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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Manage two agile teams of 3-7 developers to produce new, SaaS-based product offerings to support the Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) flagship product.Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, Microsoft SQL Server, Angular JS, Confluence, Jira.

Minneapolis, Mn

Collaborate with Kewill product management and architects in the integration of Kewill Transport with the Kewill Move platform.Enhance Kewill Transport to ease integration with customer SAP systems. Significant customer engagements include the implementations of Kewill Transport to support the global supply chains for Arkema Europe and Celanese.Technology Platform: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java, J2EE, IBM Websphere, Tomcat, JMS, MQ, SQL, JDBC, Oracle, DB2, Cognos BI,… Show more Collaborate with Kewill product management and architects in the integration of Kewill Transport with the Kewill Move platform.Enhance Kewill Transport to ease integration with customer SAP systems. Significant customer engagements include the implementations of Kewill Transport to support the global supply chains for Arkema Europe and Celanese.Technology Platform: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Java, J2EE, IBM Websphere, Tomcat, JMS, MQ, SQL, JDBC, Oracle, DB2, Cognos BI, Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Data Manager, LDAP, JSP, Vaadin, ILOG, Web Services, SOAP, XML, EDI X12, FTP, AS/2, VAN, JUnitMethodologies: Agile, Scrum, eXtreme Programming, Use Cases with tools such as: CVS, Git, Rational Team Concert (RTC), Atlassian Jira and Confluence Show less

Minneapolis, Mn

Design and implement increasingly robust processes for multi-modal transportation, including Ocean Booking and Booking Freight Pay management.

Minneapolis, Mn

Managed a group of 12 US based developers.Designed a Car Distribution system in collaboration with Volvo Cars and IBM Global Services. Delivered the initial phase of the project on-time in less than 5 months to support the required cut-over date of July 21st, 2012. Initial phase included multi-person year enhancements to Volvo and TMS systems and the development of a communications hub. Implemented 'scrum of scrums' techniques to coordinate across organizations.Directed the… Show more Managed a group of 12 US based developers.Designed a Car Distribution system in collaboration with Volvo Cars and IBM Global Services. Delivered the initial phase of the project on-time in less than 5 months to support the required cut-over date of July 21st, 2012. Initial phase included multi-person year enhancements to Volvo and TMS systems and the development of a communications hub. Implemented 'scrum of scrums' techniques to coordinate across organizations.Directed the activities of a group of 6-8 Bangalore developers. Transferred Cognos Data Warehouse responsibilities to this group, resulting in new data marts and Carrier Scorecard dashboard.Directed the activities of a group of 30 developers in Shanghai and Ningbo, China. Produced a prototype for a Transportation Management System to support the Chinese market. Produced a prototype for a new web interface for the North American market. Show less

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed a group of 8-12 US-based developers, plus a group of 4-8 developers in Bangalore.Designed and implemented a data warehouse to support carrier score cards and historical reporting. Data Marts maintained through an incremental, continuous update process.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Design and implement a Data Warehouse based on Cognos Business Intelligence. Responsible for all data models, Framework Manager modelling.Continue to grow the original object and data model to include more robust business processes to meet customer and prospect needs. Design and implement interfaces to Sterling Commerce applications: Yard Management, Supply Chain Visibility and Web Forms.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As one of the original members of the Transview startup, designed, developed and launched Nistevo TMS, the premier on-demand, multi-tenant transportation management system.Responsibilities include: initial architectural design, business object model design, data base design, both logical and physical, java development. Member of the Engineering management team to lead a group of 6 to 50+ developers for the product launch in 2000, 2001.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Engineering management consultant for a number of finance and insurance industry clients, focusing on object oriented and agile development technologies. Clients include: UnitedHealthCare, First Bank (now USBank), St. Paul Companies (now Travellers), Ceridian and Hennepin/Ramsey County.Collaborated with Martin Fowler in the documentation of IBM's San Francisco frameworks.

St. Paul, Mn

Designed, developed and implemented an industry mandated Interline Settlement System. Designed a new PC client architecture based on Smalltalk, interfacing with IBM mainframe application. Managed a group of 10 - 40 developers. Project delivered on-time despite a year-long delay in project initiation.Produced an IT Strategy plan for the BN application portfolio based on the results of a year-long analysis. Strategy resulted in several immediate projects to redevelop, retire or replace… Show more Designed, developed and implemented an industry mandated Interline Settlement System. Designed a new PC client architecture based on Smalltalk, interfacing with IBM mainframe application. Managed a group of 10 - 40 developers. Project delivered on-time despite a year-long delay in project initiation.Produced an IT Strategy plan for the BN application portfolio based on the results of a year-long analysis. Strategy resulted in several immediate projects to redevelop, retire or replace key applications in the portfolio.Championed and installed LAN and WAN networks. Integrated all electronic mail networks, including delivery of key daily management reports to the CEO via email.Managed a group of 6-12 systems developers in support of Wang, DEC and Tandem computer networks. Show less

Minneapolis, Mn

Designed and delivered branch banking applications on mid-tier computers.

Paris Area, France

Consultant at a French automotive subcontractor supporting a variety of payroll applications.