John Roll Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

Minneapolis, MN, US

I am currently the Technical Lead for the Smart Buildings Team. The Smart Buildings business functions are managing refrigeration, lighting and HVAC systems for a variety of users at both headquarters and store/DC locations. Historically, many of these applications were purchased and installed with little technical input and one recent challenge has been.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Senior Engineer on a diverse team of eight Target engineers and project analysts and approximately 45 Tata personnel supporting ~175 merchandising applications for Target. Specific responsibilities included indirect leadership of entire team, in-depth mentoring of individual team members, application support consulting, review of technical and functional.

• Complete responsibility for all information technology usage for a small five-person mail-order business dealing in hobby supplies. Specifics include hardware and software decisions, purchasing, installation.
• Design, coding installation and support of a 37,000 item website product database and integration with a vendor-supplied shopping cart application for online purchase of Roll Models products. Technologies used include.
• Conversion planning, training and execution of the entire operation from a single-user application to a multi-user client-server environment allowing the business to grow by 20% immediately while supporting anticipated.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Implemented a process to enhance quality by abstracting environmental details from JCL resulting in an average decrease in initial production errors from three to less than one-tenth per job.
• Led technical design and coding of mainframe components for major upgrade to Distribution Management System coordinating Ameriprise and contractor personnel across several states and two continents.
• Led disaster recovery and business resumption planning and ongoing testing efforts for a Distribution Management System encompassing mainframe and Unix components and over 20 individuals across a widely distributed.
• Led installation team for upgrade to Distribution Management System including all details of installation planning, coordination of day-to-day preparation, daily to hourly progress tracking and results communication to.
• Led a team of business users and technical personnel in the installation and testing of the customer contract generation process for a large new insurance product on an existing product system. Customer contract pages.
• Stabilized a Variable Universal Life System and improved on-time availability from 80% to 99%.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Led analysis team responsible for post-implementation software tuning effort for Federal Reserve Bank’s Automated Clearing House (ACH) application resulting in significant increase in system throughput. The technical.
• Developed a mature performance model for the ACH system allowing accurate predictions of future systems performance as data characteristics change over time.
• Represented ACH development team to a Federal Reserve system-wide director group overseeing the entire Federal Reserve ACH testing, conversion and integration effort.
• Coordinated and resolved all environmental, development and application software issues related to moving mainframe testing and production environments from Minneapolis to three Federal Reserve Automation Services.

Dublin 2, IE

• Estimated, budgeted and executed a large systems testing and conversion effort for a mail-order distribution application including inventory control and management.
• Led a team of eight analysts and programmers in the implementation of an inventory processing and tracking application including functional, technical and interface design, creating program specifications from user.
• Designed a then-novel MS Excel spreadsheet to recommend appropriate merchandise stacking patterns on a pallet resulting in decreased fire code violations and a predicted 3% increase in warehouse storage density.
• Led teams of up to ten programmers/analysts in the coding, unit testing, systems testing and conversion of interline payables, usage processing, revenue recognition and general ledger interface functions for an airline.