Summary
- Who I am: a tech professional and engineering manager; budding potter and electric bassist; fierce advocate for women and underrepresented minorities in tech.
- Why you should hire me: I am effective, intelligent, and eager to learn. I lead teams of engineers, product owners, and design leadership to focus on innovation, inclusivity, and experimentation. I build team culture, "manage up", and use analytical and systems thinking to grow humans-first teams.
Education
University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors of Science in Marine and Freshwater Biology 2012
Bachelors of Arts in History 2012
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master
Volunteering
Code2College Corporate Advisory Board 2019 - 2022
Work Experience
Cisco Systems
Senior Engineering Manager, Apr 2022 - PresentLed multiple full stack and backend teams. Overhauled infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines broadly for Cisco Customer Experience Engineering. Built expertise in rebuilding legacy systems for internal and customer-facing tools. Grew the careers of engineers through day-to-day operations and sponsorship at executive levels.
H-E-B
Engineering Manager, August 2019 - Mar 2022Hired, mentored, and facilitated career growth of frontend software engineers. Led engineering team on H-E-B's Digital Pharmacy initiatives. Helped to lead H-E-B's Digital transformation.
Aceable
Engineering Manager, Nov 2017 - July 2019Promoted growth of senior software engineers. Planned future growth of tech stack. Managed day-to-day operations of engineering team, liasing with product and marketing teams. Acted as hiring manager for open engineering roles.
Scrum Master, Kanban Director, Feb 2017 - July 2019
Planned sprints for all of engineering across different sprint cadences. Worked as agile expert for engineering and product teams. Educated organization on agile practices. Coordinated large-scale migration to Kanban methodology.
QA Engineer, Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Maintained testing for customer-facing products and company internal tools. Coordinated releases with engineering. Acted as first contact for breaking customer bugs and troubleshooting for customer experience team.
WigWag
Software Quality Assurance Team Lead, Nov 2014 - Nov 2015Organized and led a team of quality assurance researchers and testers. Coordinated efforts to review and improve user experience for smart home technology. Wrote automated tests for IoT software and company website (Node.Js and Python).
Pottery
Recent pieces from the studio.
