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Work Experience

• Senior Director of Engineering - Network Engineering, 

  Jan, 2021 - Present

  Identified as a change agent, I was asked to move to the Network team; an area that I had limited expereince with. Tasked with developing and delivering our next generation WAN strategy that is founded in stability and reliability delievred through diveristy, we will provide a redundant mesh that provides new capabilities for Target's resources to work together.

  • Cut 5 MM in spending from global WAN in the first 9 months.

  • Supported selection and delievery of Target's next generation of WiFi across all Target properties.

  • Support a team of leaders of leaders of global and remote team members.

• Senior Director of Engineering - Platform Services, 

  Oct, 2017 - Jan, 20213 years 3 months

  I support the some pretty exciting engineering teams at Target including the Internet of Things Platform team that provides a common platform for connected devices at Target's stores and Distribution centers, Target Application Platform (TAP) - Target’s Platform as a Service that enables developers to build, run and operate applications entirely in cloud, Target's API Platform - api.target.com - providing reusable patterns to make business logic accessible to build upon, Release and Runtime engineering team - Target's public cloud team, Praxis - our internal React framework and the Target Application Platform backed by our API Platform and Data as a Service to stand up applications rapidly, Managed File Transfer - everything from EDI to SFTP; how Target shares files with partners, and Streaming data team - Target's events platform for publishing and subscribing to events

  • Manage a resource budget of roughly 15 million dollars and L&M budget of about 50 million.

  • Support a team of leaders of leaders of global and remote team members that number roughly 150 people

  • Partner with other leaders, individual contributors, and business portfolio team members to set long term strategy and the tactics to support those strategies.

• Independent Consultant, 

  Sep, 2013 - Jun, 20206 years 9 months

  Primary Independent consultant providing hands-on engineering and design consultation.

  • Manage teams of subcontractors

  • Write and Negotiate contracts

  • Wrote code, designs, and Statements of Work

• Director Of Engineering, 

  Feb, 2017 - Oct, 20178 months

  Managed software development teams in a various areas of Capital One retail bank that provided middleware platforms for web and mobile products. Recruited and mentored engineering talent to grow and bolster a cohesive team. Restructured teams into self-organizing units that organize around their own decision making and estimating resulting in increased engagement and quality.

  • Deliver a self-service streaming data platform for all of Capital One. Working with other teams to provide governance and discoverability to enable teams to unlock the value of data

  • Supported teams building consumer facing products being built with design research and direct consumer feedback

  • Large scale bank architecture review and consultancy

  • Produce bank technical architecture deliverables such as technical requirements,documentation, and conceptual technical architecture

• Director of Engineering, 

  Feb, 2016 - Feb, 20171 year

  Engineering Director for Guest Fulfillment Engineering : Availability, Flexible Fulfillment, and Guest facing allocation

  • "Available to Promise" Availability and Estimated Delivery Dates

  • "Find it in a Target Store"

  • "Order By Get By"

  • "Buy online pickup in Store"

  • "Ship to Store"

• Senior Engineering Manager, 

  Dec, 2014 - Feb, 20161 year 2 months

  Engineering manager - Architect for the inventory vertical in Target's "Available to Promise" product team. "Available to Promise" (ATP) seeks to prevent oversell by capturing customer demand at the time of purchase and showing accurate real-time inventory across Target's 1800+ stores and other fulfillment centers.

  • First product organization at Target

  • scaled a team from 3 to 45 as hiring manager for 4 teams

• Senior Technical Architect, 

  Jun, 2013 - Dec, 20141 year 6 months

  responsibility for the architecture from a business user perspective.

  • Responsible for creation of enterprise service requirements by working with multiple project and application teams by conducting analysis and scoping of enterprise class services Business, data, use case, and technical analysis

  • Creation of service specifications, schemas, canonical models, nonfunctional requirements

  • Cultivate highly functioning teams comprised of Perficient and client resources that recognize the value and expertise of all of the different disciplines.

  • Mentor and provide technology delivery expertise to less experienced team members

  • Lead strategy engagements from a technology perspective

  • Participate in the overall leadership of the business unit and the evolution of Perficient’s offerings

• Engineering Manager, 

  Mar, 2009 - Jun, 20134 years 3 months

  Technical Lead of the software development group, with hands-on software development as lead developer and coaching junior developers

  • managed up to a team of 25 employees and contractors

  • Negotiated contracts and vendor relations

  • Migrated off of vendor products and licensed software to OSS

  • Implemented ESB (Apache/Fuse) and built multiple integrations and services

  • Matured SDLC processes and bootstrapped lean/agile SDLC using continuous integration and delivery to reduce time to delivery. (Jenkins / Mocks / lightweight containers / Github)

• Principal Engineer, 

  Dec, 2007 - Mar, 20091 year 3 months

  Part of the Hennepin Justice Integration Project (HJIP). Developing platforms through service orientated architecture (SOA) to integrate different City, County, and State systems.

• Software Engineer, 

  Aug, 2007 - Dec, 20074 months

  Consultant position. Work consisted of integrating a case management system into Microsoft exchange. Case management system calendaring was integrated into users Outlook schedule. Utilized WebDav protocol on the .NET platform.

• Engineer (intern), 

  May, 2007 - Aug, 20073 months

  Diversified Apps Infrastructure Maintenance (DAIM) team member
  Helped the DAIM Middleware support team perform scheduled maintenance on a wide variety of *nix platforms using different shell scripting approaches. I also Developed a way of reporting team metrics into a centralized location for management to share with various directors and VPs.

• Network Administrator, 

  Jul, 2004 - Aug, 20073 years 1 month

  Network management and user support for a mid-sized property management company.

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