It's hard to imagine a more turbulent start date than 3/01/2020, but I couldn't be prouder of the way my colleagues at Sealaska adapted to the challenges of the COVID era and continued to support their staff and clients. Personal achievements that remain high water marks for me: reimagining the entire HR onboarding process on the backend with PowerApps & PowerAutomate while simultaneously leveraging modern SharePoint pages for a redesign of the front end. I've also built and managed one of the highest visibility PowerApps the company has delivered (and continued to maintain) for a large gov't client.

At Cadmus I was co-lead on two major enterprise-wide migration efforts (and the follow up training) for hundreds of teams across the U.S. and Germany. I honed my development skills across the board including when PowerApps was in its embryonic stage. I was able to re-build the entire employee kudos system in an engaging way that made me realize PowerApps was going to be a critical technology going forward. The pro-environment and social good mission of CADMUS means the list of projects I was truly proud to work on is too long to even summurize, but the work I did rebuilding paper solar inspection forms to be digital always comes to mind first. Not only did it make a huge difference on so many solar conversion projects, but it also helped make life easier for the actual solar inspectors in the field.

The work I did at J&J escalated so rapidly from routine metrics reporting of one division to preparing enterprise-wide reports specifically tailored for VPs that it was hard to process. I went from fixing one specific large Excel spreadsheet to improving the weekly data import process to then making that data presentable for the C-suite (in the days before even having a PowerBI license!) I worked with an incredible amount of talented people in a relatively short span of time and moved between than four different locations, including the world headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ. I'm proud of the fact that thanks to my changes there were better, more informed decisions being made by the leaders at such an incredibly large company.

Now that I work as solution architect in IT, I sometimes get asked what kind of things I could possibly still apply from my time working off-off-off Broadway. The truth is it would be easier to make a list of things I learned as a stage manager that I *don't* still apply on a daily basis. During my time in theatre I was an arbiter of large groups of people with competing visions, researched creative solutions within various budgets, delivered a high quality project under strict deadlines...and did so over and over again across different seasons with different teams and different team leads. In a way, I was directly training for my career, but with elaborate costume design thrown in!