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Beaverton, Or, Us

Lead teams in the Nike Digital Product Innovation organization to create products faster, fit better, and improve performance by leveraging technology. - Develop and maintain strong relationships with business teams, collaborating from proof of concept to deployment at scale. - Identified opportunities and created a tech roadmap, built trust with stakeholders, and ensured alignment with business goals to increase productivity and deliver value. - Implemented a process that prioritizes work based on value, streamlining workflows, and accelerating delivery while maintaining business and tech objectives. - Partner with cross-functional teams to create a unified team that delivers on Nike’s strategic goals. - Focus on executing at the speed of business, leveraging continuous delivery and rapid prototyping to ensure timely delivery of projects and maximize productivity.

Beaverton, Or, Us

Led the Nike engineering enablement organization, driving the adoption of Nike's and industry-wide best practices among engineering teams and leadership. - Served as a change agent, actively improving processes for engineering teams and implementing impactful changes throughout the organization. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to plan and execute the adoption of DevOps and cloud native solutions, fostering innovation and efficiency in engineering practices. - Established a robust system of metrics and reporting, enabling teams to identify areas for improvement and consistently surpass goals and commitments. - Streamlined audit requirements, significantly reducing impact on teams by an impressive 90%.

Beaverton, Or, Us

Oversaw and manage multiple engineering teams responsible for delivering content management, search, grid walls, and recommendation solutions across Nike's digital platforms. - Implemented process improvements and innovative practices to enhance delivery efficiency and effectiveness continually. - Developed and implemented a predictive analytics model to scale infrastructure, enabling robust reporting and proactive systems performance alerting. - Fostered a culture of innovation by encouraging and soliciting new ideas from the team members, driving continuous improvements and creative problem-solving. - Collaborated closely with cross-functional product teams to ensure seamless coordination and alignment throughout the design and development processes. - Led diverse recruitment efforts and prioritized the ongoing development and growth of direct reports, ensuring a skilled and motivated team. - Successfully led the migration to an AWS cloud stack, leveraging DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices for improved scalability and operational efficiency.

Beaverton, Or, Us

Led engineering organizations at Nike.com, driving significant eCommerce growth from $500 million to over $4 billion annually while expanding globally. - Championed the adoption of DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices across Nike.com, fostering collaboration, efficiency, and agility within the engineering teams. - Advocated for design accessibility, prioritizing initiatives to improve access for people with disabilities and ensure an inclusive digital experience. - Established, inspired, trained, mentored, and managed a diverse team of high-performing professionals, facilitating the adoption of new processes, tools, and skills development. - Provided leadership to multiple engineering teams, including Content Management, Experiences, Microservices, Launch, SNKRs/Nike+ mobile apps, and Cloud initiatives. - Maintained regular high-level communications with senior and executive management, ensuring transparency and alignment of goals and initiatives. - Exceeded metrics for site availability, escaped defects, hot fixes, and deployment times, consistently delivering high-quality products to meet customer expectations. - Leveraged automation and continuous delivery techniques to significantly reduce the release timeline of the entire Nike.com website from over two weeks to less than a day.

Portland, Or, Us

Led Janrain's prototyping, quality, and DevOps engineering teams, ensuring the successful development and delivery of Janrain's suite of social and account management products. - Defined and established process standards across the company, collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance quality and time-to-market. - Streamlined and consolidated Janrain's Agile/Kanban and DevOps processes, optimizing efficiency and aligning workflows for seamless collaboration. - Significantly reduced the time from concept to delivery by over 75%, improving speed-to-market and product innovation. - Mentored and coached a diverse staff, driving performance improvement within the department and implementing succession planning strategies. - Scaled and expanded the team to support Janrain's rapid growth and market expansion initiatives. - Managed day-to-day activities of the team within an agile environment, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work culture.

San Jose, California, Us

Spearheaded the analytics, quality, and DevOps teams within the NortonLive small business incubator, offering consumer services for virus removal, PC performance improvement, and computer support. - Successfully led the organization's transition to Agile methodologies, emphasizing continuous delivery and automated solutions for improved efficiency and productivity. - Effectively managed a diverse and distributed team across multiple sites and regions, ensuring seamless collaboration and efficient execution of projects. - Implemented a shift from manual test cases to scenario-based testing and automation, resulting in a significant reduction of testing efforts by over 80%. - Architected and established a development environment that enabled engineers to remotely connect to every supported operating system and browser, significantly enhancing developer productivity. - Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, fostering strong working relationships and driving alignment to achieve organizational objectives.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Founded Clinicient's quality department, responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and billing software for outpatient rehab facilities. - Created lightweight processes tailored to the "can-do" start-up culture, enabling rapid delivery of software without compromising quality. - Pioneered the implementation of DevOps practices ahead of the curve, including build pipelines, virtual environments, test automation, code repositories, and a ticketing system. - Successfully achieved the goal of continuous delivery, enabling the daily delivery of software to customers' computers in the form of Windows executables. - Proactively sought opportunities to enhance customer satisfaction, resulting in an impressive increase of over 100 points in the net promoter score. - Managed and executed projects according to plans and delivery commitments, ensuring timely and successful software releases. - Established, inspired, trained, mentored, and managed a high-performing and diverse team, fostering professional growth and a collaborative work environment. - Designed and implemented Clinicient's website and help portals, providing user-friendly resources and support for customers.

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Lead for all testing initiatives for Hollywood Video/Game Crazy, one of the nation's largestvideo and game rental companies.- Responsible for the testing of Point Of Sale System used by over 2500 locations- Consolidated build environment from 20+ physical servers to 2 servers running virtualenvironments, allowing for snapshots, increased uptime and faster builds- Redesigned test lab, improving usability and simplifying deployments-Worked with project managers and developers to improve quality- Created SQL validation process for company

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Arlington, Virginia, Us

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Arlington, Virginia, Us

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Arlington, Virginia, Us

Master Of Liberal Arts, Extension Studies (Alm), Information Management Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Technology Management