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Leading and inspiring high-performing engineering teams to revolutionize banking experiences for industry-leading financial institutions. Focused on rapid, efficient solution building through iteration, experimentation, and stability. Tailoring agile methodologies to specific team needs.Key Responsibilities:- People Leadership: Coaching, mentoring, and motivating diverse engineering teams. Conducting impactful 1:1s, facilitating cross functional collaboration, and facilitating team and individual goal setting. Attract and retain talent (hiring, onboarding - engineers and fellow engineering managers)- Technical Delivery: Ensuring high-quality code delivery in a continuous delivery environment. Maintaining strong stakeholder connections through demos, retros, and status updates.- Planning and Architecture: Evaluating and improving technical infrastructure, adopting industry trends. Overseeing solutions from ideation to delivery, capacity planning, and project tracking.Achievements:- Led multiple distributed teams of up to 7 engineers across multiple time zones.- Fostering a blameless culture. Committed to building inclusive, collaborative teams that prioritize people and maintain high ethical standards.- Continuing collaboration with Product and Design in a triad model to drive strategic decisions and project success.- Standardized documentation, increased documentation coverage.Technical Environment: Modern SaaS stack including React, Laravel, RESTful architecture, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS.

Led the development of responsive websites, web applications, and e-commerce stores for multiple clients across North America.Led process creation and iterative updates for development team processes and company wide processes.Scrummaster for all production teams; ensured and upheld agile development and agile management processes company wide; ran team retros and project post mortems.Took on additional operations and planning responsibilities including:- knowing the scope of all projects to guide and plan high level, company wide scheduling- understanding each team’s resourcing and capacity and how that affects project timing and efficiencies- guide Account Managers and Project Managers on backlog management and prioritization- strategize the best workflows and implementation to best occupy both design and development teams to minimize bottlenecks

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Co-lead of the Ladies Learning Code Saskatoon chapter with Brittany Melnyk.Ladies Learning Code is a women-run not-for-profit group working to empower everyone to feel comfortable learning beginner-friendly technical skills in a social, collaborative way. Ladies Learning Code offers beginner friendly computer programming and design workshops in cities across Canada as well as offering youth programs through Girls Learning Code.Responsible for promoting and coordinating the Saskatoon Chapter of Ladies Learning Code. This involves outreach to women and girls in Saskatoon and area, as well as organizing events and coordinating the day-of for workshops.

Lecturer for CMPT 100 online section.- Summer T2 2014- Summer T2 2015- Fall/Winter T1 2015

Mobile Applications and Web Developer

Tutorial Leader for weekly lab sessions using procedural C++. Assignment marker.

Spent 16 months at zu as a Developer Intern.

Worked as a production assistant doing product image preparation and code documentation.

Summer customer service representative in the summers of 2007 and 2008.Customer interaction, trained new employees, helped organize incoming and outgoing seed deliveries, managed fertilizer and chemical warehouses.