I spent over a decade as a CAD Manager and Architectural & Engineering Technologist.
Overseeing
complex technical solutions and bridging the gap between technical teams and non-technical
stakeholders.
That foundation of precision, documentation, and cross-disciplinary thinking still shapes
how I approach
every codebase.
My path into tech was when I attended a tech meetup. It was a panel of 5 ladies who had all
taught
themselves to code and made career changes. I thought about it for 2 days and decided to try
it. HTML done
in a day. Day 2 was CSS. When I got to colour I lost 3 days to building colour palettes.
Probably stems
from my interior design background.
When I discovered that you could build a website in 1-2 days I was hooked. In architecture,
you draw for
1-3 years before ground breaks. In web development, you can ship something beautiful in a
day.
Three months of self-study later, I was building websites for local small businesses. Larger
clients
followed. That's where I started working with backend developers and the need to understand
the full stack
became clear. So I returned to school for an intensive one-year full-stack bootcamp at John
Abbott
College.
Seven years on, I bring the same instinct I had on day one: curiosity first, craft always. I
recently
completed the Google AI Professional Certificate and am actively exploring how AI tooling is
reshaping the
way we build.
