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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Product owner for the File Transfer platform area, an integral integration platform servicing thousands of critical data transfers. Key responsibilities included defining product roadmaps, working with customer partners to identify/refine feature enhancements, translating customer feature requests into technical designs, closely working with team engineers to implement feature requests and evaluating features post implementation. Worked with external vendors to clarify their product's integration practices and how best to implement their solutions within Target's architecture. Led the design, development, and implementation of file transfer's platform infrastructure deployment automation.Technologies Utilized: VMAAS, Firewall Management, Linux, Kafka, Platform Observability (Filebeat, Graphana, Kibana), Postgres, Chef, Vela, Cleo Harmony, Cleo Proxy, PCI Security, Java, Ruby, Docker, Go

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Lead engineer responsible for finding and implementing an internal solution to replace Target's batch integration platform (DataStage). Evaluated and selected vendor software to act as a bridge while evaluating and developing custom platform solution alternatives. Internal custom solution was based on evaluating, selecting and integrating several open source technologies. Led the effort to define specific customer and technical requirements for the platform, identify/select architecture automation options and develop key functional platform features.Technologies Utilized: VMAAS, Linux, Chef, Terraform, Rundeck, Oracle, Postgres, Java, Ruby, Docker, Go

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Led development efforts in Target's Application Development Integration Center of Operational Excellence area. Oversaw the evaluation, design, development, testing and deployment of batch oriented application integrations. Worked with application teams to refine application requirements, develop project timelines and success criteria. Partnered with internal engineers to design, build and test customer solutions. Championed the development of integration development patterns and procedures, introduced platform development best practices to increase integration capabilities and reduce overall incident rates.Technologies Utilized: Unix/Linux, IBM Datastage, IBM MQ/MB, Database Management (Oracle, IBM DB2, Sql Server)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Key leader in Target's Enterprise Tools infrastructure team, which managed several of Target's enterprise platforms. Led the technical direction, design and implementation of several key enterprise integration platforms. Led efforts to stabilize existing platforms and when necessary, introduce/deploy new packaged software into Target's environment. Championed the introduction and consistent usage of development best practices and procedures applied towards engineering platform changes, which reduced overall support incidents and allowed team to focus more on new feature development.Technologies Utilized: IBM MQ/MB IBM DataStage, IBM Sterling Integrator, Citrix, Documentum, Webfocus, Microstrategy

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Evaluate new tools/technologies and after selection, develop strategic implementation plans for the Guest Database application area. Focus included working with partner teams to identify areas for improvement, evaluating new software applications for potential fit, and developing project approaches and plans to implement. Develop strategic plans on future features/initiatives.Technologies Utilized: Terradata, IBM UDB, Datastage, Tandem

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for development of customer focused application solutions in the Guest Database area. Oversaw a team of engineers to design, develop, test, deploy and operate customer focused applications, evaluate new application solutions and when necessary, manage migration activities to new technologies/applications.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Managed several customer engagement work teams delivering customized, CRM solutions. Areas of focus included application design, development, testing and implementation.