Michael Palmquist Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Digital Product Ops:
• Lead efforts to identify, evaluate, and experiment with use cases for GenAI, enhancing outcome orientation and data-driven decision-making.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product innovation and experimentation at Target.
• Implement strategies to optimize product operations and drive business growth through GenAI technology.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Sr. Product Manager in Global Supply Chain Logistics - Ops Intelligence.
• Lead the end-to-end planning, prioritization, and delivery of data-driven analytical products across three critical logistics functions: Domestic First Mile, Global Trade Services, and International First Mile.
• Develop and execute a strategic roadmap, balancing operational needs with team health and business objectives & key results to drive high-impact solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (business & technology) to identify opportunities, gather requirements, and prioritize initiatives that align with global transportation goals and OKRs.
• Advocate for analysts by ensuring they have the necessary resources and removing roadblocks, fostering a culture of efficiency and innovation.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, managing relationships and communicating project updates and strategic shifts to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Led the Operational Reporting organization (includes 5 technical teams - comprised of +30 individuals in diverse roles) to convert our technology stack from Big Data to adoption of Private Cloud & Open Source solutions.
• Migration from Private to Hybrid (Google/GCP) Cloud and Open Source.
• Identified and remediated an unmanaged backup solution for external team which resulted in purge of 2.4 PBs of data and $2M of cost avoidance in 2021.
• Engaged with stakeholders from each cross-functional domain (Executive, Finance, Portfolio, Delivery & Workforce) to evaluate their ideas & problems.
• Decoded stakeholders demand (ideas/problems) into solution architecture oriented deliverables (SIPOC, Data Flow Diagram, Data Model).
• Consulted with each domain's technical team on design, build, implementation & adoption of solution patterns (ELT pipelines, ingestion transformation, visualization, data quality, etc.) using Agile/Scrum.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Promoted to Associate Director - Reporting
• Drove the design, building, and launching of new dashboards, data models and data pipelines from heterogeneous sources in production across multiple domains (e.g. Executive, Finance, Portfolio, Delivery & Workforce).
• Led the Executive Reporting team (on & offshore resources in various roles) to ingest, transform and visualize all critical metrics reviewed by the CIO and his leadership team using Agile/Kanban methodology.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Led the Operational Reporting team to convert data analytics and warehouse capabilities from RDBMS (MS SQL Server - SSIS, SSRS) to Big Data technology stack (Hadoop/MapR/Hive/Sqoop/Pig).
• Designed and developed enterprise data assets by ingesting, transforming & visualizing data by designing canonical models using Agile/Kanban.
• Expanded adoption of Operational Reporting data lake tenancy by engaging with owners/leaders to present our vision, obtain their agreement and orchestrating ingesting/transformation of +50 new sources of truth across.
• Mentored recent graduates hired in Data Analytics/BI/Reporting disciplines.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

PromotionConsultant for Application Delivery TeamsSix Sigma

Eden Prairie, MN, US

Consultant to Application Delivery TeamsProcess Improvement

Eden Prairie, MN, US

CareOne and ICUE - Clinical Applications

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Demonstrated growth in technical skills and resource management while building a new Pharmacy application for Target stores. Accomplishments from this role:
• Developed obfuscation utility (ADO.NET) for consumer data to support test automation.
• Managed a team of five offshore resources daily activities (BA/QA).
• Managed test environment database (table and data operations - SQL).
• Created deliverables for analysis and testing disciplines using Iterative (SDLC) methodology.

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Contributed to building myOptumHealth.com in replacement of HealthAtoZ.com. Accomplishments are listed below:
• Promoted to Product Research Analyst (Sr. IT BA responsibilities).
• Liaison for leadership & cross-functional teams (business, creative, developers, testers & vendors).
• Created deliverables for analysis and testing disciplines using Iterative (SDLC) methodology.
• Led defect management activities and resolution to incidents/problems.
• Participated in vendor evaluations and integrations (SEO, SEM, etc).

Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Supported integration of HealthAtoZ.com (acquisition - public and client portals) into UHG managed services and delivered new/enhanced functionality. Accomplishments are listed below:
• Created deliverables for analysis and testing disciplines using Waterfall (SDLC) methodology.
• Synthesize web analytics and generated insightful reports for executives (CIO, VPs, etc).
• Orchestrated releases and managed support activities (availability, bug fixes, etc).

Minneapolis, MN, US