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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Lead engineer in the Target.com DevOps team, leading through the COVID transition, pivoting quickly to a remote working team environment, while maintaining and scaling Target.com to meet the unprecedented increase in site demands.• Performed multiple Root Case Analysis (RCA) efforts, and drove continuous improvement of Target.com features and operations through cross-team collaborative efforts.• Architected several solutions to transition Target.com from a mono-repo into a micro-site based architecture, including: Github app integrations, creation of ephemeral environments, templated site dashboard creation, and highly-scalable testing applications.• Successfully managed several infrastructure migration efforts of the site through: Kubernetes upgrades, Node upgrades, CICD system decommissions, OpenStack decommissions, and a company-wide logging and infrastructure migration.• Drove multiple application projects within the team through: Scrum board management, project prioritization, detailed story creation with clearly defined outcomes, and cross-team education on newly released features.• Migrated a monolithic Java/Jenkins/Openstack based automation application into a distributed GoLang/Kubernetes version to achieve horizontal scale-out functionality.• Fixed and maintained several SEO features for Target.com (TS/Node/React) to support Google marketplace integrated shopping options.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Development of Automation Frameworks and Services. - Responsible for ensuring Continuous Improvement and Deployment of Node/React based customer facing target.com website.- Expanded target.com's distributed automation system using Selenium and Webdriver.IO- Developed features to provide telemetry, feedback, and notification of automation pass results to engineering teams.

Cottage Grove, Mn, Us

Building great teams and technology to level the playing field for the independent travel market.Oversee development teams managing www.resortsandlodges.com, an industry leading online marketplace with over 1M unique vacation destination properties and nearly 400k monthly active users. Also manage internal line of business applications including internal CRM and customer facing client center, as well as support Marketing, Fulfillment, and Web Services teams.Responsibilities:- Manage resortsandlodges.com AWS IaaS infrastructure- Full Stack Developer and leader for PHP/MySQL/Mongo/JavaScript application stacks- Scrum/Agile manager and backlog prioritization- Technology assessment and support for multiple internal departments.

Cottage Grove, Mn, Us

Part of a small full stack, web application development team. Development responsibilities include: - Back-End components using PHP w/Zend Framework, Doctrine, and MySQL- Front-end components using JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, JQuery, and Highcharts.- DevOps deployment components using Npm, Jspm, SystemJS, Grunt, and Webpack- DevOps monitoring and diagnostics using Sentry and TrackJS Also responsible for developing a Business Intelligence product integration solution using Sisense, JavaScript, and C#/Windows Powershell.Marquee feature was the development of the customer facing Track Chat component.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Office 365 service engineering, focusing on Exchange Public Folder migration, workflow, provisioning, and client access. Development activities included back-end services work with C#/.NET, front-end work with JavaScript, and Mobile Client development in iOS and Windows Phone. Other responsibilities included: Onboarding team members and managing work in a remote office (Bangalore, India). Leading a small team focused on UX development and requirements gathering.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Development of iOS application for video management and playback from Office 365. Features included video capture, processing, uploading, and playback from Azure Media Services.Responsible for integrating all aspects of QA into the development process, and ensuring the application meet Microsoft shipping requirements for Security, Performance, Accessibility, and Compliance.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Overseeing Q&A and Test responsibilities of a team focused on Microsoft's HTML5/Javascript tooling platforms. Responsiblities included: - Managing team work through Agile/Scrum based project planning and reporting. - Forcasting and reporting of team work effort, progress, and velocity. - Maintaining high quality through Q&A development in C#/.NET and results monitoring. - Managing several reports, and growing their career though mentoring and coaching.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Large variety of development and Q&A projects for Microsoft Exchange Server. Responsibilies include, but not limited too:- Performance testing and validation of Microsoft Exchange Server for key scenarios around Exchange Web Services API/Outlook for Mac.- Q&A reponsiblities for collaboration and scheduling scenarios across Outlook/Outlook for Mac, and Outlook Web Access.- Development of automated test cases and results using C#/.NET and SQL Server- Integration of test cases using scripting technologies: PERL, MS CMD- Numerous team presentations on development and testing practices.- Interviewed candidates for potential positions across junior and senior level positions.- Partered with colleges to author "Inside Microsoft Exchange Web Services 2007", specifically authoring chapters on the Calandaring and Availability APIs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Test responsibities for development of Microsoft Exchange Server, areas of focus include communication protocols (HTTP-DAV, POP/IMAP, NNTP, SMTP) and Exchange Web Services API.