New York, New York, United States
I have a passion for finding innovative solutions to technical problems. Previous and current technical consulting experience includes: - Project management and strategic direction across multiple cross-functional teams totaling 30 consultants, data scientists, and software developers to produce an award-winning data science library and framework with over 250+ active internal data science users. - Technical and agile iteration management for a cross-functional global software development team totaling 12. - User Experience product lead experience using design methodologies to grow user base five-fold while managing and deisnging project website
• Led user workflow, product design, and user engagement efforts for carrot, a Python library used to accelerate data science projects and IBM's premier solution for data science at the enterprise. • Directed agile project management practices for a team of 15+, coordinating the work of consultants, data scientists, and software developers for a single product. • Maintained project website on GitHub Pages using Markdown and HTML, made data-driven improvements using tree-jack testing and other UX methodologies • Delivered carrot product presentations to IBM data science managers and their teams, showcasing its features, benefits, and value proposition through technical demonstration. • Facilitated cross-functional team alignment and development prioritization through planning and execution of three team-wide workshops. • Established workstream maturity and project documentation standards across all CAO data science pipelines to promote project consistency and sustainable growth. • Mentored junior consultants and interns in team operations, product functionality, and design strategy through designed 1 on 1 meetings, ad hoc calls, and feedback sessions.
• Utilized agile best practices to direct the efforts of an 8+ member software development team across two critical data science portfolios. • Orchestrated rapid team-wide knowledge transfer sessions and interviews in response to sudden staffing loss, ensuring long-term health of priority project portfolios. • Transitioned team task management software from ZenHub to Jira, improving ticket burndown rate while maintaining assets from previous solution. • Organized and coordinated trilingual team social events to foster a cohesive and inclusive work environment.