Joseph Stephen

✪ Technologist ✪ Product Leader ✪ Agile Champion ✪ Team Builder ✪ I am a passionate technologist with over a decade of amazing experiences building, designing, and shaping meaningful products and software solutions. These products and solutions have had a major impact on revenue growth, cost savings, and - most importantly - delivered an exceptional experience for hundreds of thousands of customers. Currently, I lead strategy, engineering, and product management, development, and delivery for a $3+ billion division at Best Buy. It is an incredible role in a high-growth category within an amazing industry-leading organization. I am at my best leading a software engineering organization, and I am passionate about building amazing teams and managing relationships. Mentoring and developing my current organization of more than 200 technology professionals is extremely rewarding. I also manage numerous vendor relationships with strategic partners of all sizes. It is energizing to work with talented leaders at other firms and benefit from their unique perspective and expertise. I am extremely proud of my role leading the transformation of a team of over 250 individuals to adopt Agile principles and mindset, dev ops engineering practices, and a culture that focuses on happiness and professional fulfillment. This team delivered 245% ROI with a payback period of less than a year, and we saw a 2X increase in productivity. The future excites me, as do the diverse perspectives of the amazing professionals that I encounter on my journey to create a world-class engineering organization. My specialties and interests include: Agile, scalable computing, enterprise architecture, organizational development, software engineering, DevOps, product development, and managing strategic partnerships. MY TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES → Deliver capabilities through a loosely coupled, distributed micro services-based architecture → Agile and dev ops principles and practices maximize delivery speed and stakeholder satisfaction. → Highly aligned, autonomous team work – empower teams to delight and surprise customers → Data driven organization – data first approach for better decision making and continuous improvement I encourage you to reach out to me to connect and share ideas!