John Olson Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Infrastructure leader owning authorization/authentication (Forgerock, PingFed, PingDir, Active Directory, Ivanti/Pulse, Entrust, Transmit, among others) , API Gateway (Apiggee/GraphQL) and application messaging services for the Enterprise.We also develop infrastructure applications at US Bank where we design, build, and maintain critical systems and tools that support the bank’s core operations. Their focus lies on ensuring scalability, reliability, and security while enabling other teams to build and deliver customer-facing solutions efficiently. infrastructure tools and middleware services that keep the bank’s technology ecosystem robust and operational.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for building strong, engaged, technical, and product-focused teams. Accountable for all network engineering platforms at Target including WAN/MAN, LAN, Directory Services, Network Security (firewalls, DNS< proxy), Data Center Networking, and Wireless-based technologies for all corporate, stores, distribution center and international locations.• Manage a Network Services Infrastructure team of Network Engineers, Directors, Project Managers, and Scrum Masters both onshore and offshore. This highly skilled team delivers several services across multiple Data Centers and Cloud Based Technologies. • Manage budgets, projects (hardware refresh cycles, annual code version upgrades, Duplicate ecommerce site implemented for redundancy/availability), enhancements, changes and research new technologies.• Manage Security/PCI/SOX audit findings/remediations, certificates, patching, RFPs, hardware refresh cycles and code upgrades. • Introduced open hardware and an automated deployment for new stores.• Applied reliability engineering disciplines across network engineering.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Engineering Leader responsible for transforming and advancing Data Services Engineering culture, technology and practices at Target.Leadership of Data Services including Datastore, Data Movement and File Services at Target.•Delivery of Managed Service Datastores (Datastore Platform as a Service) offerings including Postgres, Cassandra, Mongo, Redis, Elastic Search, Spark, Neo4J, SQL, and Oracle technologies•Evaluation of data access models and simplification of data contracts with applications•Provide operation visibility to enable actions to be taken through five pillars of capability: Collect, Store, Analyze, Visualize and Notify in a fully orchestrated application stack•Provide platforms and solutions including data movement and file capabilities including Kafka, GraphQL, EDI, Managed File Transfer, and B2B integrations•Creation of Database Performance as a Service team focused on tuning applications end to end for optimal performance•Built new alert notification system from the ground up replacing licensed solutions used for years•Implementation of DaaS which abstracts the data layer and with goals to provide a plug-and-play data service for business applications, dynamic web content, and micro-services•Deployment of virtualized Oracle Exadata solutions and in-sourcing of all support associated with Exadata•Strategy focused on end-to-end automation enabling internal customers to self-provision infrastructure services

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Engineering Leader responsible for transforming and advancing our Data Services Engineering culture, technology and practices at Target. • Leadership of Data Technologies including: RDBMS, Open Source and NoSQL datastore, Measurement Pipeline and Streaming Technologies• Delivery of Managed Service Datastore (Datastore Platform as a Service) offerings including Cassandra, Mongo, SQL, Oracle and Postgres technologies• Over a period of two years moved a profile of 9,000 Databases from 70% commercial to 66% open source • Created a Postgres team and NoSQL team out of existing up skilled resources to meet the new demands of the business• Decreased Oracle licenses from over 3500 to 1250 over a three-year period• Developed self service offerings for all open source offerings cutting down provisioning from weeks to under three minutes for new database requests• Built a new Metrics/Measurement pipeline for the corporation enabling us to retire ALL other licensed metric platforms• Ownership/Delivery of the Kafka platform as our corporate streaming solution• Creation of Database Performance as a Service team focused on tuning applications end to end for optimal performance• Implementation of DaaS which abstracts the data layer and with goals to provide a plug-and-play data service for business applications, dynamic web content, and micro-services• Deployment of virtualized Oracle Exadata solutions and in-sourcing of all support associated with Exadata• Strategy focused on end-to-end automation enabling internal customers to self-provision infrastructure services• Talent Management and Development• Contract Negotiations and Vendor Management• Financial Management

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsible for all Database Technology Teams (SQL/Oracle/UDB/Teradata) at Target along with tools associated with BI Technologies.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led the compute team supporting the design, build, implementation, and support of Target's Hardware environments for hosting compute and storage across our Data Centers, Stores, and Distribution Centers. Introduced Linux as our primary data center operating system.• Initiate and Implement Multi-Million Dollar Capital and internal IT projects from inception to completion.• Moved the needle from needing a new data center to decreasing our data center need through consolidation• Introduced Linux as Target’s primary data center operating system

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Accountability for Hardware Implementations at all New Target Stores, Distribution Centers and Headquarters locations. • Led our largest new store deployments in the history of Target with over 130 new stores per year in consecutive years.• Five new regional data centers in a period of a year and a half.• Responsible for all technology deployed and stood up in our new HQ India locations and Target Sourcing Services offices.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Bachelor Of Science, Political Science

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