About Me
Fun facts time!
Bio
As a Inlet Beach-based IT Professional of over 23+ years experience, and a current position as a Digital Product Manager for CenterPoint Energy, I have had roles ranging from:
- Sr. Product Manager for Hathway/Bounteous, Inc. servicing the dining industry digital ordering experience for Panda Express and Blaze Pizza.
- Sr. Product Manager for Mission Lane, LLC in the Fintech arena for internal digital service tools.
- Sr. Tech Product Manager in the E-commerce space for an anti-fraud SaaS company NS8, Inc.
- Tech Product Manager & Front End Developer for a fitness and supplement company, V Shred.
- Software Engineer cranking out custom web pages for a major entertainment company, CMT/Viacom/MTV.
- to being a Sr. Systems Analyst, managing massive Enterprise environments for Nabisco, Kraft Foods, and Philip Morris/Altria Group, Inc.
- Consistently enabling customers to have seamless technological experiences with high-value deliverables.
- 10+ years in Agile, ensuring efficiency and delivering projects while following best-practices in SLDC.
CenterPoint Energy
Sr. Product Manager II
1/2023 - Current
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Hathway, Inc.
Sr. Product Manager II
6/2021 - 1/2023
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Mission Lane, LLC
Sr. Product Manager
12/2020 - 6/2021
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NS8, Inc.
Sr. Tech Product Manager
9/2019 - 9/2020
I focused on leading high-performing development teams in the Digital Experience realm, both locally and remotely, building inaugural/foundational enterprise processes, and pushing NS8 Protect versions and feature updates over the finish line for Magento and SAP Commerce Cloud, following SDLC best-practices within an Agile structure. Additionally, I collected customer/partner/peer feedback to detail future product features, updates, scope, timelines, and strategy during roadmapping and presentation of ROI, with metrics, to EVP of Product, CTO, Business Operations, and Customer Success. My experience also entailed hiring and onboarding of new developers, tech product managers, and overseeing multiple groups to de-silo communications within business inititatves for additional, revenue-generating product enhancements, partnerships, and extensions.
V Shred, LLC
Tech Product Manager
3/2019 - 9/2019
Hired as a Front End Developer and added responsibilites as a Tech Product Manager to code, mentor, and outline tech product roadmaps for internal products as well as revenue-generating initiatives, as it relates to marketing and product sales. Some current tech used is Laravel PHP, Vue JS HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Node, Javascript, jQuery, REST API,SQL, CMS, Wordpress, Data Dog, Amazon AWS Git, JIRA, Confluence, all within an Agile environment.
Country Music Television (CMT) / Viacom, Inc.
Software Engineer - Multiplatform
8/2010 - 11/2017
I was a Front End Developer/Engineer for 7yrs+ at Viacom (MTV Networks), specifically developing and supporting pages on CMT.com and any sub-pages including major tentpole iniatives. Some recent tech used was HTML, HTML5, CSS, SASS, LESS, Node, RequireJS, OpenGraph, Javascript, jQuery, Facebook API, CMS, Wordpress, Grails, Vagrant, Bamboo, Git, Subversion (SVN), Tortoise, JIRA, Confluence, all within an Agile environment.
The mikeroweWORKS Foundation
SEO Strategist (volunteer)
4/2017 - 7/2017
In addition to my responsibilites with CMT/Viacom, I volunteered my Search Engine Optimization (SEO) knowledge and strategies to help the mikeroweWORKS Foundation during Q2 of 2017. I collaborated with their team, gathered data requirements and goals, analyzed their environment, and then devised and delivered a proposal, with implementation strategy, to aid them in being more visible within social networks, web searches, and pertinent arenas, facilitating the brand and skilled-worker scholarship awareness on www.profoundlydisconnected.com.
Blue Cross of NEPA
Web Developer II
9/2007 - 5/2010
At Blue Cross, I developed internal applications and external web applications, remaining HIPAA-compliant, developing in a VB .NET environment, with a full stack of HTML, CSS, VB, ODBC, and SQL.
Altria Group, Inc.
Sr. Systems Analyst
6/2004 - 9/2007
Continuing my tenure within the Nabisco/Kraft/Altria Group, I maintained a Wintel environment of 1800+ servers, with ~35% located within VMWare environments, monitoring utilization, performing hotfixes/patching, BIOS updates, and scheduled maintenance.
Nabisco / Kraft Foods, Inc.
PDP and EDI Systems Analyst
5/1999 - 6/2004
My start in IT at Nabsico; I scripted in Korn, Perl, monitored server events with Tivoli Framework. Then, transferred into the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) department, working within AS400/COBOL, and AS1, AS2 system conversions.
Bullhead Amplification, Inc.
Owner/Master Builder
4/2005 - Current
After understanding that I needed to replace a guitar amp I sold, I figured that I'd learn how to build one to do so. Straight down the rabbit hole of schematics and gather as much info and knowledge as I could, the first amplifier worked rather well and it kickstarted something to grow. Due to the (at the time) small demand to build custom guitar amplifiers for customers. I have now gone on to be featured in major guitar publications for my work, as well as garnering various album credits for national artists' usage of my products.
Skills
Non-exhaustive list, and certainly fortunate to have it all under my belt.
1999 - Current
HTML, HTML5, JHTML, Laravel PHP, Vue JS, XML, XSL, XSLT, SASS, LESS, CSS, Grid, Flex, PHP, SEO, Subversion, Tortoise SVN, jQuery, Javascript, Agile, ITIL, Git, RequireJS, OpenGraph, Amazon AWS, Data Dog, Pingdom, Facebook API, YQL, Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Command Line Interface (CLI), Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker, Vagrant, Grails, React, Apollo, GraphQL, MongoDB, Amazon AWS, Dynamo, Wordpress, UNIX, Mac OS, IOS, Android, Windows, Windows Server NT / 2000 / 2003, AS/400, OS/390, COBOL, AS1, AS2, Tivoli Framework, NetIQ, TCP/IP, Telnet, UpdateEXPERT, Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator, .NET ASP, SQL, VMWare, IIS, UX, UI, SEO, Visual Studio Code, Responsive Design, Final Cut Pro, Avid ProTools, Logic Pro X, Photography
Hobbies and Interests
Because, it's fun!
Current
I'm an avid coffee-lover, motorcycle rider, outdoors enthusiast, traveler, whitewater kayaker, hiking, camper, mountain biker, snowboarder, love animals, and also a certified hypnotherapist so I am able to help those who need help or someone to talk to. I love to volunteer when I am able, and I'm a total gym junkie that can't wait to get there to lift weights and push myself to become better. I love being able to encourage and inspire others to do so as well, helping them become their best versions of themselves. Pet Peeve: Misuse of "They're, There, Their." ;)