Experience

Learn About My Career So Far


As a software developer with a strong business background, I've spent my career listening to users and customers and delivering solutions that meet their needs AND company objectives.

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SOFTWARE CONSULTANT & WEB DEVELOPER

Multiple Organizations
  • Developing sections of new website for library organization using Joomla.
  • Created entirely new website for non-profit using Joomla.
  • Automated status reporting for Support department of growing start-up.

PARENT MENTOR

Parent Links
  • Provided guidance and support to families with children who are deaf/hard of hearing. Utilized SalesForce to manage workflow.

Career Sabbatical to Raise Children

  • Managed care and education of children born with progressive hearing losses.
  • Educated self rapidly in hearing loss, hearing technologies, and ASL.
  • Achieved acceptance and support from school staff throughout IEP process to provide appropriate accommodations, education, and follow through.
  • Organizing committee for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Family Camp (6 years).
  • School volunteer, including managing class websites (9 years).

HOSPITAL BUSINESS MANAGER

Adobe Animal Hospital
  • Managed all business, financial, and technology aspects of a full service, 24-hour veterinary medical facility.
  • Grew revenues over 25% while reining in costs, utilizing a veterinary staff of 20 and an ancillary staff of more than 80.
  • Rewrote corporate website, in HTML, for more targeted marketing.

SOFTWARE PRODUCT MANAGER

BetaSphere
  • Performed product management for web-based CRM software applications targeted at Fortune 500 companies.
  • Doubled product sales in one year and won Crossroads A-List award.
  • Built product intranet portal, using HTML, to communicate with sales force.

SENIOR MARKETING PROGRAMS MANAGER, MOBILE COMPUTING GROUP

Intel Corporation
  • Managed development and execution of mobile sessions at the Intel Developer’s Forum conference, sessions were rated 3rd best of 16.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ANALYST

American Management Systems - Europe
  • Managed team of five consultants on $13M telecom billing software project.
  • Coordinated multiple software product requirements designs.
  • Implemented acceptance tests with client.
  • Ensured projects executed on schedule, leading to follow-on projects.
  • Debugged code and closed issues that arose during development.
  • Led Swiss office initiative to obtain ISO 9001 certification.
  • Taught self COBOL to fill-in as needed on software development team.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

American Management Systems
  • Designed and programmed new features and maintained existing code for U.S. Army and the Department of Defense, using Visual Basic, C, C++, and SQL.
  • Wrote library code for common functions.
  • Rewrote system architecture to be faster and more flexible.

Technical Skills

  • Java
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • SQL
  • Eclipse, Atom