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Seattle, Wa, Us

St Paul, Mn, Us

Leading a team of architects, software and data engineers that research, innovate and deliver new digital technologies for 3M. This includes creating the Digital Science Community in Dublin for our global Corporate Research Systems Lab.

St Paul, Mn, Us

Leading architecture, technology and platforms design and implementation in CRSL. Collaborating with CRSL senior technical leaders and 3M division labs to define and build new digital solutions to enable rapid innovation and growth with digital solutions and capabilities. Relying on broad experiences with technical and commercialization as well as deep knowledge of state of the art technologies and processes, I influence current and future architectures for the digital platforms to be shared across the company globally.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Define, drive and maintain convergence toward reference and target architectures through establishing Enterprise Architecture strategy and processes, managing risk, and initiating or leveraging investments across business processes, applications, information, technology, and security throughout the enterprise. Create value in diverse environments with broad and deep knowledge of application development and integration across the organization.• Provided thought leadership in areas of architecture, design, methodology and tool selection that resulted in an enterprise development strategy, integration strategy, API Strategy, and mobile development strategy.• Led and educated teams on new ways of working, including design thinking and agile practices that resulting in the creation of new business solutions that saved time and increased productivity• Defined new services enabling other parts of the organization to execute on capabilities, such as API Management, SAP Fiori, Mobile platforms, Agile Development, and cloud• Created the strategy, principles, architecture and operating model for APIs that seeded the creation of the API Program and the associated staffing model. This program is projected to have cost savings through reuse, productivity, supportability, traceability, better visibility into data consumption, and opening up new revenue streams.• Led cross functional teams to create architecture artifacts, perform proof of concepts, and set the technology direction for application development and integration.• Aligned to business strategy to inform new digital strategy and target and reference architectures• Emphasize “Art of the Possible” with roadshows and presentations including Design Thinking, DevOps, Agile, Cloud Native development, and Social Coding• Engaged our security and license compliance team to ensure architecture patterns met security requirements

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Led areas of architecture, design, methodology for integration, including emerging technologies such as mobility and cloud. Created and implemented new services to support these new technologies.• Defined and implemented integration architecture solutions, including roadmaps, strategy, patterns, development standards, positions, and target architectures• Led the integration sub domain, which was a cross functional team, in providing the integration strategy• Governed architecture exceptions to the existing integration strategy • Defined, created and led the implementation of new regional Enterprise Serivce Bus and Messaging, cloud integration, and API Management capabilities for the organization. These new capabilities resulted in enabling new emerging technologies such as cloud solutions and mobility.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Defined, led and implemented integration target architecture resulting in reusable integration assets leveraged globally, as well as lowering the TCO for delivering integrations. • Led architecture and development activities in projects and integration into other platforms, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERPs), Trading, Ocean Transportation• Mentored and Cross-trained other integration teams assigned to projects• Defined, recommended, and enforce process improvements for the integration development team• Worked with global integration teams in India and Spain to ensure the design, integration patterns and standards were correctly implemented.• Participated in Enterprise Architecture subdomain to set strategy and patterns as well as review variances and provide Solution Architecture reviews. Also, to provide temporary leadership of the group during time of transition.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Led and implemented architecture strategies for Cargill Animal Nutrition, including Microsoft technology and SOA initiatives. Built and managed an offshore development team to deliver applications as well as assisted in a strategy for selling applications.• Led architecture, development, and process improvement in projects defining security, language, and integration into other platforms and applications• Led the team that built a custom feed application that was delivered as an offline application. As a part of the effort designed the creation of some of the first web services at Cargill. • Led the creation of a new capability to enable customers and 3rd parties to have Cargill identities and enable self-service.• Led and managed off-shore development team in Malaysia• Mentored and Cross-trained other development resources assigned to projects• Collaborated with the marketing team on a strategy for selling our applications• Participated in Enterprise Architecture Development subdomain to set strategy and governance representing Microsoft development

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Researched, recommended, and published findings for technologies in the testing and Microsoft areas. Developed new solutions for businesses leveraging new Microsoft technologies. Responsible for defining testing standards for web applications as well as establishing load testing capabilities for the organization.• Recommended application architectures in the Microsoft area, including assisting in the creation of the first eCommerce site for the company leveraging .NET and Microsoft’s eCommerce products. This enabled a new business stream for our Chocolate business. Other businesses we able to use that model to create their own eCommerce implementations.• Educated and consulted with Cargill employees in testing and Microsoft technologies and architecture • Led proof of concepts and recommend tools and processes, including participation in the .NET early adopter program.• Participated in Enterprise Architecture Development subdomain to set strategy and governance for the Microsoft technology stack• Defined and stood up new services for testing, including load testing and automated testing, resulting in confidence calculations that systems would be able to handle targeted loads.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Researched, modeled and set standards for master data as well as provided development support of the foundation data website• Analyzed and compared entity relationship diagrams, and discovered where information was held• Analyzed and gathered information on the Person Subject Area• Developed a data standardization toolkit• Mentored the intern and help him create the Data Standards Web site

Provided development capabilities to the data standards team, including web development. Defined new processes for assisting in testing and quality around data standards.• Analyzed vendor applications/information and made recommendations on use• Analyzed and develop changes for their web page• Developed and test mapping process• Developed quality measurement standards for the Data Standards Group

Ba, Computer Science, Music, Business

Ms, Masters In Software Systems