I manage open source software projects in higher education. My work sits at the intersection of program management, student workforce development, and community-engaged scholarship.
Current roles:
- Product Owner, Where's Religion | website | mobile app — a Luce Foundation-funded geospatial platform for documenting lived religious practice, developed through Open Source with SLU (a $1.3M Sloan Foundation program) and SLU's Research Computing Group
- Co-Director, Missouri Crossroads | repo — a digital public history project highlighting Missouri's cultural heritage, developed at UMSL
- Collaborator, SLU Research Computing Group — partnered with the RCG team to build Where's Religion on top of RERUM and other open source linked data infrastructure
What I do day-to-day: Translate research goals into development roadmaps. Coordinate cross-functional teams of developers, designers, and scholars. Write user stories, manage sprint cycles, and keep distributed teams aligned. Oversee project budgets, timelines, and stakeholder communication.
Background: Ph.D. in the Humanities with 15+ years in higher education spanning grants administration, student success programming, and community engagement. Currently based in Missouri.