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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

The Venture Center Business Advisory Group is a broad-based network of entrepreneurs and business executives who help vet new ideas and assist with technology commercialization across a wide range of technological disciplines and sectors.As a member of the Business Advisory Group I am responsible for:Helping find entrepreneurs, investors, and CEOsMaking connections with other key stakeholders and industry expertsProviding technical and market adviceServing as an advisor, mentor, and investor

Chicago, Illinois, Us

► Providing leadership, strategy, subject matter expertise (Industry 4.0 C-level Advisory ) for creating value for private equity, venture capital through data & analytics ( AI, Data, Products, Platforms ) across various verticals (HealthCare, Retail/CPG, FinTech, AdTech, EdTech, HiTech, Digital)► Focus areas: value creation, strategy, due diligence (buy-side/sell-side ), divestitures & carve-outs, post-close synergies, thought leadership, data/analytics platform recommendations, team mentoring, industry & academic partnerships, and business development

► Created Long short-term memory model in Tensor-flow to predict car prices after building ETL process in Apache Airflow to find best prices across dealerships in numerous states. ► Built color categorization NPL model to identify base colors across numerous variations.

Chanhassen, Mn, Us

Architect custom solutions for key company initiatives through effective leadership and technical oversight with hands on implementation. Present initial enterprise architectures along with proof-of-concepts. Architecture included data flows, analytics, networking, platform and security implications. Final products are demoed to technical and business executives. Coach Lead Engineers in data, analytics, platforms, and software on how to communicate with peers and executives through weekly one on ones.► Led data architecture initiative to funnel data using Data Bricks through a single source of truth Azure data warehouse which increased performance and reduced discrepancies throughout data set. - Ensured governance, reliability, and quality of real-time data stored in numerous systems using DOMO analytics to ensure peak season KPI were available for executives to adjust business strategy daily. ► Architected No-SQL solution which streamlined product and member data into one source to reduce load on legacy systems. Performance went from 2-3 seconds to 100 milliseconds to retrieve data. Data accuracy was maintained through event messaging and nightly refreshes from data warehouse.- Cross functionally led Life Time Technology to receive Report on Compliance with payment merchant for PCI DSS audit. PCI Compliance included penetration tests, scanning of on prem and cloud platforms vulnerabilities for Point-of-Sale systems, enterprise applications and ecommerce.- Influential in driving new culture initiative to engage engineers to own full architected solution. Increased engagement and reduced solution defects, knowledge of business requirements, and provided in-valuable feedback on initial implementation of architecture.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Manage technical decisions for Fortune 100 executives that impact software, data, systems, networking, security, and budget resources. Train account and project managers to identify and communicate solutions to common technology problems. Maintain development standards for engineers including proper CMS implementation, OWASP security methodology, ADA implementation, and other software best practices.

Proficiently manage the complete life cycle of development/support web development projects including analysis of the client requirements, translating new ideas into client’s solutions, requirement gathering, client delivery, application support, analysis and documentation. Devise effective strategies for implementing and delivering the project as per scheduled deadlines. Develop presentations to effectively exhibit company’s capabilities to non-technical partners and familiarize executives on new web technologies for the clients.

Ensure client’s confidence of project deadlines through daily communication of timeline updates and adjustment of schedules based on new requirements and/or improved strategies. Develop and design cross-browser compatible sites that focus on business’s top profit margins while keeping within client’s budget and expectations. Recommend and implement custom projects for clients that include weather and market analysis for sales-driven web promotions, Internet marketing strategies to increase web traffic and assist businesses in reaching current and future goals.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Forecasted and managed department sales, inventory, profit and losses to meet the objectives of a $278 million dollar yearly budget.Analyzed financial data and advised necessary adjustments to product pricing and placement in order to drive 4% percent sales volume increase and 12.1 percent market share growth.Improved timing and accuracy of weekly manual measurements by streamlining and standardizing processes to automatically gather information from system.