Led 45 person global development organization within Cloud and Compute with a focus on delivering custom software for compute, software defined storage and edge deployment strategies across data center, stores, and distribution centers supporting over $90B of Target’s revenue. Brought into the organization to build a product, and devops first mindset.- Spearheaded a cultural transformation, influencing peers and leaders to adopt a product-driven mindset. This pivot from tactical, siloed delivery to OKRs driven by customer and business goals markedly improved cross-functional collaboration and accelerated time-to-value for key initiatives.- Championed a customer-centric approach by introducing "voice of customer" initiatives and a renewed focus on Quality of Service. This strategic shift improved alignment between technical deliverables and business needs, enhancing overall satisfaction with IT services across the organization.- Managed a complex portfolio of infrastructure projects, balancing immediate operational needs with long-term strategic goals. Successfully navigated competing priorities to ensure stable operations during peak retail periods while driving forward-looking modernization efforts.

Led 65 person global development organization supporting Target’s Price and Promo business. Providing architectural direction, and strategic long range planning. Represented Price and Promo at the sr. leadership level in the US.- Drove a cultural shift towards data-driven decision making, implementing OKRs and regular executive reviews. This approach improved alignment between technology initiatives and business outcomes, enhancing the team's ability to deliver on key enterprise goals.- Executed a strategic consolidation of team goals, focusing on three main objectives. This clarity of purpose led to a 30% increase in team productivity and faster time-to-market for critical features.-Managed a $10-12 million annual budget, strategically allocating resources to balance innovation, maintenance, and talent development. Consistently delivered on financial targets while driving technological advancements.- Directed four software development teams utilizing various technologies, including Java, Kotlin, Kafka, Postgres, Kuberentes, GCP, react, in a microservices architecture. Including highly critical systems capable of handling over 3k TPS with millisecond response times.

Led two high-impact teams responsible for building capabilities driving $50+ billion in annual revenue. Leveraged technical leadership, organizational influence, and strong cross-functional partnerships to deliver transformative solutions in a complex retail environment.- Led the complete rewrite and modernization of legacy POS software, transitioning to a cutting-edge distributed architecture. Successfully rolled out to 1,800 stores in just 6 months, resulting in a 20% reduction in incidents, significantly improved user experience, and substantial reduction in employee training time and costs.- Spearheaded the full rewrite of mobile POS application including industry first offline functionality in 4 months. This capability allowed transactions over LTE when in-store outages occurred. Capturing millions in saved revenue by transacting with customers anytime, anywhere in the store.- Instituted a cultural shift towards agile methodologies and frequent, smaller releases. This strategic change accelerated time-to-market for new features while dramatically improving system stability, reducing the crash rate from 1% to an industry-leading 0.00014%.- Led a data-driven approach to incident management, moving from reactive to proactive problem-solving. Implemented systematic data collection and analysis processes, resulting in more informed prioritization and faster resolution of critical issues across multiple systems.

Established a greenfield 20 person engineering organization to deliver on an industry-leading concept and implementation of Target’s Last Mile Strategy. Provided architectural direction and technical leadership.- Designed, tested, and scaled a new two-day delivery model to 150 stores. Delivered on key metrics with zero downtime resulting in $20M+ in first year savings.- Built proof of concept for a ship from store program, an industry leading initiative partnering with an external vendor (acquired by Target). Partnered with the vendor, drove architectural vision, and worked with numerous cross functional teams to ensure product delivery.- Developed a patented delivery sourcing application. Launched rate shopping product in less than 8 months chain wide. This product had zero downtime, exceeding SLA’s and realizing $5M in savings in the first three months

Directed e-commerce architecture strategy for a fintech company which grew from $100M to $2.5 Billion in revenue in less than 3 years. Partnering with CTO, and peers to set strategic technology roadmap supporting 13 brands and leading an organization of 20 engineers.- Developed a 3 year strategic plan to align architecture with business goals. Partnered with key executive stakeholders to drive change, secure resources, and ensure business continuity as part of the company transformation.- Reconfigured deployment strategies by driving company wide Agile and Devops adoption. This resulted in higher product quality, faster time to market, and reduced labor costs of $2M+ annually- Built strong relationships with industry leading vendors (NGINX, LucidWorks, Basho, Akamai, New Relic); developed a platform migration strategy that lowered vendor costs from $500k to $3k.- Partnered with executive leadership in the integration of 14 ecommerce brands. Leading architecture and engineering strategy.- Created a technology internship program to the e-commerce technology team. Scaled from 1 intern to 5 in less than one year. Converted many interns into full-time engineers.

Search product team architect/tech lead/agile coach responsible for delivering a new search engine for bestbuy.com, related views, and enterprise search needs. - Lead and directed 4 teams of 3+ developers. Assigning tasks, iteration planning, architecture, and story sign off. Giving them the vision and direction to complete their work- Worked with business partners to define requirements, create roadmaps, and prioritize stories- Responsible for the architecture of a new search platform for bestbuy.com- Worked with other teams to design their search implementations

- Responsible for developing features in multiple components that deal with enforcing rules, managing routes, and railroad maintenance.- Built a control system simulator for use by clients to train railroad employees. Features included field interaction, real train movement, and rules enforcement.- With a team helped implement an IDA* algorithm to solve complex routing conflicts and present dispatchers with an optimized train schedule using Clojure.- Server side development using Java, Clojure, JMS, Spring- UI Development in Swing

WestlawNext Search Vertical Developer.- Built NLP search algorithm leveraging supervised learning via Support Vector Machines. - Architected and developed a concurrency framework which was used in the implementation of westSearch. The framework improved algorithm performance by reducing search execution time from minutes to seconds.- Drove the implementation of new technologies including: AOP, Velocity templating engine, Cobetura code coverage , and JProfiler.- Used Javascript, JQuery, and HTML to develop client side widgets.- Worked closely with other development teams and business partners in an agile environment to solve product integration issues, create stories and write acceptance tests.

- Worked with architects on proof of concepts involving space based architectures which lead to the implementation of Oracle Coherence.- Implemented a continuous integration process across the Application Technology group using Cruise Control. The build cycle process went from once a day to every 2 hours.- Designed and developed a service for identifying and extracting medical terms from user entered natural language and terms & connectors queries. This process also discovered synonyms for each medical term and phrase discovered.