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Adventures in Missions - 2016 - Current

Full Stack Developer 2022-Current

Salt Lake City, Utah

• Served as subject matter expert and training point of contact for 17+ Saas systems and multiple websites.
• Improved customer support and communication by creating automated customer journeys, pipelines, and task metric reporting.
• Ensured operational ability during crisis by enabling major migrations of web and financial systems in limited timeframes.
• Rescued organization from potential financial fallout by decrypting critical business data, personally emailing and tracking thousands of donor decisions to assist changeover.
• Regularly act as the primary technical point of contact for vital business decisions.
• Established significant financial savings through migrating project management systems, reducing software tiers, and migrating automated marketing platforms.
• Enabled marketing spend visibility by creating custom analytics tracking leads from specific ads to first payments.
• Covered operational gaps through custom data warehousing, mining, and transformations. Placed critical business data on internal dashboards and accessible dynamic spreadsheets.
• Rebuilt total web presence by redesigning, migrating, and optimizing seven websites including adventures.org and worldrace.org on urgent deadlines.
• Managed critical web servers.
• Planned new platforms to future-proof operations.
• Managed assignments and billables for the department and others.
• Partially self-fundraised salary.

Senior Manager Strategic Partnerships & Multimedia 2020-2022

Malkerns, Eswatini

• Mentored, trained, and managed 8+ staff members.
• Helped navigate significant challenges as a senior leader amid several overlapping crisis events: COVID-19, nationwide riots, partner organization breakup, opposition from local government, and high levels of staff disunity.
• Set up one of the first thriving agricultural projects in the organization's history by leading Umdoni, a restorative farming, leadership, and skills training campus for disadvantaged young adults.
• Casted vision for staff through branding and building out of new organization vision, new core values, high-quality training, and materials.
• Helped ensure successful building projects by overseeing details from designs, logistics, and financials across the nation.
• Entrusted to pull, track, and store $100k+ value of ministry assets.
• Delivered meaningful results during urgent child sponsorship migration during partner organization transition. Served as in-country lead for data migration, frontend build-out, and staff training.
• Shared vision and built excitement by organizing and co-leading a 17-episode Vlog with 20 total videos.
• Helped represent the organization with combative local government officials and combative legal representatives.
• Department head for web, marketing, IT, and projects.
• Assisted in managing HR and finance.
• Successfully funded, designed, and implemented crowd-funding campaigns. Including producing 8 videos to increase excitement.
• Successfully funded, designed, and implemented crowd-funding campaigns, including producing 8 videos to increase excitement.
• 100% Self-fundraised salary

Partner Relations & Administration 2018-2020

Manzini, Eswatini

• Mentored, trained, and managed 6+ staff members.
• Promoted strong cross-organization relations through managing partner-staff relationships and being the reporting point of contact.
• Ensured healthy staff engagement by implementing accountability metric reporting and dynamic staff organizational charts.
• Enforced fairness metrics to ensure visibility into school fee payouts for disadvantaged youth.
• Substantially reduced error rates and data corruption events by normalizing many competing sponsorship datasets into one unified source of truth.
• Greatly increased collaboration by creating a custom web application to house 10k child records, staff records, and business assets.
• Significantly reduced IT costs by purchasing ruggedized Chromebooks, flashing dead laptops with Linux, implementing Google Workspace, and enforcing strong virus protocols for Windows laptops.
• Created operational visibility by building dynamic marketing, web, and sponsorship dashboards.
• Improved productivity through transitioning project management systems and cloud storage for large files.
• Designed and built functional mobile computer training labs.
• Increased partner engagement by launching eswatinirising.com and several vision-casting presentation decks.
• Increased security and productivity by helping transition staff salaries from cash to direct deposit and by innovating banking website data imports.
• Successfully funded, designed, and implemented crowd-funding campaigns, including producing 8 videos to increase excitement.
• 100% Self-fundraised salary.

IT & Marketing Manager 2015-2018

Manzini, Eswatini

• Helped innovate organizational culture and vision through membership as a Dream Team Leader.
• Supported staff growth through reinventing employee review processes.
• Increased partner engagement through social media, website, videos, campaigns, presentations, and print materials.
• Increased output through mentoring interns from local technical colleges reducing overall spending.
• Expanded staff training through offline training video library for staff without increasing internet costs.
• Cleared critical infrastructure roadblocks by implementing satellite internet, office internet filtering, mobile mesh networking solutions, device repairs, training, and advanced media optimizations so the organization could improve its ability to operate and share stories.
• Increased ability of programs to fundraise and network with partners through custom branding sessions and leader training.
• Enabled operations being trusted to store and regularly transport ministry and payroll cash assets.
• Successfully funded, designed, and implemented crowd-funding campaigns, including producing 7 videos to increase excitement.
• 100% Self-fundraised salary.