Product Management

I'm a social impact product manager assisting organizations and their beneficiaries in unfurling collective intelligence to co-create meaningful solutions to their worthy challenges.

I bring a warm and incisive approach to product management as an engineering leader completing my PM metamorphosis.

I'm interested in joining an organization driven by effective social good. My early career is rooted in impact organizations and the highlights of my technology career have been the periods where I got to work on social impact products. I'm dedicated to now working exclusively on products that focus on social good with organizations that seek the most effective means.

My background includes working with non-profits and government. I held early internships at the City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning & Economic Development aiding development review, the World Affairs Council doing globally-minded civil society community event programming, as well as the Washington State Department of Commerce working on small business international trade development.

The first social impact technology product I had the gratification of working on was for a non-profit arm of the University of Washington's School of Social Work, Partners for Our Children, in collaboration with Washington State's Department of Children Youth and Families and The Center for Social Sector Analytics & Technology. The success of this effort eventually generated a new opportunity I gladly joined early on, a partnership with a subset of those organizations who wanted to develop a different product in a similar domain, where at a senior level I did research, discovery, development, and went on to lead the team. The fulfilling experiences I had working on these products are the heart of what I'd like to carry forward in my product career.

I'm also keen on self-sustaining impact startups with direct, positive relationships between social benefit and their revenue.

I am specifically not interested in products related to AI (generative, LLMs, "general") or addictive, harmful user behavior.

Resume

Experience

Lead Dev, de facto Product Manager, People & DEI Leader
Nov 2015 - Nov 2022
7 y
1 m
Strategy, design, and build consulting studio partnering with innovative clients on transformative software products.

Led 2 interdisciplinary projects alongside designer and account manager, primarily guiding a complex government service product with a team of 6 developers. Embraced both Lead Dev and Product Manager responsibilities, where exceptional stewardship generated CTO interest in formalizing unique strengths with custom creation of a new Technical PM role.

Throughout tenure contributed not only to fullstack development and system design, but also user research, prioritization, refining scope, iterating designs, writing user stories, ongoing stakeholder engagement, and attending to healthy team / organization culture and practices. Received more requests to become someone's manager than role could accommodate.

Lead Dev, Senior Developer, People Manager, DEI Council Co-chair
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
1 y
3 m
Senior Developer, People Manager
May 2019 - Sep 2021
2 y
5 m
Developer
May 2016 - May 2019
3 y
1 m
Developer Intern through Ada Developers Academy
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
6 m
Software Development Student
May 2015 - Apr 2016
1 y
Non-profit, cost-free coding school for women and gender-expansive adults. 6 months intensive fullstack web development instruction paired with 6-month team-integrated corporate internship with no obligation to hire on. 6% admission rate.
Product Manager
Jun 2013 - Jan 2015
1 y
8 m
Computational finance research startup solving private equity's grand challenge of valuation observability.

Employee #1 after the founders, owned multiple product websites and wore many hats while iterating product-market fit.

Technical Skills

Tools
GitHub, Miro, Figma, Trello, Git, VS Code, CircleCI, Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, Yarn, Homebrew
Technologies
React, Node.js, Postgres, Eventide, Next.js, Netlify, Koa, React Native, AWS, GraphQL, Rails, Docker, Prisma
Languages & Markup
TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSX/TSX, Emotion, SQL, JSON/XML, Ruby, Elixir/Erlang

Education

Certificate in humane product development, Foundations of Humane Technology
2023
Web Development Certificate, in partnership with Bellevue College
2016
Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Studies, minors in Economics, Politics
2011

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