Technology and Ice Hockey nut, but I also LOVE my family very much!
I find motivation and passion behind building high performing engineering teams, being involved in an engineering cultured company and open by default approach to communications. I have experience in influencing cultures on teams I have worked on that have tenants of trust, default to open, customer focused, winning spirit, product mindset, and cost consciousness.
I truly love teams and organization culture, thus my entire career has been with the same company developing and leading teams in building Technology Solutions for the Travel Industry, these teams range from Software Development to Operation teams.
I am an experienced Product and Technology leader with a demonstrated history of being outcome driven. I am a proven performance-driven leader, who has led and implemented transformative technology strategies across a Global Technology organization and I am extremely passionate about culture!
- AWS CLI - DONE
- AWS Associate Architect Certification
- Terraform - DONE
- Ansible
- Python
- Containers - DONE
- Kubernetes - DONE
- HTML
- CSS
- YAML - DONE
- JavaScript
- Multiple JS Frameworks
- Bash
- Empathy
- Relationships
- OUTCOME DRIVEN
Working for a company that values Culture, Psychological Saftey, Continuous Learning, and giving a high integrity resource an opportunity to show value through Outcomes and Objectives.
If you have opportunties in the following areas, hit me up, email is below.
- Software Engineering Leadership
- Devops work
- Technical Project Manager work
- Agile Coaching
- Digital Transformation Consultation work
- Data Analysis
1996
- Started with C Programming and screen scraping GDS profile content into flat files and loading them into a SQL Server Database. Additionally supported a Client Server Visual Basic Application and traveled across the globe installing this system that communicated to Apollo, Sabre, and Worldspan.
- Began OO programming on a large distributed system written in Forte, focusing on our Supplier Management domain leveraging partners integrations for GDS and 3rd party integrations.
- Continued OO programming in the heart of a our SaaS Product that managed Travel Order logic for our Self-Booking Tool and Agent Desktop Tool platform called Symphonie.
- Lead our Database and Configuration Management teams, along with Team Lead/Manager for multiple OO Domain Teams for the next many years.
2005
- Although Iterative Development was part of my software engineering experience, it wasn't until a colleague introduced me to further Agile Concepts with Agile Software Development with Scrum. This was a PIVOT in my software engineering career.
- Transformed a 45 member Domain Driven organized team with seperate QA, BA, and Architecture teams to individual Scrum Teams, this would cascade through the company from 2006 onward.
- Promoted to Director and continue to lead our Symphonie Platform and began another opportunity with our Military & Government business line.
- Would lead a distributed team over the next 10 years, transforming again using Agile Concepts and complete at huge government contracting opportunties.
- Continuous Delivery was a passion of mine through career and working with shared service groups to help improve and support delivery needs from our engineering teams.
2015 thru today
- Continous Delivery drive lead to DEVOPS intrigue and thus another journey to be walked.
- Enabled corporate change to Innersource concepts via GitHub
- Enabled company wide technology conference globally in 2017 - 2020 with over 130+ internal presenters speaking technical concepts every 6 months via internal DevOps Day event.
- 2x Culture Ambassador Champion
- Performed Public Speaking at Open Source North, GitHub Meetup, and Twin Cities Agile Days.
- Participated in Hackathons working to enable Grimoire Labs against our GitHub organization to understand how well we are using Innersource Concepts
- Via strong leadership partnership, worked to enable Developer Experience improvements, Open Source Program Office, and enabling DevOps Services that would be consumed by our 500 engineers to help deliver solutions
2020
- Covid impact personally and have been on a personal development journey on career next steps, back at CWT August of 2021.
2021
- Working with FerskTech on a greenfield startup solution, very exciting opportunity!
- Back at CWT and leading our APAC, LATAM, and NORAM Financial Corporate Systems...
2022 -Left CWT and joined Ziff Davis and the iContact Email Marketing team
2023 -Thrilled to be at Thrivent, working in the Illustrations Product, with a great team. Thrivent is going through a Digital Transformation and have many teams adopting a Product Operating Model, love the company, my team, and the vibe!
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