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St Louis Park, Minnesota, United States

Co-owner and operator of Lighting Plastics of Minnesota (LPM), a manufacturer and distributor of lighting products and solutions, expanding into many other consumer categories of production.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Co-Owner of Talos Elemental Corp (TEC), a technology development company with multiple brands: Lighting Plastics of Minnesota (LPM), TopoRoll, and Talos Labs.

Core member of the Data and Analytics leadership team.Designed, Developed, and Deployed cloud solution to centralize and expose all information related to the lifecycle of our Purchase Orders to meet manufacturing demand. Met with stakeholders at all levels of the company to collect feedback and rapidly improve the above products and platforms.Worked with external partners to ingest new data feeds and unlock new insights for the company.Maintained and enhanced custom… Show more Core member of the Data and Analytics leadership team.Designed, Developed, and Deployed cloud solution to centralize and expose all information related to the lifecycle of our Purchase Orders to meet manufacturing demand. Met with stakeholders at all levels of the company to collect feedback and rapidly improve the above products and platforms.Worked with external partners to ingest new data feeds and unlock new insights for the company.Maintained and enhanced custom end-to-end custom cloud and edge (IoT) systems. Show less

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Core member of the Data and Analytics leadership team.Designed, Developed, and Deployed multiple end-to-end custom cloud and edge (IoT) systems that lead to increased traceability, product quality, and saved the company millions of dollars in recall avoidance.Designed, Developed, and Deployed cloud solution to centralize and expose all information related to the lifecycle of our products.Met with stakeholders at all levels of the company to collect feedback and rapidly… Show more Core member of the Data and Analytics leadership team.Designed, Developed, and Deployed multiple end-to-end custom cloud and edge (IoT) systems that lead to increased traceability, product quality, and saved the company millions of dollars in recall avoidance.Designed, Developed, and Deployed cloud solution to centralize and expose all information related to the lifecycle of our products.Met with stakeholders at all levels of the company to collect feedback and rapidly improve the above products and platforms.Worked with external partners to ingest new data feeds and unlock new insights for the company.Maintained and enhanced all public website tracking and testing tools.Consulted on various projects for the following topics: analytics, feature testing, digital marketing campaigns, security, personalization, and accessibility. Show less

Created and lobbied for the position after seeing the need for a dedicated analytics developer.Maintained and enhanced all public website tracking and testing tools.Restructured and centralized all international website tracking and analytics solutions.Consulted on various projects for the following topics: analytics, feature testing, digital marketing campaigns, security, personalization, and accessibility.Designed and Developed web scrape tools to mine data for… Show more Created and lobbied for the position after seeing the need for a dedicated analytics developer.Maintained and enhanced all public website tracking and testing tools.Restructured and centralized all international website tracking and analytics solutions.Consulted on various projects for the following topics: analytics, feature testing, digital marketing campaigns, security, personalization, and accessibility.Designed and Developed web scrape tools to mine data for the Data Science team.Provided data analysis to guide UX and Design decisions. Show less

Continued all items from the previous position.Owner of Google Analytics platform and implemented across all public websites. Work directly with Google to implement best practices.Designed and Developed the new analytics Data Layer. Analyzed and Implemented page speed recommendations to reduce bounce rates on the site.Member of the cross functional Tech Council.Created the UX Meetup Group and led meetings on various UX topics.Co-Lead the EpiServer… Show more Continued all items from the previous position.Owner of Google Analytics platform and implemented across all public websites. Work directly with Google to implement best practices.Designed and Developed the new analytics Data Layer. Analyzed and Implemented page speed recommendations to reduce bounce rates on the site.Member of the cross functional Tech Council.Created the UX Meetup Group and led meetings on various UX topics.Co-Lead the EpiServer platform conversion. Show less

Designed and Developed Common JS and CSS frameworks for the development team. This reduced the development time and increased reusability of code across all brand sites.Developed responsive web pages based on the UX team's designs.Developed the Dealer Locator app used across all brand sites.Moved to a small team of highly skilled developers to develop a custom CMS system to support our entire public web ecosystem.