(Decorist : 3/19-3/19)
Received word that a number of key UXes weren’t rendering for SEO, likely impacting our rankings.
(Decorist : 3/19-3/19)
Marketing opportunity showcasing company’s proprietary shop-the-room modeling was four months behind and at-risk after key in-house designer departed and PR client was losing patience.
I took ownership of project management, working with new designer and remote Pakistani VR engineering team, introducing a lightweight process (spreadsheet-based and daily 15m check-ins) in order to get backlog of shop-the-room models modeled and bundled into our VR (Unity-based) design app.
(Decorist : 9/18-12/18)
Inherited a situation where there were incomprehensible 1000+ issues per day in exception reporting software (Sentry.)
Identifed and delegated KR to FE lead to create a daily process to chip away at remediation. Encouraged accountability by having FE lead give status report weekly.
(Decorist : 10/18-12/18)
The business wasn’t confident in ROI on FB marketing spend because FB pixel wasn’t firing (and no one internally was a Subject Matter Expert.)
Worked with a SF-based, non-technical marketing consulting and delegated to a Delhi-based junior frontend engineer to get familiar with FB Pixel.
We went back and forth, encumbered by the 12.4h time difference and lack of holistic understanding about how to best run campaign and test the efficacy of the pixel.
Finally, after weeks of simply not being able to get to “Done,” I jumped in and found the FB Pixel Helper:
With the problem solved, we were able to finally turn up our marketing spend.
(Yahoo! : 5/07-7/07)
An external consultant to the team had been brought in to develop an überdashboard to aggregate data from another project. The learning curve was steep and the consultant wasn’t familiar with the base data so his dashboard had some major shortcomings.
(IAEA : 4/06-4/06)
We were charged with building an application to allow the customer to perform three essential tasks
The first version of the system has already allowed the customer to publish and manage 10 years worth of documents. The next 40 years of documents were to be uploaded as the customer’s schedule allowed.
(Siemens : 02/01-03/01)
My first internship after my first semester of programming.
Supervisor, first day: “So, you know Visual Basic?”
Me: “Ummm, no. I?ve only worked with Modula2.”
Him: “Ok, well, grab yourself a book and we’ll reimburse you for it.”
… all in German.
In any case, the code was delivered a month later on-time and to-spec.