Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Engineering at Range

San Francisco, California, United States

Asynchronous stand ups, meetings, and team building that integrates into all of your favorite apps—from Slack to Microsoft Teams.

At Range, we believe that thoughtfully designed software can play a role in improving team success while also having a positive influence on culture and happiness. Our platform allows teams to stay in sync and feel connected, even in today’s increasingly distributed workplaces. See how companies like Twitter, Medium, and Pocket use Range to build and safeguard work culture with team effectiveness at the center: <a href="https://www.range.co">https://www.range.co</a>

Range

Software Engineer

I volunteered as a mentor in First Round's Fast Track program over multiple sessions from Feb 2018 through June 2020. My personal focus was on individual contributors in hybrid roles who come from underrepresented groups in tech.

First Round Fast Track

Mentor

- Redesigned the signup process and setup guide, driving a 28% increase in our conversion rate and an 80% increase in the installation rate
-  Worked with teams across the company to launch a redesigned navigation scheme that better supports cross-selling and upselling
-  Worked with the Dublin R&D team to launch our new Educate knowledge base product, hitting our conversion and activation targets
-  Designed and built an importer for new customers with existing knowledge base content, resulting in a 15% boost in conversion

Intercom

Product Manager

Product Designer and Software Engineer

- Designed and built Tweetype (a now-discontinued Twitter-based typing game) as a Node learning project
-  Planned and executed a successful wedding with my husband Steve, and wrote a series of articles about designing the wedding identity and building the website and RSVP system, also in Node

Self-Employed

Jack of All Trades

- Led the front-end development and launch of the new Typekit font browsing experience
-  Owned and maintained Typekit’s font delivery JS, which is run billions of times each month
-  Designed and built Typekit’s first integration with <a href="http://Wordpress.com">Wordpress.com</a>, a model for future partners
-  Worked on design and front-end development for new features, including Lists, Adobe SSO, and Desktop
-  Contributed to design and implementation of Typekit’s next-gen web font serving system

Adobe

Product Designer and Software Engineer (Typekit)

I joined Typekit as the 9th employee. The company was later acquired by Adobe, where I stayed on with the team for two more years.

Typekit

- Contributed design and prototyping to projects for Google Apps for your Domain, including a new signup flow, Groups for Google Apps, the custom Gmail theme designer, and a control panel redesign
-  Designed and built a prototype of a novel form of interactive help for new Google Apps users
-  Implemented several components for Google’s shared JS component library
-  Worked on design and prototyping for the launch of Google Buzz, and later Google+
-  Co-created and taught the internal "HTML/CSS/JS From the Ground Up" course, and also taught the "Life of a User 101 and 201" Noogler courses

Google

User Experience Designer and Web Developer

- Accepted as part of a team of four classmates into the third Y Combinator batch (YC S'06)
-  Designed and built a site for writing comparative product reviews

Sean McBride