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St. Louis, Mo, Us

St. Louis, Mo, Us

St Louis, Mo, Us

St Louis, Mo, Us

 Google Cloud Platform architect specializing in the Big Data product set. Lead enterprise workflow administrator, utilizing GCP Composer (Airflow) to build and manage complex data pipelines. Fostering DevOps/SRE architecture and support best practices across the enterprise, including application source code management, deployment automation, monitoring and operational support. Developed a large-scale Big Data Hadoop architecture in support of data science and marketing initiatives, including recommendation and offer personalization engines. Facilitated the migration of the Big Data Hadoop applications from managed services platform (Cloudera) to Google Cloud Platform (Dataproc). Mentored a team of ten data engineers with a diverse set of technical skills on best practices and reference architectures, including peer review and user acceptance testing of all application changes prior to production deployment. Facilitated discussions between Panera and technical vendors to verify the deliverables they produced met the business requirements.

Purchase, Ny, Us

 Facilitated and implemented large scale data architecture projects including: Exadata upgrades, setup of a secondary site for HA/DR, overall capacity planning and storage optimizations.  Assisted application teams with RDBMS best practices and SQL tuning to meet strict SLA requirements. Lead R&D efforts related to a “Big Data” strategy to address future growth in overall data volume and processing needs of platform. Developed functional and technical architectures based on requirements. Executed small scale proof-of-concept projects to validate technology capabilities.  Established an ETL processing framework to streamline movement of data in and out of the platform. Efforts included tool evaluation and selection, creation of the system architecture design and overall SDLC processes. Designed and developed numerous system integration processes with an emphasis on replacing manual activities with automation to increase quality and speed of change. Performed numerous data analysis activities on entity populations to help detect fraud and prevent millions in dollars of losses. Upon completion of analysis, developed methods to operationalize the strategy via the injection of key metrics into the real-time processing platform. Established platform KPIs and metrics to track overall product performance using a flexible DataMart processing framework to handle the source extraction and aggregation tasks.  Created platform and product level data visualizations in Qlik Sense to assist in business intelligence and customer inquiries.

Purchase, Ny, Us

Enterprise Architecture Technical Lead of the Master Data Management (MDM) and Enterprise Process & Data Governance practices; leading a team of five developers in the design and development of the MasterCard Enterprise Data Repository (EDR) repository, which encompasses the mastering of Organization and Account business entities from core backend systems and the exposure of data to consumers using a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Assisted in complex production support issues requiring deep knowledge of numerous systems and business processes. Collaborated with Business and System analysts on EDR requirements including data analysis and the estimation of work efforts to build, test and implement. Facilitated infrastructure technical architecture design and build out of servers including the rigorous PCI compliance certification process. Collaborated with vendors to evaluate and select software to support specific business requirements. Lead the creation of a global production support team including the establishment of all support and escalation procedures according to MasterCard’s policies. Mentored and trained junior level ETL developers on all coding standards along with proper usage of data processing patterns and their reuse. Collaborated with Management and other senior consultants on strategic roadmap planning for enhanced enterprise capabilities. Created professional communications and presentations to report status updates to management.

Purchase, Ny, Us

 Evaluated various components of the IBM Information Server product suite, providing recommendations for those that met MasterCard’s current business requirements. Collaborated with several departments throughout MasterCard to lead and support the infrastructure build out of the IBM Information Server, and Java web services in an ESB environment. Facilitated knowledge sharing sessions with team members to convey complex process/design concepts and foster discussions pertaining to overall best practices. Consulted with customers to determine their master data needs and designed solutions to deliver the data in a more efficient and accurate manner.

Purchase, Ny, Us

 Designed and developed multiple ETL processes including GCMS cardholder transactions, Pay with Rewards reconciliation, and GCMS addendum data.  Worked cooperatively with multiple business units to understand requirements, properly map data elements, and optimize overall performance. Technical lead on numerous projects relating to on-boarding of new customers, enhancements to existing functionality, and bug fixes. Participated in the planning and execution of the Oracle 10g/11g upgrades, along with post upgrade performance tuning efforts. Led the feasibility study of encryption software for “data-at-rest”, summarizing and reporting results to management. As a member of the Production Support team, monitored “day-to-day” operations, kept the batch system running smoothly, and proactively notified the business of issues before customers even noticed them. Enhanced and automated batch processing, such as monthly statements, increasing accuracy and reducing overall support costs. Participated in quarterly capacity planning and provided recommendations to increase capacity without purchasing new hardware. Collaborated with offshore resources in the execution of design solutions, code reviews, and implementation planning.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

 Supervised the Catalog Management team, including employee reviews, project planning/estimation, and strategic initiatives to reduce support costs and increase quality. As the primary data architect, designed and built the enterprise item repository database supporting current business needs and new business objectives.  Collaborated with analysts to design and develop solutions meeting the current business objectives. Designed and developed monitoring solutions to improve system availability, improving customer satisfaction. Extensive use of Oracle PL/SQL and Unix Shell scripting to automate the batch loading of catalog and content data to the enterprise quoting and eCommerce systems. Re-architected the “Upload Center” application allowing business users to setup and maintain their own uploads, significantly reducing development and support time.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

 Lead Developer of the Portal Infranet billing software. Analyzed, designed, and implemented billing enhancements required for new cellular products.  Designed and developed the interface (ETL) between the Portal and CARES billing software. This included mapping data elements to the data models and coding the modules to extract, transform, and load data into CARES system. Designed and developed a migration process for moving the Production Cycle Management backend database from MS Access to an Oracle 8 database. Responsible for production support of the billing application, including on-call tasks after hours. Many issues required code changes to be made “on-the-fly” and required close interaction with the customer service personnel. Performed quality assurance code reviews of all code being migrated to production. Resident Oracle expert responsible for the review of SQL being developed to ensure proper use of the language and optimal performance is obtained.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, Us

 Designed data model for the item repository, examining requirements of over 100 data feeds, and integrated with the company’s numerous eStores on the Web. Created the “pricing” and “preferred” applications using Java and PL/SQL, for the item repository to streamline daily data processing. Designed and developed the “Upload Center”, allowing non-technical users to upload data, automated the processing of it into Oracle, and e-mailing of the results upon completion. Administered and supported Oracle Applications R11. Created and modified Oracle 6i web reports. Worked with webMethods application for data integration with Oracle Applications. Served as technical lead for eight clients. Installed Oracle Applications R11 on Windows NT and Sun Solaris. Migrated and copied numerous existing environments to support Oracle Applications implementations. Investigated issues with production and development environments, applied patches, and scheduled maintenance. Trained client personnel on installation and administration of Oracle Applications R11, and the basics of administering Oracle 8 DBMS. Developed numerous PL/SQL interfaces to Oracle, including conversion of historical data and import of day-to-day transactional data from existing legacy systems. Developed NT and Unix shell scripts to automate interfaces. Customized numerous standard Oracle reports to meet the client’s needs. Documented technical processes and procedures for client use once project was completed.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

 Built and supported Y2K test environments for seven application development departments. Developed all standards and procedures for using test environments. Researched Y2K issues as they applied to the client’s legacy systems. Developed data aging routines for use in Y2K testing of legacy systems. Researched and reported on various Y2K tools to project management.

Dublin 2, Ie

 Supervised thirty COBOL programmers during the implementation stage of a massive maintenance project encompassing over 3,000 programs. Developed translator modules used to seamlessly incorporate needed modifications with minimal code changes to existing programs. C programmer for data warehouse system.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

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