Key Achievement: Led backend feature delivery for experimental new Confluence feature targeting increased product engagement.* Led 2 major features for Confluence: one unblocked revenue held up by enterprise market partners and another was an experiment to rapidly enable 3rd party integration with a small team in just 6 weeks.* Collaborated with architects and other teams on technical designs.* Made backend code changes (Java, Spring, Hibernate, REST, GraphQL) delivering reliability, performance and value.* Built out monitoring and alerting with each code change–first feature is live for over 100,000 monthly active users.

Designed a new elective for the Information Systems program that creates a brave space for students to practice soft skills using applied improv, role-plays and discussion outside of a professional environment. Deliver and refine the course annually using evidence-based teaching approaches. Routinely ranked 90+% on faculty course evaluations.

* Drove the initial product vision and technical architecture for the DevOps metrics products, a policy compliance tool (Python, Elastic, Kibana) and a team metrics application (Python, Elastic, Angular)* Helped create a learning culture on a team of junior developers, including a weekly collaboration session/lab, pair rotation, mobbing sessions, and a “recess week” each quarter.* Encouraged leadership at every level by creating functional leaders and providing them autonomy, responsibility, and leadership coaching.

* Created customized immersive learning environments in which teams could experiment with emerging technologies, DevOps practices, and agile best practices in order to overcome technical, process, and cultural challenges in PNC’s Dojo. This hands-on experimentation changed minds as participants saw how to shift toward microservice architecture, and continuous deployment.* Effectively worked with mainframe or vendor teams who could not yet use our pipeline. These required creativity in planning and execution, listening, and empathy.* Collaborated, brainstormed, planned and problem-solved Dojo engagements with fellow coaches.

Expanded sliding scale pricing, social opportunities for artists, deepened community partnerships and increased artist pay.

* Managed 20-35 person volunteer staff and a $25-35k budget* Created a festival vision, focused on community-building, equity, and promoting Pittsburgh's growing comedy scene* Put together the initial staff and board, and motivated folks to give their time and money. * Showcased stand-up and improv from national headliners and local performers to 750-1K audience members at an annual weekend festival.

Lead consulting engagements from both a technical and process perspective. Delivered value to our customers by working closely with senior management and customer engineers to understand their business goals and constraints and design solutions to accomplish those goals. Delivered value to Summa by exceeding customer expectations, keeping projects on time/budget, and mentoring more junior consultants.• Led the implementation of a high-touch consumer application with an aggressive timeline• Coordinated with key stakeholders from business, technical, marketing and user experience teams to architect and build product backlogs in the early phase of a new product• Led teams in high-quality development processes including unit, integration and functional testing, continuous integration, regular code reviews, and demos to stakeholders• Collaborated with an architect on an design and prototype for a rebuild of a flagship product into a SOA platform• Worked often with user experience designers to iteratively build useable and useful software based on a deep understanding of our users• Contributed to software implementation for a new hardware product• Helped establish a “living documentation” culture with an active team wiki with architecture and design documentation, development guides, and other team resources.• Engagements in healthcare, wearable devices, manufacturing optimization, residential paints

Delivered business value through software solutions on collaborative team projects over a variety of customer engagements.• Built a complex, functional SPA in weeks to demonstrate viability at a trade show• Conducted a vision workshop with senior leadership then led a four person team to implement the product from the ground up• Full life cycle development and prototyping of several applications in Java, GWT, JavaScript, and Flex• Provided agile expertise and adapted the process severely as the needs of the business changed• Engagements in Healthcare analytics and healthcare reporting

Participated on a wide variety of projects–large team, staff augmentation, short assessments–while delivering value to customers with the help and mentorship of experienced Summa consultants.• Built a significant component for a hi-fidelity, customer-centered product• Introduced to peer review, unit testing and TDD, and many other XP practices• Full life cycle development of several systems in Java, Objective C, and Flex• Took over future development, maintenance and support of a mission-critical production application• Created a CSS framework, baselined and reviewed CSS best practices• Led requirements gathering efforts for multiple systems through interviews with users, user proxies, and iteratively sharing specifications, examples, and working software early and often• Assisted on short, intensive architecture assessments• Engagements in Banking, CRM, Manufacturing, Insurance, Teleconferencing