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Chicago, IL, US

Cupertino, California, US

• Concurrently managing 3 teams:
• A long term team of 10 engineers creating a multi-petabyte Data Warehouse in Snowflake using dbt, Python, Airflow, EKS, EMR and other AWS functions that is used for business critical decisions as well as for analytical.
• Two related teams of 8+ engineers each addressing security vulnerabilities and modernizing critical high volume Hadoop-based Java, Python, and Spark pipelines. Migrating those same pipelines to AWS using modern design.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Mentoring and guiding a multi-level organization of over 20 consultants, including eight direct reports.
• Manage and coach multiple teams of more than 30 engineers and consultants on client engagements.
• Initiated and advanced internal training, certifications, and accelerator efforts.
• Responsible for coordinating staffing in Denver and all Data Engineering throughout the Western US.
• Sponsor and coordinator for Denver and Dallas/Fort Worth bench, connectivity, and office activities.
• Create and track to budgets and statements of work for consulting engagements.

Modernized and migrated core business functionality from an on-prem Hadoop system to a cloud native design on Azure using streamsets, dbt, Python, and Snowflake to greatly increase capacity, reduce processing time, and improve system stability.

Greenwood Village, Colorado, US

• Elicited, gathered and refined requirements from diverse stakeholders as well as multiple other divisions and teams, including sales and Product Ownership.
• Mentored and established learning plans for team members that directly led to their growth into more advanced roles and responsibilities.
• Redesigned and enhanced the recruiting and interviewing process to better evaluate candidates quickly.
• Concurrently managed three teams:
• Data Engineering team responsible for the entire enterprise data environment including multi-cluster postgres (greenplum), Hadoop HIVE, and HDFS as well as ETL and analytics processing.
• Data Engineering team responsible for analyzing client data for quality, ingestion into the Clickfox data model and systems, and development of automated analytical reporting.

Newark, NJ, US

• Enterprise Architect responsible for coordinating multiple enterprise-wide initiatives effecting the entire corporate data, processing, and user interactive systems.
• Collaborated with a wide variety of stakeholders and multiple architecture teams to design the integration, data, and security domains for the Horizon Advocate enterprise CSR platform.
• Headed the design and architecture for data systems, microservices, and SaaS, focusing on secure and flexible environments by nurturing teamwork to accelerate collaboration and sharing of ideas.
• Managed and designed the API integrations for dozens of diverse data and software systems across on-prem and cloud implementations including Oracle, DB2, DynamoDB, RDS, and Redshift.

• Clarity Insights is the largest consulting company in the US that focuses exclusively on data strategy, engineering, science and visualization. We help our clients—Fortune 1000 companies across multiple.
• Grew and mentored both direct reports and team members across multiple client engagements.
• Organized training and certification opportunities for both team members and clients.

• As Data Architect streamlined data analysis by integrating numerous data sources to boost the efficiency of Global Business Marketing organization’s actionable intelligence gathering.
• Trained engineering teams to address skill gaps and implement best practices, maximizing velocity.

Englewood, CO, US

• Managed four teams - organized, hired, trained, and coached culturally and generationally diverse members resulting in collaborative, hardworking, and productive teams:
• STBHealth – Real-time command and control systems as well as data retrieval for reporting of 20+ million Set Top Boxes(STB) and millions of IoT devices.
• Reporting and Analytics – Implemented Real-time and extended reporting and analysis. Created self service reporting systems using multiple tools including Tableau and direct SQL access.
• DishOnline OTT Data – Data systems for DishOnline OTT video streaming and reporting.
• Linux Support – full desktop, server, and data center technical support including networking.
• Managed and designed all aspects of the data life-cycle to optimize speed of data processing, delivery, and storage while guaranteeing data availability and quality.

Englewood, CO, US

• Provided comprehensive first-class data processing services though architecture and schema design to improve performance, maintenance, backup, and recovery.
• Improved database performance by creating and supporting production instances, including interactive dashboard systems and analytics reporting databases with >20 TB of data each.
• Designed and implemented hybrid environment system to handle growth from 600K payloads per week to >100M payloads per day: overall system handled on-demand, near real time and volume analytics to address a wide variety.
• Developed and implemented data security, retention and storage policies, and best practices.
• Increased organization’s intellectual capital by serving as leader, coach, and instructor for engineers and database administrators.
• Created and delivered introductory and advanced SQL training courses designed to instill confidence, inspire innovation, and allow individuals to excel in the industry.

Dallas, TX, US

• Lead a software and data engineering team throughout the software development life cycle.
• Created architecture and co-lead the modernization of the bill creation and processing system for millions of customers, resulting in more than 50% reduction in processing and storage costs while increasing.
• Redesigned and updated multiple other systems.

• Developed production applications and software in a diverse set of environments ranging from mainframe to UNIX servers to windows desktops and servers.
• Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Database Administrator on multiple products.