Mike Pierce
Tech consultant, coach & mentor.
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Services:
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Individual mentoring
Coaching and mentoring of individuals of all seniority levels, from all diverse cultural and social backgrounds, who wish to develop a robust mindset that is calibrated to the common challenges encountered in a career in tech. -
Team coaching
Hands-on support with developing cross-functional tech teams based on mutual trust, that embrace diversity & inclusion, that become resilient to the turbulent shifts encountered in organisations of all shapes and sizes. -
Project consulting
Advisory on technical projects of all sizes, from discovery of requirements & scope, technical decisions & architecture, to recommendations and material support on staffing, resources and budgeting.
Outcomes:
- Mentored people like Tona, Elena, Mateusz & Gabriel to develop their mindsets and careers in tech with timely advice, support with goal-setting and maintaining accountability.
- Helped a tech team at anonymous start-up to weather major changes in leadership and frequent shifts in company strategy in order to continue to deliver mission-critical customer facing tech efficiently that allowed the business to keep running.
- Supported agencies like Ponder and products like 11Freunde with their work to ensure projects were well scoped, would be built on a solid tech foundation, and be delivered on budget.
Experience:
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Zolar
Technical and engineering people lead of Configurator & Website teams 2021-2023. -
Edenspiekermann
Director of Development of the Berlin office of storied international digital design agency 2019-2020. -
Someone & Sons
Co-founder and Technical director of Berlin based web design and development agency, from 2012-2017.
Contributions:
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Talk at DotAll Conference 2019
A talk I did with my colleague Dimitri titled ”Feet on the ground, head(less) in the cloud with Gatsby & Craft CMS”.