About Me

I create user-centered digital products.
With experience in product management,
client success, and software engineering,
I deliver solutions that meet business needs.

I've built my career at NielsenIQ and Compass Group,
and now I'm focused on decarbonizing the energy grid.
I'm passionate about using my skills to drive
the transition to renewable energy.

My focus is on bridging the gap
between technical execution and clients.

Let's work together to
drive the energy transition
and make a lasting impact.

Skills

Applications

SHAWNA.CSS A CSS Drawing Project
Oh! The Places
Oh! The Places We Go
is a frontend application that allows users to select a country and see population data fetched from a UN API.


A Vanilla DOM frontend with public API calls to the United Nations Population Division.

Oh! The Places We Go

TripIt
TripIt
is a full-stack application that allows users to create a trip itinerary and add activities to their trip.


A MERN stack application with a MongoDB database, Express and Node.js backend, and React frontend hosted on MongoDB Atlas and Render.

TripIt

Experience

LivestockCity - UI/UX Designer
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 (contract)

  • Redesigned the LivestockCity website to enhance usability, speed, and accessibility, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to implement new features for both desktop and mobile platforms.
  • Conducted UX research and designed prototypes in Figma, ensuring alignment with business goals and improved user engagement.

Terra Watts - Web Developer
September 2023 - July 2024 (contract)

  • Engineer website for Seed funding round, setting digital presence.
  • Working with co-developer and founder to deploy an interactive, animated website that aligns with brand ethos and mission.
  • Spearheading complete product roadmap, skillfully managing stakeholder dynamics, and ensuring alignment with startup's fast-paced objectives.

LivestockCity - React Engineer
August 2023 - Jan 2024 (contract)

  • Migrate a Python Django website to React, leveraging React's component-based architecture, improved performance, and rich ecosystem for scalability nad maintainability.
  • Working through a React dedicated repo of issues, ensuring a seamless transition and integration with the existing backend.

App Academy - Graduate Full Stack Web Development Program
October 2022 - March 2023

Completed a 1000+ hour immersive software engineering bootcamp in a 16-week program

  • Mastered web development fundamentals, including JavaScript, React, Redux, Ruby on Rails, SQL, HTML, and CSS.
  • Developed proficiency in full stack software engineering, encompassing both frontend and backend technologies, as well as computer science fundamentals.
  • Aquired knowledge and skills in working with databases, including data modeling, SQL and noSQL operartions, and database design.
  • Gained expertise in deploying web applications to production environments and collaborating effectively as part of a development team, utilizing cloud platforms, Git, and software engineering best practices.

NeilsenIQ - Associate Client Director, Mars Wrigley
October 2021 - September 2022

Supported a global client and steered their business by means of meaningful and actionable consumer insights.

  • Managed a $14.9M client agreement, supported by 18 internal associates with various weekly deliverables
  • Fielded client questions, answered via compiling insights out of Connect (NielsenIQ proprietary software), prepared presentation of insights in client-ready PowerPoint report and supplemental Excel
  • Analyzed and predicted industry trends, identified key opportunities, and influenced category strategies that created sales growth for clients
  • Delivered timely, applicable thought leadership, backed by consumer data points that directly impacted an $8M M&M ad campaign for valentines day 2023

Compass Group - Category Manager, Foodbuy
August 2019 - October 2021

Acted as the single point of contact for manufacturer partners (Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle Waters, 3M, Procter and Gamble) and created data-driven strategy development and implementation across +80,000 customer locations.

  • Created automated client-ready reports via SQL to analyze daily distributor data and identify gaps in compliance
  • Conducted business review, held project update calls, increased product catalog availablity, and provided valuable input to steering committees with long-term category management
  • Developed unique approaches to optimize the GPO program and realize 20% average savings to all customer segments
  • Supported a beverage team managing $1.7B in manufacturer spend, realizing 0.6% growth via directly-managed programs
  • Led a non-foods team, optimizing cleaning chemical products to a 20% reduction in cost on a $250M base while still achieving 9% growth in compliant programs