I'm a Technology Team Leader in the Twin Cities area, working at C.H. Robinson Worldwide.
I'm a hobbyist web designer and developer and a general technology and programming enthusiast.
I'm a husband and a dog-owner.
I'm a cook, a for-pleasure reader, a wannabe finance guru, and an aspiring homesteader.
Analyzed unique and complex scenarios of $4 million branded merchandising business and drove requirements for a multi-faceted project to create a new platform and reform multiple processes. Project resulted in greater stability, a 36% lift in sales to last year, and 171% increase to sales plan.
Roles: Business Analyst, UAT Coordinator
Techniques: User Interviews, Business Process Modeling, Business Process Diagramming, UAT coordination, Project Management, (abbreviated) SDLC
Analyzed business scenarios and led discussions to define and deliver critical functional changes as part of a $900,000 project to extend capacity of comparison pricing to an additional 800,000 items as part of a strategy to drive $80 - $90 million in sales increases
Roles: Business Analyst, UAT Coordinator, Release Coordinator
Techniques: User Interviews, Business Process Diagramming, RFI/RFP/Demo Coordination, Prototyping, SDLC
Fulfilled SCRUM Master Role and facilitated sprint retrospectives resulting in improved communication among global team, streamlined weekly code review process, increased work-tracking accuracy, and expanded developer backlog use
Roles: SCRUM Master, SCRUM Team Member, Business Analyst
Techniques: Daily Standup, Burndown Charts, Story Mapping, Release Planning, Scrum of Scrums
The Measure Of Things is a search engine for finding comparative or relative measurements of physical quantities. With the Measure Of Things tool, you can take a physical quantity - like 84 kilograms or 23 cubic meters - and see how it compares to a list of famous or well-known objects. For example, 84 kilograms is the weight of about 17 gallons of paint, while 23 cubic meters is about twice the volume of a cement mixer truck.
The site averages around 3,800 visits per day and has a US Alexa rank in the top 80,000 and a worldwide rank in the top 250,000. I launched a public API for the site in 2017.
Technologies: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, PHP, ADO, SQL
Concepts and Techniques: Responsive Design with CSS Media Queries, Automated Unit Tests, REST (for the public API)
Bluebulb Advertising was created to provide professional-looking real estate marketing material through an affordable and easy-to-use online interface. Types of marketing material included listing flyers, Spanish-language listing flyers, listing postcards, listing business cards, listing bookmarks, and community-based information packets called "BuyerBooks."
Technologies: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Classic ASP, ADO, AspPDF, AspJpeg, AspUpload, AspEmail, T-SQL
This family chore kanban board is used by my family to track the completion of chores and the frequency at which they should be done. Chores cycle automatically between states, depending on how urgently they need to be done.
Technologies: HTML/CSS, jQuery, PHP, ADO, T-SQL
Concepts and Techniques: Responsive Design with CSS Media Queries, Persistent Cookies
