Experience
April 2023 - Present
Pangea - Developer Advocate
Nov 2021 - Mar 2023
Microsoft - IoT Developer Community Program Manager
Leveraged key Semiconductor partners using the Azure IoT product portfolio to deliver joint content via Workshops and Videos with 3000+ views leading to flywheels leveraging the joint work
Outlined, guided, and interviewed product owners about their upcoming announcements on the "IoT Show" and edited footage to tell the story effectively
Enabled IoT and technology to be accessible to k -12+ by creating engaging content for free and limited risks to create a low barrier experience
Sept 2019 - Mar 2023
Microsoft - Mentorship Program Owner
Volunteered to develop a pilot mentorship program for a team of 120 people based on the annual feedback indicating newer members needed more ties into the team to attain expertise.
Created guiding principles to optimize the quality of matches between Mentors and mentees and scaled up to 600 people.
Wrote a template for this program to be scaled up to 3000 people and continued incremental improvements to the program.
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Microsoft - Program Manager II
Through customer-led feedback, designed developed and launched support for Azure Maps capabilities in IoT Central with the Azure Maps team.
Researched and built out roadmap for geo-location capabilities in IoT Central. Launched a successful V1 that unblocked immediate customer needs.
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Microsoft - Program Manager I
Collected customer feedback through workshops to help refine IoT Central's user experience and onboarding. This feedback led to a prioritization of the location work I was leading.
Redesigned the rules experience to address customer pain points and coherence with the rest of the site. This led to having enough visual space to allow for more complex use cases.
Led an investigative partnership with Azure FarmBeats to integrate with IoT Central for better End to End story for agricultural clients. Through the partnership we identified gaps and made a plan to address them.
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Microsoft - Software Engineer
Lead, developed, and shipped the Skype for Mixed Reality Experience, including the “see-what-I-see” scenario and virtual reality contact cards as a team with a designer, a PM and myself
Identified and helped resolved accessibility issues in Azure IoT Central web app to go from a grade F accessibility rating to a launchable grade C rating
Implemented monitoring of internal Azure resource allocation, allowing developers to ensure customer app demands could be met
Packaged IoT Central App for Azure marketplace to create an entry point for customers in Azure Portal