Samir A. Batla Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston

- Leading Data & Analytics and AI/ML teams- Partnering with AWS and our clients to support their strategic initiatives around Data & Analytics

Greater Boston Area

- Growing creative and awesome data engineering teams- Leading teams in solving clients' most challenging problems- Partnering with clients to support their strategic data initiatives- Supporting Slalom Build's strategic growth through developing practice capabilities and geographic expansion- Build Blog managing editor for Data Engineering

Greater Boston Area

- Leading project teams that deliver Data Engineering and Analytics solutions- Delivered Cloud Data training to consultants- Lead and mentor Data Engineers on reaching their potential and delivering quality solutions

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Greater New York City Area

Leveraging NYC OpenData, Vizalytics is helping small, local business stay agile and competitive by becoming more knowledgeable of the changing physical environment and business climate that impacts their businesses.http://www.vizalytics.comhttp://www.nyc.gov/html/data/about.html

Provided data, analytics and search consulting with various organizations small and large. Activities:Personas and Use Case developmentTechnology & Product evaluationStrategy and Roadmap developmentCreating high-level and detailed data architecturesHands-on Data analysissabatla@mac.com

Greater Boston Area

Part of the first global SaaS solution for health and wellness at Virgin Pulse.In this role, I create strategies for data collection, governance, semantics, analytics and reporting. I also manage a team of BI & Analytics professionals delivering data and insights to our customers and internal stakeholders.Key Contributions:- Created data collection, governance, reporting and analytics strategies.- Recruited, hired, and developed a Business Intelligence team from the ground up, including data analysts and data warehouse experts and client-facing analysts.- Decreased BI request fulfillment from over five days to under 48 hours.- Transformed the product management process from application-centric to data-centric to eliminate disconnect between product and BI teams.- Conceived, designed, and developed the company's new BI Platform as a gateway to all reporting and analytics. Selected and oversaw the implementation of Pentaho Business Analytics Enterprise software.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Betaspring Mentor Network. http://betaspring.comBetaspring is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator for technology and design entrepreneurs.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Data is the most strategic asset and key competitive differentiator for an organization. In my guest lectures, I am honored to help future business leaders understand the critical importance data plays in business.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

APE System is taking an unprecedented approach to athlete management for pro and college teams. http://ape-system.com/

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Served as Analytics and Technology strategistKey Contributions:- Oversaw the Quality Assurance team and improved processes to create an efficient and effective communication, bug-fixing, testing, and build cycle- Oversaw the development of help documentation for www.smartapp.com.- Conceived and designed a semantics-based, context-aware recommendation engine for enterprise program management data with the ability to anticipate customer needs and devise optimal outcomes.- Oversaw the build-out and talent development of the company's first India-based SaaS sales team in Bangalore, India.

Drove product strategy, roadmap, and integration of a wide range of Documentum products and ingest pipelines to allow plug-and-play of EMC federated search and content analytics in xCP 2.0 - led to patent US 9098497 B1.Key Contributions: - Developed go-to-market strategy with Product Marketing team to reduce dependency on EMC marketing and consulting services.- Managed international development teams in France, Israel, India, China, and California.

Primary solutions design resource for semantic technology and business rules integration. Led demonstrations and pre-sales discussions with clients and partners across Healthcare, Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Federal Government.Key Contribution:- Served as Advisory Committee Representative with the W3C and participated in the RDB2RDF Working Group

Led development of systems and processes to improve faceted navigation and analytics of news contentKey Contributions:- Architected and built the FTS knowledge base for relational navigation of news content, providing context to unstructured content and a faceted navigation experience.- Developed a dual-path content processing pipeline to leverage content analytics capabilities of annotators in combination with a taxonomy-based solutions.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Author acknowledgment and Technical Editor credit - Semantic Web for Dummies.

Developed product vision and roadmap, provided pre-sales support and evangelized semantic technologies.Key Contributions:- Architected relational navigation solution leveraging semantic technology, rules, content ingest and content analytics technologies.- Developed knowledge bases containing organizations, executives, NAICS codes, business issues, and geographic locations to facilitate relational navigation of news content.- Integrated UIMA-compliant content ingest pipelines to transform clients' unstructured data into semantic technology serializations.

Architected and developed Ontology driven solutions for several clients in the following areas: Financial Reporting, SOX Compliance, Document Management Services, Product Configuration and Semantic Integration. Involved in requirements gathering and collecting client feedback to help drive product direction. Provided technical and product expertise on sales calls. Gained expert knowledge in OWL-DL (Web Ontology Language - Descriptions Logics). Developed and delivered OWL-DL modeling and product training courses - A curriculum of courses aimed at assisting businesses and individuals in understanding the company's product line and the application of semantic technologies.

Berkeley, Ca

Taught an introductory Java Course at UC, Berkeley Extension. Students were primarily non-developers searching for a career change. Taught basic Object-Oriented and Java concepts, handed out coding assignments. Students were graded on executable code and documentation.

Berkeley, Ca

B.S., Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Philosophy Minor

Physics, Thermodynamics, Theory Of Relativity