After learning the entire soundtrack to Annie at the age of 4, my parents handed me the easiest instrument a frequently moving 5 year old could cart around: a flute. Playing the flute was pretty much my life’s focus for the next 20 years. I practiced the flute. A lot. After college graduation, I practiced more, but I also got a 9-5 job to pay the bills. Still played my flute and taught lessons to some great kids (and adults). Worked a little more. Practiced a little less. Got promoted at work. Grew an interest in tech. Quit my job to learn to code. Built this website. Itching to learn more and make a career change into software development.
After graduating from music school over a decade ago, I found myself in a rising
position at a non-profit health insurance company.
For about 2 1/2 years (2014-2017), I worked on a special team to upgrade one of
the company most complex software tools. My responsibilities on the project
were gathering business requirements, communicating and documenting business
and functional requirements to our software vendor, analyzing and mapping data for
conversion, and testing the new system and functionality. We worked with
Jira and in an agile environment. This was an incredible opportunity for me to learn and
grow an insatiable interest in technology. By working on almost the complete product life-cycle,
I no longer wanted to be a user of such technologies, but a builder of technologies.
My goals have always been to
be and do the best I can. I enjoy diverse yet unified collaboration and love working
on a team that shares the same goals. My fear has never been that of failure, but
that of stagnation and not performing and succeeding to the best of my abilities.