On a team that is ambitiously defining a standard framework to enable the creation of dynamic and resilient supply chains that can quickly respond to disasters such as the Covid pandemic.Improving team interactions by working with the project lead to create meeting agendas in advance, making sure the team is kept apprised, and maintaining a cadence for alternating focus between different sub-projects. Ensuring clear communication at weekly team meetings and facilitating as needed.A colleague commented that I'm like an adjunct brain to the project lead, helping to keep him and the team on track to produce the outcomes they want.

We practice scrum in building and enhancing our online presence under the guidance of experienced scrum masters, including a website that serves as a blogging and donation platform.** As scrum master, I focused on the well-being and productivity of the team as a whole as well as individual developers. Initiated, scheduled, and facilitated scrum events: sprint planning, daily standups, review, and retrospective. Worked closely with the product owner to plan and coordinate these.Met 1-1 with new developers as they joined the team, finding out their goals and interests, encouraging communication, collaboration, and pair programming. Followed up over the course of the sprints.Wrote and updated documentation and checklists. Administered access to platforms such as Slack, Trello, and WordPress.** As product owner, I worked closely with all stakeholders to constantly optimize the value produced. Facilitated continuous refinement of the product backlog, ensuring that we always have sufficient sprint-ready items for future sprints.With external stakeholders, discussed and clarified the business value and the context of backlog items. With the scrum team, discussed backlog items to sufficient detail and acceptance criteria that the developers could start implementation. Re-visited and revised the team-wide “definition of done”. Coordinated cross-team dependencies with other product owners.** As coach to the scrum masters, I provided support and professional development. Met 1-1 to provide individual encouragement and support. Participated in building a community of practice that met regularly to share ideas, problems, and successes.Facilitated an internal weekly open agenda meetup where attendees proposed and voted on topics for discussion.

Did a deep dive into Python and its ecosystem, including the following.* Coded projects in Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Docker* Python 3 Programming course sequence, Univ. of Michigan online via Coursera* SQL and Data Modeling course, via Udacity* Active reading and exercises from the comprehensive book "Fluent Python"

Studied machine learning and neural network models, getting exposure to some of the underlying concepts, algorithms, math, and coding.Completed several online classes, including:* Machine Learning, Stanford University* Structuring Machine Learning Projects, DeepLearning.ai* Convolutional Neural Networks, DeepLearning.ai* Sequence Models, DeepLearning.ai* Python for Data Science, Pierian Data

Kiva is a nonprofit web platform that enables and facilitates micro-loans between borrowers and lenders all over the world.Worked as a full-stack software developer, which means they threw me a variety of problems and tasks that required technical chops, 8-D Kiva has a bunch of custom, in-house written PHP code that runs on a Linux-Apache-MySql-PHP stack, as well as a Drupal instance for content management, driving a REST api, and hosting a couple of blogs.My accomplishments included GraphQL middleware work, refactoring PHP code, and implementing blogs in Drupal.I loved being part of a organization where the people embrace the mission and are very supportive of each other to push it along.

I was happy to be with this purpose-driven web consulting agency whose clientele is nonprofits. The work was enhancing and debugging Drupal modules, troubleshooting various technical issues, and collaborating closely with the technical project manager.I was particularly taken with the client site [ https://powerpoetry.org/ ]. There's a lot of raw emotion, energy, and truth in the poetry published there. I'm very pleased that I contributed to improving this platform as well as other sites supported by our agency.

DoSomething.org is an awesome platform that enables young people to run with causes and campaigns that they care about.Enhanced a Drupal 7 module that interacts with the API of the RabbitMQ message queueing system. Tasks included expanding the module's functionality for administering specific message producers defined for the Drupal site as well as extracting and rendering status info from the results of requests.[ https://github.com/DoSomething/message_broker_producer ]

It sure is hard to figure out a viable business model for a website that is devoted to quality writing about food. R.I.P.Did web administration, lightweight development, and anything else that required some technical chops. This included researching and implementing security improvements; replicating the site on other hosts; and digging out lost content directly from the database. The site was implemented in WordPress.

You might think me crazy to volunteer in East Africa in a hot oppressive climate with swarms of malaria-infested mosquitoes.I wore three hats at our school. As teacher, pioneered a course in Information and Computer Studies, guided by the national syllabus. As PC technician, salvaged usable systems from the motley collection of used, donated computers and set up the first student lab. As mentor, coached the use of office suite software, desktop publishing, et al. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done -- and it was the extremely rewarding experience of a lifetime.[ http://www.aquinasschool.sc.tz/ ]

Worked directly with clients and end-users in small businesses and small organizations to provide client-side and server-side web development and programming. HTML / CSS, and a dabbling of Javascript. This was my first stab at being self-employed. The results were mixed, but I really learned a lot, including that I have good communication and troubleshooting skills but suck at sales and marketing.

Taught computer skills and mathematics at this vocational high school in Micronesia. Cobbled together the first computer lab of the school from an assortment of old donated PC systems. Found out that in a hot tropical climate, mold can grow on anything, even the plastic surface of a floppy diskette.

Implemented object-level replication of data among different databases that were part of a knowledge authoring and search application. C++, Oracle, and SQL Server. Light exposure to Java and XML. Much exposure to successive waves of lay-offs which left me surrounded by empty cubicles.