Trista Smith

Professional Background

With almost 20 years experience in delivering digital media and information technology projects following waterfall and agile methodologies, Trista successfully led on-site and remote teams through extensive, challenging projects building websites, content management systems, mobile applications, job boards, and third-party integrations while collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders, budgets and timelines.

Personal Interests

Trista currently spends most of her time hanging out with her kids or running them to and from their activities; but Trista has made a lot of great friends meeting parents of her kids’ friends, so it’s been a win-win. In the bit of free time she has, Trista tries to get some movement in – indoors or outdoors, whatever she can get! Otherwise you can find Trista sitting on her front porch with a beverage in her hand watching the sunset for some quiet relaxation. Trista’s goal is to get back to traveling so she can continue discovering and exploring different places with her family.

Causes She Is Passionate About

She likes to support local charities or organizations that give back to the community, from her children’s schools’ PTA groups to food and clothing donation groups. On a larger scale, Trista supports anything to do with missing and exploited children. She also was fortunate to work for the Humane Society of the United States for a little while, so animal cruelty also holds a special place for her.

Ideal Superpower

“I just want one superpower, to get everything I need or want to get done in half the time yet still with 100% effort and accuracy.”