Kira Mccoan Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- As one of the first engineering managers I defined and evolved the engineering management role in collaboration with the other EM, technical leads, UX, PM, and the Director of Engineering.- Influential contributor in Product & Engineering strategic discussions, shaping team goals and aligning technical roadmaps with evolving business goals.- Partnered closely with PM and UX in problem and solution discovery, introducing frameworks like opportunity solution trees and assumption testing to improve ideation and reduce product risk.- Recruited, interviewed, and hired engineers and engineering managers. Participated in interviewing UX.- Cultivated a customer-focused engineering culture where engineers were encouraged to apply their technical expertise to creatively brainstorm and drive impactful solutions to meet product objectives.- Enhanced the SDLC by implementing incremental improvements, including feature flag development, round-robin PR reviews, dogfooding, and GTM enablement materials, accelerating release cycles and quality.- Conducted performance and compensation reviews to drive individual and team growth; collaborated with leadership to roll out a new career ladder.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Aligned team and deliverables to current product vision & strategy.- Recruited and hired engineers to achieve vision- Proactively communicated the status of what the team was working on. Collaborated with PM and UX on problem/opportunity discovery and forming work for the team.- Worked fullstack to deliver our marketing planning solution. Technologies include Angular (Typescript), Java, Spring, Bazel, Jenkins, Git, AWS, microservices. - Experience in CQRS architecture utilizing event sourcing.- Experimented and improved on how the software development lifecycle was run from discovery to release.- Performed performance and compensation reviews- Identified growth opportunities for team and direct reports. Provide coaching, support, and encouragement.

- Delivered REST level 4 ecommerce solutions by decomposing business requirements, designing, developing and testing solutions to complex technical problems some of which include: - Integrated with 3rd party applications such as Adobe AEM, IDM, Avalara tax api, and the client’s own systems for tracking pricing, inventory, and finance.- Conducted development spikes to assess and enhance performance of server calls.- Communicated effectively and cross-functionally to assure the timely, successful delivery of client projects.- Worked daily in an agile environment, and have been a Scrum Master for past projects.- Presented lightning talks on various subjects of interest such as SMACSS, Git and design patterns.- Supported junior and client developers in design, coding, and testing solutions.

- Developed and implemented professional development plans for a team of 7, fostering career growth and technical skill-building.- Conducted one on ones with all direct reports to ensure they regularly assessed their personal goals, got feedback and voiced any impediments to their work.- Supported department strategy, especially during times of change. - Worked with department leads on resource planning for client projects.- Assisted with recruitment, interview process, and onboarding new hires.

- Work on time sensitive, high impact customer support issues within an agile environment developing fixes for customer reported issues in current code repository, as well as, providing patches for older releases to the customer.

- Worked primarily on Crystal Reporting (CR) software in conjunction with team members and a product owner. Development, using Java, was split evenly between the back-end engine and the user interface.

- Worked closely with developers and business analysts in an agile environment to decompose the technicalities of a story then developed an appropriate test approach. - Tested the Eclipse RCP client and storefront web application by writing and running automated tests with FIT, Selenium, Froglogic Squish, and SWTBot.