Product owner in the Infrastructure and Cloud space for DevOps and CICD. Owning GitLab, SonarQube, Nexus, Sinopia, Artifactory, Docker Registries, Ansible Tower, and Jenkins. As the Product Owner I am responsible for:- Partnering with the engineering manager and architect to create the product vision and strategy - Driving and maintaining the roadmap - Building and refining the backlog - Prioritizing features - Gathering voice of the customer - Creating value stream and customer journey maps - Documenting release notes - Communicating new features and upgrades - Creating rollout and migration plans - Collaborating with development partners to provide effective solutions

- Technical Product Owner on the Enterprise DevOps team focused on in-house built quality engineering, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure products that are easily plugged into any CI/CD pipeline.- Managed onshore and offshore teams, made technical decisions, maintained a budget, built roadmaps, led discussions on architectural changes, planned sprints, gathered requirements from customers, and supported customers using our products.Built a Terraform framework for provisioning multiple VMs on-premise to replace Aries. - Built and maintained RHEL 8 Base OS images. - Built and maintained the cloud and on-premise VM image provisioning pipeline that all teams use to build their images.- Built an automated central Google Cloud Platform patching job so that VMs will be patched monthly. - Created a website to show the status and release notes for 70+ images being built with the VM Image Pipeline.- Built a Spring Boot test automation framework for SOAP and REST services, web applications, ETL, and mainframe projects. - Built a Java 8 Maven Spring Boot microservice automated data loading tool which allowed developers to do CRUD operations on test data through an easy and reusable format.- Built a tool for automatically storing and managing Allure test case reports so that they didn’t get deleted after a Jenkins job was finished and would clear the workspace. - Built a tool for GitHub that would search source code repositories for secrets and passwords to remove security vulnerabilities.- Consulted with application development teams to provide recommendations on how to implement automated tests, improve their test automation, and integrate their automated test suite into a CI/CD pipeline to lower cloud costs.

- Managed an engineering team for two Quality Engineering and Monitoring products which include the test automation frameworks, tools, and standards, and the automated development KPI reporting dashboard.- Responsible for managing onshore and offshore teams, making technical decisions, time management, planning, and gathering requirements from customers.- Provided application development teams with test automation recommendations and solutions for lowering cloud cost.- Mentored interns, recruited at college career fairs, and gave presentations to college classes about technology at Kohl’s.

- Built dashboards visualizing cloud spend across the enterprise using Tableau and the ELK stack. - Built a Spring Java 8 KPI reporting dashboard and application engine for DevOps metrics from GitHub, Gerrit, Jenkins, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Vault, SecuirtyCenter, Aquasec, JaCoCo, and Jira. Some metrics included: commit to deploy time, test code coverage percentage, security compliance, and deployment frequency.- Developed an in-house test automation solution comprised of frameworks, best practices, and open-sourced tools.- Supported users and provided training on Confluence and Jira.- Developed and implemented a series of workshops for new college hires to introduce them to enterprise technologies, processes, and tools. Workshops included: GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Selenium, Cavisson, Tableau, Command line, and CICD pipelines.

The Great Start program is a college hire program that includes two rotations of 13 weeks on two different teams within Kohl's.First Rotation: App Dev Marketing Personalization - Designed and developed dashboards in Splunk to visualize data and create a troubleshooting tool- Built and managed alerts in Splunk to monitor system health and application performanceSecond Rotation: Ecommerce Service Delivery - Created and maintained redirects and configurations using Akamai for webstore applications - Managed alerts for website monitoring using Blue Triangle - Developed and supported Splunk dashboards and alerts monitoring website health

-Representative on UW-Eau Claire's campus for Kohl's IT Internship Program-Plan events on campus to introduce students to Kohl's IT -Post on social media to promote Kohl's events, opportunities, and updates

-IT Intern on the Windows Server Team-Upgrading Windows Server 2003 to 2008-Experience with VMware -Building and troubleshooting servers

-Manage and lead 22 student employees -Mentor and develop student employees trouble shooting and customer service skills-Direct the escalation of tickets to the correct department-Collaborate with the leadership team to identify internal process improvement and implementation-Interview prospective Help Desk student employees-Update Help Desk documentation, training manual, and SharePoint resources-Maintain a positive work environment for students and staff

-Troubleshooting technology problems for 10,500 students and 1,000 faculty and staff in person, over the phone, and through email-Remotely accessing clients computer’s-Accessing wireless connection -Password resetting-Resolving printer errors-Troubleshooting application based errors-BMC Service Desk Express and Cherwell ticketing systems-SharePoint 2013-Completing other tasks involving technology related issues