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
- completed a self-taught CS key concepts crash course on big O, data structures, & algorithms
- set up my ipad as a mini dev sandbox by remoting into a linux machine with blink
- volunteered as a mentor for ladies learning code (canada) and code first: girls (uk)
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