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Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Lead 7 Data Engineering teams at American Airlines to optimize data operations and mentor team members. Responsible for DataOps strategy for the enterprise.• Spearheaded DataOps strategy, presenting at Gartner Data 2023 to showcase innovative data approach.• Formed the industry's first DataOps team, guild and steering committee• Oversaw the creation of ingestion accelerators which reduced time to first insight on newly ingested data from weeks to 1-2 days• Worked with the data platform team to reduce Azure resource allocation from 4-6 weeks to 4 hours or less• Reduced minutes of impact across the organization by 92%• Created an organizational structure to partner with a vendor to convert over 1000 DataStage jobs to Databricks within 18 months.• Implemented team-lead monthly updates to build new leaders and create confidence in continuous improvement with Director+ leadership.• Keynote speaker at 2023 Insight Direct technical conference

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Lead 3 Data Engineering teams at American Airlines to optimize data operations and mentor team members. • Moved 20 applications to Azure cloud from on-premise data centers.• Lead the development of a streaming data ingestion framework along with a self-service user experience to reduce onboarding of Kafka and MQ-based messages to around 4 hours.• Spearheaded data democratization and Azure cloud migration for all applications, driving innovation and efficiency.• Chaired the Business Analytics Working Group, fostering collaboration and strategic decision-making.• Mentored engineers to transition into management roles, cultivating a culture of growth and success.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Lead 3 Data Engineering teams at American Airlines to optimize data operations and mentor team members. • Turned three product owner relationships into high-performance partnerships• Implemented continuous measurement in product teams to better celebrate success and aggressively target team challenges• Transformed team performance by fostering a "we over me" culture, leading to a 40% increase in production over six months.• Established a Reference Data Management support group to reduce data workload and successfully transitioned it to another leader.• Led weekly workgroup meetings for 70 participants, driving innovation and sustained success.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Led team in developing core middleware solutions for U.S. Airways integration, optimizing performance through Agile methods.• Designed internal tools for flight and crew data, including customer frameworks, APIs, and dashboards.• Coordinated ADEPT program to attract young leaders and delivered presentations for global audiences.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Led a team of over twenty consultants and employees in development operations, hiring, and work processes at American Airlines.• Redesigned a Flight Web Service that processed 10K requests per second.• Developed an Eclipse plug-in.• Implemented a "Test First" development strategy and presented to other teams to encourage adoption.

Gastonia, North Carolina, Us

SOA design, development, analysis, and troubleshooting, mostly in the IBM WebSphere stack.

New Castle, De, Us

Baan ERP and EDI Integration development.

Ca

EDI, VB, and FoxPro development.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science