Team Member Spotlight Awards

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

The people! Our team is incredible and they drive me to do my best everyday to see where we can make an impact.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

I handle a lot of the communications between our Sales and Marketing teams, as well as our market intelligence. I also work to support campaigns around our product releases.

What has been your favorite project so far?

I’ve really enjoyed working with our schools and students on testimonials. Working with my own alma mater, UF, on a webinar with AACSB was so cool and felt like I’d come really far since being a student.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

Probably how tall I am! I’m 6’1 and have played basketball my entire life, which is hard to tell in a remote workspace 🙂

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

I love that I can rely on my people to deliver. We always accomplish what we say we will and go above-and-beyond for our teammates!

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

I’ve learned so much from my leadership about higher education as a whole and how to be a better product marketer. I think I’ve already learned a lot more about buying cycles, campaigns, and data which I can’t wait to continue doing.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

I’m excited to continue growing with Honorlock and creating more exciting content for higher education. Whether it’s thought leadership or future partnerships, I think the future is bright for our team.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

First off, the people.  If I didn’t have the team that I work with on a daily basis, none of what I do daily would be as enjoyable and fulfilling as it currently is.  From a professional perspective – throughout my career, I’ve worked in many industries, but being able to work in a vertical that allows me to impact people’s lives in an enduring way drives a different type of motivation.  I’m constantly motivated to work towards more positive outcomes for everyone who interacts with the Honorlock platform.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock? 

My focus has always been the intersection of humanity and technology.  I have always tried to avoid building fancy technology if it doesn’t improve the lives of those that use it.  The goal is always to understand what people want, then try to distill that into what they actually need (often, there are many unsaid things hidden between the lines of a customer request).  During my time here at Honorlock, I have led the technical team in ensuring that we stay true to that mission.

What has been your favorite project so far?

It’s hard to pick a specific project, but I can much more easily point to a period of time – the height of the pandemic.  At this time, the world was put in a position to move all things online in a matter of weeks, with no time to prepare.  During that time, a small team of Honorlock engineers was able to overcome mountains of adversity to be able to support hypergrowth at a level that is truly rare to experience in any industry. We needed to figure out how to support proctors, support, CSMs, instructors, students & the underlying platform through the improvement/addition of product features and functionality… all at the same time.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

Though I live and breathe technical solutions, I actually graduated from an art school which is typically seen as the complete opposite of a technical-minded person.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

The company promotes growth, encourages autonomy, and empowers its people to make an impact.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

In my time here, the pandemic forced Honorlock to go from a  small, scrappy, 40-person startup to a mature growth stage 150+ person company in a dramatically shortened time period.  This has forced me to grow personally and professionally in how I look at and approach problems to ensure that I am thinking at least 12 months ahead in all decisions I make as a technical leader.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

I’m very excited to continue driving the technology to a place where we are leading the academic integrity space not only in higher education, but also as a leader in continued learning across all industries.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

The team. I get to work alongside incredibly creative, passionate, and inspiring people. 

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

Software development of new features and existing feature maintenance.

What has been your favorite project so far?

Proctor activity tracking.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

Before starting in software development, I was a part time locomotive engineer.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?         

Awesome collaboration and teammates.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

I’ve learned many things during my time at Honorlock which has allowed me to be a more relevant member of the team.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

To grow and expand my capabilities, allowing me to better support the team.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock? 

Working on difficult challenges alongside a strong team. Strong teammates don’t necessarily make the challenges any easier, but they do help to alleviate the pressure and anxiety that tends to sneak up on you. The people around me continually motivate me to get up every morning and keep pushing initiatives forward.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

At 4 years in, I believe I am the official OG in Engineering, which means that I know where most of the bodies are buried (there is a good chance I buried a good number of them… lol). Outside of leading development efforts and architecting new features, I also provide the history of why current features work the way they work and how they evolved to their current state. I am also an internal champion of YAGNI.

What has been your favorite project so far?

I’m currently driving an initiative to completely overhaul the internal HL dashboard. The dashboard has been begging to be updated for years and in its current state, it provides a very poor development experience when we need to make updates or add new features. The overhaul will introduce new developer tooling that will go a long way in bettering the development experience, which in turn will increase the quality of the features that the team puts out. Working with new toys is always a lot of fun!

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

I love spicy food. I mean really spicy. Like I have an expletive level of spiciness. Anyone that knows my love for spicy foods no longer trusts me when I tell them that something is not spicy. Essentially my taste buds are dead and they can’t be trusted to gauge the spice level of food for a “normal” person, my wife has made this mistake many times.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

I love being challenged. Not only does the product itself provide fun and interesting challenges, but the high level of talent on the development team forces me to bring my A-game each and every day.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

With almost a 4 year tenure here at Honorlock, I have not only grown as a software developer but also as a person. Even when going through hard transitions, the feeling of unity remains strong. I am able to rely on my peers and have confidence they will deliver. I have grown to trust in the team, and not need to be a one-man army.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

I love new challenges, and we don’t seem to be running out of the next problem to solve. Delivering high-quality features that continue to push Honorlock ahead of the competition.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

I love helping people stay safe from today’s cyber threats. The threats we face in today’s world are much more complex. Helping people & companies learn how they can defend against these threats is a major driver in getting me motivated daily to make a difference. I also have to say, the technology team I work with is fantastic and that is great motivation itself.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

Anything Cyber Security related…including training, incident investigations, assessing risk, and managing many security tools.

What has been your favorite project so far?

The CIS critical controls audit as well as creating tougher (more believable) phishing exercises are tied for #1.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

I was selected to represent the United States Al-Star team to play baseball in China. I also LOVE helping kids (6-11) learn about Cyber Security through the Garfield-at-Home project offered by the Center for Cyber Safety and Education.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

Three things – Honorlock’s people, Honorlock’s mission & Honorlock’s people. Every person I have met are experts in their areas and are always willing to help.  They are also amazing people, personally & professionally.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

I think the biggest growth area is my personal understanding of how my efforts can directly impact Honorlock’s goals as a company.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

Being a part of Honorlock’s growth is exciting enough but having industry-leading security is just as exciting.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

My team is my main motivation at Honorlock. I wake up every day and want to be the best I can be at my position so that my team can succeed. I am surrounded by brilliant minds, who are all passionate about the product they are working on and testing. Just seeing everyone perform at such a high level makes me want to match their energy and overall output.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

My current position at Honorlock is as a QA Engineer, and essentially, I test new features that are introduced to the client-facing side of the product. Me and the other QA on the External, or “Outpost”, Team work closely with the developers to test tickets and bug fixes in order to validate that they are ready for our clients to use. It is also my job as a QA to spot any flaws in the product or point out anything that could improve the quality of life of our customers who are using Honorlock.

What has been your favorite project so far?

The project I have enjoyed testing for the most at Honorlock would be the Search and Destroy feature. In my two years here, I have watched this feature grow vastly and I am proud to say that I have helped test and offer suggestions to ensure that it works in the best way possible for our instructors. I hope to work on some projects in the future, as I have voiced ideas internally with my team that can potentially improve the way test takers and test administrators use our product, so I hope those will be coming down the pipeline shortly, stay tuned.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

One thing that many people at Honorlock don’t know about me until they truly meet me is that I offer the perfect mix of sports and geek knowledge. I can talk all day about MLB, NHL, NFL, and NBA then turn around and talk about Star Wars, anime, DC, and Marvel for hours. I have actually created friendships at Honorlock with our Canadian employees bonding over NHL and I’ve strengthened many bonds with other coworkers over new Star wars and Anime media.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

Definitely the people, I have met so many great people throughout my time in Honorlock on the support, QA, and PED teams. Everyone is super helpful and we all share the same goal to maintain and produce the best product possible for our clients. I have created genuine bonds with many employees at Honorlock, and this has only strengthened the work we put out to the public because nobody wants to let anyone down and we help build each other up where needed.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

Considering that I started out in support here at Honorlock two years ago in April of 2020, I would say my career has grown exponentially. I worked my way through support and earned a role where I was able to connect directly with the instructors and school admins who required assistance with their Honorlock inquiries. After a while in Admin Support, I moved over to the PED team under the role of QA Engineer, and ever since then, I have worked with the External Facing Personas “Outpost” team where I log and test bugs & feature changes.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

Being on the External Facing Personas “Outpost” team, I get to see a lot of the great new features and ideas that we have potentially coming through the pipeline. I can’t say what exact feature I am excited for most since it would just be too hard to narrow down, but I can say that I am very excited to work with my team and with my QAs to test and make any improvements to ensure that the best product will be going live to our customers. I hope to grow as best I can to keep up with our vastly improving team and product.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

As far back as I can remember, I’ve always been into solving puzzles, for example, those metal ones that you need to find a way to pull apart and then put back together. Every day at Honorlock I not only get to work on challenging puzzles but also work with an amazing team of individuals that constantly push me to learn and do better. It’s really rewarding when everyone around you is so committed to delivering such a high-quality product.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

As a Senior Software Engineer, my main focus is developing new features as well as making improvements to all of Honorlock’s Online Proctoring Tools. A great part of this involves collaborating with my peers to identify the best solutions to meet our goals in an efficient way that allows us to continue to grow and scale.

What has been your favorite project so far?

There is definitely a lot to choose from. My favorite was working on the security initiative where the focus was on improving the security of our platform, there were big challenges in terms of the features we wanted to implement and it was a great collaborative effort to get everything done. It really made me push my boundaries on learning and understanding the project as a whole.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

As a kid, I enjoyed chemistry a lot, and as an adult that transformed into me making killer cocktails.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

It’s 100% the people, every day I’m surrounded not only by some of the smartest people I know but also amazing human beings. It’s a great pleasure to work in an environment where collaboration feels so easy and knowledge is so abundant that there are lessons to be learned every single day.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

Working at Honorlock has essentially sped up my technical growth. I’ve had the chance of working on projects with a lot of complexity for which I had to learn a lot to get the job done. Being part of a team that is so knowledgeable also has driven me to learn more about new technologies as well as improve my skill set.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

There are some great projects planned in our roadmap that I’m very excited to start working on that will certainly challenge my skills as a Software Engineer and continue to drive my career growth. I’m also looking forward to being continually amazed by the quality of work that our team delivers every day.

Want to learn more about higher education and online learning? Check out our articles, eBooks, videos, and webinars.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

I have an amazing team that I get to work closely with every day! The enthusiasm our team shares for creating impactful marketing campaigns makes Honorlock an exciting place to work.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

As a demand generation manager, I focus on the organic side of marketing by transforming all the amazing thought leadership content my team produces into bite-size pieces that will reach our current and potential customers across different marketing platforms. I am lucky to work on a team that is passionate about creating meaningful content on topics that matter to our audience.

What has been your favorite project so far?

Over the last year, our team has produced several thought-leadership eBooks on trending higher education and educational technology topics including:

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Online Learning
• Creating Online Authentic Assessments
• How to Write Better Test Questions

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

Outside of Honorlock, I am a professional photographer! You can find me behind the camera capturing all things weddings, families, and babies!   

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

I love the collaboration and positive energy across all Honorlock teams and how every team member is genuinely driven to help create positive experiences for our customers.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

I have been lucky to grow my design skills! I get to collaborate with my team daily to bring our visual concepts to life.  

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

I am excited to see our team continue to grow while making positive impacts across the organization and for our customers! 

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About Honorlock

What is Honorlock? 

Honorlock provides online proctoring software and services to higher education institutions and organizations.

How does Honorlock work?

Our on-demand online exam proctoring solution combines test monitoring software and live exam proctors to protect academic integrity while still supporting student success. Honorlock is used by hundreds of universities and colleges, including several of the largest in the US, and we’re dedicated to providing a better remote testing experience with our advanced online proctoring platform, world-class service, and 24/7/365 support.

Want to learn more about higher education and online learning? Check out our articles, eBooks, videos, and webinars.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock? 

Working for a company that has not only valued me since day one for my input, work ethic and personality traits but also has made it easy to show up to each shift ready to work and help. 

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock? 

As a Proctor 1, I aim to help exam takers not only meet guideline expectations set by their instructors but be an ally for them to help with any technical or anxiety moments they may have.

What has been your favorite project so far? 

Figuring out what I can do to make my teammates feel supported in ways of mental health, workload, and comradery.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you? 

 In 2016/2017 I put together/ran stand-up comedy shows in Michigan and in my current free time I game and sometimes stream as a twitch affiliate. 

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team? 

The constant positive interactions and support I feel daily from my team and the laughs we have together. 

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock? 

Within My 6 months, I’ve been given constant opportunities to set up my path for growth and feel like my journey not only matters to me but my leadership. 

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock? 

The advancement possibilities to become a lead that’d allow me to work as an ally for Honorlock and its employees to ensure a thriving culture of not only productivity but mental health. 

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

The amazing people we have made it such a pleasure to wake up every morning and work on building such a great product. 

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

My primary responsibilities involve developing solutions to any unique problems we face. Apart from development I also try to contribute with ideation and mentoring others. 

What has been your favorite project so far? 

This one is a tough question. There are so many fun projects and so much opportunity to contribute here, that each project has been fun. If I were to pick though, I’d say working with our machine learning technologies and hardening the security of our applications has been super fulfilling. 

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you? 

I love teaching and have made courses and numerous blogs over the years sharing the things I learn and find interesting. 

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

Getting to work with so many great and motivated people really makes Honorlock a special place to work. Everyone is very supportive and we all push each other to be better. The culture here is just fantastic. 

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock? 

Since starting with Honorlock, I’ve gotten really into infrastructure tools such as Terraform and developing within AWS. Every day working with so much great talent pushes me to grow professionally in all aspects of my career. Working with our Architects has also started pushing me to look at solutions a bit differently and think of the bigger picture. 

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock? 

With the continued growth of the company, I find myself being able to contribute in a meaningful way. It’s super exciting to see the things I build or help build be used by so many people and have a meaningful impact on the product. 

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

Simply put, what motivates me to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock is just having the opportunity to work here. I get to work side by side with such incredible talent and I’m so grateful to be able to interact with so many departments and different people within the organization, I wouldn’t trade it for the world!

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

My main responsibilities are supporting the Executive Team and the People Team from attending meetings on behalf of executives, assisting with decisions surrounding people or policies to ensure we’re doing the right thing, and making the magic happen behind the scenes. I’m also considered Honorlock’s subject matter expert on anything and everything. Typically when someone has a question within the organization and they’re not sure who to go to, you can count on me to deliver.

What has been your favorite project so far?

I think every project that our “Fun Squad” group at work has been a part of has been wonderful. It’s so rewarding to see an employee’s reaction when you can get them engaged with an event or even surprise them with swag directly to their door!

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

I’m a first-generation American. My parents did an incredible job raising my brother and me, but seeing what they sacrificed to put me in the position I am today makes me want to give back to them and that motivates me to work that much harder every day.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

I love being able to have the opportunity to connect with the different people within the organization. Everyone comes from a different background and it’s so breathtaking to hear someone’s story from where they come from to seeing their new Honorlock chapter unfold right before my eyes.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

I’ve had the pleasure of starting off in the Customer Support department back in 2018. Helping students and faculty over phone calls or live chats to blossoming into the jack of all trades role that I am in today working side by side with the Executive Team helping them with their day-to-day.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

I’ve been around for over three years and as one of our OG employees. I can say for a fact that we’re only just getting started and I’m really excited about what’s to come. We have such great leadership around us who genuinely care about what we’re doing here and about each other. That alone gives me bliss and is something that many of us can get behind.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

A big motivator is being someone my team can depend on to ensure our goals are met. I love knowing that I am contributing to the incredible growth Honorlock has experienced. It is also motivating to work alongside genuinely great people who make being part of Honorlock that much better.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

As Marketing Manager, my main responsibility is to be a flexible tool in the marketing department. Outside of managing conferences, social media, and website functions my goal is to support my team and tackle new projects and challenges in the department.

What has been your favorite project so far?

I enjoyed working on the Employee Value Award program! Honorlock has done a great job recognizing the importance of celebrating employees and it was a privilege to have the opportunity to develop this program.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

I love growing orchids and have around 20 of them to date.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

I love being part of a team that is passionate about what they do. Despite being remote, I feel we are all incredibly connected.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

Since starting with Honorlock in August of 2019 I have been able to exponentially grow my skills and abilities within the marketing department. In response to the pandemic, my responsibilities significantly broadened. I was given the opportunity to work on new and unique projects such as contributing toward the creation of our first Zoom client testimonials, hosting our highly attended webinars, and building awareness emails so schools across the country could learn about the benefit of a tool like Honorlock (just to name a few)! I am grateful to work alongside excellent people who share their wealth of knowledge and I look forward to my continued growth with Honorlock.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

I am excited to continue my growth professionally in a rapidly growing marketing department! I am eager to see the expansion of the team and how it will impact our reach to schools not only across the country but globally.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

The sense of responsibility for my team and knowing that I am contributing to a fast-growing and forward-thinking company helps drive me to make an impact daily.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

My main responsibilities here at Honorlock are to guide and equip the Record and Review team with what is needed to be successful. Learning the process and training new hires has been one of the largest, yet satisfying, responsibilities to date.

What has been your favorite project so far?

My favorite, yet most challenging project, has been training a new team. This took a lot of work, dedication, and a great team in my corner to make this successful.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

Most people do not know that I studied and became a Crime Scene Tech. Watching CSI and Unsolved mysteries sparked that fire to study this field. Being able to bring closure to families that were hurting drove the desire, but not wanting to become immune to horror created a different path for me.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

What I love most about being part of the Honorlock team is that this is not only a company but more of a family building each other up. Honorlock has ALWAYS had the best interest at heart for their employees. It is truly a blessing to be part of such a great company but an even more amazing group of colleagues.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

It has grown immensely. I came on board back in March of 2020, thinking I would help for a couple of months in support. I was then asked to be part of a new team, the Record and Review team, in October of 2020. In November I was promoted to the Lead and in January the Manger of the Record and Review team. It has been a great experience and looking forward to continuing to grow here at Honorlock.

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

I am most excited about the endless possibility of growth with Honorlock. I believe with hard work, dedication, and the desire to learn the possibilities are endless.

What motivates you to wake up every morning and make an impact at Honorlock?

My family is my primary inspiration and motivation to wake up in the morning and do my best.

What are your main responsibilities at Honorlock?

I mainly take part in Live Proctoring, which involves monitoring exam taker sessions in real-time. One responsibility involves proactively interceding in a session if an exam taker is attempting academic dishonesty, while another is simply helping an exam taker improve their testing environment such as slouching or accidentally using materials that are not allowed.

What’s something most people at Honorlock don’t know about you?

I’m the youngest child out of three brothers and three sisters including myself, and my parents immigrated from Jamaica.

What do you love most about being part of the Honorlock team?

The people of Honorlock have been wonderful and the culture is quite welcoming.

How has your career grown since starting at Honorlock?

I began with Honorlock in a support position, since then I have been promoted to a senior proctoring role. I’ve learned quite a lot since my short time here and I look forward to my continued career growth!

What are you most excited about in your future with Honorlock?

The potential for growth and the possibility to truly impact the future of the product and the company.