About

Hello! I am Michael Turner and I really appreciate you coming here to learn more about me!

Along with being a Technology Leader and what some may say a "Geek" (I really do love when something seen as impossible becomes reality!), I am a proud father and husband. I am so encouraged by my family and they truly give me great joy. Without support from them and God I would be lost! Technology can be an incredible asset, but its only when you combine that with people that you relize what is possible!

To check out some of the recent companies/work I have completed check view my work experience.

Basic Information
Experience:
20+ Years
Location:
Portland, Oregon USA
Hobbies:
Hanging with Fam/Friends, Backpacking, Hunting/Fishing, Camping, Community, Astronomy, Travel, Stocks, Crypto, NFT
Recent Roles:
Digital Director, IT Director, CDO, CTO, SR. Architect, Lead Software Engineer
Professional Skills
Leadership
100%
Project Management
100%
Business Transformation
90%
Strategic Tech Planning
90%
P&L & Budget Planning
80%
Risk Assessment/Mitigation
80%
SDLC, Agile & SCRUM/KANBAN
80%
Change Management
75%
User Experience (UX)
75%
Digital Marketing/SEO
65%
WMS/ERP Management & Implementation
60%
OO Programming & Custom Development
60%
DB Design & Architecture
55%
Infra/Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP)
55%
M&A Activity
55%
Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence
50%
Security & Compliance
50%
Audit Controls
50%
Work Experience

Sept 2022 - Current

Rexel USA
Senior Director of Engineering & Applications

In this current role, I oversee all aspects of development and applications. This ranges from DevSecOps, digital support, custom .NET development, Oracle Apex, ERP leadership/management, as well as cloud services and WMS. My responsibilities include leading a team consisting of over 120 with many FTE and some contractors, managing a substantial P&L, and providing the vision for all digital assets/development for Rexel in the USA. In addition to helping lead this team I also am intrinsically involved in creating a lean/agile first approach to development, ensuring we have clean streamlined/functional teams, moving tasks through our pipelines quickly/efficiently in order to keep our forward momentum and have that infinite mindset that sets us apart!

July 2018 - Aug 2022

Rexel USA
US Director of IT & Development

Direct an agile team of developers, designers, product owners, DevOps engineers and others focused on building applications to better service our customers (internal and external) throughout the Rexel network. In addition to IT applications our team is in charge of innovation and creation of new tools/services to move Rexel into the future! At Rexel I have been able to build a team from the ground up going from a handful to dozens, from a small budget to very large and have created many new applications that are in use for all of Rexel.

March 2014 - June 2018

Platt Electric Supply
Director of Technology

Lead a software dev team focused on building and maintaining internal and external applications. In charge of innovation and technology improvements throughout the organization. Key focus around improving our customers lives and to help our internal employees drive adoption through the use of new tools and services. Developed a Ecommerce website (custom built) as well as many business systems/processes to facilitate ecom such as connecting to ERPs and shipping via third parties.

July 2009 - March 2014

Platt Electric Supply
Lead Application Developer

Lead developer focused on creating/maintaining ecommerce website as well as internal applications for our employees. Our team was involved in different projects ranging from complete .net merchandise systems, to help desk/chat tools, to CRM/Operations tools. My role was continued development on our main set of tools which consists of a full desktop and responsive tablet/mobile site.

January 2006 - July 2009

MerlinTek
Owner/CTO/Chief Architect

Startup focused on the creation of a SAAS (software as a service) application for the cabinet industry. I was in charge of leading the development team in all areas of design/development as well as outsourcing to both offshore and onshore dev teams. I also created the full user interaction and flow throughout the site. The two main projects of Merlin Tek are XCaliburPRO which is a full featured CRM/CAD tool for the kitchen/bath/closet industry. This project was fully written in .net, c#, and we used DevExpress tools, DB4Objects for our database (oo database), VectorDraw, as well as other technologies. The second was a website which was a complete software as a service e-commerce application with a built in cad tool written in flash/actionscript and then re-created using HTML5.

Education
Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor of Computer Science

Portland State University

Rigorous program focused on software engineering, history of computers, operating systems, databases, and compilers. Science based program with high degree of math and physics.

Associates Degree
Associates of Science (Multiple)

Portland Community College

Associate of science in CS (computer science) and in CIS (computer information systems) as well as a one year certificate. Program focused on software engineering, databases, and infrastructure.

References
Contact Me
Feel free to contact me

Location

Portland, Oregon U.S.A

Phone

+1 (503) 597-8876

Email

mike@miketurner.biz