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Seattle, Washington

Housing, taxes, and health insurance are three of largest household expenses. Yet most place vs. place cost-of-living analysis excludes them, which is why we created Willowfinch: a data intelligence tool that combines data from 100+ government resources, real estate websites, and personal info, and highlights where it directionally would be more or less expensive to live. Through real estate website browsing and complex data analysis, we aim to both inspire “where to live” daydreaming and help people make smarter decisions that are financially aligned with their goals and situation. We help financial service professionals by performing the complex data analysis of the housing question in seconds so you can provide more value to your clients. For real estate agents, our tool will help their clients find the right home based upon their personal financial situations.With sophisticated data analysis across government data points and a person's financial situation and preferences, Willowfinch leads the way in taking a new approach to thinking about where to live.

Greater Seattle Area

Vizzy has a solution for most small-to-medium companies' strategic planning needs at fraction of the cost of a single analyst. We collaborate with businesses to find lost customers, compare the success of their bids to the actual costs of a project, or simply have a recommender system which helps them direct their curated collections to the right clients who adore their products.Leveraging the technology of the data revolution such as cloud computing, machine learning, and AI, Vizzy has developed scalable, affordable solutions for businesses so they can defer building out a modern, secure Business Intelligence platform.

Retired

Developed and evaluated network performance criteria for Key Performance and Capacity Indicators in a Fortune 15 company for the Executive Dashboards. Interpreted new and emerging technologies for impacts to existing contractual models, thresholds, and Key indicators. Documented and evangelized standards.Translated business needs into key metrics for wireless voice and data networks through 8 technologies. Incorporated metrics into quality, performance, and capacity scorecards which rolled from engineering to Executive level for a network sized at ~ 120M subscribers.Expert shepherd of the data development and acquisition processes. Data Quality Management work included data profiling, rules setting, business justifications, system lineage, and root cause activities. Submitted requests and business justifications for data acquisitions. Participated in data migration activities from identification through recoding and testing, including documentation of data sources and targets. Performed data stream and data validation of new data sources or schema introduction. Data wrestling activities included data sets with missing values, duplications, missing values, "weird" distributions, typos, erroneous time-stamps, and data without dictionaries.Team lead responsible for mentoring activities, including training and escalation support. Delegated projects to supporting engineers. Reviewed deliverables and trained as needed. Lead meetings which included scientists, developers, and lead engineers from 4 of the Top 6 Telecommunication Equipment metrics definitions which impacted capital budgets and modeling. Chaired recurring conference calls in excess of 50 contributors. Facilitated metrics approvals through development, documentation, and enforcement of approval process.

Created ad hoc operational reports for ex post-facto failure and root cause analysis. Responsible for solving critical problems related to unique issues such as aligning customer failure data to model thresholds. Applied discretion to develop innovative solutions to problems without precedent. Technical authority within the organization for traffic impacts to networks. SME in 11 types of networks.Constructed queries and graph builds as performance art during peer-review meetings between top-tier engineers, vendors, and architects during first traffic implementations and development meetings. Personally responsible for coding and debugging nearly 1 million characters of query code written in either TSQL, Teradata SQL, Oracle SQL, or MySQL. Managed nested view queries which crossed 3+ databases with nesting calls exceeding 10 levels. Responsible for at least 234 views with more than 6K columns of output.Lead contributor on critical projects impacting project deployment or project acceptance, and vendor payments for project closure. Capacities recovered through audits counted in the thousands of nodes, or 100s of thousands of instances. Primary auditor for name conventions and corrections. Primary developer to join network elements in topology relationships. Drove network discovery process via IP, point code, or other non-text methodologies.Co-developer of metrics identification system (Engineering Rules Database). Created layered process for automated capture of production and non-production code to be integrated into the Metrics Inventory. SME for ERD.Mentor to engineers within the organization including training in presentation techniques, data analytics, support for escalations, and overall cheerleader.

Chargeable Engineer for Regional Data Centers and Mobile Switching Centers across the Western states (WA, OR, CO, UT, ID, NV, AZ, NM, AK). Planned and engineered related projects for core voice and data networks. Budgetary responsibility in excess of $20M. Directed teams of support engineers, installation managers and project managers.Implemented processes to reuse equipment resulting in capital cost savings.Planning engineer responsible for forecasting and integrating new nodes into the network or to redistribute loads. Coordinated work across various functional groups, including RF engineering, and vendor experts. Held Budgetary, forecasting, monitoring and design responsibility for Mobile Telephone Switches and Call Servers, Media Gateways (both u and p facing and the mMGW for VoLTE and IPV6 integration), IMS core integration, SGSNs of a variety of flavors and vendors, Network Controllers such as BSCs and RNCs, as well as all the supporting infrastructures including probes, cross-connect terminals, IP routers and switches, etc.Developed RFQs and negotiated contracts for work. Monitored, and fired vendors for installation or rip projects. Designed augments and new installations of equipment with build-ahead reserve. Accountable for balancing capital efficiency with network performance goals. Delegated ancillary engineering projects. Developed and implemented processes to reuse equipment resulting in capital cost savings. Utilized knowledge base interfaces for dimensioning and capacity metrics. Built wiring / cross-connect diagrams. Managed availability and utilization documentation for power, rack, and cabling for user, control, and access planes.Numbers management included IP addressing and naming standards.Created tools to accurately project and schedule network load rebalances across both voice and data networks to support new market additions, new sites, actual growth, and new technologies.

Greater Seattle Area

Supported the migration of ETL practices into an enterprise level Oracle database in support of nationalized reporting. Developed RFQs for equipment purchases and installations. Hiring, monitoring, firing responsibilities including standards development and training.Investigated and defined data relationships for cross-platform, cross vendor reporting, tracking of hardware and software connections, Cleansed and normalized data sets with missing values, duplicates, typos, erroneous time-stamps, and without data dictionaries at times. Development of standard reports combining performance and configuration data using PL/SQL, Excel, Access.

Greater Seattle Area

Managed growth jobs in excess of $3M. Remotely managed configuration and hardware verification of 15 switches in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Nevada. Engineered and developed interconnect standards. Administered database for floor space planning.Developed tools using Visual Basic and Excel macros to evaluate utilization of equipment. Implemented standards to raise utilization of equipment from below 50% to 75%.Generated daily switch configurations, utilization progress reports, and performance metrics from data sets with missing values, duplicates, typos, erroneous time-stamps, and without data dictionaries at times. Created and managed process for creating datafill for new site builds, augments, updating equipment Developed tools using PERL, Visual Basic and Excel macros to remotely measure and track hardware & software connections and configurations in 17 switches in the Central and Western States.Developed query tools for the switches, templates and automation of the code work for redefining hardware in the switches and the base station configurations. Maintained central document repositories and website.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Maintained cell sites in Western Washington. Switch Operations. Managed technologies from AMPS through TDMA & CDPD deployments.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, East Asian Studies

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electronics Engineering Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Electronics Engineering