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Cottage Grove, Mn

Product Owner on the Retail Sales IT Team delivering industry disrupting digital solutions to the Renewal by Andersen retail network.

Cottage Grove, Mn

Product Owner on the Retail Sales IT Team delivering industry disrupting digital solutions to the Renewal by Andersen retail network.

Oak Park Heights, Mn

Product Owner on the Enterprise Quote team; providing best-in-class quoting solutions.

Oak Park Heights, Mn

Product Owner on the Enterprise Application Integrations team; providing the organization with the platforms and solutions necessary to drive value to the business.Primary ownership responsibility for the MuleSoft, IBM BPM, and IBM Sterling EDI/B2B platforms.

Cottage Grove, Mn

Product Owner on the Retail Technology Team delivering industry disrupting digital solutions to the Renewal by Andersen retail network.Core products are rSuite and GroundForce.• rSuite is the in-home customer engagement, quoting, and technical measure solution for the Renewal by Andersen Network.• GroundForce is a neighborhood marketing solution designed to streamline the canvassing process, drive quality leads, and provide insightful data for analytics.

Mendota Heights, Mn

Performed ScrumMaster, Product Owner, Analyst, and UI/UX Designer roles on key Patterson Companies initiatives.• Led a team of developers and quality assurance analysts in delivering the first mobile eCommerce website for Patterson Companies.• Designed the UI/UX for pattersonvet.com's mobile eCommerce experience.• Incorporated rapid prototyping into the UI/UX design process to enable stakeholders to visualize end-state solutions. The process resulted in rapid innovation, minimization of design flaws, reduction of risk, and time/cost savings.• Drove the eCommerce implementation of an enterprise identity management solution for customer facing systems to deliver enhanced security for all customers, as well as positioning Patterson Companies to integrate and unify the digital customer experience.• Provided mentorship to business analysts on Agile methodologies, developing acceptance criteria, designing interactive prototypes, and leading Scrum delivery.

Minneapolis, Mn

Performed multiple roles as key leader on an agile development team including Scrum Master, business analyst, user experience engineer, data / quality analyst and in true spirit of Agile/Scrum, additional functions as necessary in delivering valuable product solutions.• Enabled store management and headquarters leadership to receive immediate, critical sales performance metrics via mobile delivery by leading team through development of frequent incremental releases of quality product, resulting in quicker return on project investment. Recognized by VP for successful development and delivery.• Led technical sessions in identifying new ways to obtain real-time data and provide more actionable analytics to end-users.• Drove quick user adoption of mobile application by designing intuitive user interface and experience.• Provided company leadership and users peace of mind by leading extensive application security and 3rd party penetration testing using both internal and vendor partners.

Minneapolis, Mn

Performed lead business analyst role on several key initiatives including vendor management and collaboration program and multichannel scoping program. Core responsibilities included driving vision, leading scoping efforts, eliciting requirements, creating wireframes, developing functional specifications and managing user testing.• Delivered enterprise vendor portal that provided the company’s 50k+ partners with access to business critical content, applications and reports that are utilized to drive all merchandising functions for company.• Allowed company to conduct business with external partners by leading development and implementation of secure collaborative enterprise solution.• Established funding for several mission critical projects by creating long-term roadmap of planned projects for joint business partner/vendor initiatives.• Enabled quicker decision making and project funding by streamlining and managing cross-department project prioritization, including developing automated intake process and leading review meetings with business executives.

Minneapolis, Mn

Functioned as primary technical business analyst on high profile stores business intelligence program. Drove analysis, elicited requirements, created metric functional specifications, participated in data design, developed user interface, conducted user acceptance testing and lead implementation coordination.• Delivered over $600K in savings in six months, receiving VP recognition award, by leading the analysis and development of key operation metrics driving increased efficiency and accuracy of Store processes.• Increased store staff productivity by performing expert analysis on process and diagnostics measurements, resulting in restructuring and simplification of key performance measurements.• Drove best practices and evaluation of overall performance by partnering with key business stakeholders in developing complex and comprehensive performance measurement dashboard to represent store success.• Enabled project to meet established timelines by stepping in and performing role of technical architect when other resources were unavailable.

Minneapolis, Mn

The Technology Leadership Program is a Target Technology Services development program for high potential recruits on track to become leaders in the organization. The program consists of a 16 month rotation through the support, infrastructure, and development areas of Target technology Services.Performed rotations in Distribution Development, Messaging/SMS Infrastructure, and Enterprise Application Management & Support. During rotations I effectively managed and executed the Distribution Performance Measures (DPM) application release to all distribution centers, as well as established a full functioning testing lab for Systems Management Server (SMS).

St. Paul, Mn

Network Services and Development internship.

Bba, Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Phi Omega, Beta Gamma Sigma, Society of Information Management, Association of Information.

Masters Certificate, Business Analysis, Information Technology

Course work focused on business analysis fundamentals, process modeling, eliciting requirements, managing business expectation and scope.