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Austin, TX, US

Bozeman, Montana, US

San Antonio, TX, US

• Developed a five-year rolling data strategy.
• Migrated from Cloudera to Databricks, saving over $5 million per year in licensing and operating fees.
• Modernized data systems to support a best-of-breed, cloud-first strategy to leverage over 50 petabytes of data, growing at ~8% per year.
• Grew and structured industry-leading teams of professional Data and Data Infrastructure engineers, enabling rapid response to world events (COVID-19) to support the whole enterprise from manufacturing, warehouses.
• Strategized and implemented all data platforms to support clickstream and retail media efforts.
• Supported over 450 databases on Oracle Exadata Infrastructure and cloud.

San Antonio, TX, US

• Supported teams of Data Engineers and Data Infrastructure Engineers, constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
• Leveraged the petabytes of data coming in at high velocity to power advanced analytics, computer-driven decisions, JIT machine-reasoning support systems, and operational applications.
• Utilized leading established technologies, we embrace open-source solutions.

Austin, Texas, US

• Served as Engineering leader for overall revenue-related applications, Data Engineering, and Business Intelligence, responsible for an annual budget of $90 million and leading a team of 158 professionals in the US.
• Established team at Indeed and grew team to 15 members globally.
• Developed strategic plans for all engineering teams (over 500 worldwide) to embrace data standards and processes to support clear and near real-time analytics.
• Developed data visualization tools to support mining a high volume of daily data generated (over 30 terabytes compressed).
• Grew team from five analysts in Austin to 91 globally.
• Developed team organization and strategy to support the internal teams (Sales, Finance, and Client Services) and Product Engineering team via A / B testing analysis.

Austin, Texas, US

• Responsible for the engineering integration of third-party tools with Indeed internal systems.
• Started the Data Engineering team
• Grew the BI organization from 5 to 80 analysts

Oversaw all company operations, including accounting, finance, IT, and human resources. Organized business for optimal merger and acquisition activity. Sold patent portfolio to Uber.

Identified market need in construction industry to address equipment breakdowns that can cause project delays and loss of millions of dollars in fees. Developed technology to analyze sensors’ data from device (cellular modem or satellite) attached to vehicle to predict and troubleshoot potential problems in advance of vehicle’s breakdown. Conceived.

Austin, TX, US

• Managed five departments: Engineering Operations, Information Technology, Data, Business Intelligence, and Security with a combined annual budget of $17 million. Led four directors and an overseas team of 58.
• Reorganized team to foster close partnerships with Engineering, Marketing, Product, and Finance departments, which led to the development of new algorithms and insights to improve business efficiency and revenue.
• Developed custom data model used by all properties (retailmenot.com, vouchercodes.co.uk, poulpeo.fr, mareduc.fr, and actiepagina.nl) to accelerate time to insights to near real-time and focus on analysis versus data.
• Implemented A / B testing analysis tooling that allowed an increase of 100% of tests performed.
• Implemented cloud-based near real-time (sub seven seconds) data collection and processing system.
• Designed data warehouse architecture and tooling to provide data aggregation and calculation leveraging massive parallel cloud computing resources.

Austin, TX, US

• Hired pre-IPO to create and build Development Operations function and team for RetailMeNot’s properties (including retailmenot.com, deals2buy.com, vouchercode.co.uk, poulpeo.fr, bonsdereduction.fr, and deals.com)..
• Developed new processes and infrastructure, leveraging AWS and open-source tools to ingest large amounts of data in real-time and make it available to algorithms running on sides and for analytics. The new architecture.
• Hired entire 10-member team and developed strategies and processes to host all systems in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Migrated company file servers, phones, and AV to cloud technology, which reduced costs by 25%.
• Embraced Docker technology to manage over 5,000 peak-time servers and 120-member engineering team.
• Completed cloud-based infrastructure (AWS), managed development operations, and built custom tools to support up to 2,000 servers with Docker support.
• Created security practices, including managing penetration testing, PCI compliance, SOX compliance processes, and certifications to prepare for IPO in September 2012. Developed SOX compliance processes and procedures.

Austin, Texas, US

Helped define strategy for organization.

US

• Recruited to develop an IT department where none had previously existed; recruited a team of high-performing professionals. Set information management strategy and direction for a rapidly growing enterprise. Designed.
• Led team to define business processes and select technologies used in the company’s flagship product EMS, an Emergency Messaging System product; built the product from scratch in 6-8 months.
• Collaborated with the Engineering team to maximize uptime and track customer usage to create a customer-centric product. Identified efficiencies and areas for improvement; communicated with marketing/product management.
• Decreased overall IT operation costs by 47% by developing a vendor evaluation process and software/hardware purchase strategies.

Austin, TX, US

Retained by Trilogy after it acquired pcOrder; charged with improving uptime for customer accounts. Particular focus to enhance uptime of key clients in the automotive industry that used Trilogy software to place orders for new cars from manufacturing plants.

Austin, TX, US

Recruited to pcOrder, a company that sold computer configuration engines, to build and lead an IT team for the Content Business Unit. The Business Unit IT Team generated all datasheets for Dell and other customers. Developed automated processes, procedures and created department infrastructure.

• Established a new IT department for a start-up organization; developed vendor relations procedures and IT policies. Defined and led team to implement remote surveillance systems which communicated with customer.
• Established disaster recovery strategies which led to 99.98% uptime.
• Designed and built a telecommunications grade datacenter for an IP based remote video surveillance solution. Project was completed in 1.5 months which reduced planned time to market 30%.
• Integrated multiple operating systems for a development organization.

• Retained by Summus after its acquisition of Verinet, Inc. to lead Internet Operations. Oversaw implementation of web strategies and developed automated processes for successful completion of weekly security audits.
• Strategized and developed a partnership between Summus and Samsung on Wavelet video compression which led to the adoption of BlueFuel by Samsung on its mobile devices.
• Reduced licensing costs 20% by designing a network infrastructure including intranet for the R&D organization’s South Carolina offices.

Identified research companies in need of assistance with productization projects. Directed a team which ultimately negotiated a successful merger between Verinet, Inc. and Summus Technologies.

• Developed global strategies for network communications. Recruited, developed, and led an IT Operations team comprised of 40 engineers located in 5 countries.
• Reduced telecommunication costs 37% by developing a secure network communication between BPC global offices.
• Designed and oversaw construction of 3 datacenters in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Increased employee knowledge of and efficiency when using automated systems; increased efficiencies 40% while reducing errors. Accelerated the payments process by 1.5 months.

Freelance consultant developing business solutions and computer systems for small and mid-size companies in the southeast of France.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Information Systems

Deug, Law