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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

• Chairs Minnesota's leading tech community, comprising of over 14k people• Represents the organization and advocates for the needs of the Minnesota tech community at other events, organizations, and local government programs• Manages Executive Director and oversees all board activities• Co-organizes in-person and virtual experiences to showcase Minnesota-based tech and talent for up to 2000 attendees• Recruits corporate sponsors, individual donors, and volunteers• Also served as Interim Events Chair, Chair of Marketing Committee, member of the Events and Revenue Committees

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Built client base through community relationships and referrals• Created blog and social media content• Hosted lunch and learns on topics related to running a tech organization• Worked with startups and entrepreneurs to bring their product ideas to life• Built and tested ideas on a daily and weekly basis by building prototypes and MVPs with Ruby on Rails, Node/Express + VueJS, and React + Firebase• Aligned technical and business strategy and defined short and long-term roadmaps• Provided education and coaching on running a tech organization and building a tech product from the ground up• Built and led technical teams• Participated in board, investor, and partner meetings• Mentored and coached entrepreneurs and their technical teams• Connected entrepreneurs to the tech and startup community and acted as an evangelist for their product• Clients include: KineticData, Senior Community Services, Plantjotter, Kidizen, Target Commercial Interiors, United Health Group, TightKnit™, ForeTees, Little Mother's Helper, MANGO, Pivot Interactives, Recovree, soona, Host Agency Reviews• Technical work includes: Ruby on Rails web and API development, Ruby, JavaScript, Node/Express, VueJS, React, React Native, Angular, Backbone.js, Rails performance tuning, REST APIs, HTML5, Ionic/Cordova mobile applications, MongoDB, Postgresql, Firebase, Git, Heroku, AWS, Netlify, prototyping, automated testing, build pipelines

• Grow the women in entrepreneurship community in Minnesota through events, advocacy, and public speaking• Built and launched WE* website with low budget and tight deadlines

Minneapolis , Mn, Us

• Co-founded and organized Minnesota's first all-women and non-binary hackathon held in 2015, 2016, and 2017• Doubled in size each year• Secured local and national sponsorships ranging from $1k-$10k• Engaged local tech community and coordinated volunteers, coaches, judges, and other support of the event• Led promotions through social media, email, and in-person recruiting at local events and conferences• Worked with local press outlets for coverage leading up to and day-of event• Landed on the front page of the Star Tribune newspaper's Business section• Secured visits from the Mayor of Minneapolis and a local TV personality

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• Advised local bootcamp staff on trends and needs within the MN tech community

Berlin , Germany , Us

• Led the Twin Cities chapter of the Geekettes, an organization dedicated to helping aspiring and established female tech innovators• Organized monthly networking events and hacknights and facilitated and taught workshops to empower women in technology• Secured sponsorships ranging from $100-500, presenters, and volunteers• Automated global Geekettes member on-boarding process with MailChimp, Squarespace, and Slack

New York, Ny, Us

• Mentor students one-on-one in Thinkful's Ruby on Rails course• Contribute to the Thinkful online community

Chanhassen, Mn, Us

• Transformed legacy Java e-commerce platform to use more modern technologies such as Hibernate, REST APIs, and Knockout.js• Introduced Maven build process to improve dependency management and ability to automate tests• Wrote automated deployment scripts and set up build pipeline with Jenkins to deploy to test and production environments• Mentored team on modern software development practices, tools, and processes

Munich, De

• Built Java Swing application for integrating with legacy systems to configure railway data and topology• Worked with subject matter experts and reverse engineered legacy Pascal and C code to understand the existing data model and business logic• Followed heavy pair programming and test first development practices

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• Created quick turnaround Backbone.js prototype integrated with REST APIs for administering healthcare assessments on a variety of mobile devices• Additional responsibilities included working with the client to flesh out stories, choosing JavaScript MV* framework and front-end framework, helping development team define RESTful APIs and integrating with the Backbone.js app, and writing Jasmine unit tests

Westchester, Illinois, Us

• Created quick turnaround HTML5 and jQuery Mobile text book e-reader application targeted at all modern day desktop browsers, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone 7 devices• Wrote and maintained Jasmine unit tests and Selenium WebDriver acceptance tests for multiple browsers and devices

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

• Consulted with various teams under the DotCom umbrella to help kick off the multi-year online transformation project of the core Java e-commerce site• Coached and mentored teams on best practices for developing in a large, distributed team and developing for a highly distributed web application• Interviewed senior developers and QA engineers for internal development teams

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

• Provided technical leadership to development team in developing features for company’s fraud servicesplatform• Coached and mentored development, BA, and QA team in practicing Agile methods• Created REST service to track shopper IP and DNS IP addresses for over 200K hits per day• Wrote and deployed Java application to Google App Engine to aid in external, distributed testing of IPtracking service• Supported six commerce platforms migrating from internal fraud solution to common fraud service• Coordinated twice monthly releases among development, QA, IT, DBA, and release management

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

• Led development effort to bring European Value Added Tax back into compliance for display, collecting,refunding, reporting, auditing, and invoicing of tax• Provided technical leadership to team of five software engineers, two in Europe, as well as client-dedicated off-shore sustaining engineering team, in developing features and enhancements to inventorymanagement, shipping, promotions, pricing, taxing, and supporting major client launches• Spent three months on-site in Ireland office interviewing, hiring, and training first two engineers forremote team, building team processes• Provided training for development team in Germany to develop on the main e-commerce platform• Provided high and low level estimates for projects ranging from 2-1500 hours and followed fromconception through delivery• Participated in level one support rotation providing 24 hour support to ensure client stores around theworld are available to take commerce traffic• Participated regularly in leadership team meetings aimed at establishing metrics, engineering principlesand guidelines, improving tool sets and developer productivity

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

• Led 3-6 engineers, providing technical leadership as well as career development, performance management, and yearly appraisals• Led team of developers in accelerated launch of first major consumer electronics client• Developed processes for managers, engineers, and testers to track defects to provide visibility into defect and build metrics• Took ownership of FIT regression test suite and mentored other engineers in writing tests• Managed Hudson continuous integration server for compilation, unit, and integration test builds• Introduced Sonar proof of concept to leadership team as a way to gather quality metrics• Facilitated a process to improve code inspections and presented data to management showing time saved and reduced the number of defects found in non-development environments

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

• Led team of engineers and user experience engineers in full redesign of wizard used to create storepromotions• Enhanced Ruby on Rails internal application for better workflow between development and QA for requesting approval for check in to source code repository• Introduced Selenium test framework for testing e-commerce checkout flows in automated build• Designed and implemented storefront features on six different e-commerce checkout flows• Developed documentation of supported features on each e-commerce checkout flow, which is currently used by sales engineers when working with potential clients and designers when launching new clients

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Participated in all phases of delivering the company’s first J2EE application used to generate 90% of the company’s income, including the conceptual and logical design for an Oracle database• Met aggressive schedule to modify applications to accommodate $75 million in defaulted loans• Led contractors in development, production support, and data migration of legacy and Java enterprise applications• Conducted code reviews and mentored entry-level Java programmers.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Formally demonstrated to management the need for legacy application replacement• Participated in design and development of J2EE application as legacy replacement• Assumed duties of database administrator, security administrator, and application developer for legacy database application• Provided all levels of production support for legacy database application• Led projects to identify, analyze, design, and implement solutions related to co-location, security audits, data backups, new hardware, and new operating systems

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Led conversion and redesign of ITSS accounting and project management databases• Wrote shell scripts for converting data from SIR database to load into MySQL.• Designed and implemented computer lab problem reporting application used by University lab consultants• Created web interfaces to department databases using Perl/CGI technology

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

• Operated law department help desk, supporting over 150 users across three locations• Prepared computers for lease returns• Assisted in department migration from a Novell server to an NT server

Master Of Science, Software Engineering

Education record

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science