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Madison, Wi, Us

Madison, Wi, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Collaborate with people ops analysts to identify high value data elements and build data models for reporting on potential, current, and former employee data- Build pipelines and data structures to ingest and model data using Airflow and Python- Develop audit and row-level security mechanisms to protect sensitive and PII data- Plan and build internal/enterprise-wide data product usage and engagement metrics and visualizations- Facilitate the adoption of agile development practices amongst team of 6- Lead my team in the transition to using dbt for data transformation, including knowledge transfers, sample repositories, and establishing best practices

- Establish a team vision, data strategy, roles, responsibilities, and a growth plan.- Hire, manage, and coach a small but very productive team of data analysts and data engineers- Regularly work closely with internal teams in soliciting needs, questions, ideas, hypotheses, and priorities to create and maintain an internal data solutions roadmap- Create, maintain, and evangelize an internal data quality scorecard and worked with internal data owners and our business operations team to improve our datasets.- Oversaw the planning, selection, and development of Widen’s initial ELT system (Matillion) and data warehouse (Redshift), eventually growing the pipeline to include thirteen distinct sources to cover data needs across the entire organization.- Researched, selected, worked as part of the implementation group for our enterprise BI solution (Sisense) and data catalog solution (Atlan)- Serve as a product data analyst, helping our product and user experience teams plan and prioritize usage and adoption success metrics- Fill ad hoc data requests for internal teams (product usage data, sales and opportunity data, marketing analytics, etc)- Serve as a staff data engineer by participating in a data stack transition that utilizes open source technologies (Meltano, Python, Dagster, Singer, DBT) and a Snowflake warehouse- Build and maintain business intelligence dashboards for product usage, marketing content, and sales analytics

Use data and experimentation to increase retention rate, reduce churn, and increase trial conversion ratesEstablish a framework and roadmap to combine all essential internal and external/third party data sources needed to make data-driven decisionsDiscover opportunities within current products by measuring adoption and usage and recommend courses of actionGauge and size new market opportunities by running market research activities (surveys and studies)

Utilize data, market research, and interviews to define and evangelize product vision, roadmap, and positioningCollaborate with User Experience and Development teams to build most viable, usable, and feasible solution possible.Discuss pain points, problems, and solicit feedback from current customers and buyersStrategize go-to-market activities with marketing and sales groupsGive/lead internal and external presentations, webinars, demos, workshops, and training sessionsDefine and measure success metrics for feature utilization, user retention, identification of problem areas.Investigate and implement market research and product strategy techniques like kano and conjoint analysisInterview prospective developers, user-experience designers, and product managers

Outline technical architecture to best solve business goals and problemsEstablish technical feasibility of using existing or new frameworks and services to achieve business goalsWork with customers, product managers, and project managers to establish problems, opportunities, priorities, timelines, and solutions.Document customer workflows and processes to discover improvement opportunitiesInterview, mentor, and coach junior developersLead development of SAAS software using modern frameworks including Spring & Tapestry back-ends (Java), and AngularJS & React front-ends.Research, design, and implement full text search using Elastic Search Gain in depth knowledge of Lucene/Hibernate Search for legacy application development and supportManage cloud based (AWS) databases (RDS), file storage(S3), and server instances (EC2).Work as ScrumMaster on several teams to collaborate with Product Manager on priority and schedule setting

-Develop portal applications (JSR 168 portlets) using IBM RAD tools, Spring Framework, iBatis.-Administer Websphere Portal 5.1x (application deployment, user management, troubleshooting, datasource/JNDI creation, upgrades, patches, etc).-Develop servlet applications using Eclipse, Spring Framework (MVC, Webflow), iBatis.-Administer Websphere Application server 6.1 (application deployment, user management, troubleshooting, datasource/JNDI creation, upgrades, patches, etc).-Plan for, install, and administer a continuous integration environment using cruise control and Ant.-Plan for, install, and administer an issue tracking system (FlySpray).-Provide technical guidance and leadership to junior developers.-Act as a liaison between project management staff and business analysts.-Provide work time estimates for portal and servlet projects.

Madison, Wi, Us

General Studies

Mba, Management

Bs, Computer Information Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Kinesiology And Exercise Science