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Savage, MN, US

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

Lead Digital Connectivity team responsible for developing and maintaining electronic integration solutions using API, EDI & our Navisphere platform with partners around the globe.Train, mentor, and develop a dynamic, collaborative team of IT professionals.Collaborate with internal capability and divisional delivery teams, business network, trading.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

Leads offshore team in analysis, development, and implementation of Digital Connectivity solutions. Liaison between external and internal customers, business and technology teams. Responsible for mentoring, coaching, and development of BAs through formal training, regular feedback, one-on-one meetings, documentation, and demonstrations.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Manage all Intellectual Property (IP) and Royalty activities for Best Buy brands. Review product design and engineering specifications from product development team for IP implications. Collaborate with legal team to review contracts and investigate alleged patent infringements. Prepare and deliver licensor reporting. Work with accounting to process and.

Represented Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. Consulted with senior management to discern and refine regional training needs and goals. Conferred and worked with L&D peers and management to develop national sales training curriculum for agents. Created and presented insurance and sales training. Co-architect of New Agent Hire training curriculum..

Marketed, promoted, and sold insurance products to community. Analyzed needs and recommended correct products for customers. Serviced and helped existing customers. Mentored new agents. Technical resource for Minnesota market.

Lead Developer/Analyst for Powerbuilder/Sybase Manufacturing system. Design, estimate, develop, test, and implement enhancements and corrections to inventory control software. Analyze business processes and write Software Requirement Specifications for new functionality. Deliver system overview presentations to business users. Create and execute test plans.

Consultant for Fortune 500 clients 3M, Pillsbury, Medtronic, and local companies Border Foods and Funco. Responsible for developing estimates for, creating requirements for, designing, developing, testing, and implementing software. Developed and delivered training presentations to business users.

Technical lead, lead developer, and architect for new Powerbuilder/Oracle Recipe System for Pillsbury. Responsible for re-architecting the system to use a Powerbuilder PFC-based framework, re-tooling the database to meet user and system needs, and extensive meetings with users to develop and refine requirements. Provided solutions to many ad-hoc problems.

Powerbuilder developer for medical equipment failure analysis and reporting system. Created ancestor hierarchy for maintenance windows and implemented object-oriented constructs.

Primary Powerbuilder developer for 3M manufacturing system. Re-wrote inheritance hierarchy to eliminate duplicate code and code overriding. Proposed, prioritized, estimated, designed, coded and tested enhancements and fixes. Answered user inquiries and provided technical support to other developers. Wrote user communications, test plans and system.

(Consultant at 3M - see position above)

Project Manager and Lead Developer for Powerbuilder medical equipment tracking system. Budgeted and planned work for other developers. Main customer liaison.

Built Powerbuilder/DB2 account management system. Mentored developers in improving Powerbuilder and DB2 skills. Organized/conducted customer feedback and training sessions. Wrote new release design specifications. Designed early prototype of OO/Smalltalk insurance system. Technical support for 100-person programming group assisting programmers in.

Designed, coded, tested, and implemented COBOL programs for marketing division of large cable shopping network. Produced time estimates, flowcharts, and documentation for projects. Created TELON-generated CICS/DL/I on-line programs.

Developed and implemented PL/1/DB2 engineering system. Proposed, designed, and coded system enhancements. Developed methods to improve performance and response time. Wrote documentation standards. Created screen documentation for user manual. Developed user-friendly inventory tracking system for electronic equipment.

B.A., Computer Science, Math, Psychology

Associate, Broadcasting