Great Coach provides tools for youth sports organizations to help them improve relationships and communication with the sporting participants and their parents, as well as keep their coaches and practices up to date with certifications and legal requirements.

My responsibilities encompass everything on the tech side, plus some parts of project management:

• Working with our product-focused team members on defining features and scheduling work.

• Maintaining our build pipeline and deployment environment health

• Feature design, documentation, UX mockups, planning, tasking, implementation, testing

• Database Administration, ETL

• Dev backlog maintenance

• Reviewing code with junior devs, providing feedback and mentorship

I worked at West as a contractor, as an employee, and again as a contractor, for a total of 4 years.

Initially I worked on the team maintaining the school administrator interface, used to send calls, emails, smses, and push notifications to parents, as well as the web app used by parents to receive messages. I worked in PHP, JS, Angular, and Java.

After joining West as a full-time employee I took on the lead role for our team building the InfoCenter App, in which parents can message with teachers, report absences, and receive broadcasts from the school.

The app is built in Angular backed with several Java APIs. I worked closely with the product team and the engineering team to figure out what we were going to build, how, and how fast. I worked on every piece of the stack.

Towards the end of my time with West I began working other parts of the Communicate product, which is a high-volume notification delivery system that delivers via email, voice, and SMS, and push.

I'm working with RallyMe, a crowdfunding platform for athletes. We launched the initial product (in Ruby on Rails) in October 2012. It's success is growing and feature development is continuing to support business goals.