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Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Establish long term vision which provides both guest and business value while connecting to Target's enterprise strategy.• Define quarterly OKRs (objectives and key results) which provide clear team direction and enable demonstration of progress to leaders and stakeholders.• Create artifacts which communicate vision, business justification, proposed features, roadmap, product health and KPI metrics.• Establish and manage the enterprise solution for user generated content including intake, storage, distribution, display and measurement.• Build and continually evolve a first-in-class, patented responsive tile storytelling e-commerce solution, which is used to deliver predictable, highly designed content based on guest insights, social listening and search data.• Continually challenge the team to push boundaries to find the right guest experience while maintaining high enterprise business value.• Create an environment for consistent guest testing, learning and iteration.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Operated as both a product owner and engineering manager from 2013 until formally transitioning to a product owner role in 2019 when a technical restructure occurred.• Directly hired, managed and guided career-pathing for a ten plus person team of engineers which focused on digital guest facing marketing experiences.• Managed team budgets including, payroll, annual merit increases and expenses.• Created a culture of innovation and bold thinking by leveraging the proximity of engineers and creative resources to generate executable ideas, many of which have grown into enterprise solutions at Target.• Assigned work to team members based technical skills, scheduling availability and personal interests.• Procured a cross functional team to experiment with creating a more inspirational Target.com shopping experience using Lean Product Management methodologies, which eventually led to a formal product organization within Target Creative.• Identified and led an opportunity to build an internal crowd sourcing application which provided enterprise collaboration for problems, solutions and expertise matching.• Led Target Creative's innovation lab which brought together diverse talents to identify and prototype ideas which could potentially make the Target shopping experience more enjoyable.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Led architecture and development on highly interactive marketing experiences.• Managed project workload and technical leadership for on and offshore teams including recruiting, interviewing and hiring contract engineers to fill any technical or bandwidth gaps.• Established reusable code and visual frameworks which enabled consistency, efficiency and maintainability across multiple teams and projects.

• Designed and programmed online solutions for direct and contract clients.• Managed sales, contracts and accounting for a home-based business.Clients: Target, Virgin Life Care (POPStick), Lawrence & Schiller, Atomic Playpen (Danny Patterson), AdWerks, MultiCorp, One8y Creative

Bloomington, Mn, Us

• Migrated user interfaces from Java to a Flex based solution.• Familiarized with product methodology by working within a Scrum team.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Helped concept, architect and program edgy online games.• Built and implemented a reusable game mechanics framework which enabled shorter engineering timelines, better workload distribution and efficient quality assurance testing.Clients: Adult Swim, Cartoon Network, Cadbury, Hormel

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Built Flash based rich-interactive marketing boutiques and microsites.

• Built web pages using HTML, CSS, Flash, ColdFusion and SQL Server.

Sioux Falls, Sd, Us

• Established and grew an internal digital team which expanded the agency's full service capabilities to include consumer web sites, internal web applications, experiential solutions and digital direct mail.• Architected and built a content management application used on dozens of web sites which provided self-service content management, a templated visual system and tiered access control.• Architected and built an online recruiting and interview application that provided the ability to intake, evaluate and interview applicants for multiple clients and job positions.Clients: Pure Fishing, Hot Stuff Pizza, Sioux Valley Hospital, Dept. of Justice, KELOLAND TV, Norwest Bank, SD Dept. of Tourism