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Denver, Co, Us

Bantha Overland is on a mission to help you get out there around the campfire more often. Because travel, exploration, and community are great ways to recharge and grow as humans. We do this by designing and making the gear we wish we had and sharing our workflow and knowledge for planning awesome trips, routes, and dispersed camping. Making your next adventure just a little bit easier, safer, and more enjoyable. See you out there!Learn more at banthaoverland.com

TFH partners with experts to share their knowledge and wisdom with the world via web, mobile, and native apps. Focused on lightweight iterative development to get your idea to market quickly and iterate based on real customer feedback.

Oakland, California, Us

Dealkit makes venture deals fast, clear, and simple from term sheet to wire transfer. Helping founders and entrepreneurs get funding deals closed fast and transparently so they can focus on their product and business.

Denver, Us

Workit helps ambitious tech professionals take their careers to the next level. Our members clarify their ambitions and goals, build deep role-specific connections with industry-leading mentors and peers, and participate in powerful cohort-based learning opportunities.Head of product and engineering of Workit's product and community platform.* Developing Workit product platform, including user research, market research, roadmap, wireframes, design, and development.* Developed, shipped, and tested 30+ experiments as proof of concepts to find product market fit working closely with the founding team. Achieved 66% of users responding they would be very disappointed if they could no longer use Workit. * Joined as hire #3, partnering with the founding team to define and implement initial product and project management processes for a remote and async-first company.

Denver, Us

Designed and delivered the first Workit Fellowship with a group of 30 product management leaders and mentors with 66% of participants responding they would be very disappointed if they could no longer participate in Workit.

Boulder, Co, Us

Gloo’s platform is used by thousands of organizations to catalyze the growth of the people they serve through segmentation, recommended journeys, and assessment feedback loops.* Led the launch of the new Gloo platform, including authentication, navigation, profile, entitlements, permissions, user management, and internal admin functionality for support and success teams. Co-created a strategy and roadmap for the platform after the initial launch, partnering with users and internal stakeholders to identify an objective-based roadmap.* Partnered with multidisciplinary teams to plan and ship work to achieve objectives and key results (OKRs) through a series of rapid in-market experiments and iterations while maintaining uptime and reliability. Outcomes included improving new user invitation acceptance, reducing time to new user activation, and improving platform information architecture discoverability and comprehension. * Facilitated the selection and implementation of instrumentation across the platform and applications in partnership with product, engineering, marketing, sales, success, support, and trust teams. Lead the implementation of Google Analytics, Gainsight, LaunchDarkly, and FullStory to provide deeper and more widely available access to insights, reporting, and issue triage.* Championed the introduction of cross-team alignment cadences and processes to reduce ad hoc meetings and improve cycle time including big room planning, cross-team daily standup (scrum of scrums), and demos partnering with product and engineering leadership to gain buy-in and introduce changes.* Contributed to a culture of transparency, empowerment, and speed by modeling remote-friendly, async-first, and gratitude-based recognition working patterns using Notion, GitHub, Slack, and Hey Taco.

I took off 6 months to learn, grow, make, connect with others, and recharge! It was an amazing opportunity. I highly recommend it!

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Waffle.io was used by thousands of teams to stay aligned with their team members and automate project status updates so that they have more time to focus on more meaningful work. Waffle.io was acquired by Rally Software in early 2019.* Paired with users to prototype new Waffle.io product features and integrations using the Waffle API, GitHub API, and GitHub Apps and Actions. Developed Waffle Bot to help new users onboard with example data and todos. Shared feedback with the product development team, advocating for user needs and participating in planning, design, testing, and user validation of new and changed product features.* Developed and maintained multiple open source GitHub Actions to complement Waffle.io developer workflows using JavaScript ES 6, Docker, GitHub APIs, and Jest, including Monorepo PR Labeler, Commit Issues Commenter Action, Bulk Issue Labeler Action, Top Issues Action. I still actively maintain these open-source projects.* Designed and executed multiple A/B optimization experiments to improve new user acquisition and activation, increasing to over 1,000 new users per month and an 5% increase in activation of those users.* Spoke, wrote, and hosted hackathons at conferences and meetups to acquire and activate new users.* Created WaffleBot, a robot that gives away stickers at events using Raspberry Pi running Python and computer vision libraries.

Boulder, Co, Us

Rally helps individuals, teams, and organizations plan, align, collaborate, and deliver towards common objectives across their entire value stream.* Defined the strategy for the delivery of Rally’s SaaS product across multiple channels - multi-tenant SaaS, on-premise, and VPC environments - to enable increased sales within regulated industries and geographic regions such as EMEA. Conducted competitive analysis and user interviews to identify underserved needs, working with delivery teams to build an objective-based roadmap and ideate solutions. Worked with leadership to obtain funding for an additional delivery team to support the strategy, with a total of 5 teams working on the initiative.* Improved cycle time and reduced toil across 16 delivery teams, reducing false-positive failures in CI / CD process by 50% and decreased time-in-process by 30%, enabling continuous delivery with an average of 12 deployments per day. Defined core metrics for monitoring CI / CD health, including “red minutes”, and worked with product and engineering leadership to institutionalize metrics into the team and release train check-ins. Created Splunk reports and dashboards to monitor the health of CI / CD metrics and automatically classify failure types, allowing developers to quickly triage unreliable automated tests.* Managed a backlog of improvements across two delivery teams.Lead the transition of Rally’s SaaS application to containerized microservices running on a PaaS while maintaining 99.999% availability and reducing manual on-call interventions.* Three-time hackathon winner creating internal developer tools including automation test environment creation, checking on build status, and bumping pull request reviews using JavaScript, Node.js, Flowdock, and Slack. Core maintainer of Rally’s Jarvis chat bot, reviewing pull requests and conducting code reviews.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Over 50% of all mobile app downloads come from just .1% of applications. POSSIBLE Mobile builds those apps. * Partnered with clients to create native iOS and Android app experiences for their brands. Led proposals and scoping, design workshops, roadmapping and elaboration into epics and user stories. Led iterative delivery using lean and agile practices through design, development, testing, and release to iOS and Android stores. Delivered on-time releases for apps with millions of users and millions in revenue, including apps for NBA, PAC-12, and Monterey Bay Aquarium.* Championed internal improvements to the quality and speed of testing, including automated visual diff testing, automating test data capture and playback, and starting to explore automated end to end testing.

Arlington, Va, Us

Segue creates web and mobile apps for regional businesses, non-profits, and the US government.* Partnered with clients to create native iOS and Android app experiences and responsive web apps for their brands. Led proposals and scoping, design workshops, roadmapping and elaboration into epics and user stories. Led iterative delivery using lean and agile practices through design, development, testing, and release to iOS and Android stores. Worked with Five Guys and INOVA Blood Donations among other brands.* Introduced agile and lean practices at the company - teaching workshops, coaching one on one, and helping to form new teams.

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

GEICO is the second-largest auto insurer in the United States. * Led delivery of new sales and service applications for a new commercial auto line of business within GEICO using lean and agile approaches. Enabled customer self-service for quotes and common service requests. Created a unified customer and phone agent experience that decrease phone call handling time by 40%.* Led changes to the company’s release management process to enable on-demand releases to align with iterative agile practices.* Led transition of applications and infrastructure to Azure cloud, including updated release and operational processes.* Participated in the Leadership Development Program, rotating through multiple business departments and roles, and attending quarterly conferences with C level executives to learn different aspects of the business.

Designed, developed, and maintained 20+ business websites and online stores using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ASP, and SQL Server.

Bs, Information Sciences And Technology

Cohort 13, Personal Knowledge Management And Creativity

Certificates, Html, Css, Javascript, Typescript, Node, React, React Native, Expo, Mongo Db, Sql

Certificate, Finance

Certificate, Marketing