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authorOwen Jacobson <owen@grimoire.ca>2022-02-26 13:10:07 -0500
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In my time with Heroku (and with Salesforce, Heroku's parent organization), I've contributed to the operation of services that let developers bring their ideas to life on the internet, both as a developer and as a manager. I've been involved in maintaining and expanding existing features, exploring and developing new products, and in cultivating my peers and my team as people and as developers.
-* As an engineering manager, I've been responsible for building and supporting an effective, unified team. Moving into management was motivated by a desire to act as a force multiplier, which I've brought to life through coaching, process management, facilitating ongoing discussions about the direction and health of the team, and through actively being involved in my reports' progress as developers.
+* As an engineering manager, I've been responsible for building and supporting an effective, unified team across multiple continents. Moving into management was motivated by a desire to act as a force multiplier, which I've brought to life through coaching, process management, facilitating ongoing discussions about the direction and health of the team, and through actively being involved in my reports' progress as developers.
* As a lead developer, I worked on the [Heroku build system](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/git), which ingests code from end users and deploys that code to applications running on the Heroku platform. As part of that work, we implemented a number of features to control abuse, support language-specific features and needs, and to develop [new ways to deploy code](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/build-docker-images-heroku-yml) to Heroku.
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## Riptown Media (2006-2009)
-Riptown Media was an software development company tasked with building and maintaining a suite of gambling systems for a single client. I was brought on board as a Java developer, and rapidly expanded my role to encompass other fields.
+Riptown Media was an software development company tasked with building and operating a suite of gambling systems for a single client. I was brought on board as a Java developer, and rapidly expanded my role to encompass other fields.
* As the primary developer for poker-room back office and anti-fraud tools, I worked with the customer support and business intelligence teams to better understand their daily needs and frustrations, so that I could turn those into meaningful improvements to their tools and processes. These improvements, in turn, lead to measurable changes in the frequency and length of customer support calls, in fraud rates, and in the percieved value of internal customer intelligence.