About

I deferred my enrollment to the U of A for a year as I prioritized the momentum of my career picking up, with the belief that a focused year would let me close out my short term goals with a clean break to start college and a focused 4 years of studies ahead. Instead, I found myself participating in the U of A's spring hackathon (before I was enrolled as a student) where I was recruited by one of the sponsor companies, Sunquest, into a summer role before the fall semester. I enjoyed my team and project too much to leave, and I stayed full-time when college started in the fall. By Junior year I accepted a Director role in Mckesson's oncology department, and traveled every other week to be on-site in San Francisco—scheduling around my CS test schedule and jazz band concerts. I channeled my resilient nature through challenging weeks where work deadlines stacked with school finals, or an out of state jazz band trip, or all 3 together, and somehow at the end I graduated magna cum laude.

From there, my career remained aligned with the healthcare space that gave me endless problem solving opportunities: At McKesson I built a mobile engineering org from 2 to 13 during the height of the pandemic. Looking to expand my diversity of healthcare vertical experience, I joined Sidecar Health to expand my knowledge to to the payer side of healthcare delivery, before a layoff wiped out the full product development organization. I took a month and enjoyed a vacation with family. Then I joined League, where I led a professional services engineering team 40 individuals deep.

The trumpet never stopped. I kept gigging through it all—sitting in where I could, playing sessions, recording a track for an album here or there. I never let the engineering career fully take over. Two lives kept running parallel.