RACHEL B. ALMEIDA
Product + Development
Rachel Almeida is a product manager with nine years experience in web and software development. She holds a degree in Cognitive Psychology and technical certification in front end engineering. After three years of working as a software engineer, she transitioned into product management mentoring other developers and owning product roadmaps. A technical product leader, she divides her work time between front end development, project managing, and meeting with stakeholders to get clean, useful products successfully out the door. She values making great connections and producing problem-solving deliverables. Rachel currently works for The American Psychological Association developing Cognitive Psychology courseware.
Experience
2021 - Current
The American Psychological Association
PRODUCT MANAGER
Product owner of Cognitive Psychology Psyclearn educational courseware leading a team of PhD Psychology professors, authors, and researchers on The APA publishing team.
2020-2021
CRITERIA CORP., LLC
PRODUCT MANAGER
Product manager leading integration of Emotional Intelligence Assessment software working with IO Psychologists
2019 - 2020
AD HOC LLC
PRODUCT MANAGER
Product manager leading enrollment for Healthcare.gov, release manager, sprint planning, working with 8.5+ million users actively enrolling on healthcare.gov
2016-2019
MomentFeed
FRONT END ENGINEER, TECHNICAL PM
Front end developer of local landing pages, writing Angular, Jacascript, Html, CSS, working with API integrations, and Java.
UX - wireframing, mockups
Clients include: Starbucks, AT&T, Sephora, Jamba Juice, Zaxby's, Hertz, Einstein Bagel, John Deere, Cricket, Jersey Mikes and more.
2013 - 2016
BENEFITFOCUS
UX ENGINEER
Front end engineer writing javascript, backbone, css, less, html working BlueCross BlueShield benefit enrollment UI
CONTACT
A North Carolina native, I'm either traveling around the world, visiting family in Brazil, or home in California. I am currently off of all social media, including LinkedIn. Don't worry, my friends make sure to text me pics of their kids and the funniest memes I'm missing. For professional references or interest in working together, please email through the form here.
-Rachel Almeida
