My 2021 Highlights

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...

Executed a four-week discovery period to investigate and design a solution to support a resilient failover process for a client with a power grid management software, followed by leading a small te...

Navigated the difficult task of putting one of my direct reports onto a Performance Improvement Plan. This was understandably stressful for them, but I made sure to come from a place of empathy and...

Took on two new direct reports during management re-organization shuffle. Both are junior consultants approaching seniority, learning to be more autonomous and gaining broader proficiency in the te...

Successfully advocated for the promotion of one of my direct reports to Technical Lead after months of guidance and coaching; finding avenues to fill in gaps demonstrate growth on projects where th...

Completed my year-long tenure as technical lead for state government client, leading new application development effort to replace a legacy mainframe system and paper processes with cloud-native .N...

Delivered solution for new 'public' web API and cloud notification hooks to allow customers to integrate with an existing healthcare product's system. Led the development team defining implementati...

Presented Whales Outside the Net about the tech and empathetic consideration behind supporting Docker in an offline environment at the Kansas City Developer Conference.