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Franklin, Wisconsin, United States

Manage multiple direct reports, overseeing the Backend Development and DevOps team, as well as working with front-end developers to create a headless ecommerce experience powered by a Svelte/JS front-end and Magento backend - all hosted on a containerized infrastructure in AWS. Responsible for delivering solutions on a B2C commerce website for three different brands, all to help grow revenue and create a superior customer experience.Work closely with COO, CMO, and other team leads to gather project requirements, architect solutions and create technical specifications. Work with internal developers and a small team of remote contractors to create new and improve existing backend Magento features.Lead multiple third party integrations, including Tealium and Extend.Produced various custom coded modules, including internal loose stone importer (to load thousands of product SKU's into Magento's database.Lead multiple Magento version upgrade projects, going from 2.3.1 to 2.4.5.

Franklin, Wisconsin, United States

Work on migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2. Customized Magento data migration tool to convert old database to new database. Work with other backend developers to build out Magento 2 modules. Manage and oversee work of remote contract developers.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Helped develop customizations for client web sites on the .NET platform Episerver (now Optimizely).

West Allis, Wi

Responsible to the Senior Directory of Technology for leading development team and overseeing the success of company eCommerce websites.* Grew internal development team to four developers, both internal and remote. Provide leadership and oversee the progress of the team’s goals and objects.* Architected and developed a web based point of sale system for use in company stores using Zend Framework and Vue.js. Integrated application with external credit card processor, credit card swiping devices, thermal receipt printers and 3rd party search engine.* Integrate existing eCommerce sites and new point of sale system with Oracle Fusion ERP.* Replaced Akamai image hosting with AWS S3 and Lambda functions, saving the company approximately $10,000 annually.* Leveraged the Atlassian suite of tools for collaboration and project management using agile best practices.

West Allis, Wi

* Design and develop more efficient MySQL database schemas, as well as queries to manage product data from various third party sources.* Contribute with the move of eCommerce site from an on-premise hosting solution to Amazon AWS.* Upgrade core eCommerce site from PHP 5.4 to PHP 7.* Worked closely with marketing team to improve SEO, increasing sales revenue by 9%.Implemented UI/UX enhancements, increasing average order KPI by 11.6% and web conversion rates to 9.95%.* Implemented third-party SaaS search engine, increasing sales from search engine by over 40% in the first twelve weeks.* Contributed to setup and configuration of Jira software, improving efficiencies in development group.* Write technical specs and manage projects with outside development contractors.

West Allis, Wi

* Architect and develop eCommerce website, supporting revenue growth from $10 million to $40+ million.* Develop EDI integration with various vendors to automate procurement processes.* Integrate website with internal ERP and warehouse systems.* Contribute to setup and customization of new ERP system.* Create web based reports to support accounting, inside sales, and outside sales staff.* Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve various website issues as needed.

* Lead web applications developer and secondary designer.* Led planning and development of upgrade to multimillion dollar eCommerce website using object-oriented PHP programming, backed by Zend Framework.* Developed custom, self-updatable widgets for use on client sites (image rotation software, news posting program, and self-managed career posting page).* Customized Magento and osCommerce software to meet clients’ particular needs.

* Designed and developed various client sites, templates and widgets.* Contributed to custom-developed web applications using PHP/MySQL.* Handled day-to-day business tasks including general client support.

Bachelors, Computer Science

Computer Science

Attended for one year and then transferred to Carroll College in Waukesha, WI.