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Minneapolis, MN, US

Minneapolis, MN, US

United States

Serving on the “Asset Management” subcommittee for DTECH 2025.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Bespoke guidance in agile software engineering applied to fintech, energy, software, and related.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

• Head of smart meter software engineering, edge computing, IoT, big data, and smart grid solutions delivery also commonly known as AMI 2.0 (advanced metering infrastructure)
• Head of smart metering technology solution that enables 20M customers in New York and Massachusetts to save money on energy with real-time insights about their home's energy use without any smart devices other than.
• Lead IT organization of 15+ direct reports, 100+ total org
• Head mission enabling simple energy cost savings to our customers; upgrade grid resiliency; establish and grow software development teams aligned to digital products
• Head of IT partnership with Landis+Gyr, Oracle Opower, Verizon, Snowflake, Microsoft Azure, Cisco, SenseNational Grid's AMI mission is to (1) enable energy use and cost reduction, (2) upgrade grid resiliency and speed.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Led operational excellence and strategic planning serving 7 engineering directors and manage 6 technical portfolio managers (TPM)
• “Multiplied” best in banking success across iPhone (2018), Android (2018), React Web (2019), Voice & Banker Dashboard (2020) with re-usable component repository
• Transformed finance and engineering operating routines to enable digital transformation and change management continuously improving hiring, architecture, resiliency, forecasting, budgeting, and vendor management.
• Guided technical engineering strategy, resourcing, and operations excellence of software development over a group of 1,000+ software engineers primarily focused on U.S. Bank digital efforts

Richfield, Minnesota, United States

• Successfully built team and deployed completely new iPhone app in 9 months, directed team to re-write Android for 10% iOS cost
• Pioneer DevOps and Agile transformation bringing vendor knowledge in-house and evangelizing bank-wide, working with Agile Coaches, software engineering, product management, stakeholders, and sponsor
• Managed team of five direct-reports: Technical Program Managers (TPM) & Technical Project Managers aligned to Mobile, Voice, and Web Consumer Experience
• Led Mobile application program & Digital Enablement program of 10 total journey teams and 300+ team members
• Technical strategy advisor on opportunities, threats, and risk to present the appropriate message up to and including Senior Vice Chair

Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States

• Digital River provides eCommerce software-as-a-service (SaaS) to a variety of companies including Samsung, Microsoft, HTC, and others.
• Coached product model transformation in software engineering which became operating model
• Led four data center migrations and multi-year move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) overseeing 300 engineers, saving $20M/yr
• Effectively led change management and operations management with customers, company, and IT on-behalf of CIO
• Coached PMs with formal training of program management and project management playbooks and mentoring
• Transformed IT engineering into agile cloud-first organization with DevOps maturity, re-defined technical program management (TPM)

Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States

• Transformed least performing team into most predictable and efficient team, 535% increase in efficiency KPIs in just 9 months
• Led 30 developer program building new functionality to expand largest revenue stream
• Communicated daily with COO, Product SVP, and Engineering SVP
• Managed global workforce of employees and vendors in the United States, India, Argentina, Taiwan
• Managed legal investigation of large-scale systems against threats coordinating with engineering and technical program management (TPM)
• Role crafted by AIM Consulting to work for Digital River on-site serving Samsung Electronics Americas. Role revised in December 2015 to hire from contract becoming full-time employee of Digital River.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States

• Built and led program enabling direct to customer (B2C) in-app shopping experience for Samsung using Digital River's eCommerce platform split into APIs enabling shopping experience, catalog, pricing, payments.
• Led strategic partnerships opening new markets for Digital River clients
• Technical Program Manager (TPM) leading 20 developers and plan release across 10 engineering teams
• Accountable to Director of Enterprise Program Management Office for 90% on-time delivery

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Exceeded national roadmap that grew to deliver global homepage, in-app payments via Stripe, aggregation via Plaid to 300K users
• Designed pay, dashboard, bank integration, and navigation enhancements with coordination of global product owners, product marketing, pre-sales, consulting, and hUX
• Relationship manager of third-party partners for bank integration and accepting in-application credit card payment
• Scrum Coach for 2 teams, 12 engineers, seven products simultaneously

Bloomington, Minnesota, United States

• Designed sales tax, depreciation, bank integration, average cost of manufacturing, and multi-level bill of materials features
• Co-led 4 software engineers and 2 quality engineers
• Invented strategic plan to rectify 2 month gap in program roadmap for 100% on-time release
• Managed launch of MRP scheduler globally
• Recognized for coaching and mentoring project team members as Scrum Master and Scrum Coach

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• Built product roadmap, resiliency architecture, reduced cost 42%, and quantitative feature prioritization
• Transformed infrastructure on Rackspace (IaaS), increased system uptime 20X to 99.992%
• Managed 5+ projects simultaneously in Basecamp and Pivotal Tracker
• Architected complete software development life-cycle as Agile sprints or iterative phases
• Delivered executive presentations on projects goals and plans, including status reports
• Agile Scrum Master and Scrum Coach of development team, analysts, and quality engineers

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• Developed onboarding process tracker tool which led to 294% quarterly increase in throughput
• Designed analytical reports for sales and operations, data mining 23M SQL database fields
• Defined requirements for behavior-driven development (BDD)

Fargo, North Dakota, United States

• Recognized by CNN and the White House for community flood crisis management app
• Launched company, securing first contracts, incorporated business, and authored business plan
• Team recipient of “In The Zone Award” by Kilbourne Group, InnovateND 2011 finalist

Fargo, North Dakota, United States

• Managed IT service portfolio of $30M across 20 national accounts
• Awarded for Delivery Excellence in Premier Support, Q3 2009, Q4 2009, delivered over 55 architecture engagements in 90 days
• 15% increase in customer satisfaction in Premier Foundation, 2009
• Co-lead of Premier Essential right-size program, contributed $830K in revenue growth, 2008
• Trained peers on architecting brief Microsoft Consulting engagements
• Recognized by service delivery planning (SDP) team for IT service management (ITSM)

Fargo, North Dakota, United States

• Co-lead of Premier Essential right-size program, contributed $830K in revenue growth, 2008
• Trained peers on architecting brief Microsoft Consulting engagements
• Trusted advisor to Microsoft Premier Support clients managing critical situations resolution, product release adoption and proactive service delivery across all Microsoft enterprise products

Southbury, Connecticut, United States

• Business Transformation Consultant of SAP Ledger Integration project, 2007
• Defined “as is” process by organizing process discussions with subject matter experts
• Architected “to-be” integration of new SAP systems with legacy systems as business processes
• Led workshops with over 20 project stakeholders to capture real-time changesLead Developer, SAP Fulfillment Process Update project, 2006
• Converted 65 business process models to current standard
• Managed one co-worker and developed modeling standards adopted by center of excellence (BTCOE)Lead Analyst, ThinkTank Integration project, 2006

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

• Managed three developers and collaborated with two stakeholders of IBM Speed Team
• Delivered prototype and authored XPF IO for software development life cycle
• Architected AS400 / System i, High-Availability Disaster Recovery Analyzer (analytical architecture engineering)

Jamestown, North Dakota, United States

• Prioritized 150 product manuals by evaluating profitability of 5,000 after-market aircraft cargo system parts (Component Maintenance Manual prioritization)
• Increased uptime of client EDI on external pricing and lead-time IBM: GDS MRP system after architecting and implementing optimizations
• Solved customer complaints using engineering analysis and expert communication for clients including Airbus, Japan Airlines (JAL), Air France, Boeing, Air China

Fargo, North Dakota, United States

• Assisted presentation of loans and collection updates during officer loan meetings
• Prepared loans for personal lenders by gathering collateral valuations, titles, credit reports and insurance
• Obtained updated titles, insurance policies and property tracts to update commercial loans
• Processed mortgage loans, trust packages, withdrawals and deposits

Microsoft Academy Of College Hires (Mach), Organizational Leadership

Master Of Business Administration, Management, Finance, 3.8

Co-authored white paper: Google v. China, a 2010 Political Escalation Co-authored white paper: Corporate Ethics: Methods, Enron, and MDU

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management

Bachelor Of Arts, Computer Science, Business Administration, Economics, Marketing, 3.9

Activities and Societies: - Three-year starting Defensive End, NAIA Intercollegiate Football - Tenor 1, Section Leader of Concert Choir.

3.9

Activities and Societies: NDHSAA All-State Football 1st-Team Offensive Line (OL), 2001 NDHSAA Class B Wrestling 6th-Place 215 lbs, 2002.