
I create things for the internets.
Des Moines, Iowa Area

I create things for the internets.
Des Moines, Iowa Area
Over the last 5 years I have held a number of responsibilities in the Financial Services Industry. The last four have focused in Information Technology with emphasis on Quality Assurance and Production Management.
Much of my work has been in project management and process engineering working with system architects and engineers.
project management, executive support, application development, production management, enterprise knowledge management
(Internet industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
StashMate is an early stage startup that was formed at Kansas City Startup Weekend.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Microblink.com is a weblog dedicated to providing the latest news and analysis surrounding the world of Microblogging. I currently write for the site and am supported by the outstanding minds of Mike Templeton and Mark Bockenstedt.
Other Microblink properties: What the Hashtag?! (http://wthashtag.com) and Feedstats (http://feedstats.info)
(Public Company; WFC; Financial Services industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
In the Technology Operations Group I provide production management oversight across many of our lending based applications. This includes:
Conducting system reviews to document risks and vulnerabilities of our critical systems.
Providing problem ticket reporting and trending
Evaluating and providing recommendations for incident and problem management processes
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WFC; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 6 months)
As a business systems consultant for the Technology Information Group I supported a number of application development teams. In my first year I coordinated end to end testing for Wells Fargo's debit card systems and supported the test environment. In supporting the environment, I coordinated a number of small test environment enhancement projects to automate testing processes, generate clean test data, and streamline communications.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WFC; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 1 month)
As an associate of the Leadership Development Program, I was part of one year rotational based program under Wells Fargo's technology arm. The program focused on developing leadership skills and learning the processes and responsibilities of each team across the organization. My core interests while in the program included workflow systems, software development lifecycle, business partner/relationship management, and quality assurance.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 5 months)
BS , Management Infomation Systems , 2000 — 2004
I started at Iowa State University as an engineering student working towards a minor in Spanish. To make ends meet I also worked part-time (nights and weekends) for Ames Park and Rec. and Hy-Vee Grocery Stores.
After a year and a half as an engineering student I transferred to the ISU's College of Business to major in Management Information Systems. In this program I was able to work on technology that interested me and put my past experience to work.
Despite switching majors and working part-time I was able to participate in several social activist groups, volunteer in the community and graduate in four years. This was a triumph, I'm making a note here. HUGE SUCCESS!
Web/Application development, Social Media, Blogging, Knowledge Management, Web design
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