Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Engineering Leader in Target's Guest Data Platform and Digital Profile spaces. Currently leading multiple teams in Marketing Technology including Loyalty Campaign, and Guest Audiences & Segmentation. Previously led diverse teams like Guest Wallet, Preferences, and Guest Data Privacy. Developed Target's Audience Platform, evolving it from basic prototypes written in Golang to a key capability within Marketing Technology. The platform now supports extensive campaign operations across Target's Loyalty and Ad business lines, enabling efficient omnichannel micro segmentation at scale. Established a new Guest Data API capability within Target for MLOps that allows Data Science teams to deploy behavioral insights to digital edges like Web, Mobile, and POS through high performance, scalable APIs. This framework allows for rapid deployment of ML models across the enterprise and embeds intelligence into our Guest experiences Directed the Guest Data Privacy team in implementing CCPA and CPRA privacy controls. Contributed to the architecture and design of a Choice framework, ensuring proactive flexibility in handling data privacy and choice requests from our Guests.
Provided strategic alignment between Best Buy’s business units and information technology teams by applying skills in technology architecture and organizational development. Exhibited solid technical domain expertise and can act as a subject matter expert by researching and building solutions for business and technical teams. Owns and develops technology roadmaps for a subset of systems within Best Buy’s IT portfolio. Built and mentored high performance teams by providing full stack management across all functions of project delivery including requirement scoping, infrastructure, development, and support. Encouraged use of methodologies such as DevOps and a lean Agile approach to software development. Leveraged Docker, Kubernetes, and the Azure PaaS to bring cloud native benefits to development teams. Innovated within Best Buy architectural constraints using core backend development technologies such as Node.js and .NET across multiple platforms and container environments. Experienced leader across multiple problem domains including machine learning, mobile, and infrastructure automation.
Led several globally distributed development teams, each containing about 4-5 developers to design, develop, and deliver an enterprise scale, multi-brand, consumer facing digital hosting platform that is capable of hosting over 1000 websites for over 300 brands for a single customer. Demonstrated the product to potential customers, marketing departments, and digital design agencies. Cross collaborated with marketing teams and design agencies to build several consumer facing web sites for DuPont, Microsoft, and Proctor & Gamble.
Developed technical architecture and managed project delivery for enterprise applications within the retail and telecom industries.
Ran performance test scripts and created an application to report results using ASP.