Director of the data platform responsible for the ingestion, transformation, persistence, and uptime off all data systems supporting the DRIVIN automotive data science product suite. . The data engineering team at DRIVIN is 11 total team members including a manager and a technical architect. As a shared services team we support the delivery of databases, ETL/ELT pipelines, and uptime and monitoring tools supporting eight product lines and data services.Key Successes:* Assisted with the hiring or promotion of twelve developers, architects, and managers over 3 years.* Migration of DRIVIN data warehouse (historical persisted data and over 50 ingestion and distribution pipelines and APIs) from AWS DBX to AWS Redshift (2019) and then again onto Snowflake hybrid cloud (2021).* Led the creation of DRIVIN Python ETL core framework (docker on ECS / Kubernetes with CI/CD push button deploy capabilities via Github and Jenkins) used for all ingestion and distribution data pipelines with extensive connector suite (Redshift, flat file via S3, DynamoDB, MSSQL, DB2, Salesforce, Snowflake, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Oracle).* Creation of DDL CI/CD framework supporting schema updates via deployable package via Github, FlyWay, and ADO.* Integration of 6 domains of data from 7 different subsidiary business systems into enterprise data science data warehouse to support data science products and analytics teams. This included transportation and transaction histories from hosted Oracle, vehicle and customer MDM data from Informatica, customer data from Salesforce, reconditioning data from DB2, economics data sourced via government data sources, and auction partner's daily vehicle list feeds.* Led a team of 11 developers, architect, and manager providing continuous feedback through one-on-ones, performance cycle reviews, mentoring, coaching, goal-setting, and training. * Engaged with CISO's office to build, evaluate, and monitor data governance, security, and privacy policies.

Manager of two teams with 13 total reports responsible for data ingestion and data operations supporting the availability, timeliness, and quality of data in the industrial predictive analytics platforms space.-------* Build, installation, configuration, and operational monitoring of over 100 near real-time data extractions from Caterpillar's global on-prem ERP (as400/db2, SAP, MSSQL, Oracle) to Caterpillar cloud based enterprise data warehouse (AWS Cloud postgres, Casandra).* Set, monitor, and report on KPIs related to data quality, timeliness, and availability. Defined alerting level thresholds including framework for alert Standard Operating Procedures to trigger immediate incident response activities by automated system processes or by system administrators.* Work with internal and external business stakeholders to create and deliver a data warehouse pipeline and data operations team roadmap. Also worked with technical leadership to write quarterly KGI (key-goal-indicators) as the basis for continuous platform and team improvement.* Consult with internal and external stakeholders to develop and monitor data warehouse projects' budgets including team budgets, vendor and contractor spend, and cloud infrastructure costs.

Delivery services manager and technical product manager on the Cars.com Data Platforms technology team acting in many roles to efficiently deliver data focused projects including but not limited to: technology platform upgrades, technology operations 24/7 support, and ETL / API / OLTP persistence development. Development efforts focusing on the ingestion, refinement, and distribution of Cars.com vehicle listing pipelines - data critical to the Cars.com website, internal application portals, and internal and external partner integration. Roles and Responsibilities:Services Delivery Manager: Delivering software delivery leading a team of 8 data developers.-Driving architectural and technical operations process and driving platform upgrades-Ensuring 24/7 coverage of incident response of data feed processes through training and staffing-Participating in agile development life cycle (scrum, stand-ups, sprint open close, retro)-Removing Blockers, ensuring quality, mentoring and meeting development goals.-Quarterly resource / project planning alignment.-Meeting company performance management goals through resource planning.-Marshaling resources to achieve results-Consistent 1 on 1’s with a team of 8 developers and analysts-Enabling training opportunities for team members. -Hiring / on-boarding.Product Management: Product Owner of Cars.com data listing pipeline-Discovery / Definition / roadmap shaping / backlog grooming of listing pipeline platform-Writing business cases, driving priority for development of listing pipeline enhancements-Working with marketing, product, operations, and technology teams to start discovery cycles and drive priority conversations.-Regular talks with Cars.com customers, product owners, business stakeholders, sales teams, and external company partners to ensure my product is meeting company needs.-Business / product analysis of strategic positions and opportunities in the data space-Writing strategic direction proposals

Responsible for installation, upgrade, and maintenance of Cars.com middle ware technology stacks from pre-production through production environments. As a member of this on-call site-operations team I am responsible for escalated troubleshooting of all issues with the Cars.com production website and underlying technologies, and a member of the Cars.com change advisory board overseeing the release of new code to the production website. I am highly active with product and development teams as an adviser on available technologies and code implementation with a focus on data driven usability and performance for production code. My specialty involves intricate knowledge of Cars.com image delivery systems from acquisition and storage to end-user delivery via Akamai CDN, and data driven issue resolution using Compuware Dynatrace, Splunk, and SQL development.Known applications and technologies:IBM Websphere 6.5, 7, and 8.5. IHS HTTP server,Datastage, Portal, Process ServerApache HTTP server,Compuware Dynatrace, Splunk, Linux and AIX OS, Akamai CDN - Certified Oracle SQL, Shell script. Development and business processes:Agile development methodologies and scrumDev-Ops and small project quick release teamsChange Advisory and A/B testing systems

As a product analyst on Cars.com Vehicle Data product core team. I was responsible for determining the usability of potential feature development alongside our product manager and product architect through the discovery process, and then guiding the delivery team through release. Responsibilities include innovating new features in the vehicle data product space, determining the users and needs of those features through business and technical analysis, and turning the features into user-story level development pieces for consumption by our dedicated development team.Our primary pipelines included:-Daily vehicle inventory pipelines sourcing vehicle inventory and images from over 24,000 dealerships . -CRM data integrations into the Cars.com primary operational datastore.-Vehicle descriptive and editorial data integrated into Cars.com vehicle master data management systems-Vehicle listing distribution pipelines supporting b2b partnerships, advertising networks, and analytics fuctions.

As a data manager and application administrator for Cars.com's technical operations team, I was responsible for monitoring, configuration, deployment, and break-fix of data within Cars.com operational databases . This included handling many data fix requests from across the organziation as well as pro-active quality monitoring. We also supported data feed production releases by product development teams and feedback cycles to those development teams on improvements based on on-going metrics or due to technological requirements.

As a senior internet support specialist I was responsible for creation of training documents and resolution guides for customer support, training new hires, performing feedback and QA for customer support specialists, resolution of escalated cases, and business to business vendor issue resolution as well as all support specialist base duties.

Rokusek Design was a local graphic design and marketing firm that served advertising and marketing needs of regional clients. As the IT lead I was responsible for the purchase, installation, and administration of the companies IT infrastructure. This included the office ethernet LAN, Apple and Windows workstations, Apple file servers, internet access routers, website hosting infrastructure, and business software.