Laura Nelson

Experience

1. Senior Manager Product Engineering

   Ridgeline

   Nov 2020 — Present

   Leading the engineering team responsible for order generation, dispersion/drift, rebalancing, and target allocation (SaaS on AWS)\\\\n* Significantly increased team productivity while reducing the number of weekends the team had to work and the number of Sev0/1 issues they had to address.\\\\n- Improved team efficiency, code quality, and collaboration via Agile processes and ceremonies.\\\\n- Mentored engineers on building quality into the code by leading by example establishing more robust test cases and designs and better test automation resulting in fewer regressions and missed cases - by Oct 2022 the team has had 0 patches or hotfixes for an entire quarter.\\\\n- Establish edclear roles and responsibilities with development, QA, and product management to eliminate ambiguity and redundancies.\\\\n- Advocated for improved prioritization and clarity on customer needs across the product & engineering org.\\\\n- Empowered team members to make decisions, provide feedback, and take ownership of their work.\\\\n* Managed several virtual scrum teams made up of Developers and QAs across various areas to successfully deliver cross-functional features.\\\\n* Created tools, processes, and standards to help other engineering managers in my division.\\\\n* Created production bug priority and escalation criteria now used across the products & engineering org\\\\n* Managed the 9-month development and delivery of the most important feature set required by our first customer, including planning and communication to executives, strategists, and other stakeholders.\\\\n* Established the model for Development and QA interaction and collaboration being evangelized across the product org.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Skills

• Mechanical Engineering
• Project Management
• Saas
• Microsoft Office
• Software Development
• Visual Basic
• Html
• Premier
• Scrum
• Sql
• Agile Methodologies
• Java
• Google Docs
• Os X
• Pro Engineer
• Final Cut Pro
• Lotus Notes
• Spanish
• English
• Photoshop
• C++
• Electrical Engineering
• Requirements Analysis
• Manufacturing
• Middle English
• Quality Assurance
• Solidworks
• Etas Inca
• Mac Os X
• Windows
• Management
• Dreamweaver
• Agile Project Management
• Simulink
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Matlab
• Visio
• Ati Vision
• Sharepoint
• Scalability