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Technical Architect at Wawa, Inc.
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States 20 work roles 1 school
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Robert Taylor previously worked as Principal Product Manager at Walmart and Group Manager, IT & Business Strategy at 7-Eleven. Robert Taylor holds Bs, Ee from The University Of Tulsa.

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Versatile leader with a strong track record of technology innovation and customer collaboration. Expert in translating business partner and customer technical needs into technical requirements. Skilled in all areas of technology including development, design, architecture, operations, product management, and user experience.

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Wawa, Inc.
Wawa, Inc.
Technical Architect
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Technical Architect

Current

Wawa, PA, US

  • Creating lasting architectures and solutions to enable profitable growth for a $18.6B C-Store/QSR chain
  • Established reference architecture, sandbox environment, dedicated store network, and process for testing connected kitchen equipment, LoRaWAN sensors, Wi-Fi tracking, and other emerging technologies
  • Architected and supported development of the Wawa Associate Workforce Application, adding functionality for picking and packing off-premises orders, targeting the reduction of missing and incorrect items that cost the.
  • Engaged in extensive data analysis to support business queries into the correlation among traditional retail data sources, the additional instrumentation provided by IoT devices, and our observability platform
Mar 2023 - Present

Principal Product Manager

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

  • Capturing business value through prioritized technology investments in merchandising systems.
  • Focused on modular execution, the merchandising systems that validate modulars prior to them being sent to stores, with an initial goal of eliminating 40,000 hours of manual work in FY2023
  • Creating product comparison reports, which allow merchants to understand the changes between new and existing modulars (deleted items, new items, and changes in points of distribution, distribution center capacity, and.
  • Engaged community of Category Advisors (800 external) and Modular Space Development & Execution Managers (600 internal) to gain feedback on top pain points with modular execution
  • Creating new edit checks, which identify issues in how modulars have been drawn so problems aren’t created when the modulars are sent to stores
  • Supporting the next generation store in Plano, TX, where emerging technologies are tested
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022

Group Manager, It & Business Strategy

Irving, TX, US

Recruited to shape IT value strategy, explore new and emerging technologies, and develop an IT operating model for the iconic convenience store chain. Delivered application rationalization roadmap for achieving multi-million dollar synergy targets with the acquisition of Speedway, met with each IT budget owner monthly to review budget spend to ensure.

Dec 2020 - Jan 2022

Principal Technology Architect

Austin, TX, US

  • Building a technical architecture practice for Whole Foods Market’s technology team
  • Grew and refreshed the team from two contractors to five full time team members
  • Established a third-party risk management process for Whole Foods to replace the original Amazon process, reducing backlog of requests from 27 to 2 within 3 months while improving cycle time and visibility
  • Drove adoption of a project registry process, tying projects to the new security process and productivity spaces
  • Launched team and project productivity offerings, allowing dynamic or project-specific creation of Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online-based workspaces to facilitate collaboration
  • Enabled external guest access to project productivity workspaces, eliminating licenses for Box and Slack
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020

Director Of Technology Exploration

Charlotte, NC, US

  • Ideation, research, exploration and experimentation with emerging technologies that will enable Sealed Air to generate new business opportunities.
  • Led research into emerging technologies including machine learning, augmented reality and computer vision
  • Guided a team of data scientists and computer vision engineers, delivering initial offerings for foreign object detection in beef grinding operations, premium yield improvement in poultry operations, and improved.
  • Demonstrated a prototype augmented reality application, enabling remote experts to guide onsite technicians through maintenance procedures on food care equipment
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019

Digital Solutions Development Director

Charlotte, NC, US

  • Working with Sealed Air's food and product care divisions to define and build Digital and Internet of Things solutions through the integration of hardware, software, and services.
  • Created portfolio of Digital and Internet of Things solutions across food care and product care business units
  • Launched SEE Smart Link, a CIO100 award-winning remote monitoring solution for Sealed Air food care lines that enabled the sale of new preventive maintenance plans for Cryovac packaging systems
  • Adjusted business demand intake process and business case framework to enable agile delivery
  • Coached product owners to write effective user stories with clear acceptance criteria
Jun 2017 - Aug 2018

Sr. Technical Expert

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

  • Ideation, research, business development and experimentation into emerging technologies that will enable Walmart to deliver a seamless shopping experience at scale.
  • Defining new ways of working across business development, experimentation and research teams within Walmart Emerging Technology, as well as how we hand off successful experiments to Enterprise Architecture and Domain.
  • Identifying and experimenting with data, applications, software and hardware to uncover solutions that will drive savings, revenue generation and automation
  • Authored a variety of technical articles and presentations to disseminate learnings from previous experiments
  • Supporting Walmart Canada's in-store traffic analytics pilot as subject matter expert on indoor positioning systems as well as item, location and transaction data
  • Investigating emerging and disruptive technologies
Sep 2016 - Jul 2017

Innovator, Architect, Product Manager

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

  • Educate / inform executive management and create shared interest across global teams on strategies to capitalize on innovations in technology
  • Emerging technology R&D of cloud-powered infrastructure, mobility, big data, analytics, multi-channel, shopper insights, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, autonomous unmanned vehicles and augmented/virtual reality
  • Understand business processes and recommend appropriate solutions to business executives
  • Provide product direction to technology vendors to ensure alignment with Walmart’s 5-year plan
  • Partner with research labs and startups to understand the impact of emerging technologies on our architecture
  • Collaborate with suppliers on joint technology initiatives which drive shared value
Mar 2010 - Jul 2017

Sr. Solutions Architect

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

  • Member of Walmart's Enterprise Architecture team, with specific responsibilities to create the vision, strategy and direction for a cloud-powered, mobile-first infrastructure that supports a seamless shopping.
  • Systems to optimize scheduling, track shopper paths, measure modular integrity and department-level conversion, identify out of stock items and engage customers with personalized messages leveraging video analytics.
  • Prototypes of innovative last mile solutions, including secure, autonomous delivery systems
  • Created IoT core team, reference architecture and prototypes
  • Immersive analytics environments (Data Cafés) for Sam’s Club and Walmart US
  • An associate mobility strategy, yielding BYOD programs for store managers
Oct 2011 - Sep 2016

Product Manager

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

  • Recruited to instill product management as a discipline in Walmart's Information Systems Division. Ownership of three domains, store systems, store item management and operational business intelligence. Key.
  • Led a team of nine business analysts supporting three application development teams
  • Established initial roadmaps based on FY12 budget process, then worked with business customers to develop a three- to five-year strategic plan
  • Identified, scoped and prioritized 150 projects for store systems
  • Created Global Advisory Boards for business intelligence and inventory management
  • Delivered a competitive pricing system that saves Sam’s Club more than $120M annually
Mar 2010 - Oct 2011

Founder

US

SilverLake Security brings value to our customers by guiding them through the design and deployment of intelligent solutions for their homes and office buildings. Whether it's an integrated, IP-based security solution with access control, network video cameras, video analytics, and physical security, an automation solution to control lighting, temperature.

Jan 2009 - Mar 2010

Global Business Director

Hickory, North Carolina, US

Business manager with P&L responsibility for SYSTIMAX Intelligent Infrastructure Solutions, including iPatch real-time infrastructure management hardware, software and services. Managed global marketing campaigns, revamped collateral and introduced interactive sales tools to enable sales teams and business partners to effectively sell the solution. Created.

Dec 2006 - Jan 2009

Director, Product Line Management

Beaverton, OR, US

Business manager with P&L responsibility for VoIP and SS7 performance monitoring systems for Tier 1 Service Provider networks in this $200M division of Danaher Corp. Closed the largest single purchase order in company history ($14M) while growing orders year over year from $5.5M to $28M for VoIP performance monitoring tools. Established partnerships with.

Mar 2005 - Jun 2006

Sr. Product Manager

San Jose, CA, US

Drove initiatives to bring DSL to the mass market, defining new products, forging partnerships and establishing an industry consortium. Owned marketing and product management responsibilities for a variety of network management systems for DSL and other broadband technologies as well as security threat management systems, covering both Service Provider and.

May 1998 - Mar 2005

Director, Software Development

Netspeed, Inc.

Third employee of this DSL equipment manufacturing startup. Hired and directed the network management organization. Developed an embedded Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent, an HP OpenView-based element management system and a Windows-based craft interface. Selected the software development environment. Mentored employees with limited UNIX.

May 1996 - May 1998

Sr. Systems Engineer

CA

Software architect for an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) core switch, with an emphasis on network management and the integration of a third-party ATM edge switch.

1995 - 1996 ~1 yr

Technical Leader

Overland Park, Kansas, US

Software and system architect for Sprint's first Unix-based Enhanced Services Platform for AIN applications. Led four teams with a total of twenty engineers responsible for the development of the production Voice FONcard application. Interfaced with multiple vendors in support of the application development effort. Managed a team of developers responsible.

Feb 1994 - May 1995

Sr Network Development Engineer

Wiltel

Developed a Video on Demand reservation system, a Unix-based Enhanced Services Platform for WilTel's Advanced Intelligent Network, and a reference architecture for network management systems used for more than 10 years.

1991 - 1994 ~3 yrs

Sr Software Engineer

Led a software design team in the development of a vendor-independent network management system supporting a wide range of telecommunications equipment. Focused on the development of the graphical user interface and distributed database management system.

1988 - 1991 ~3 yrs

Telecommunications Engineer

Tulsa, Oklahoma, US

Responsible for the design and deployment of fiber optic, microwave, T1 and satellite communications systems. Helped design and build a 120-mile fiber route providing alternative access to external customers.

1985 - 1988 ~3 yrs
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Robert Taylor education

  • The University Of Tulsa
    The University Of Tulsa
    Ee
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Robert Taylor has worked for Wawa, Inc., Walmart, 7-Eleven, Whole Foods Market, and Sealed Air Corporation.

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