experience


product manager, iwoca

june 2019 - present

  • own product discovery, execution, and delivery for OpenLending, iwoca's self-serve lending API platform
  • drive impact & influence new initiatives through data-led product discovery, external research, stakeholder consultation, and detailed scoping while leading delivery across multiple cross-functional build teams
  • originated and now manage the Partner Success team, providing direct technical API support and strategic insight for some of the UK and Germany's leading Fintechs
  • mentor new product managers and partner success team members

technical solutions specialist (contract), Google via Aquent

september 2018 - april 2019

  • provided strategic leadership and direct technical support to Google's recipe partner publishers & internal stakeholders for the launch of the Google Home Hub in the UK, France, Germany, and other EMEA locales
  • acted as technical advisor & project manager to Google's key vertical partners building actions on google in Node.js and dialogflow
  • created internal dashboards and views for cross-functional teams to evaluate the success and status of partner actions with SQL

web developer, Signal

february 2018 - august 2018

  • built a game with a custom javascript component structure
  • built sites using Storybook + React & Apollo, GraphQL, Wordpress, Handlebars, and Twig

web developer (contract), Filament Creative

october 2017 - january 2018

  • created an animation-rich feature site for scholastic
  • integrated the Stripe Payments API into a custom WordPress theme

front end developer, ecentricarts

july 2015 - september 2017

  • jointly created an accessibility 101 presentation and anchored the Q and A for 2017's Q3 Kentico Partner Summit
  • acted as development lead on custom WordPress themes from scratch for clients, incorporating Javascript and PHP with semantic, accessible HTML
  • managed pieces of projects' development pipelines and owned the front end build steps using TeamCity and Azure

instructor, responsive web design with advanced css, George Brown College

january 2017 - june 2017

  • taught and evaluated a class on responsive web design with demos of grid systems, menu patterns, frameworks, and sass
  • created original course lectures and assessment material

independent projects & activities

education


graduate certificate, interactive media management @ Sheridan College

2014-2015

html, css, javascript, php, sql, wordpress, arduino, ux, design

B.Sc. wild life biology @ University of Guelph

2010-2014

stats, evolution, ecology, GIS and mapping, calculus, population dynamics, R

goals


  • learn python
  • more travel! but not during covid
  • run a 5k
    run a 10k
    run a half-marathon
    figure out if i have the mental willpower to run a full marathon