Maryrose began work at Target as an FTE beginning 9/1/2000. She hired on as a Manager for the eCommerce group, initially to revamp source and version control for the budding .com organization. Soon after, she was charged with Content Promotion for all the Target sites.

Being the rescue project manager type, Maryrose was recruited to manage the ailing Accrue project. Target purchased Accrue to do some Web Analytics, but $2 Million later, has not been able to realize that benefit. Maryrose stepped in, reporting directly to the Target executive in charge of eCommerce and completed the implementation in time for the high-volume holiday season. When Maryrose was done with the effort, she had managed to frame a requirement to the correct stakeholders, get concurrence on what was in place (from both the previous development team and the vendor consultant team), put a plan together on what needed to be achieved to fully exploit the install, a clean execution of that plan and a proper project closeout.
 
Next in the Target pipeline was the Direct2Guest project. This project was created to replace the Warehouse Management system for Marshall Fields’ furniture business, a business responsible for significant revenue for the Target family of companies. The project was well on its way, estimated as a 12,000 hour development effort, but, without the integration, conversion and quality assurance plans. Maryrose was drafted to take this part of the project on. She created the QA strategy, laid out the development plans to sync up with the QA, detailed out the data conversion plans, and created the integration strategy with the legacy applications. Since cost was a major constraint, Maryrose identified a portion of the work to outsource offshore on a fixed-bid basis, the quality assurance. The result of the effort was a resounding success. The new Direct2Guest application was rolled out on time, on budget and as planned on September 20, 2004, the same day that the sale of Marshall Fields was officially announced to the Target team.
 
The sale of Marshall Fields to May Company provided Maryrose with another opportunity. Most of the managers, both support and development, for Warehouse systems had moved on to other opportunities within Target. It was now up to Maryrose to carry over the systems through turnover and execute any conversion work to May Company. All of this work was to continue over the holiday season, which historically poses capacity challenges by itself, Maryrose work on optimizing resources without additional investment dollars allowed Target to showcase the revenue potential of Marshall Fields’ furniture business to its new owners.
 
Maryrose left Target in April 2005 to pursue an opportunity with Seagate Technology.
 
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