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Mclean, Va, Us

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Support 200+ organizers in 30+ communities across 12 western states, Provide a critical conduit between community organizers and the Kauffman Foundation. Encourage and excites volunteers and provide guidance on helping them to develop their team and community to have the greatest impact. Obtained numerous additional contracts to provide expertise to the programs in other areas including volunteer education, technology, and data analysis.

San Francisco, California, Us

Support the Servicing Team to help our engineers be successful and grow. Recruit senior talent to scale team from 2 to 9 in the first year as well as to support similar growth in other engineering teams. Responsible for ramping up our intern hiring program which resulted in 8 intern hires in the first 6 months. Championed a positive team culture both in Servicing Team and in our wider tech org. Facilitated internal hackathons, organized team building events, and set up team lunches. Led my team using Agile Methodology including sprint planning and retrospectives. Conducted weekly one on ones with each team member, performance reviews, and growth planning. Worked with Product Team members and stakeholders to create our development roadmap, OKRs, and team goals. Concurrently, established the Product Support team and was responsible for hiring and managing all members.

Reno, Nevada, Us

The sole technical co-founder and later CTO of a successful insur-tech startup. Built out the original MVPs of the product and then built and led a small engineering team to iterate, improve, and expand on that original idea through two rounds of fundraising. Performed management functions as well as contributing directly to the product in a very fast-paced environment. Responsible for engineering roadmap, project management, infosec and compliance, running scrums, software architecture, hiring, day-to-day IT, integration with insurance carriers, and much much more. Primary used Node.js, Vue.JS, and MySQL in a microservice architecture run on Docker containers with high availability and redundancy using container orchestration.

Ran a freelance web development company, that completed more than 100 successful projects as part of custom design and development. Includes development of 50+ small business websites and extensive security consulting including threat remediation and recovery.

San Francisco, California, Us

Created and manage all of the Girls in Tech websites including the corporate site, 65+ chapter websites, and a number of event specific websites.

The first crowdfunding platform for reality tv and talk shows. With 3 ways to get a show funded, it solves the #1 problem with the concept of independent television - funding and distribution. For brands it alleviates the biggest hurdle to successful sponsorship - social activation and proof.

Reno, Nevada, Us

The sole designer and developer for multiple websites for grant projects of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Provided technology consulting and advise, as well as IT support, graphic design, and much more.

Highlights:Designed the firm's website, letterhead, envelopes, and business cards. Optimized website onto the first page of Google for multiple local searches. Developed a marketing strategy, including a marketing survey for clients, and managed all advertising accounts.Other Duties Include:Proofreading, preparing documents for submission to the court, stylizing letters, scheduling, managing a multiple line phone system, maintaining client files, purchasing, and computer troubleshooting and support.

Masters, Information Assurance

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Web Development

Associates Of Applied Science, Webmaster