<aside> 👋 I'm a developer relations and community expert based in San Francisco with 7 years of experience in the data industry. My focus for the past few years has been leading developer relations teams and fostering developer communities.

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Contact

📧 [email protected]

🔗 linkedin

🐦 twitter

Overview

Experienced in running developer relations teams
Skilled and empathetic technical people-manager who has managed teams upwards of 18 people and prides herself on fostering happy, collaborative, and productive teams
Experienced in leading cross-functional projects & coordinating collaboration across multiple teams
Thrives on starting initiatives from scratch and thinking outside the box with human-centered design techniques.
Skilled at fostering partnerships, internal and external
Experienced product / project manager
Enjoys developing, implementing, and overseeing team strategy

Core Skills

Developer Relations
Community building and engagement
Fostering internal and external partnerships
Product & Project Management
Engineering people management
Technical product education and content creation
Event & conference planning
Roadmapping and strategy
Starting initiatives from scratch
Hiring amazing talent
Human-centered design / design thinking
Scout Mindset

Education

Stanford University

MS in Geological and Environmental Sciences

August 2010 - August 2013

West Virginia University

BS in Mathematics

BS in Geology

August 2004 - August 2009

Relevant Work and Experience

Great Expectations

Senior Community Product Manager | Feb 2023 - Present

Fostering community spaces: why Mollie Pettit joined GX

Community Consultant | Feb 2023 - June 2023 | Self-employed

Community Ventures Inc.

Developer Relations and Community Consultant | Feb 2023 - Present | Self-employed

I work with companies as a consultant to help them with their Developer Relations and Community needs.

Clients include:

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Elementl

Manager, Developer Relations | Feb 2022 - Sept 2022 | Full-time

Established and managed developer relations from scratch, leading a team of engineers, tech writers, and developer advocates.
Created and executed a product education strategy to support user needs.
Cultivated a thriving Dagster community and external integration partnerships.
Collected user feedback and provided insights to the product team.
Led cross-functional projects involving engineering, product, support, and marketing.
Supervised the creation of tools and systems to increase efficiency, reduce workload, and analyze internal metrics.
Facilitated ideation exercises to identify needs and contribute to the roadmap and initiatives.
Implemented a company-wide internal system for idea retention.
Planned, produced, and executed the Dagster Day launch event. You can watch the event on YouTube.

👉 Dagster Day launch event in portfolio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70c84LDZuzQ

Observable

Manager, Developer Relations | July 2021 - Jan 2022 | Full-time

Led a team of six, including developers, developer advocates, community managers, and technical writers.
Developed the strategy for the developer relations team and product education based on feedback from users and stakeholders.
Fostered a healthy Observable community.
Created educational content in various formats (e.g. tutorials, workshops, livestreams, webinars, demos, etc.) to accommodate multiple learning styles.
Implemented an internal idea retention system feeding the product backlog.

Data Visualization Developer | Feb 2021 - July 2021 | Full-time

Created educational tutorials, demo videos, and template notebooks.
Led and participated in live coding and instructional live streams.
Updated product code using the React framework.

https://vimeo.com/637876714

https://youtu.be/8d2-lLyaaqA

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wzaiBOtV1SA

https://www.youtube.com/embed/MIpAfn5l49k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOtmIV6AafM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qhs99loAsg

Data Visualization Society

Founding Member / Events Director | Jan 2019 - Feb 2022 | Volunteer

Co-founded the Data Visualization Society, a non-profit organization which has 12 board seats, over 19k members, a publication (Nightingale), an annual conference (Outlier), and an awards ceremony (Information is Beautiful Awards)
Created Outlier, a global annual data visualization conference
Managed an 18+ committee to carry out the Outlier vision, delegating responsibilities across time zones world-wide
Facilitated discussions, brainstorms, & other ideations activities and pushed the committee to think outside the box to create something unique and different
Cultivated a healthy DVS community

👉 Outlier in portfolio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L00uh1tHTl0&list=PLAm5TIX-yz7IkKOUcStM_vl8AD0S9v0co

Creating an Inclusive Global Dataviz Conference, Nightingale

Netflix

Data Visualization Engineer | Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 | Full-time