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Cleveland, Oh, Us

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Lead the big data, data architecture and data ingestion technology team for all game titles at Blizzard Entertainment. Develop and grow the data engineering team for both big data and enterprise data warehouse. Partner with Data Science and Reporting teams to create data-driven decisions for both video game design and business operations. Support analytics for risk and fraud systems.Roles/ResponsibilitiesLead a team of 8 engineers in the development of the big data and enterprise data warehouse systems, supporting 3-5 billion messages per day.Manage the data engineering team and lifecycle development lifecycle for a multi-petabyte Hadoop cluster.Work with lead engineers, directors, and executives to determine data requirements and implement systems to warehouse and retrieve key gameplay and business information.Oversee operational continuity and overall health of the business intelligence systems. Establish standards, guidelines, and best practices. Develop monitoring and manage resolution of incidents and problems.TechnologyTeradata, Oracle, Greenplum MPP, Hadoop, Flume, RabbitMQ, Python, mySQL, Linux

Maple Grove, Minnesota, Us

The responsibilities of this position were to directly manage and lead a team of business intelligence and system integration developers. The team developed and maintained the business intelligence systems for 250 individual customers using SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Integration Services, Hyperion and BizTalk. I acted as technical expert on all aspects of the database during development and after deployment. Additional responsibilities included contributing to design/software peer reviews and documenting software and database designs as required.

These contract positions involved leading multiple projects as both an in-house and freelance consultant, focusing on application middle tier, SOA architectures and business intelligence.

This role involved leading an enterprise data warehouse and operational data store team for governance risk and compliance clients. The system was delivered as software as a service from a central server farm to multiple clients. The responsibilities of the position included architecting a star schema system consisting of multiple data marts using SQL Server Integration Services and SQL Server 2005 and designing a data access layer that uses SQL Server 2005, C# and Web Services. Additional responsibilities of this full-time position included the development of a real-time data warehouse using SQL Server Integration Services.

Richfield, Oh, Us

This role involved the development of a policy rating and management system, as well as the design of the document storage and retrieval system to manage all of the policies and process for the personal lines insurance programs. The job function included architecting a middle tier policy storage and retention system consisting of multiple Web Services using C# and designing a real-time database system that uses SQL Server 2005 to store data as Serialized XML objects and retrieve the objects using XQuery with SQL Server.

Mayfield Village, Oh, Us

This position involved the development of a real-time transactional database that supported operational and business decisions for Telephony. The responsibilities included designing a real-time database system using SQL Server and Microsoft Analysis Services. This system monitored the technical infrastructure and supported business analysis. The focus of this position was extracting, transforming and loading data from Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems and integrating the data with additional operational data to produce a complete business picture from the customer perspective.