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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Driving multi-year initiative to establish data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.Led 2+ year project to build a data science workbench to enable AI and ML capabilities.Success of data science workbench provided foundation for a large number of AI business use cases.Managing delivery of AI use cases for the business.Delivered a multi-year data platform modernization initiative to mature data capabilities and practices.Established Cybersecurity capabilities through delivery of key security projects.Setup key application security capabilities to help protect applications.Partnered with app dev and infrastructure teams to mature application security tools and practices.Provided program management to Cybersecurity perimeter department initiatives.Helped establish new managed services in support of security objectives.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed delivery of SAP refresh project to lifecycle the SAP environment.Completed delivery of enterprise job scheduling tool upgrade and migration.Managed DMZ program delivery.Built test and production DMZ environments at two corporate data centers in order to improve the security, resiliency and standards of the environment.Introduced defense in-depth with many security features: DMZ zones, no trust communication, privileged access management, patch management and intrusion protection.Delivered highly available environment across two environments to enable resiliency and DR capabilities.Migrated 130 applications and business to business VPN connections to the new DMZ.Decommissioned legacy DMZs.Managed delivery of automated server build solution.Led delivery of corporate VDI solution.Provided project management of the corporate email archive solution.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Senior Technology Manager responsible for corporate systems infrastructure.Responsibilities included the HR and enterprise collaboration and content management infrastructure.Provided global leadership to Target India corporate infrastructure team.Responsible for developing and implementing the corporate system infrastructure strategy.Ensured team effectively utilized Agile Scrum methodology to deliver product and platform needs.Effectively prioritized backlog of stories to strategically deliver the most value.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Technology manager responsible for managing global infrastructure team that built and supported the development and test labs across Target.Setup and supported 225+ test stores to enable faster and more effective project delivery. Led team of 25+ direct reports in the US, India and Uruguay. Used Agile Scrum methodology to develop new proactive monitoring and alerting tools. Provided leadership functions with vendor oversight to provide quality service to clients. Significantly improved team talent.Traveled to Bangalore and Chennai, India to establish a global support team.Led team to successfully implement Labs on Cloud solution in alignment with the enterprise direction.Created offshore lab at strategic vendor and significantly decreased testing costs.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provided stores data program planning and implementation leadership. Responsible for leading cashier and sales floor pricing projects through implementation.Completed detailed data analysis to provide suggestions and solutions for metrics to store operations.Negotiated with store and financial partners to come to agreement on controversial RedCard metrics.Partnered with key business client to create the five-year EBI Stores Program strategic roadmap.Successfully implemented new label print application across all Target stores.Onshore business analyst to Target India team of 30 people. Facilitated daily project meetings and determined how to overcome roadblocks.Partnered with the business to define the requirements for an improved store label print application.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Played key role on large project that implemented grocery scales across Target store locations. Managed the key vendor relationships and worked with the business to deliver store solutions.Responsible for the implementation plan to ensure smooth deployment of new scales in all Targets. Provided technical leadership for delivery of multiple store applications.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Technical Lead Consultant for large retail software client. Technical team lead of five person team which supported customized software development. Worked on multiple global projects for leading retailers. Traveled to the Philippines to establish off-shore solution delivery center.