Maintain and develop E-commerce platforms for TJX Companies, including TJMaxx, Marshalls and Homegoods. Work within an Agile team to meet the project owners vision, mentor other software engineers and junior engineers. Utilizing the ATG platform with Java, JSP, HTML, javascript, CSS to do both front end and back end development.
Investing money, expertise and time in start-up ventures Successfully launched the Northwoods Family Grille restaurant, North Shore Magic wrap (vehicle wrap), Superior and Company (apparel and design), Axon Local Media (digital ad players), AxonCentral (AI automation) and the Shore Happy (food trailer).
Oversaw and participated in development and maintenance of systems, programs, and infrastructure. Migrated technology from physical servers to cloud based AWS. Developed applications and tools, created and managed teams, and analyzed best software and approach to achieve strategic goals. Performed bookkeeping and accounting to stay within budget. Managed Linux and Windows workstations as well as multiple WAMP and LAMP stacks across all local and remote locations (including VPNs to collaborate with international distributors in the UK and Canada). Created and maintained vendor contracts and relationships. Hired, managed and directed staff and project work for the company.
Collaborated on a team tasked to create, maintain and manage hundreds of 3M websites across 60 different countries in multiple languages. Operated as leading member of the MS20 (Marketing Services to Order) team. Front end development of the Post it, Scotchgard, Ace, Filtrete, Scientific Angler, Littman, and many other 3M websites, landing pages and marketing emails.Developed and mentored team members and worked with multiple external ad agencies and internal business units.
Six Month contract to build an executive dashboard by compiling information from hundreds of sources across the insurance industry to display a real time snapshot “dashboard”, which allowed executives to visually identify everything happening within their scope of responsibility and immediately drill down to areas of interest or concern.
Developed banking software used in 90% of banks and online mortgage companies across the United States (the Expere Knowledge Base), using a proprietary programming language (ERL / Extensible Rule Language (combination of custom XML and XSLT). As Team Lead, performed code review and assisted other developers. Created specialized automation software using Perl to complete regression testing. Started as XML content engineer, promoted to team lead within 3 months, software developer after 6 months and to an upper management position as a database analyst after a year.
Lead a team of 3 developers. At it's peak I was Developing 16 simultaneous projects. Performed search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, email marketing, and social media marketing. We focused on web design and development, building websites that ranged from simple brochures to complex custom web applications.
Conceptualized, created, and managed websites front end, back end, database and hosting as well as administered email servers and application development for small businesses.
Created an Internet Directory Project using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Mysql, and Perl on an apache server that was used for high school fundraisers. Presented to athletic directors and helped coordinate, organize and motivate students to contact businesses to be listed in the directory. Educated businesses on the need to be on the internet.
Conceptualized, created, and managed websites for small businesses using Perl/CGI, HTML, mysql and a lot of tables for layout.
In between the normal emergencies I performed many of the IT related functions for the department and created a suite of online tools titled "Web tools for Sheriff's Offices" using Perl, Mysql, Javascript and HTML
In roles of increasing responsiblity. Served in multiple positions operating under a Secret security clearance in various locations across the United States and Europe, ending duty as the acting Senior Scout in the 34 Infantry Division. I learned leadership, self-sufficiency, effective communication, integrety, technology, teamwork, the ability to work under pressure, to quickly adapt to situations, and problem-solving. Responsible for maintenance and mission readiness of assigned equipment, vehicles and all sub-systems valued in excess of $2,000,000 dollars