Things that happened this year:

• The year started with wrapping up a 6 month Lean Lab
• Then I spoke with a bunch of great companies including: eBay, Facebook, NBC Universal, New York Times, Pivotal Labs, Rackspace, Macy’s, Levi’s, Poshmark, Home Depot & SFO before joining Cognizant
• With Cognizant I became a client facing Senior Product Manager / Lead on a client engagement with a team of 8 onshore and 4 offshore for an Applications Cloud Migration Pilot in the aviation space
  
• We migrated 13 apps in 6 months and established patterns for migrating roughly another 200
• As the first team on the ground we also onboarded 5 more projects/teams in 6 months
• Tools used included JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, Jenkins, Dynatrace, Service Now, Trello, Office, VSM; shout out to Dreamhost Remixer tool that enabled me to put a draft for this site together in a few hours
  
• Ran Lean/SAFe planning, sprints, stand ups, iterations, retrospectives, client and team check ins
• Retired at least 1 VM

Things I want to do in the coming year:

• Do great work with Cognizant
  
• Cloud related learnings and/or certifications
• I’d love to do the free online CS degree that’s made up of all the best classes from the best schools-even if I did one or two classes I’d be happily on that road
  

Things that happened this year:

• Tried a bunch of the alternative women’s clothing retail models including Le Tote, MM LaFleur, Gwynnie Bee, Poshmark, Beta Brand
  
• Tried Galaxy Hair
• Finally got onto Medium and started a blog called  “Bad Ideas Pitch Deck”
• Shot a short doc (currently being edited)
• Became a beta tester for the Insight Timer meditation app (Android)
• Built bikes for kids in Atlanta
• Donated to kids robot lab in NYC
  
• Made terrariums
  
• Made jewelry
• Did sticker by number

Things I want to do in the coming year

• Get a pretty tight & high quality minimalist travel oriented lady closet in place
• Finish up the short doc and figure out distribution (festivals or other)
• Try silver/gray fashion hair maybe with some ombre or a second fashion color
• Find homes for the terrariums especially as I will likely have to move house this year
• I’m taking an orientation for getting more involved with outreach and charitable activities at work
  
• This year is a big birthday and a big anniversary of my study abroad program so I’m planning a big trip that includes a reunion in Copenhagen
  

Exercise

• After trying things that didn’t really stick I found a program on YouTube called Yoga Shred. It’s versatile and quick
  
• I haven’t weighed myself but my clothes are looser
  
• Also after some 20+ years of practicing yoga, I’ve turned some sort of a corner where I feel very comfortable tailoring a routine to how I am that day where before I’d always think success was adhering to the routine. I’m surely thinking about this because of Tim Wu
  

Meditation

• Continued using the Insight Timer app for meditation
• I listen to guided meditations and I had already been doing that in 2017 but it stuck-I’ve logged 250 hours this year and 644 sessions
• With this I’m learning from all sorts of teachers in different areas
  
• Lastly I feel leaps and bounds more resilient and I’m getting good feedback in that regard as well