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Lake Forest, Illinois, US

• Migrated the gainger.com SOLR search engine from on prem servers to AWS EC2 instances in the cloud in April 2022. Along with the migration, we upgraded the SOLR version from 5.5 to 8.6.2. Created the ability to scale.
• Created enhanced search functionality by incorporating Qualifier Parsing and Terms features in June 2020. Qualifier Parsing added search query pre-processing to pinpoint search results for customers. Terms allowed.
• Migrated the grainger.com search engine from Endeca to SOLR in Jan. 2019. This migration helped reduce licensing costs, easier scalability, is customizable & extensible, and improved overall page response times.
• Responsible for all code design, development, support, and performance metrics for all search and browsing functionality for grainger.com. The search development teams have delivered over 100+ projects and enhancements.
• Managed up to 6 different agile sprint teams with over 50+ team members that consisted of on & offshore development resources. The teams were comprised of 10% full time employees and 90% contractors from various.
• Assisted in managing the grainger.com application server platform migration from Broadvision to the Hybris platform in November 2013.

Chicago, IL, US

• Responsible for all design, development, support and performance metrics for all browse & search pages for sears.com, kmart.com, craftsman.com, and kenmore.com web sites.
• In the past 3 years, have lead a combined on/off-shore development team of 50-80 developers to deliver approximately 120+ projects throughout the year that resulted in an annual 25% increase in online sales.
• Directed cross-functional development teams to achieve 4 consecutive successful holiday seasons with 100% up-time for Sears.com and Kmart.com with record sales.
• Lead a development swat team to rapidly increase site SEO by increasing indexed pages by 150% with improvements to canonical links, system generated site maps, SEO friendly formatted URLs, Meta tag improvements, less.
• Lead a development team that increased product assortment from 250K to over 30M+ via Marketplace project that included converting internal search engine from Mercado to SOLR.
• Directed front-end development activity to migrate online web sites to a scalable next-generation platform that positioned our business for aggressive growth from a customer and functional perspective. We're able to.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Client Server Developer – designed & implemented check imaging archive and display system.
• VRU Developer - Developed 3 independent customer account inquiry applications on voice response units to handle over 3000 calls per day
• Mainframe Developer - Maintained and developed Demand Deposit Accounting System, Account Reconcilement System, and Retained Asset System in an MVS/ESA IBM 3090 environment.