Vita
My Professional Journey
Georgia Tech
Bachelors in Computer Engineering
I began my undergraduate journey at Georgia Tech! Interestingly, I actually started majoring as an Aerospace Engineer, but made the switch as soon as I discovered my dislike of aviation 🤣. I ultimately rediscovered my love for software and decided to switch to a degree in Computer Engineering!
2008-2012Technical Intern
AT&T
Before jumping into post-grad life, I decided to take a detour into the corporate world of 2012 at AT&T. I worked in the IT division, helping build and enhance internal tooling used throughout the company. During my time there, I also had the privilege of joining a special R&D project due to my unique background and understanding of LabView!
2012Georgia Tech
Masters in Computer Engineering
I dove straight back into schooling to get a Masters degree at Georgia Tech. In this additional year, I took on a major focus in Digital Signal Processing and a minor in Mathematics. I ended up learning quite a bit about machine learning, speech recognition, statistical analysis, and advanced vector math!
2012-2013Research Engineer I
Georgia Tech Research Institute
As I wrapped up schooling, I was given a promising opportunity to work at GTRI and continue my post-grad education. At GTRI, I ended up serving as a Systems Engineer for aircraft defense systems, where I would represent the customer and coordinate between our engineering and quality teams to deliver new software. Ironically, I ended up working in aviation, despite my earlier dislike of it.
2013-2016Quicksilver
My First Crafted Game
While taking post-grad classes and balancing a full-time job, I decided one summer to take "a class for fun". I enrolled in Game Design at Georgia Tech, and I worked with a team to create a fully-fledge platformer called Quicksilver in Unity! The game was so functional and well-designed, it's still being used as an example project for future students to model their work after.
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2015Software Engineer in Test
Salesforce - Pardot
Towards the end of my run at GTRI, I decided I wanted to transition back to software development proper and away from government contracting. Through a good friend, I got introduced to an exciting opportunity at a recent Salesforce acquisition: Pardot, a B2B Marketing Automation software. I joined in as a Quality Engineer in charge of front-end and browser testing of their upcoming flagship product, Engagement Studio.
2016Launch of Engagement Studio
First Major Software Release
Working on Engagement Studio, Pardot's marketing automation suite, was my first real taste of a "big boy" software initiative. I came into the company ready to roll my sleeves up, and I headed up the quality assurance for the frontend and cross-browser compatibility features of this flagship product. The product released without a major issue, and it was an instant hit with our customers! To this day, it is still one of my favorite products that I have had the pleasure of building!
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2016Software Engineer
Salesforce - Pardot
Not long after, Salesforce as a company decided that the engineering org will move from dedicated QA engineers to hybrid software engineers. I got swept up in that change and transformed into a software engineer overnight. Luckily, this change lined up with my long term plan of making that internal switch anyways 😆. I carved a niche for myself as a full-stack engineer, with a passion for UI and frontend development. In this role, I mastered Ember.JS, PHP, and Java!
2016-2018Keynote Demo Creator and Driver
Dreamforce 2018
Over time, I got a reputation for building amazing demos and prototypes of features through winning not one, but three different Hack Days at the company. One of those projects ended up being part of our major product keynote at Dreamforce 2018. I had the honor of designing, building, and driving the demo in front of a live, massive audience at the conference!
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2018Product Manager
Salesforce - Pardot
During my time as an engineer, I realized more and more that I enjoyed the art of designing product and understanding customer needs. Through my work at Dreamforce, an increased reputation of leading successful product launches, and full guidance and support from my UX and product peers, I made the switch into product management. Taking on this role, I would own one of our sales enablement products, Salesforce Engage, and pioneered work in a new product area of Marketing Privacy and Consent.
2018-2021Patent Awarded
US 10817266 B2
My peers and I were awarded a patent, "CONVERTING A CAPTURED IMAGE TO VISUAL PROGRAMMING LOGIC FOR AN AUTOMATION BUILDING TOOL", for our work in creating a machine vision prototype within our marketing automation product.
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2020Patent Awarded
US 10838698 B2
My peers and I were awarded a patent, "PROVIDING A REUSE CAPABILITY FOR VISUAL PROGRAMMING LOGIC WITHIN A BUILDING TOOL", for our work in creating a prototype to copy and paste logic blocks in our marketing automation product.
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2020Launch of Pardot Prospect Mailability
Cross-functional Release
With the increasing pressure of privacy laws following GDPR, I pushed and persuaded Pardot to re-invest and set up our product and customers for success. Through tactful negotiations, I received funding to fix our fundamental consent data schema problems and build a new way for our customers to manage their prospects' consent within their databases. This was a long-running project, spanning dozens of teams and features and with code touching every aspect of our product. I was able to lead my teams into releasing this major refactor and overhaul, while making sure we took account of over 130 product scenarios that this feature alone could break.
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2021Patent Awarded
US 10902254 B2
My peers and I were awarded a patent, "CONVERTING A CAPTURED IMAGE OF A LAYOUT TO A STRUCTURED DOCUMENT TEMPLATE", for our work in creating a machine vision prototype that takes a drawn image of an email layout and converts it into a proper HTML structure in our email editor.
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2021Senior Product Manager
Salesforce - Pardot
My scope at Pardot grew at an incredible pace, and I was promoted to work on more cross-cloud initiatives. During this time, I headed up the product development and launch of two major features. The first was building out Pardot's first Slack integration following Salesforce's purchase of Slack. The second was creating a product strategy around third-party integrtations within our marketing software, which lead to the creation of a third-party actions framework for our customers.
2021-2022Patent Awarded
US 11379192 B2
My peers and I were awarded a patent, "SAVING A SNIPPET OF VISUAL PROGRAMMING LOGIC FOR REUSE AMONGST PROGRAMS CREATED USING AN AUTOMATION BUILDING TOOL", for our work in creating a prototype to save and store re-usable logic in our marketing automation product.
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2021Launch of Pardot External Actions
Extending our Product to Third Parties
One of my last and most exciting projects at Salesforce was called External Actions. Pardot was docked points for many years by Gartner analysts for its gap in third-party integration. I took that weakness and addressed it by leading the product development of External Actions. This product was an API-first framework to empower third-party developers to craft their own actions within Pardot and look as native as Salesforce's own actions. This feature area has been long requested by our customers, and I was elated to get their hands on it after all these years!
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2022Senior Product Manager
Pantheon Platform
After over 6 years at Salesforce, I decided that I wanted to use my learnings within the enterprise company and put it to use somewhere else. Persuaded by my former, trusted co-workers at Pardot, I found myself in the world of startups and joining the WebOps platform, Pantheon. As of right now, I currently work here as the product lead for developing internal product telemetry and supporting the company's PLG strategy.
2022-Present...And the rest of the story is still being written! Who knows what I'll be up to next 😃