What I'm learning: What it takes to build Large Language Models. How it feels to be a part of the most important technical advance in a generation.

What I did: Phase 1 of an ambitious new content delivery platform. What I learned: Simple process changes can be powerful. If you haven't used Terraform, maybe don't.

What I did: My team built and extended a cloud-native digital ordering and fulfillment solution that supports over a million transactions per day for one of the world's preeminent brands. This means serving up world-class transactions per second and 9's of availability, on a distributed platform that offers the business flexibility required for digital success. Including:• Digital menus (at scale), and the challenges that accompany product modifiers, complex pricing, tax and promotional rules, plus real-time item availability• Payment processing and fraud prevention• Worldwide location data, presented in app and 3rd parties (e.g. Google)• Support of a diverse tenancy, i.e. licensee organizations with their own technology• Security at every software layer• Analytics that enable data driven decision making, including feature prioritizationWhat I learned: Taking cross-functional relationships to a new level. Delivery of containerized microservices that handle massive scale. How to dive deeper.

What I did : Led a team building a modernized, real-time computation and publishing engine that supports the next generation of workload management. What I learned: Even more team building. Scaled Agile. New methods of influence.

What I did : Led a team of Architects, Engineers, and Business Analysts to build Proofs of Concepts that enabled Target to learn what the future looks like for our team members and guests. With a heavy focus on mobile, we were at the forefront of testing and learning for our Stores organization.What learned: Team building. Stores infrastructure and mobile integration. How to nudge the battleship.

What I Did : Directed guest-facing development for experiences with massive scale, including a complete re-architecture of Target's Mobile Web application.What I Learned : Leadership. Technical evolution. Accessibility matters. How to see around corners.

What I Did : Drove front-end architecture strategy across multiple channel initiatives. What I Learned : JavaScript. The DOM. Responsive Web Design. Service Oriented Architecture. Site and page performance optimization. Assertion.

What I Did : Owned the Digital Asset Management rollout for the massive Target.com replatforming effort.What I Learned : What a nine figure program feels like. Agile development. Collaboration across multiple geographies.

What I Did : Accelerated the technological capabilities of a digital imaging powerhouse. What I Learned : Digital photography. Digital Asset Managment. XMP. How to build a business case for large technical initiatives. It's all about the lighting.

What I Did : Developed solutions to enable the design and graphics professionals at one of the world's top brands.What I Learned : Enterprise software release and support. How to make solutions scale. UNIX shell scripting. How a calendar can resemble tetris.

What I Did : Developed systems for a scientific publishing company to automate the web and print production process for a dozen clinical journals.What I Learned : Even more AppleScript. Even more HTML. CSS.

What I Did : Led the Help Desk and several technology initiatives for a world-class outfit. What I Learned : ASP. SQL. AppleScript. Digital telephony system development. Mac OS X. How to deal with immense stress.

What I Did : If it processed or transported bits, I took care of it. Workstations, servers, network, printers, office software, web hosting, everything.What I learned : I love technology. If you treat it right, it can love you back. People want their machines to enable them.

What I Did : Educated print sales staff and local advertisers on the topic of marketing on a new platform.What I learned : HTML. Translating technology. Change is good.

What I Did : Worked traditional advertising sales territories, promoted to Manager of start-up weekly newspaper targeted to the University audience.What I Learned : Tenacity. How to lose shoe leather. Persuasion. Time management.