Experience

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  Optum

  • Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States

  • Principal Enterprise Architect

    • Jul 2022 - Present
    • Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States

    EA/Product Capability Architect aligned to Claim Pricing.Formalized target state and transition states for centralized Claim Pricing.Guided teams during implementations building toward the target state.Moved a major pricing engine from batch-based to real-time response. Shifting from request/response to asynchronous interaction where feasible.

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  TGP Enterprises, Inc.

  • Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

  • Owner/Founder

    • Oct 2003 - Present
    • Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States

    • Directed all aspects of this small (one to three employees plus on/off-shore contractors) company providing business process analysis and design in concert with IT services to increase revenue of small business clients. CIO as a service.• Implemented on-premise cloud with ESXi, Docker, Kubernetes, and TrueNAS.• Designed and implemented order entry system for a printing company, tripling the rate of order entry.• Created a shipping department visual part picker application that saves a machine shop over $100k yearly. At client’s request, followed up with the addition of label printing & shipping planning functionality, further improving ROI.• Mobile development via iOS, Android, Electron.• Maintained websites on more than 20 domains using both LAMP and Microsoft stacks via local and reseller hosting packages. Increased value with automated TGP backup utility for cPanel websites.• Emphasis on integration of disparate applications in use within companies to reduce labor costs while increasing the accuracy of transactions and reporting.• MSP services in the hosting, backup, and security spaces.

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  Wells Fargo

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Senior Enterprise Architect

    • Apr 2015 - Jun 2022
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    • Promoted February 2022, March 2018. November 2020 & March 2016 WIM Architect of the Month. Q4.2019 Gold Coin recipient.• Key contributor to Wells Fargo’s Agile and Product transition as one of three Product Architects in the A&P product line. Maintain six quarter architectural roadmap while partnering with Business and Technology on prioritization.• Pushed the envelope on modernization and cloud migration assisting scrum teams with many ‘firsts’ for Wells Fargo.• Championed Modern Application development with an emphasis on APIs and micro-frontends. Core languages/frameworks are Java SpringBoot, .NET Core, Angular.• Balanced long and short-term technical strategy to promote optimal business results, achieving both technology and business buy-in for Agile and Waterfall projects.• Represented Wells Fargo Architecture in vendor RFPs, including co-authoring and scoring the RFP documents.• Architected multi-year solutions individually impacting 30+ applications with an emphasis on user experience (UX) exposed via Single Page Applications (SPA) backed by web-services, messaging, and shared capabilities.

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  US Bank

  • Richfield, MN

  • Application Tools Specialist Senior

    • Feb 2011 - Mar 2015
    • Richfield, MN

    • U.S. Bancorp – custom application development including management of 4 additional team members.o Designed and implemented web-application, the team’s premier initiative, to accept application build requests.o System allowed doubling of team throughput in the four months after implementation while providing detailed metrics on the increased volume used to justify additional team resources. o Built team cohesiveness through inclusion and mentoring. Provided the prospective DBA on the team with guidance during database operations for which he was not experienced. Provided the prospective programmer on the team with manageable libraries to code and constructive code review.

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  ADVANCED GAMING SYSTEMS, INC.

  • Project Manager, Programmer

    • Jun 2002 - Oct 2013

    Execute all operations, outside of publishing, related to the continued distribution of the Harpoon Classic series of simulations including managing a team of testers spanning more than 12 countries.Spearheaded the revival of the product through prompt support, bug reduction, community building, and close contact with users.Created the BattleSet Builder application allowing nearly any area of the globe to be modeled in as little as three mouse clicks. Formerly the task could only be accomplished with scripts and hex editing.Added and consistently expand DLL API interface allowing third-parties to augment and override base capabilities.

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  CEC, SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA

  • Contract Instructor, Networking Consultant

    • May 2006 - Feb 2011

    Present two-hour Wireless Networking Seminar approximately six times per year, security focused.Taught two-day Windows Server Administration class. Added detailed exploration of IP addressing and routing to the curriculum. Introduced virtualization to provide network clients for use in the class; CEC's first introduction to VMs. Wrote custom utilities that configure VM MAC addresses and Outlook Profiles.Improved Ghost imaging times by a factor 0f eight by applying knowledge of packet drivers after SMM and Symantec personnel were unsuccessful. Created specialized boot CDs to allow cloning of problem workstations and educated CEC staff on usage.Configure Exchange and SharePoint servers as well as data reset scripts for CEC staff.

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  PAN Inc,

  • Network Administrator

    • 1995 - 2005

    Managed IT Projects from planning through maintenance phases.

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  Self Employed

  • INDEPENDENT IT CONSULTANT

    • Jan 1994 - Oct 2003

    Maintained small business networks ranging from three to twenty Novell, Mac, and Windows clients. Provided specialist IT services to larger companies.Eliminated hallway 'bell' interference with the data network at Maple Grove High School after many other vendors tried and failed. Made possible by broad skills in electronics and computers.