Christopher Cruz is an Information Technology professional with 20 years experience with the last 16 years spent working exclusively in the Data and Analytics sphere. Since 2006 he has taken on the roles of Developer, Development Team Lead, Functional Analyst, Report and Dashboard Designer, Big Data Architect and Solution Architect with small and large companies in the Insurance industry.He has implemented complex BI solutions as well as large solutions on big data technologies for data science initiatives.He is a principal architect in designing a enterprise data platforms in the cloud for for centralized data acquisition enabling the ML lifecycle, Data Warehousing, operational feeds and enterprise wide data lineage and governance.He has been called upon to train both internal resources and client resources.He is recognized for his ability to clearly communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical personnel. As well is an enabler of interdepartmental communication and is a evangelist for enterprise integration and delivering long term business value.Cloud: AWS, AzureBig data/Data Science tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Databricks, Jupyter, RStudio, ZeppelinETL Tools: Informatica, SSIS, SQLServer DTS, Wherescape, TalendReporting Tool: Microstrategy, SQL Reporting Services, Crystal ReportsDatabase: Snowflake, Hive, HBase, MongoDB, SQL Server, SSAS, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MS Access, Netezza, Sybase IQProgramming Languages: Python, C++, HTML, PL SQL, Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP, C#.Net, VB.Net, ASP.NetApplications: Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Project, Toad, PSQL Developer, MS Office, Visio, Power Designer