Brad Ash Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Driving growth for clients through deep business intelligence solutions and our predictive Polaris platform.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Lead group in supporting the multi-cloud environment that is the backbone of Lululemon engineering. We build and operate a central platform, leveraging modern practices, and tooling allowing the fast adoption and usage of cloud technologies in a federated model, focusing on self-service, security, frictionless engagement, and speed to market.

• Managed in-house and vendor infrastructure, applications and business intelligence for 5 digital publishing divisions with millions of subscribers across both B2C and B2B.• Lead cross-functional teams to provide mutually beneficial and cost-effective outcomes for clients that balanced buy vs build and limited tech debt. This included application build out, data modeling / reporting, vendor integrations and large corporate takeovers. • Mentored managers through one-on-ones, group demos and curating training resources. Developed talent to thrive in our fast-paced environment and execute with a business-focused mentality. • Focused on future positioning of tech stacks and cloud infrastructure to ensure competitive advantage in both production and hiring. ---No buzzword bingo here, just enterprise systems being operated at a high level:• Customer-facing applications built on top of common Wordpress/Laravel/Slim frameworks, Nodejs for cloud functions, internal services and APIs and ReactJS for realtime UIs. • CI/CD leveraging Github Workflows to publish shared packages and deploy containerized services via Kubernetes or legacy LAMP stacks.• Business and data layers handled by API which drives our fulfillment, CRM, order processing and client portals.• Streaming data pipelines leveraging Kafka, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, BigQuery and Redis to aggregate and link millions of data records together every day. These feed data viz and reporting tools such a Tableau, Google Data Studio, Metabase and Crystal Reports.• Integration with vendors via API or webhooks to sync data and manage reporting for core services like email, order processing, content delivery and more (Customer.io. Active Campaign, Twilio, Sendgrid, Sparkpost, Stripe, Spreedly, Paypal, Vantiv, Worldpay, AWS, Google Cloud, Snowplow, Helpscout, GoToWebinar, Atlassian, Clickup, Bloomberg, Factset)

• Increased online sales by 20% annually through building a multi-step upsell/cross-sell checkout experience on top of our order system.• Expanded solutions teams – doubled software engineers, created a new PMO, and a dedicated data engineering team.• Helped form a new telesales team and built out intelligent models to optimize lead gen.• Principal engineer / architect for data engineering and all business-critical apps.

• Oversaw, trained and led development, service and product teams for our data pipelines, fulfillment system, order forms, CRM, CMS, EMS, APIs and customer-facing apps.• Developed 5-year roadmap to deprecate monolith, black box fulfillment system in favor of microservice architecture driving modern CRM, CMS, and e-commerce front-ends.

• Lead fast-paced development team using a measured, market-focused approach to eliminate waste and deliver fast results.• Managed scope and timeline of deliverables across business teams in coordination with existing operations and compliance needs.• Implemented training + continuing education program to support team growth.

• Took development lead on all major applications, operational databases and supported other engineers. • Coordinated efficient large-scale software deployments following best practices.

• Built web + desktop applications interfacing with multiple databases and back-ends to service internal customers as well as external subscribers.

Peer-to-peer support application for individuals struggling to conceive.• Raised $100k investment in pre-seed round. • Built an algorithmic matching engine like a dating network combined with an admin interface for hand-curating. This drove a real-time chat application I developed for iOS/Android.• Managed all infrastructure, code, data pipelines, contractors and product roadmaps. • Ran business operations, financial reporting and projections.• Accepted into two startup cohorts, Impact category finalist in MN cup, notable press mentions and TV appearances.

Automated portfolio management subscription for passive investors.• Lean startup model and maintained positive cost revenue ratio.• Managed web + native applications, CRM, marketing automation and reporting.• Failed due to poor market timing and lack of resources.