Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Motivated leader committed to team development, mentorship, and growth. Proven track record of managing highly performant teams by recruiting high potential talent, paired with a passion for promoting team development. Leads by example and collaboratively works cross-functionally with stakeholders and contributors to ensure the delivery of high quality products. Team advocate with leadership to drive success, team empowerment and career advancement.
• Created, managed, and acted as scrum master to multiple self-organizing teams within creative and marketing departments, leveraging Agile principles to enhance productivity. • Recruited high potential team members • Optimized resource budget by prioritizing high performant talent retention and high potential talent hiring. • Drove 20% budget savings of infrastructure and web hosting solutions through platform consolidation and negotiation. • Executed large-scale technology migration strategy with no interruptions to day-to-day business, support, and maintenance. • Drove creation of full stack Drupal application within front-end development team. Automated continuous integration with over 90% PHP code coverage. PRODUCT OWNER o Championed core business initiatives to drive critical strategies and garner senior leadership support. o Managed all phases of 5+ products from conception to delivery. o Developed a comprehensive product roadmap in line with market trends and stakeholder feedback which lead to a 17% increase in end-user engagement o Planned future-facing strategic strategies in preparation of cross-departmental change. o Strategically roadmapped business initiatives six to twelve months in advance. Resourced and planned tactical team execution based on those strategies. o Created Dictionary, Management, and Control documentation for all phasing of my projects including Scope, Schedule, Cost/Budget, Risk, Execution, Quality and Release o Monitored and reported KPI’s and product metrics to stakeholders, directly influencing decision-making and strategic strategy focusing specifically on Earned Value, Cost Performance Indexing, and Schedule Performance Indexing o Created and managed a product backlog based on stakeholder priorities including creating a robust roadmap, owning product work items, managing team capacity and ensuring that production aligns with roadmap strategy
• Recruited high potential team members and created a structured and efficient onboarding program. Addressed low performing employees through actionable performance plans with positive developmental results. • Created a structured and efficient onboarding program. • Leveraged modular architecture to create component-based solution to feed content and data to individual applications within Drupal ecosystem. • Led employees through multi-company reorganization, ensuring continued momentum and productivity. • Created multi-phased contract strategies to provide cost-saving resource alternatives to executive stakeholders. • Managed and led three business unit teams. • Reduced email development by twenty hours per week by creating user friendly component library that could be leveraged by marketing partners without involvement of development team. • Created, managed, and acted as scrum master to multiple self-organizing teams within creative / marketing department, leveraging Agile principles to enhance productivity. • Created technical debt backlogs and implemented procedure to systematically complete work items across 10 products. • Leveraged modular architecture to create component-based solution to feed content and data to individual applications within Drupal ecosystem. • Reduced user-identified bugs by 80% on new website launches by introducing enhanced code review and QA processes.
• Designed micro-architecture (MVC and Web API) of interfaces team used across 20 individual products. • Managed and led two teams of offshore contractors. • Created automated Octopus deployments for team, leveraging variables for easy customization and deployment across numerous environments. • Designed standard vNext build template and Octopus Deployment solution, reducing design effort by 50%. • Created technical debt backlog for full suite of products. Improved unit test code coverage to 80% across 20 products and reduced compiler warnings by 75%. Performed full analysis of code coverage upon product build for easy visibility and created automated UI tests for full integration testing. • Designed and enforced team development standards, pairing programming on one PBI per developer per sprint to improve coding practices and maintain continuity. Ran static security analysis and unit test coverage before and after completion of work items to ensure no new vulnerabilities were introduced. Gated check-ins pending full unit test success. • Broke down large features into actionable tasks (PBIs) and provided accurate estimates to stakeholders. • Maintained industry security standards such as deprecating support of TLS 1.0 migrating to TLS 1.2 throughout all products. • Partnered with architects to develop automated content solution using Antlr and Java, saving company $200K annually in content developer payroll.