Lars Vogler
Director Of Technology
Little Chute,WI
Summary
In my role as Director of Technology, my objective was to lead the development and strategic planning of all internal systems and external systems to drive 50%+ YOY growth across our 11+ companies. To focus on process improvement and automation, increasing efficiency and reducing costs of scaling our businesses with a customer-first approach through data and technology. My team and I exercised reaction plans to ensure 100% website/service uptime and system security. Conduct ethical hacking to ensure our systems are secured from data breach & system lockout situations. I empowered my team by building strong leaders that are focused on being forward thinking and independent problem-solvers. We worked with vendors to build up-to-date solutions for sharing data, ensuring real-time accurate inventory, product listings, pricing, and ordering.
I was also in charge of supporting all internal teams on integrations of systems to automate and improve our customer experience. I had to be energetic, well organized, and demonstrate the ability to fully understand the scope of data entry, data automation, infrastructure, code deployments, Netsuite, Hubspot, Transportation Management systems, and any new systems to be added.
Besides all that I am a passionate leader that wants to see people develop into the best version of themselves, through practicing emotional intelligence and teaching by first understanding the problems, then helping to solve them. I enjoy being part of a team that engineers clever solutions to complex problems, saving time and resources for everyone involved while developing key skills both personal and professional.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Technology
Custom Offsets
Appleton, WI
10.2017 - Current
Essential Functions
● Create, maintain, and improve our processes for managing our data catalog, infrastructure, internal systems, data
integrations, and system quality.
● Foster a continuous improvement environment around system development, quality control, development, and
cataloging.
● Lead team through disaster response (Cyber attack, major failures, system lockouts)
● Build team by holding up EE Core values & expectations by creating a winning culture
● Grow workforce to support strategies and growth through strategic plans and hiring strategies
● Collaborate with all teams in EE to ensure the necessary tools are maintained and improved
● Establish clear daily/weekly/monthly communication strategies that provide key insights into the success of all
divisions.
● Manage team through clear expectations, managing priorities and deadlines to meet goals
● Maintain and improve EEU Management system utilizing stat sheets, daily huddles, scorecard meetings and Agile
Development
● Create and execute strategies for standardizing vendor data & integrations, leveraging our supply chain team to
improve data accuracy & efficiency
DevOps Engineer
Authenticom
La Crosse, WI
06.2015 - 02.2018
- Identify troublesome or outdated processes and work to automate or modernize them
- Monitor Data Hygiene services and resolve to troubleshoot and resolve any escalated issues
- Function as escalated support both internal and external
- Keep databases, Virtual Machines and servers up to date
- Take on specialty projects as needed to fill business requirements
- Function as escalated On-Call in case of after-hours emergencies
- Mentor new team members and train them in all current practices
Community Manager Innogames
Online
, Germany
12.2012 - 06.2016
- Supervised a team of moderators, training new members to the team, dealing with escalated tickets, and finding and reporting bugs and other issues
Education
GED -
Clovis Community College
Clovis, NMSkills
Leadership
Decision Making
Team-Building
Self-Motivated
Problem Solving
Agile Framework
Cloud Infrastructure development
Development Pipeline Oversight
Disaster Recovery
Hobbies
I love driving, you can find me at the race track at least one weekend a month to live that passion. My personal goal is to work my way into racing at a competitive level, and eventually join a PRO-AM team in an endurance racing series all across the country.
Accomplishments
- Built the Data, Testing, Infrastructure, Netsuite, and inventory automation teams
- Implemented code release process to scale deployments from a team of 5 developers, to supporting 80 developers
- Built fitment solution to turn customer data into a tool to drive sales
- Developed and refined Agile system for the web development teams
- Led the migration from a custom order management system to Netsuite as our ERP system
- Led the automation of inventory for 75% of our suppliers
- Mentored multiple young developers into senior members of the team through coaching and skill development
Timeline
Director of Technology
Custom Offsets
10.2017 - Current
DevOps Engineer
Authenticom
06.2015 - 02.2018
Community Manager Innogames
Online
12.2012 - 06.2016
GED -
Clovis Community College