant avenues for data breaches and established strategies to address issues• Designed and implemented a new security architecture to protect vulnerable systems• Created tools and interfaces to improve team efficiency• Automated a multi-level build process, saving developer hours and ensuring consistency

Pioneered OnCall's iPad-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application, from initial vision and architecture through development, QA, and rollout.• Established project milestones, timelines, and release schedules for senior management• Represented IT in sales pitches, leading product demonstrations and handling technical inquiries• Authored and conducted training seminars for national managers

Lead engineer for multiple employee benefit enrollment systems. • Provided regular improvements and customizations to our core software• Discovered and corrected multiple security vulnerabilities• Established an automated build process that reduced build times by 90%

Managed team responsible for Y2K upgrades and other application changes.• Directed implementation and training schedules• Supervised and engineered benefits enrollment solutions for clients nationwide• Lead C# IVR developer for eChoice, our benefits enrollment system