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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Creating a sales enablement app that can save $1,300 per transaction for the $485 B residential remodeling industry using off the shelf computer vision, machine learning, and progressive web app tech.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Facilitated the most productive year to date for the Total View Product. TV had 717k clients pulling data from 48k different financial institutions, and pushing that data to 24 different internal products, including Salesforce. Using ETL, API's, Data Lakes, & data visualizations. Decreased vendor migration costs from $7M to $3.5MFacilitated production deployment times, including QA, from 2 weeks to 2 hours, while eliminating production outages.Identified the 3rd most reported issue in the annual tech survey, that had been a problem for at least a year. Resolved it, without code, by creating visualizations and collaborating with cross-functional teams.Lead the migration to a next generation OAuth connection that required auditing all data connections, negotiated updated legal agreements, & developing a client communication plan.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Worked multiple enterprise accounts to provide product direction to development teams in Costa Rica & India. Resolved long running deployment issues improved communication. Created inception documents, journey maps (flowcharts), Work Breakdown Structures, & User Stories.Created sprint plans with associated business analysis & reporting duties for 5 products.Managed 14 developer & QA resources

Miami, Fl, Us

Responsible for the the success & velocity of multiple mobile application development teams across multiple timezones. While my title was Scrum Master the vast majority of what I did was in a Product Manager role for a Facebook chat bot and a sales demo for a complex mobile gambling app. I managed 13 team members across 4 teams in India, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Minneapolis. In the 6 months I was at Avantage I was able to launch 1 product, & have 1 ready to launch when laid off which is 2 out of the 3 products Avantage has been able to launch in it’s 4 year history.

Zumbrota, Minnesota, Us

Agile Project Manager (Scrum Master), Business Analyst, Application Support, vendor management, & offshore dev team management. Managed 14 contract developers in 3 countries for 6 websites. Three of which were converting the other 3 to Magento 2 community edition. In the process dramatically increased project velocity by migrating multiple Jira projects into a single KanBan board with stakeholder validation that the changes made were the right ones. This had a big effect on overall morale because stakeholders had a say in if things were done, and developers were working within an unobtrusive workflow.

Independent Contractor specializing in Technical Product Management, Product Management, as well as a wide array of server, security, QA, and development skills. Over the last several years my roles have become increasingly focused on a mix of product and project management activities. Having a background in web development is very useful in writing requirements and managing risk, along with giving me a great deal of empathy for the roles I'm now focused on leading. I've also successfully taken on account management roles servicing fortune 50 companies. My recent successes have been with 40+ health related BI HTML5 presentations, B2B foodservice with lead gen + ETL, a web security audit and upgrade for 35+ sites, and a couple complicated Magento ecommerce sites.

Project Manager, on Inventory Management SAAS.My core responsibilities were to handle the development side of making Otterology.com useful to our clients, and facilitating the project stakeholders to work as efficiently to that end as possible.

Edina, Minnesota, Us

Led the development of medium to large web applications in the marketing, corporate training, & consummer loyalty space. Primary duties were project architecture, business analysis, coordinating a diverse team, & P.H.P. web development.

Edina, Minnesota, Us

I made Web Sites for agencies using open source technologies like Drupal, Symfony, & Zend framework

Roseville, Mn, Us

I lead the team that did the initial development for a now closed real estate startup, which was the most profitable site for the agency in 2007, and is the best Real Estate site in the Mid West.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Marketing

Associate'S Degree, Computer Science