Brian Olson Email & Phone Number

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Engineering leader over software engineering teams, quality assurance, and application support for backend and pre-manufacturing systems. Software Engineering
• Provide strategic direction and day-to-day leadership to a team of architects and engineers.
• Collaborate with architecture and leadership on strategies and multi-year road maps that are AWS cloud-based using event-driven architectural design patterns.
• Championed a standardized Agile framework that defines roles, responsibilities, deliverables, and processes for the P&E teams.
• Coach application architects, technical leads, and managers to advance their skills and be positioned for growth opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Product managers & business to understand business, customer or host needs. Participate in the annual strategic, budget and roadmap planning process.Application Support

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Engineering lead responsible for a team of 40+ employee and contract engineersresponsible for development and support of Lifetouch AWS pre-manufacturing systems and Sterling Commerce Order Management Systems.
• Coaching, managing and development of delivery managers and application architects
• Partner with internal business partners like System Architecture, QA, InfoSec, FieldOperations, Product Management, and Manufacturing teams to ensure successful systemsdevelopment and support
• Turned around a severely underperforming engineering team to be the best engineeringteam in Lifetouch
• Drove innovation as a practice with POC's in AWS technologies like Alexa

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Lead system architect in the development of multiple new systems in AWS cloud for managing orders, assets, cash reconciliation, image retouching, and integration with a mixture of cloud and on-premise systems.
• Experience mentoring, directing, and/or leading software and QA engineers
• Cultivated a customer focused culture focused of first-hand experiences to ensure engineering is building the right solutions for the business
• Ensured compliance with SOX processes and controls in partnership with the Information Security team and engineering teams
• Participated in crafting of strategic plans for business units and led the engineering teams in requirements, systems design, development, and final delivery for a successful outcome

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Solutions architect for systems development and support
• Managed departmental staff, recruiting, mentoring, and coaching
• Strong customer focus for internal and external facing systems
• Technical project management skills defining work tasks/estimates
• Proven track record of delivering software products Team Composition

San Jose, California, US

As a development manager at Computer Associates, I was responsible for the research and development of CleverPath Portal. I’m a “hands on” manager that managed the day-to-day activities of a geographically distributed development team ranging from four to eight software engineers. My focus was in ensuring a high quality product is delivered to market on.

US

Led a team of six developers in the design and construction of custom data warehouse applications for Information Advantages Business Intelligence Suite of reporting products. Was responsible for recruiting, training, and managing daily activities of team members.

London, United Kingdom, GB

Acted as lead analyst and mentor to 3M employees in the conversion of a purchased import management system to an internal application. Designed batch interfaces with US Treasury Customs Department and internal purchasing and accounting systems. Led two other programmers in development of the user interface and reports.

Houston, Texas, US

Assisted in the development of manufacturing and accounting systems. Lead small projects and provided on-call support. Wrote and executed disaster recovery plans, implemented runtime improvement, and cost reduction techniques. Tasks encompassed all phases of development from gathering requirements to implementation.