Alexa Anderson
Professional Experience
Lex Media / A
Director of Technology
As founding director of technology, I pioneer and implement people and process management of Product and Development, institute agile development practices, formalize system of metrics and measurements, and oversee progress of company technological initiatives. Our technology has caused 100% YOY growth in sales, visits, and engagement, visualization dashboard enabling decisions, and more than 100% increase in product delivery speed in 6 months.
- Define and institude company-wide adoption of Agile product development
- Define Product Delivery Procedures increasing visibilty and speed
- Oversee the development of web applications, web sites, and tooling by a development team of 3-5 technical experts.
- Instituted and Engineering Blog for awareness and outreach
Leadership, Networking, Publishing, Processing, Software Infrastructure, Management, PHP
Lex Media Software
Austin, TXTechnology Partner
Technology partner responsible for website launch, development of in-house tooling, analytics, andreporting. Completed a desktop publication engine in Ruby and JavaScript, reusable virtual private server inShell script, and desktop applications in Electron. Designed and implemented web application architecturesleading to initial launch and sales using PHP, Ruby and JavaScript.
Web Development, Obect-oriented Programming, SQL, JavaScript, Ruby (Rails), Linux, Leadership, Agile Development, DevOps
ADP
Senior Software EngineerSenior Software Engineer
Develop a JavaScript monorepo alongside startup engineering organization to successfully implement product requirements and bug fixes. Transition codebase after the startup was acquired by ADP.
Web Development, Obect-oriented Programming, SQL, JavaScript, Docker, CI/CD
Homebase
Houston, TXSr. Software Engineer
Tech lead for a 5 developer feature team. Collaborated with product and design to create specifications for a single-page application redesign. Facilitated engineering department efforts to add visibility to the CI/CD build pipeline. Engineering lead for Sales Tax initiative to integrate sales tax into our SaaS product.
Web Development, Obect-oriented Programming, SQL, JavaScript, Ruby (Rails), Linux, Leadership, Agile Development, Rspec, Capybara, Google, Slack, Stripe, APIs
Sparefoot
Austin, TXSoftware Engineer II
Sparefoot is the industry leading self-storage marketplace and technology company. As a software engineer at SpareFoot, I was responsible for full-stack enterprise features utilizing PHP, JavaScript, Docker, and React. Migrate consumer sites from PHP/Backbone/jQuery to Node.js and React Develop high-traffic consumer and internal applications as part of a feature team Research and implement system-wide standardization of logging and metrics using Datadog and Envoy
Web Development, Obect-oriented Programming, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, Docker, CI/CD, Git, Scrum Master
Integrated Alliance
Denton, TXHead Trainer
Managed training department of three trainers and up to thirty trainees Introduced quantitative agent effectiveness scale saving the company over $20,000 yearly Overhauled full training portfolio in under two weeks to meet revised client standards Managed staff of up to fifty employees as needed
People Management, Adult Education, Course Planning, Instructional Delivery
Education
Western Governor's University
Information Technology 2020 2024Viking Education
Software Engineering 2017University of North Texas
Mechanical Engineering 2016Austin Community College
Associate's of Science in Biology 2013Certifications
MongoDB For Node.js
Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master