Experience

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  Springbrook software

  Sept 2004 - Apr 2008

  Technical writer/web developer
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  Viewpoint construction software

  Sept 2010 - Apr 2014

  Technical writer
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  Dsv - global transport and logistics

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  Senior technical writer (contact)
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  Umpqua bank

  Jan 2015 - Apr 2016

  Application developer
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  Evosus software

  Jun 2016 - Apr 2018

  Release manager / scrum master

  Scrum master of two teams, release manager of several diverse products (SASS, mobile, and installed application), web development of support.evosus.com site, quality assurance, and automated testing.

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  Truegive

  Apr 2018 - Mar 2019

  Javascript developer
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  Hubb

  Mar 2019 - Aug 2021

  Senior scrum master

  Since COVIDServant leader of Professional Services development, which started as 2 developers and rapidly expanded to 15 contract developers. Once the company started doing virtual events, we went from 50 development task tickets a month to as many as 500 a month across 5 kanban boards!Expanded the Epicodus internship program to include a team of 2-4 interns that changes every few months.Own all processes of the Professional Services development teams, and regularly collaborate with the Support and Implementation teams to iterateand constantly make improvements.Serve as the technical lead in new custom work, and defined our standard offerings by developing detailed specification documents that are used by Implementations, Support and Sales. Sometimes I also develop the standard code that is applied by the teams.Architected and led a team of interns that created an Angular application for delivering templates inside the SaaS application. Also coded hundreds of custom pages for event sites (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).Before COVIDScrum master of two cross-functional development teamsImplemented scrum process on one team, and kanban on another team Show less

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  Apex systems

  Aug 2021 - Apr 2022

  Scrum lead

  Scrum master of 3 data analytics teams at the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel.

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  Kinship

  Apr 2022 - Aug 2022

  Scrum master / technical project manager

  Scrum Master of six engineering teams, and led several initiatives: scaling scrum, creating a standard metrics dashboard across all squads (what does success look like?), and merging Atlassian "organizations" into a single site for better collaboration across teams.

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  Ap professionals

  Sept 2022 - now

  Scrum lead

  Scrum lead of four to six squads that build the critical foundation data products that drive business decisions across the organization. - Implementation of quarterly goals based on specific metrics decided by the squads that drive retrospective discussions (Say/Do, Percentage of work spent on production support, severity of production support issues, etc.). - Implementation of a quarterly planning process – Product brings a rough list of big work for the quarter, squad estimates the work by giving it a SWAG, and then Product and the squad arrive at a plan based on discussions of priority, and squad capacity. - Creation of Jira automation to reduce data entry, improved data quality (automated emails to creators of stories that are missing key information, etc.), and reinforce squad working agreements (checklist to review before submitting pull requests automatically added to stories moved to Code Review status, etc.) Show less