Career Timeline
2021-01-01 -
Senior Director of Engineering - Network Engineering
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.2017-10-01 - 2021-01-01
Senior Director of Engineering - Platform Services
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 events2013-09-01 - 2020-06-01
Independent Consultant
Primary Independent consultant providing hands-on engineering and design consultation.2017-02-01 - 2017-10-01
Director Of Engineering
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.2016-02-01 - 2017-02-01
Director of Engineering
Engineering Director for Guest Fulfillment Engineering : Availability, Flexible Fulfillment, and Guest facing allocation2014-12-01 - 2016-02-01
Senior Engineering Manager
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.2013-06-01 - 2014-12-01
Senior Technical Architect
responsibility for the architecture from a business user perspective.2009-03-01 - 2013-06-01
Engineering Manager
Technical Lead of the software development group, with hands-on software development as lead developer and coaching junior developers2007-12-01 - 2009-03-01
Principal Engineer
Part of the Hennepin Justice Integration Project (HJIP). Developing platforms through service orientated architecture (SOA) to integrate different City, County, and State systems.2007-08-01 - 2007-12-01
Software Engineer
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.2007-05-01 - 2007-08-01
Engineer (intern)
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.2004-07-01 - 2007-08-01
Network Administrator
Network management and user support for a mid-sized property management company.Beginning!