{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Kristin Boden", "label": "AI Enablement & Adoption Leader · Digital Transformation · Fractional Head of Digital", "email": "kristin@kristinboden.com", "phone": "971-570-7109", "url": "https://kristinboden.com", "summary": "Digital leader who pairs hands-on AI and automation work with 25+ years of driving technology adoption across large, change-resistant organizations. Sole technical architect of nike.com (1997) and its first e-commerce platform; led a 13-year enterprise digital transformation reaching 25,000+ users and 375+ web properties; today builds AI workflow automations and operates a DTC e-commerce business. Specializes in AI enablement and adoption, change management, train-the-trainer/champion programs, and translating complex technology into decisions non-technical leaders can act on. Open to remote roles (incl. higher education); based in the Portland, OR metro; not relocating.", "location": { "city": "West Linn", "region": "Oregon", "countryCode": "US", "postalCode": "97068" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "kristin-boden", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-boden" }, { "network": "Portfolio", "username": "ifuseek", "url": "https://ifuseek.smugmug.com" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "(TB)oden / digital", "position": "Founder & Principal — AI Enablement, Automation & Digital Operations", "url": "https://tboden.com", "startDate": "2021-04", "summary": "Independent practice spanning AI enablement/adoption advisory, workflow automation, program management, QA strategy, and fractional digital leadership.", "highlights": [ "Designed and deployed AI-powered operational automations end to end, including a SKU-keyed product-content pipeline (Mac Shortcuts + Hazel + AI image tagging) that classifies and routes assets automatically.", "Operate a DTC resale e-commerce business sourcing-to-ledger: auction sourcing, product taxonomy, multi-channel listing, order management, and full chart-of-accounts in Zoho.", "Advise on AI tool selection, workflow redesign, enablement, and change management; maintain hands-on ML fluency via Colab (summarization, tokenizers, generative models).", "Serve as fractional / interim digital leader for organizations needing senior digital and AI-adoption leadership without a full-time hire." ] }, { "name": "University of San Francisco (Contract via (TB)oden/digital)", "position": "Technical Implementation Product Manager", "startDate": "2023-02", "endDate": "2023-06", "summary": "Led the 'Next Steps' student-onboarding platform implementation end to end.", "highlights": [ "Delivered in 5 months — roughly 3 months ahead of schedule and under budget.", "Owned full lifecycle: RFP, vendor selection, data integration, rollout.", "Unified disparate data sources into a single Airtable source of truth for 40+ stakeholders." ] }, { "name": "Dia & Co (Contract via (TB)oden/digital)", "position": "Senior Quality Assurance Consultant", "startDate": "2021-10", "endDate": "2022-08", "summary": "QA transformation for a DTC fashion e-commerce platform.", "highlights": [ "Stood up agile QA frameworks plus automated and visual-regression testing, reducing technical debt.", "Built custom JQL dashboards (active defects, automated tests, covered requirements, defects-fixed-per-sprint) for real-time, data-driven QA.", "Drove covered requirements to 100% within two months; embedded QA into dev, brand, design, and marketing workflows." ] }, { "name": "Portland State University", "position": "Director, Web Communications (Enablement & Enterprise Digital Transformation)", "startDate": "2008-05", "endDate": "2021-04", "summary": "Led enterprise digital strategy, standards, governance, accessibility, budget, and organization-wide technology adoption across 375+ web properties serving 25,000+ students and 5,000 faculty.", "highlights": [ "Rebuilt the entire web ecosystem from the ground up — 60 home-grown sites to 380+ integrated, student-first, ADA-compliant sites on one of the largest Drupal multisites of its time.", "Drove 90.8M page views / 60.2M unique in a year; cut page load from 20+ seconds to under 1 second.", "Built and directed a team of trainers delivering a train-the-trainer enablement program scaled from 318 sessions in year one to 1,500+ users/year (850% increase in offerings); recruited and coached 500+ embedded content-owner champions.", "Owned the digital operations budget and vendor strategy; saved $1M+ via platform consolidation ($123K/yr software + ~$1M/yr hardware & personnel) and negotiation.", "Led migrations Saga CMS to Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 to a full rebuild; owned web accessibility strategy (WCAG / Section 508) for all centrally hosted sites; led cross-functional governance with executives.", "Remote-capable leadership: ran fully remote training and operations in 2020." ] }, { "name": "k+c digital", "position": "Principal — Program Management, QA Consulting & Agile Coaching", "startDate": "2002-11", "endDate": "2013-12", "summary": "Independent digital consultancy serving brand and agency clients including Benefit Cosmetics, Method, PopArt, and Volantis.", "highlights": [ "Delivered web/mobile application development and large-scale brand-interactive test strategy.", "Introduced QA teams, test planning, and agile coaching into client organizations." ] }, { "name": "Nike", "position": "Technical Webmaster/Architect, nike.com → Director, Consumer Direct Digital IT", "startDate": "1997-03", "endDate": "2004-12", "summary": "Sole technical architect on the founding team that launched nike.com; later led the global rollout of NIKEiD.", "highlights": [ "Built nike.com from the ground up and stood up Nike's first complete e-commerce infrastructure (logistics, call center, CRM, payments, returns, content management) in under 8 weeks.", "Architected for 99.9%+ uptime through massive traffic spikes; selected the (pre-IPO Akamai) CDN still in use across the nike.com ecosystem decades later.", "Delivered global brand experiences: 'World Body' (Sydney 2000 Olympics — 14 locations, 8 languages), Radio Free Sydney, FZT nikefootball MMO, Nike Golf/Running, Brand Jordan.", "As Director, led the global NIKEiD direct-to-consumer customization rollout and a center of excellence for Nike Retail back-end and POS systems (Nike Maxim award).", "Drove organizational change by merging creative and technical teams and introducing agile methods, improving delivery timelines 60%+." ] }, { "name": "Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)", "position": "Internet Applications Specialist / Research Consultant / DBA / Unix Sysadmin", "startDate": "1994-06", "endDate": "1997-03", "summary": "Led NWREL's creative and technical web team; strategic Internet-technology consultant to education agencies.", "highlights": [ "Built some of the first web and gopher sites in the non-profit/education space, before the public '.com' era.", "Wrote and presented some of the very first papers on the availability and application of the internet for educators — before the internet was opened to the public and before '.com' existed.", "Installed networks across regional school districts to support the then-new internet protocol; national presenter and writer." ] }, { "name": "Lewis & Clark College", "position": "Academic Consultant, Research (Statistics & Statistical Analysis)", "startDate": "1991-03", "endDate": "1994-06", "summary": "Statistical-analysis consultant (SPSS, SAS) and builder of early Internet web servers; honored as 'Academic Technologies, Emeritus.'", "highlights": [ "Designed instructional materials and reusable SPSS/SAS components for liberal-arts research.", "Designed, coded, and maintained early Internet web servers prior to '.com'." ] }, { "name": "Riverfront Cottage", "position": "Owner / Operator (Short-Term Rental)", "url": "https://riverfront-cottage.com", "startDate": "2021-01", "summary": "Short-term-rental business with full P&L and operations.", "highlights": [ "Scaled to Airbnb SuperHost + Guest Favorite (4.93/5, 100% response, peak occupancy) with dynamic pricing and multi-OTA channel management." ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Santa Clara University", "area": "Mathematics & Computer Science (Minor: Business)", "studyType": "Bachelor of Science", "startDate": "1983-09", "endDate": "1987-06" } ], "certificates": [ { "name": "Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)", "issuer": "Scrum Alliance" }, { "name": "PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) — in progress", "issuer": "Project Management Institute" }, { "name": "Prompt Engineering: How to Talk to the AIs", "issuer": "LinkedIn Learning" }, { "name": "No-Code AI: Building Your First Model", "issuer": "LinkedIn Learning" }, { "name": "Foundational Math for Machine Learning", "issuer": "Self-directed / LinkedIn Learning" }, { "name": "Google Tag Manager (Advanced)", "issuer": "Google" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "AI & Automation", "keywords": ["AI Enablement & Adoption", "Workflow Automation", "Prompt Engineering", "No-Code AI", "Applied ML (Colab)", "AI tagging pipelines"] }, { "name": "Leadership & Change", "keywords": ["Change Management", "Digital Transformation", "Train-the-Trainer / Champion Networks", "Program & Product Management", "Agile / Scrum (CSPO)", "Executive Stakeholder Leadership"] }, { "name": "Digital & Web", "keywords": ["Web Content Management at Scale (Drupal, WordPress)", "Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 / Section 508)", "SEO & Information Architecture", "Technical Architecture", "QA Strategy & Test Automation"] }, { "name": "Operations", "keywords": ["E-commerce Operations", "Vendor Negotiation & Budget Ownership", "Analytics (GA, SQL/JQL)", "P&L Management"] } ], "projects": [ { "name": "nike.com launch & first e-commerce platform", "description": "Sole technical architect; 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