Apr 2022 - Jul 2023
Patrick McVeety-Mill
- @pmcvtm
- positivum spiritus, utile iubilo
- Austin, TX
- He / Him
Resume
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Principal Consultant, Headspring
Jan 2015 - Jul 2020
Senior Consultant, Headspring
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Thru Hiker, Appalachian Trail
Portfolio
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Today is my last day at Accenture, fka Headspring. I’ve worked here for 11 years; near a third of my life, near the length of a primary and secondary schooling. And what a schooling it was. Headspr...
Outlined the cloud and platform layers of a robust reference architecture for a manufacturing and networking products company as they introduce data pipelines into the solutions they provide. Over ...
Loved speaking at KCDC again this year - giving a slightly updated version of my "Min-Maxing .NET Minimal APIs" talk. Some folks in the audience followed up with me that they're putting lessons fro...
Spoke on Min-Maxing .NET Minimal APIs! I had a wonderful time at the second THAT TX, met some fantastic people and participated in some great Open Space discussions. https://that.us/activities/Lcbv...
People Management
After years of hard work, promoted two of my direct reports to Senior Consulting roles. One of them I have managed since they joined Headspring, but in either case there has been lots of coaching, ...
Took on two new direct reports after my leave of absence to hike: a junior and freshly promoted senior consultant. Looking forward to coaching, guiding, and advocating for them!
Books I've Read
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Read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Can't help but feel this is a little Machiavellian in its "influence" but there are some simple communication tips I will introduce, wh...
Read Getting to Yes by Roger Fischer My current project has some particularly stubborn stakeholders and collaborators, where my teammate and I are embedded on the client's site and needing to work ...
Read Building Microservices by Sam Newman Required reading for us all at Headspring as we get more and more into distributed systems. My current project involves some major application changes to p...
Read JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford I've dipped my toe into some JS here and there on some rich front-ends but in a very hacky way. Good to learn how better to utilize the language...
Projects as a Technical Lead
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Led a small team during a six-week development effort to add new features of a non-profit backed community open source project: a staff directory for school district personnel administrators. Our t...
Completed development effort to replace Slackbot used for factory floor operations at a small manufacturing plant. Implemented a new scheduling API with a corresponding React front-end. The new sys...
Completed DevOps platform migration for a medium-sized retailer's sales and manufacturing process. Over the past 9 months, I led the effort of updating the target infrastructure and automated build...
Completed migration of state government website and backing system from on-premise web application to Azure Government Cloud. I led small team and participated in provisioning and configuring new i...
My 2021 Highlights
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Read Resilient Management by Lara Hogan. I started reading Lara's blog late last year and her ideas have really influenced some of my approaches to management, especially after reading this! She pr...
Reviewed a massive 400 file Pull Request from a 'community contributor' that upgraded one of our systems from the deprecated .NET Framework 4 to .NET [Core] 5. Working in open source with changes f...
Officiated my sister's wedding! I'm not a stranger to preparing words or public speaking but between the emotional weight and personal stakes, this was a very new and challenging experience. I was ...
Served as Headspring's Theme Team's "liaison" from April - June during our "Electrify!" electronic music -themed quarter. It's not my favorite genre, but had fun during my turn as the face of our c...