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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Spearheaded a data pipeline project crucial to the success of the Enview, the startup's only product.Worked with a team of engineers to ingest data from various third-party sources for use in an early-stage legislation tracking application.Designed and implemented key workflow processes such as task prioritization and assignment, code reviews, and incident.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Wrote, tested, and reviewed code to implement features for the Drinkworks.com website and e-commerce platform.Designed and built prototype for an in-house article and knowledge management database for a fortune 500 company. Partnered with clients, designers, and engineers to gather and document requirements. Built MVP from scratch according to mock-up.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked as an integral member of a software product team to develop a sports betting mobile application for the company’s largest client. Technology stack included React Native in Typescript, Redux, PostgreSQL, Firestore, GraphQL, and third-party APIs.Employed agile methodology within a peer review workflow framework to develop, test, review, and deploy.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Completed a solo capstone project designed to simultaneously reduce food waste and hunger by matching excess food at restaurants with soup kitchen demand. The app allows users at restaurants to post excess food items that would otherwise go to waste. Users at soup kitchens can view, claim, and rescue the donated food for distribution to food insecure.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led a team of data analysts responsible for construction and migration of legacy data to SAP during deployment to one of the largest Cargill business units.Worked closely with business users to ensure data were sourced and migrated correctly across all process areas and objects.Acted as Agile champion and coach as team transitioned to scrum methodology for.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed IT Asset & Configuration Management Database (CMDB) of approximately 1M active records, more than 1.5M relationships, and more than twenty external integrations.Responsible for support, maintenance, and configuration of CG4 asset tracking software used by 400+ technicians at Target headquarters and distribution center locations to record IT asset.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Migrated IT asset management from legacy system to ServiceNow platform, an enterprise-wide SaaS solution with more than 3,000 active users at Target.Upgraded configuration management database (CMDB) from highly customized instance of ServiceNow to largely out-of-the-box version of newer release.Chosen by scrum team as one of two members to represent Asset.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Served as Process Owner and ServiceNow tool Subject Matter Expert for Target Technology Services (TTS) Software Release Management.Gathered requirements for tool updates and championed requests throughout prioritization, design, and build phases of the ServiceNow enhancement process.Led a five-person team that designed and launched the Implementation.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Partnered with Cargill Business Units to optimize their product portfolios using data-driven Six Sigma methodology.Managed the Data & Architecture work stream during the planning and deployment of a successful 26-week pilot at Cargill European Starchy Enterprises. Discovered savings and margin uplift in excess of $20 million dollars over three years, more.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Project Tartan was a monumental, multi-year effort to standardize business processes and migrate best practices across the company. It included migration to a single Enterprise Resource Planning system – namely, SAP – for all Cargill Business Units. The Material Master is the most complex of the SAP objects, as it touches and relies on input from all major.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Formulated and processed a wide range of beverages featuring Cargill ingredients. Created custom interactive MS Access application to manage documentation of pilot plant activities. This program is still used on a near-daily basis by pilot plant personnel to track beverages produced, setup and procedures used, and quality specifications such as Brix and.

Mba, Information & Decision Sciences

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