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Whitefish, Mt, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Platform data engineer for a mid-sized fintech company responsible for building and maintaining the enterprise’s data warehouse, ETL/streaming processes, reporting models, business intelligence tools, and APIs. Designed & delivered an entirely new external self-service reporting suite for some of the largest banks in America. Designed and implemented data sharing solution to expose modeled data layer with external customers. Solution was purchased by external customers resulting in $100,000 annual reoccurring revenue.Designed a medallion architecture and dimensionally (Kimball) modeled layer to support self-service reporting. Introduced and administered dbt to the organization. Self-hosted dbt-core instance that was responsible for all the organizations ETL and reporting products. Wrote data and unit tests to ensure data integrity. Optimized queries to make ETL processes more efficient. Wrote python libraries to support data migration from MySQL to Snowflake and to make day-to-day operations more efficient. Assisted analysts and internal revenue teams with operationalizing reporting products.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead architect and strategic partner for a small retailer based in Seattle, WA. Responsible for designing and implementing a modern data & analytics architecture to meet the demands of their new data intensive programs. Stood-up, maintained, and administered the entire infrastructure stack. Provided various ad-hoc analysis, reports, and forecasts for senior leadership team.

Santa Monica, California, United States

Lead Analytics Engineer delivering a high volume of reports in a wide variety of business domains. Responsible for leading the engagement with end-users from requirements gathering to garnering feedback post publication. Assisted in the development of a new data model and subsequent data warehouse. Designed new CI/CD pipeline for Power BI reports. Led the development of a data catalog for end-user consumption.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Worked in an Advanced Analytics Center of Excellence developing end-to-end analytic solutions outside the scope of traditional business intelligence operations. Administered a collaborative data science workbench enabling transparent, reusable, efficient, and self-service model development. Developed and presented report to top Department of Defense officials on operational efficiency as a part of a bid to win the 40-billion-dollar Future of Vertical Flight contract.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Unraveled legacy logic existing in reporting systems and redesigned transformations to stand up a centralized data warehouse, developed mechanisms to replicate data from source systems, designed ETL processes to cleanse and prep data for end-user consumption, and installed visualization software for reporting purposes.

Augusta, Georgia Area

Product Management Intern for the commercial business unit at Textron Specialized Vehicles. Collaborated with the director of strategy & product development, project managers, and engineering teams to develop software/information services surrounding their industrial product lines.Responsibilities included:- Product management (BI/Engineering)- Writing scripts and developing new databases (SQL)- Designing user-friendly business intelligence dashboards (Qlikview/SAP)- Interpreting company data flow charts- Assisting engineering with manufacturing solutions and consumer facing design- Writing business cases for upcoming projects- Revenue forecasting

Bloomington, Indiana

Founder and Chief Executive Officer at SoundsGood LLC, a B2B2C customer affinity program and data collection company that connects grocery retailers to consumers through a web and mobile application. Director of all operations from initial conception to launch.Graduate of B-Start, an acceleration program sponsored by the Bloomington Economic Development Corporation. Recipient of the CLAPP Business Plan Award sponsored by the Kelley School of Business. Exhibitor at the Innovation Showcase in Indianapolis, Indiana. Responsibilities Included:- Project management- Leading web and application development (PHP/Python/HTML)- Writing business plans and revenue models- Venture capital fundraising- Cultivating partnerships with national organizations and local retailers - Developing marketing campaigns- UI/UX designing

Bachelor’S Degree, Informatics

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Phi, Informatics and Computing Consulting Association

Master'S Degree, Software Design & Programming