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Helping nonprofits and local small businesses build and modernize their web presence. Strong at migrating content from legacy systems to modern platforms like Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and WIX. I provide end-to-end support, including look-and-feel, editing and configuration tools, and securing the site.

Greater Seattle Area

I manage office operations and instruct students at Alpha Martial Arts in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. With 100 students of all ages, I help people achieve their goals of physical fitness, mental agility, self-control and discipline. Now offering online classes and private lessons!

Greater Seattle Area

• Helped found a bold nonprofit startup which fostered philanthropic activities for youth. Though the startup ultimately was put on hold, I helped bring order from chaos on a number of technology fronts, including these.
• Developed and led creation of software engineering process and team. Achieved results while staying within minimal budget and time constraints.
• Launched, managed and maintained new website and backend architecture, internal development and tools, linking to social media for recruiting and business evangelization.
• Participated in Board activities, helping draft and vote on charter, financials and more. Learned the end-to-end process for starting a nonprofit.

Greater Seattle Area

Though my main jobs are taking care of the household and helping local businesses build great websites, I spend a good deal of my time volunteering in the community. Here are some examples:* Classroom And Business Technology Advisory Committee (CABTAC) for Seattle Public Schools. Advised SPS Technology Directors on the strategic vision for classroom.

- Managed Tier 2 Engineering for Global Financial Systems, triaging and resolving prioritized issues requiring heavy-duty data analysis and code fixes to our BI reporting tools- Manged the global Tier 1 support team, including infrastructure and DB support, ETL data warehousing processes, and 24/7 issue response for mission-critical financial systems..

- Operations manager for corporate applications at Amazon.- Managed Global helpdesk and tiered escalation support for HR Systems, Financial Systems and other internal tools.- Built reporting tools and set operating guidelines for the company

- Build and Manage Global QA, DB Ops, Infrastructure and Support teams based in India, Seattle and London for Amazon.com's Global Financial Systems group. Establish follow-the-sun support methods for Corporate Helpdesk and Tier-2/3 support teams.- Measure and manage infrastructure by creating operations dashboards and automation using Perl / CGI, Java.

• Group Manager, Windows Core OS Team (2.5 years)
• Managed a team of 55 full-time employees in the delivery of various Windows releases, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Service Packs and daily builds of Windows Longhorn (Vista). Tripled operational.
• Owned capital budget of $2.4M for Build, with 780 lab machines in multiple labs
• Interesting projects included source code collection and secure lockbox storage for Windows dependencies; built a dependency map of all Windows source code; wrote the Builder job ladder; co-founded the Microsoft Build.

Greater Seattle Area

Managed the Windows NT Build Lab, including Build, BVT and CD Burnlab, for Windows NT and Windows 2000.Shipped multiple standalone projects including Active Directory Services for NT4, IIS 3, Telephony Services, and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server. Started off as Builder in 1996, promoted to US Build Lead in 1997 and Build Manager in 1998.

As Network Manager, administered network for mid-size global advertising company, including e-mail, file servers, domain controllers, and network switches in three locations. Oversaw transition of company from Macs to PCs running NT.

Portland, Oregon Area

Software Test Engineer for the software product Now Utilities. After 6 months, promoted to Test Manager for all 5 products (including Now Up To Date and Now Contact), leading 5 Test Engineers.Started as Support Engineer for multiple Macintosh software products, including phone and forum support. Filed more bugs than test team, so I was promoted to Tester.

Ba, English Major

Studied Northwest lit, modern poetry and creative writing. Minored in East Asian Civ with three years of Japanese language. DJ at college.

English, American Lit

Activities and Societies: Assistant TeacherMA Candidate, dropped out to become software rock star.