Experience

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  Xcel Energy

  • United States
  • Utilities
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • IT Architect - Generation and Commercial Operations

    • Jul 2022 - Present

    Nuclear and Renewable power generation project delivery

  • Project Architect - Business Systems

    • Aug 2020 - Jul 2022

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  YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities

  • Ridgedale

  • Group Fitness Instructor

    • Feb 2016 - Present
    • Ridgedale

    MOSSA Group Power and Les Mills Body Pump programs, General group fitness

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  Works Computing, A PDS Company

  • Bloomington, MN

  • Principal Consultant

    • Jan 2004 - Aug 2020
    • Bloomington, MN

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  Xcel Energy

  • United States
  • Utilities
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Project Architect - Business Systems

    • Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

    Enterprise security video surveillance systems

  • Network Engineering - Works Team Lead

    • Dec 2018 - Oct 2019

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  Minneapolis Public Schools

  • Transportation Dept., Minneapolis

  • DBA Developer Consultant/Application Architect

    • Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
    • Transportation Dept., Minneapolis

    Reverse engineer bus route scheduling integration system implemented in MS Access and MS SQLserver. Data modeling using MySQL Workbench.

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  Sun Country Airlines

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Consultant

    • Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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  Prime Therapeutics

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Consultant

    • Jun 2014 - Jun 2016
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Mail order pharmacy project to process Electronic Prescriptions of Controlled Substances (ePCS). Required electronic signing of unsigned prescriptions using X509 certificates and signature validation using an external X509 validation process via a Forum Sentry gateway using REST and XML.

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  MLT Vacations

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Consultant

    • Jan 2000 - Dec 2014
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Infrastructure design, implementation and support. Oracle RDBMS migration from Sun to Linux Oracle RAC. DEC alpha hardware virtualization on Windows Server platform using Stromasys Charon-AXP. Data center relocation project.

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  Norman G. Jensen, Inc.

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Consultant

    • Jan 2004 - Dec 2013
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Authorized US Customs Service Import/Export brokerage; infrastructure design, implementation and support, Implementation of an encrypted network to the US Customs Service mainframe application using IBM MQ.

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  AmeriPride Services

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Project Manager, Data Center and Storage Architect

    • Jan 2008 - Oct 2013
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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  Reinhart Foodservice

  • lacrosse, WI

  • Consultant

    • Jun 1985 - Dec 2012
    • lacrosse, WI

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  University of Minnesota Physicians

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Infrastructure Architect

    • Jun 2007 - Dec 2010
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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  Orbital ATK

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Storage Architect

    • Sep 2010 - Nov 2010
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Development of SaaS architecture for on-line, near-line and off-line data access. Project goal was to provide business units with the ability to select data access storage and access by speed and cost.

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  UnitedHealth Group

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Data center reolcation lead

    • Jun 2006 - Dec 2006
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    In-sourcing infrastructure project from a managed service provider. Required detailed planning and execution over a period of months. Acquisition of a 96-CPU partitioned server for re-hosting of health plan applications and users as well as staged physical transfers of storage arrays across hundreds of miles.

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  Integrated Systems Engineering, Inc.

  • Wayzata, MN

  • Consultant

    • Feb 1989 - Dec 2003
    • Wayzata, MN

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  HealthPartners

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Consultant - Data Warehousing

    • Feb 1995 - Dec 2002
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Modeling and development of an Operational Data Store (ODS) of medical and pharmacy claims. Development of a new Employer Reporting System application to provide employer groups with summarized information of health care services provided and associated costs using Multi-dimensional (star schema) databases (MDD). Both MS SQL server and Oracle RDBMS and stored procedures.

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  Xcel Energy

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Senior Application Consultant - Nuclear Generation

    • Feb 1989 - Dec 1995
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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  MAPPCOR

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Software Development Engineer

    • Jun 1994 - Jan 1995
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Prototyped first inter-plant bulk power trade system for MAPPCOR.

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  PCS Health Systems / Clinical Pharmacy Advantage

  • Edina, MN

  • Vice President, Information Systems

    • Feb 1993 - Jun 1994
    • Edina, MN

    Clinton-era pharmacy benefit manager startup specializing in rebate processing and proactive Drug Utilization Reviews to promote efficient and cost-effective drug treatments.

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  Carlson

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Consultant

    • Jan 1990 - Dec 1992
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Supported and developed a multi-level marketing system for sales tracking and commissions for the Carlson Learning Company.

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  Cummins Inc.

  • Fridley, MN

  • Software Development Engineer

    • Jan 1989 - Jun 1992
    • Fridley, MN

    High speed data acquisition and integration with solids modeling application for vibration analysis. Used OpenVMS-based VAXlab and ADQ32DA analog to digital interface for 20,000 samples/second from strain gauges mounted on mobile generators. Number of sampling channels was 1-15 with 16th channel reserved for mobile voice information. Data supplied on 16-track magnetic tape.

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  3M

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Software Development Engineer

    • Jun 1980 - Sep 1991
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Several projects; X-ray film digitization system, optical recording products QA process collection, facilities engineering drawing index system and engineering information systems Linolex-to-DEC WPS document conversion.

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  Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

  • Phoenix, Arizona Area

  • Software Development Engineer

    • Jan 1990 - Dec 1990
    • Phoenix, Arizona Area

    Modify, install and test MSP Airport parking revenue control system for the new T3 parking ramp. Based on DEC PDP-11, RSX-11M, FORTRAN and Macro assembler. Computer system communicated with entrance lane ticket dispensers, exit lane cashier terminals and NORAND mobile data entry terminal used for tracking overnight license plates.

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  Digital Equipment Corporation (USA)

  • Bloomington, MN

  • Software Specialist

    • Feb 1980 - Feb 1989
    • Bloomington, MN

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  General Mills

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Software Development Engineer

    • Jul 1982 - Dec 1982
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Manufacturing process data acquisition system for use in product quality analysis.

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  University of Minnesota

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Software Development Engineer

    • Mar 1982 - Dec 1982
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

    Southeast Steam Plant Interconnected Co-generation Energy System (ICES) process data acquisition system for measurement and reporting of system operations and energy usage. Based on 16-bit computer system coded in FORTRAN and Assembler.

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  Kellogg Company

  • Battle Creek

  • Software Development Engineer

    • Jan 1981 - Mar 1982
    • Battle Creek

    Development of a packaging line monitoring system for production operations and product tracking into the warehouse. Assembler and FORTRAN.

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  The Kraft Heinz Company

  • Boise, Idaho

  • Factory Team Specialist / Application Development

    • Sep 1978 - Jan 1980
    • Boise, Idaho