Benjamin Garvey Email & Phone Number

Distributed, Us

Organizing and hosting a series of dataviz meetups, connecting data scientists, programmers, and chart junkies. Our format consists of 2-3 speakers and we hold events every other month.

New York, New York, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, California, Us

- Lead a data engineering team that rearchitected the RJMetrics product for Magento Commerce and delivered a better, faster product that was cheaper to operate.- Worked with multi-national teams in Austin, Kyiv, Barcelona, and Philadelphia to deliver analytics for Magento stores.- Reduced AWS costs by 41% and received highest performance rating 2 years in a row.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

- Promoted to engineering manager with 10 direct reports.- Lead the technical aspects of the Magento acquisition, specifically around the product roadmap, code licensing, and transition plan.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

- Lead developer on core functionality for dashboard and report building.- External and internal thought leader on data visualization, analytics, and the software engineering process.

Blue Anchor, Nj, Us

Delivered organizational efficiency through data automation of manufacturing processes, employee performance metrics, project and proposal management, lead generation, and reporting tools. Held roles as Software Engineer, Engineering Manager and General Manager.Developed a number of systems to save time and prevent mistakes. Most were PHP/Perl/HTML5/MySQL based. These systems did the following:* Queue monitoring system for manufacturing processes. * Automated storage and retrieval for key employee metrics. * An online packaging line efficiency analysis tool for cusotmers * A web interface to our ERP software. * A system to convert MS Project files to HTML to share with the entire team. * A part lookup system for our Engineering team, giving them better control over generating part numbers and making changes to parts. * A system that automatically releases parts to manufacturing and printed out engineering drawings, saving hours of labor. * Perl scripts to connect various pieces of legacy software.Created visualizations from various data, such as sales, production, budgets, lead sources, etc.Implemented open source and commercial software such as Wordpress, Mediawiki, Highrise, and Basecamp.

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Hired to deal with demanding clientsI wrote an in house tool to automate a day's worth of work into 5 minutes. Wrote cross-browser dynamic html scripts for alerts and reminders. Implemented a new CMS for a client using ATOMZ Publish and coded the templates.