Software Engineering Management Specialist

Brad Beiermann *

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Senior Technology Executive &

Software Engineering Management Specialist

Perspective

A technology executive and developer with experience in start-ups and Fortune 500 businesses. Nationally known and recognized for having a consistent track record of creating online business, software application development, solution architecture, marketing technology innovation, SDLC/Agile Scrum lifecycles, intellectual property, and web based technology strategies. Professional Experience

● Architecture for B2B & B2C ● Ruby Architectures for Rails & Sinatra ● JIRA Agile Implementations

● NoSQL DBs ● Mobile e-Commerce Development ● Web Profit Optimization

● Marketing Technology ● ATG, WBS, Magento, Intershop & Hybris ● Agile\Scrum\SAFe Release Mgt.

● e-Commerce Development ● Data Analytics Integration & Strategy ● Continuous Delivery/Integration

● New Product Development ● Selenium on Rails & Java Spring TDD ● Forecasting / P&L

● Intellectual Property ● Digital Strategy & Digital Innovation ● Copywriting & Ads

● Project Management ● Public Speaking ● Resource Planning & Forecasting Career History

2015 – 2016 Interim Director of Software Development, Brightstar Corp.

● 50% hands-on developer and 50% senior manager of day-to-day front-end and back-end development of all company strategic B2B/B2C commerce sites for customers.

● Responsible for managing the e-Commerce Java Software Development Team (on-shore & off- shore) on the Intershop Commerce platform versions 6.4 and 7.5 to AWS EC2, Lambda, & S3 cloud.

● Worked as hands-on Ruby on Rails developer for a new phone trade-in application.

● Worked on Ruby coding for the initial prototype on Sinatra and later migration to Rails on Heroku cloud.

● Managed the TDD automation tool, specifically for Sinatra/Rails, Selenium on Rails & Spring.

● Implemented a new e-Commerce platform technology stack using Atlassian Crucible/Fisheye, JIRA, SonarQube, Jenkins, Gradle (Java Automation), Groovy (DSL), Sonatype Nexus to create a Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Delivery(CD) automation for software release deployments.

● Implemented Agile\Scrum\SAFe process using Atlassian JIRA cloud based software to drive sales and marketing digital asset releases. This gave a quicker response to customer needs and key features.

● Led new front-end UI development on Node.js, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3 and AJAX to drive a new digital experience on the front-end per business strategies.

● Managed the implementation of e-commerce front-end frameworks: REACTjs, Bootstrap, Backbone, GRUNT, Bower, npm, & D3. This created a new customer experience that resulted in more orders, better customer experience, and a newly competitive roadmap in the digital strategy.

● Managed department planning, resource forecasting, and budgetary goals.

● Won the 2016 James & James e-Commerce Award for B2B. 2008 – Present Sr. Principle & Co-Founder, Cimstrat Inc. Co-Founder of a software development and Agile Scrum management boutique agency, Cimstrat Inc., to deliver Web software technology solutions for clients such as Speed Channel, Mazda, Brad Beiermann 2

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Volkswagon, Staples, Walgreens, and many others. Directed client development practices and Agile governance processes for delivery teams creating the defined architecture, applications, and future online revenue generating technologies.

- Sample Summary of Client Technology Engagements –

● client: Etsy.com – 100% Hands-on Sr. Developer on the Ruby on Rails build of the Editor’s Review section of Etsy.com. Worked as the Senior Architect/Manager to kick-off development of a Ruby code base with the company’s newer Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration stack. Participated in Ruby code development with several developers to demonstrate the initial prototype of the Editor’s Review section of the site. Managed delivery on JIRA and headed up the daily SCRUMS for the development team.

● client: Staples.com – 75% hands-on development Manager. Managed this client’s mobile software development team to create a pre-production mobile e-commerce site for Quill.com and UK Staples.com. Developed the mobile site prototype using a HTML5/CSS3/Javascript/Bootstrap wireframe. Managed scope, schedule, costs, business relationships, and technical resources to deliver a digital mobile solution as part of a new retail strategy. Led the integration of Elastic search and MongoDB to create large data cluster scalability with Hadoop enable predictive analytics into customer product searches. This led to a 9% increase in quarterly orders.

● client: Grainger.com – Agile SCRUM Manager for the integration of the Grainger.com website to a new backorder handling system via the Hybris e-commerce platform. Responsibilities included managing SCRUM delivery, sprints, backlog, in Greenhopper. This integration project resulted in an increase over 30% in saved quarterly sales for electromechanical products.

● client: Abbvie - Worked as the Senior Technology Program Manager for the implementation of MobileIron for enterprise management of mobile devices within Abbvie. Managed the mobile device management program on an app-level for the Humira pharma line.

● client: Walgreens PMO - Delivered Agile/SCRUM project management training for Walgreen’s corporate PMO. Created training materials and classes for an IT management community of 182 project managers, program leads, directors and vice presidents. The training was delivered as part of the corporate ReWire program and covered Agile/SCRUM delivery cycles.

● client: Cardinal.com – Interim e-Commerce Development Director for the B2B rebuild Magento software development team. Managed onshore/offshore teams consisting of four commerce analysts, nine developers, and three QA resources implementing new pages running on the updated commerce server. Delivered the project 6% under the original budget and enabled three new online product sets.

2007 – Present Senior Developer & Chief e-Commerce Officer, ProfessorString.com

● 100% hands-on Sr. Software Developer and owner of one of the top ranked e-commerce websites for stringed musical instrument information. Built the website in PHP/Apache/MariaDB

(LAMP) with OpenCart shopping cart. Created SEO and Web affiliate program strategies to yield a 250% earnings growth in one year. Created all the site pages, copyright, and artwork. Managed the online viral strategy, of a series of videos on YouTube and social media that increased revenues. 2004 – 2008 Senior Developer & Chief e-Commerce Officer, HienoteDirectory.com

● 100% hands-on Sr. Software Developer and owner of this product sourcing website with over 21,000 directory subscriptions sold-to-date with over $700,000 in passive income.

● Built the website in PHP running on Apache (LAMP) with Miva shopping cart.

● Managed the creation of several viral ebooks that are downloaded hundreds of times a month. These ebooks generated over $250,000 in subscriptions with only $30 invested. Brad Beiermann 3

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2002 – 2004 Senior Director of e-Commerce Solutions, Oracle Corp.

● Managed Oracle e-Commerce Java development teams with the PMO to implement new online products for online retailing customers. Responsible for project budgets, strategies, forecasting, employee reviews, and e-commerce site delivery. Created a product roadmap to increase software product sales by 21%.

● Led online project managers for Borders.com and Amazon.com to deliver higher e-commerce transaction throughput and conversion rates. Successfully delivered e-commerce enhancements via Oracle data mining and analytics tools that generated an additional $550,000,000 in online sales. Delivered the project 28% under the $12,000,000 budget and on time. 2000 – 2002 Director of Mobile e-Business, marchFIRST

● 100% hands-on Lead Java Developer and PM of Walgreen’s first major e-commerce site at Walgreens.com using ATG Dynamo. Led the JEE e-commerce team, and worked as an Enterprise Java developer, in designing the front-end store layout and product fulfillment integration.

● Lead Architect of the e-commerce integration team and product fulfillment architecture for MazdaUSA.com. Delivered the shopping cart sections 28% under the $12,000,000 budget.

● Lead Java and JavaScript developer for HEB.com grocery. Implemented ATG Dynamo by writing Java code to enable ATG’s droplets into the final store front, shopping cart, and catalog.

● Defined the e-commerce strategy, vision, KPIs and financial targets for a mobile internet business generating $8,000,000 in new business with Ford and Toys-R-Us. 1998 – 2000 Director of Technology Products, Illinois Tool Works

● Developed a new line of embedded C++ software control tools for customers such as Hyster and Clark material movers. Wrote all the C++ code base for embedded controls.

● Built new PC controlled based, welding process optimization architectures which led the business strategy, and filing of US Patent # 6,849,826. This patent created $72,000,000 in new business for ITW and changed business in the marketplace.

● Managed P&L along with monthly forecasting.

1995 – 1998 Electrical Engineering Manager, Cherry Electrical Products

● Started a new solid state sensor engineering unit that secured $40,000,000 in new sensor business for both Cherry commercial and automotive markets. The largest single earnings ever recorded by a new product group at Cherry.

● Created several new embedded (C++/Assembly) software controls products for Maytag, TRW, and Valley-Lab.

Publications, Trademarks & Patents

- App development takes you to the land of Microservices, Jaws, Lambda & Serverless Computing

(BuiltInChicago.org, 2016)

- Cloud microservices continues to change our environment with FaaS (BuiltInAustin.com, 2016)

- Node.js: Savvy investors are checking out the economics of this language. Here is why...

(BuiltInChicago.org, 2016)

- Attention Scrum Masters: The new Parallel sprint Feature in JIRA Agile is worth a look

(BuiltInChicago.org, 2016)

- Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration Software Development Reaps Huge Rewards

(BuiltInChicago.org, 2016)

- Doing a mock-up to get funding? Check this out: Kakapo.js (BuiltInChicago.org, 2016)

- Site Search 101: The course most executives seemed to skip (BuiltInChicago.org, 2016) Brad Beiermann 4

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- How You Can Leverage Take-Away Marketing with Agility (Practical e-Commerce, 2014)

- Compelling Your Most Difficult Online Customers To Buy Something (Visibility Magazine, 2013)

- The Real Payday Secret of Website Traffic Conversion is... (Visibility SEO/SEM Magazine, 2011)

- Jump Start Your Online Sales with eBook 2.0 (Visibility SEO/SEM Magazine, 2010)

- Finding Your Success in Viral Video (Visibility Magazine, 2009)

- Managing Web 2.0 Marketing (Visibility Magazine, 2008)

- Is Your Web Marketing Strategy Outdated? (Manage Smarter Magazine, 2008)

- Managing The Intersection Between IT and Web 2.0 Marketing (CIO Magazine, 2008)

- Blind Drop Shipping: A Business Secret Seldom Discussed (Home Business Magazine, 2008)

- Want More Profits? You Should Know This About Product Pictures... (Opportunity World 2006)

- Disruptive Change Brings on Huge Dividends (Web 2.0 Summit, 2006)

- Lean Innovation (Fast Company, 2003)

- Finding Your Drop Ship Treasure at a Trade Show (eBook Web Pub., 2005)

- The Tips About Retailing No One Told You About (eBook Web Pub., 2005)

- Starting Your Online Retail Niche With Drop Shipping (eBook Web Pub., 2004) Professor String (Registered Trademark, 2007)

Fluid Level Sensing and Control System US Patent # 6,634,229 & Euro Pat. # 00309864.7-2204 Appliance Internet Communication Euro Pat. # 013071514.8-2201 Internet Arc Welder based on client/server approach US Patent # 6,479,792 Tunable Hall-Effect magnetic sensor US Patent # 6,127,821 Gear Shifter Writing Pen US Patent #200********

Education & Training

Ph.D., Kennedy-Western University, Management Information Systems, Dissertation: Defining Human Factors For Web Commerce Creation M.S., Southern Illinois University, Manufacturing Systems B.S., Southern Illinois University, Electrical Engineering Officer Training for Treasurer of Toastmasters District 30 Dale Carnegie Training

Intershop Commerce Suite Certification (2015)

Project Management Training, Pryor/Park University Scrum Master Training

Question Based Selling, Freese

Collaboration Marketing, Oracle Univ.

Computer & Development Skills

Languages: HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, C, C++, Java EE, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python RDBMS Databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MySQL, Oracle NoSQL Databases: MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase Frameworks & Libraries: REACTjs, JSX, Backbone, Bootstrap, jQuery, Angular 1.0, Marionette, Handlebars.js, Kakapo.js, npm, Grunt, Bower, Sinatra, Rails (Ruby), Spring Cloud: AWS EC2, Lambda, S3, Heroku, Heroku Dynos

Agile/Scrum: JIRA Agile, Greenhopper, Rally, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum

(LeSS)

Continuous Delivery: Atlassian Technology Stack: JIRA, Fisheye, Crucible, Service Desk Continous Integration Engines: Bamboo, Jenkins, Maven, ANT, Hudson Commerce Servers: ATG Commerce, IBM Websphere, Magento, Hybris, OpenCart, Intershop Analytics: SAS, SPSS, WebTrends, Web Side Story, HitBox/HBX, Adobe Omniture, QlikView, Hadoop

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Mobile Frameworks: PhoneGap, Sencha Touch, iOS

Operating Systems: Ubuntu (Linux), MS Windows, iOS Enterprise Apps: Clarity, Trackwise, SAP, Oracle ERP, Sharepoint, MS Project, MS Office, Planview, FIS, LibreOffice

GitHub ID: https://github.com/Bassmint123

JIRA Agile Cloud ID: bradbeiermann.atlassian.net

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradbeiermann Awards & Honors

2016 James & James e-Commerce B2B Award (Executive Sponsor) 2016 Customer Innovation Award Finalist (Brightstar Corp.) 2013 Staples Enabler Recognition Award (Staples)

2010 Project Fuel Leadership Award (Hospira Corp.) 2007 Competent Leader Award, Toastmasters International 2007 Competent Communicator Award, Toastmasters International 1999 Intellectual Property Recognition Award, ITW

1997 Total Quality Management Award, Cherry Corp.

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