John Larson Email & Phone Number

Richfield, Mn

Bloomington, Mn

The most experienced TIBCO developer in a small mixed technology development team in the Recording Head Group (RHG) of Seagate that developed and supported proprietary production management systems for two large facilities.Highly skilled, long time user of TIBCO and WebMethods toolsets. Worked to transition TIBCO technologies to vendor agnostic java based Spring toolsets hosted with Docker over the past year.Used SAFe practices to communicate activities and progress throughout the rapid development cycle, utilizing ITIL practices for production control,Facilitated management's needs by devising, recommending and bringing tactical and strategic solutions to life. Lead and participated in requirement gathering and design sessions. Has the ability to develop, visualize and evaluate potential solutions, then communicate them to management.Proficient at documenting and training others in complex technical systems.Quickly learned and was the primary person to support the BusinessWorks part of a highly resilient, varying quality, and evolving set of applications. This decade old system of in-house developed applications manage, track, and record thousands of steps daily involved with the 7x24 production of proprietary silicon wafers.Please request resume for the full breath of my activities at Seagate and Cargill.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

I/T Consultant in Cargill's Enterprise Application Integration department. Drove efficiency through technology to enable Cargill to competitively connect disparate applications, and Enterprise Architecture.Lead department to integrate a brand new SAP centric ERP integration environment an existing A2A and B2B integration environment, taking the best of both.Developed and evolved guidelines and policies for integration design. Implemented integration patterns. Helped develop and evolve clear and concise integration documentation standards for internal and external integrations.Prepared countless testing, implementation, validation, and back-out plans for a variety of tools and integration for myself and others. Assisted with the planning and execution of server and software life cycles.Drove customer-focused process and technology improvements to improve the effectiveness, reliability, efficiency, value and transparency of integrations.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Consultant at Cargill assisting the Oilseeds division develop a new Message Oriented Middleware(MOM) integration tool in partnership with HP. Sole technical resource that developed, installed,supported and maintained integrations.Performed UNIX System Administration and Oracle DBA roles for several large twin cities companies, including an Informix shop with a large AIX High-Availability cluster in a 7 by 24 hour environment. While there, performed duties from production support, developer support, security audits, to system resource planning.