Heather M.

Heather M.

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Former VP at Pantheon | 8 Years in IT Leadership | Salesforce Alum

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Studied at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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Worked at Pantheon Systems

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Heather's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly · $59/hr

Get help with Promotion Strategy, IT Strategy, and IT Governance.

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Heather’s IT Management Qualifications

Experience level: Director

Heather has helped clients get into these companies:

8 years of Technical Operations experience at Tableau and within Business Technology at Salesforce

Heather can help with:

Promotion Strategy

IT Strategy

IT Governance

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About Heather

Beyond passionate about helping you become your best self at work in software engineering - regardless of where in the company you find yourself. I learned early in my career that people management was where I excelled. I get out of the way so that others may build and I provide the air cover needed to keep you working uninterrupted. I am transparent and share as much information as allows. I've lobbied hard for promotions and get you started months before the promotion cycle is upon us. I've played the game, successfully and fairly. There's no shortcuts with my leadership but you can be guaranteed that you'll be on solid ground working with me.

Why do I coach?

Acts of Service is my love language and fortunately for me, this comes across in my work life too. I don't need the words or the gifts - I show my gratitude through acts of service. This is why Coaching comes so naturally to me. I'm a life long athlete as well (running, soccer, rowing, triathlon, SwimRun) so I get how a coach can help the individual and the team.

Work Experience

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Records Clerk

Orcas Island Fire & Rescue

June 2024 - Present

Continuing my journey into public sector work, this time as a part time Records Clerk, searching for responsive records to public records requests and analyzing records for retention. I've educated myself about WA State's Public Records Act, which is one of the most transparent in the nation, right alongside Florida's. Records Retention work is also part of my scope now that the Public Records work is caught up. WA State's Archives is also a fascinating space. I even had a chance to help with payroll recently. The department is small and people wear many hats.

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VP

Pantheon Systems

November 2021 - September 2022

Executive Leadership for the engineering teams responsible for: CMS Ecosystems, Autopilot, Front End Sites, Customer Experience, Design Systems, RevOps & Payments, and Foundational Services including Visual Regression Testing service and a VCS service. I led the teams through a few organizational re-alignments due to business priorities changing: one with an incredibly short period of time to implement and another by moving a team out of my org in support of the broader company goals, inclusive of sourcing that team's new leader. By managing with an incredible amount of transparency and candor, I ensured the teams kept delivering when facing ambiguity in the case of a cross team Central services intiative or when working through apprehension with our Finance partners. My team was about 65 engineers, disbursed across the world/timezones supporting features in use by hundreds of companies as well as support teams within Pantheon that worked directly with customers. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Teamwork and +2 skills

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Senior Director, Engineering

Salesforce

April 2020 - November 2021

With Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, I joined the Business Technology (BT) team at Salesforce. I successfully managed teams of Engineers and Agile Leaders in BT's M&A Org - focused on the Tableau Enterprise Application technologies in the following domains: Integrations, Partner Experience, eCommerce, Customer Retention (Technical Support & Post Sales) and the Shared Engineering Services (Automation Infrastructure, CI/CD, Security, Performance) that supported these Domain teams plus additional ones in other parts of the org. I was in the thick of aligning with the Core BT Business Partner Groups, inclusive of org design and integration, while gaining first hand M&A technology merging activities experience. Still ensured that people didn't really know we were doing work on their behalf... the air in the room. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), IT Management and +4 skills

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Sr Director, Engineering

Tableau

April 2014 - March 2020

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Sr Director, Engineering

Expedia Group

August 1999 - May 2013

Heather was also given offers to work at

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    Nordstrom

  • IBM Logo

    IBM

  • Lockheed Martin Logo

    Lockheed Martin

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation Logo

    Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Microsoft Logo

    Microsoft

  • U.S. Department of Defense Logo

    U.S. Department of Defense

Education

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Logo

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering

Activities and societies: Women's Rowing Team, SWE - Member of the Michigan Women's rowing team, twice competing at NCAA's. - Microsoft Women's Technical Scholarship Recipient

Heather was also personally admitted to

  • University of Wisconsin - Madison Logo

    University of Wisconsin - Madison

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