Bob Jackson Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

Responsible for the team that operationally designs, implements and supports Mastercard's Hadoop instances. Working with Business customers, ensure that advanced data analytic needs are met.

Chicago

• Lead the design, development and build efforts for repeatable patterns to improve deployment time and reliability of production and non-production environments. Work with users, architects and support teams to create.
• Build a new Infrastructure team to support Design & Build’s efforts with Hadoop and BI Tools
• Lead the project to turn over 1st and 2nd level support to HCL including the development of documentation, hiring resources and overseeing the transition of responsibility
• Developed corporate BI Tool roadmap in conjuction with the Data Science Tooling and Platform Operating Committee
• Currently managing the upgrade of HCSC’s MDM database which comprises the Gold Copy of membership information
• Leading design efforts to initiate efforts to begin HCSC’s migration of Hadoop to Azure, beginning with Disaster Recovery capability followed by a move toward an active-active cluster configuration

Town & Country, MO

• Responsible for developing the managed Big Data and Scale Out services at CenturyLink. Identify technology treands, vendors and partners to enhance the product. Directing the engineering and development agile team in.
• Currently, developing a PaaS product based on Pivotal’s distribution of Cloud Foundry. Directing the engineering efforts to bring thisproduct to market on the CenturyLink Cloud platform. Working with Beta customers to.
• Initiated and developed the Managed Hadoop offering at CenturyLink.
• Developed stand-alone hardware specifications to meet Cloudera certification criteria and maintain compatibility within CenturyLink datacenters.
• Developed a certified distribution of SAP’s HANA In-Memory database available on CenturyLink’s platforms

Town And Country, MO

• Technical leader of a data science company specializing in tracking trends and discovering new topics of discourse around the world using social media. Led technology development, Q/A support, and Operational.
• Planned and directed a data center migration for Sherpa’s entire IT infrastructure including network re-architecture, and upgrades to firewall and remote office communication technology.
• Enhanced system capability to ingest and store large data sets using Hadoop, H-Base and SOLR.
• Develop and maintain procedures and protocols regarding IT, telephony and site access and security to meet government contracting requirements
• Created solutions defined in conjunction with a Data Scientist to examine large, complex, unstructured data sets for sentiment, topics and trends.

Town And Country, MO

Key technical design and implementation leader for the mission-critical news component infrastructure and enhancements of existing, client-facing news systems that provide actionable information to 400,000 global financial professionals. Led workflow activities for a globally-dispersed, multi-functional team of approx. 120 software developers, product.

Managed technical groups of up to 60 people that maintained the News, Page, User Entitlement, and Time Series databases and the Real-Time Delivery Systems designed to support the Bridge and Reuters Plus products. Tracked service issues from determining root cause, managing crises, coordinating corporate responses to outages, and debriefing on prevention.

Oversaw news-related development Group that transformed news systems from a text based system to a multi-media website-based system that eventually supported the Reuters.Com website after acquisition. Designed and developed a Windows based solution to file multi-media content and improve the delivery speed of time-sensitive, market moving information..

Defined, analyzed and tested aircraft designs to assess their capability to meet mission requirements. Part of the "Proposal Team" responding to government RFPs to develop new Contracted Research & Development (CRAD) revenue sources.