Storis’ Shawn McKnight Named to HFB’s Forty Under 40

July 18, 2018  by Laurie Northington in Business Strategy, Industry   

McKnight is the director of product database design and has been part of the team leading Storis’ product innovation for over 10 years.

McKnight began at Storis as a support technician, where he chartered a new path for how developers interacted with the company’s retailers. His ability to quickly address customer’s concerns through programming led him to take over as manager of developers in technical support.

From there, McKnight held five various managerial positions. Today, his main responsibility is to make the foundational decisions for Storis’ Next Generation, web-based user interface. This will be a critical product release for home furnishings retailers, according to Storis, as it will be the first industry solution released in this modernized format that is device agnostic and fosters full unified commerce usability.

This role requires McKnight to become well versed in technologies and guidelines such as React, Redux, Material - UI, and Google Material Design. He is an active team member of the open source community, maintaining key interface design on GitHub as well as being a top stack overflow contributor for software design.

“Technology is key to the future success of the home furnishings industry and Shawn is one of the groundbreaking developers innovating the future of its software solutions. With Shawn, Storis will continue to deliver powerful retail solutions.” said Dan Costantino, vp of production at Storis.

McKnight also serves as a liaison for many of Storis’ Top 100 retail clients including Ashley Furniture Industries Partners that include The Dufresne Spencer Group, Hill Country Holdings, and Broad River Retail. He is responsible for coding Storis’ Available to Promise and Available to Customer Inventory Logics with AFI Manufacturing. He participated on the teams that helped these Ashley Retailers go live on Storis.

“Shawn has a love of knowledge and is passionate about sharing that at Storis. He is a key mentor to future developers. He instills his passion for learning and discovery and teaches the foundation for new development languages and programming standards to our upcoming development talent. This puts others in the position to grow their careers and build solutions they are proud of as well. He also is a great role model on building client relationships.” Constantino added.