Falon Darville falondarville

Currently seeking a Knowledge Management, Technical Writing Manager, or Engineering Manager role. If you're seeing this, I'm still looking.

In professional settings, my primary objectives are threefold:

Simplifying systems and concepts, ensuring they are accessible to a wide audience. I especially love open source.
Recognizing the boundaries and opportunities for growth within systems, technologies, and individuals, fostering an environment of continuous improvement and expansion.
Guiding my team with understanding of their motivations and strengths, and leading with resilience and rigor to achieve collective success.

Skills and Certifications

Full Stack Engineering (MERN - MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) certificate from UC Davis
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certificate
Web Accessibility certificate from W3 Consortium
Write the Docs 2021 Speaker
Terraform Associate Certification
Automation planning
Simple systems, intake, and Agile practices
People management
Terraform, CircleCI, GitHub, bash, scripting, Python
docs-as-code, API documentation, end user documentation, engineering documentation
open source, public speaking, representation at conferences, developer advocacy

Engineering Manager, Cisco

Optimized deployment time from 48 hours to 14.5 hours (33.5 hours of decreased customer impact)
Increased the high function of the App Deployment team by simplifying processes - higher requirements for engineers, increased technical maturity, introduced Agile methods (retrospectives, Root Cause Analysis)
Built a streamlined intake process for the team's many functions. Moved the team from wiki status to Jira status - our customers can self-serve status. Reduced interruptions to engineers during their day-to-day work
Lead a team of DevOps Software Engineers in multiple US time zones and India with resiliency, empathy, and rigor. Understanding of working with international teams, which emphasis on creating natural connection by instilling excitement and innovation into work