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United States

Helping customers achieve success with their API strategy

United States

In my role as a Solutions Consultant, I support deals in the Strategic, Enterprise, and Commercial sectors across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. I specialize in safeguarding merchants against various types of fraud, such as credit card fraud, account takeover, identity theft, returns abuse, and more. My responsibilities involve developing.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

VMware acquired Pivotal. Please see the experience description under Pivotal.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

At Pivotal, as a Platform Architect, I was regarded as a leader by my customers for both pre-sale and post-sale activities. During pre-sale, my focus was on assisting prospects and customers in recognizing the business value and technical advantages of our software and services. Working closely with them, I collaborated on designing architectures that.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Tasked with developing a predictive sales acceleration solution to complement Insite's existing B2B E-Commerce platform, I assembled a team of agile generalists and a data scientist. Guiding the team, we successfully built and launched a fully operational minimum viable product (MVP) in just three months. The application was created in Angular as a.

Saint Louis Park, MN

You know the story, a couple of developers get together to create a cool app; the app becomes an instant success and they make millions. That didn't happen to me, but I did have fun making an Android app and learned a lot along the way.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As a pre-sales solution architect, my primary responsibility was adding technical depth and expertise during engagements with prospects. The usual process consisted of responding to an RFP, engaging in several phone discussions, and often concluding with one or more in-person visits. One of my favorite aspects of the hybris platform was the Omni Commerce.

Introduced Agile methodology in a conventional waterfall environment to enable efficient scoping of an internal CPQ solution that streamlined complex lawn care machinery's configuration, pricing, and quoting processes. Additionally, worked closely with business executives to devise architectural specifications for new products, while leading software.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Took a one sentence, high level concept and turned it into a strategic vision and tactical plan. Implemented plan by managing and technically leading 3 teams to bring about developers.digitalriver.com and its corresponding RESTful apis. I had many other opportunities to work on diverse projects, such as: - Prototyping Salesforce.com integration, - Managing.

Redesigned presentation tier of Vb.net application to use MVP with event messaging. Wrote custom event bus for use in application

Implemented Build Process in Hudson, and automated execution of Selenium tests.

- Replaced project manager as Scrum Master when existing Agile implementation and project were failing- Successfully rebooted project - Led (as well as participated in) transition from Winforms to WPF- Successful in organizing and initiating Product Owner Team, User Stories, and "by the book" Scrum Practices - Led integration architecture design effort..

- Planned and executed the transition of software and systems from a hostile third party to a new, internal development team- Responsible for implementing and mentoring others on the Scrum Process - Crafted strategy for transition centered on Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration- Planned, sourced, and installed new development environment.

- Responsible for the planning and architecture of the migration of existing systems to new technologies (.Net)- Responsible for implementing and mentoring others on the Scrum Process. - Lead daily stand ups, retrospectives, and planning meetings- Designed most of the xml documents and their corresponding xsds in a contract-first web service architecture.

- Responsible for defining data transport layer between Volvo Penta’s Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) and an independent Flash Site and ASP.Net/C# site- Gathered requirements and created MCMS specific xml schemas- Built Prototype MCMS Server for project- Learned enough of Flash MX 2004 which allowed me to consume a web service from Volvo Penta.

- Brought in on 3 month contract to help with XML and XSL- After exceeding expectations, was integral in the redesign of the enterprise payment processing system and strategy- Developed VB6/XML interface to Southern DataComm’s Credit Card Processing Server- Gained in-depth knowledge of credit card, stored value card, private label, and check processing.

- After serving 6 months as CTO, was promoted to CEO- In 3 months, reorganized business to be profitable- Mentored and led a staff of 15 individuals- Designed and implemented in-house and remote network infrastructure.- Designed and programmed internal Web Site that tracked: Company Goals, Company Pipeline, Loan Officer Goals, Loan Officer Pipelines.

- Part of team responsible for complete architecture of iCount’s proprietary hardware and software platform.- Personally responsible for complete architecture of software system- Developed software based on above architecture- Created Microsoft Project timelines to track status of first release- Met prescribed release dates for both releases- Managed.

- Redesigned internal HR web application – EcoJobs- Architected presentation, business logic, and data access of $2M B2B eCommerce web application- Defined and designed Ecolab error handling standards and tools- Tasked to define development standards for Ecolab using a Windows DNA approach (E-DNA)- Trained entry level programmers on new technologies.

- Designed and Architected PlanItz™ to track sales, leads, contacts, appointments, projects, and tasks for small businesses. Software was to be delivered via the Application Service Provider model - Raised $300K through private sources- Managed Business

- Designed and Installed Microsoft Back Office and Small Business Server solutions- Repaired desktop and server hardware and software- Created numerous Visual Basic applications to meet the needs of clients