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Cary, North Carolina, United States

Provide strategic leadership and guidance for IoT channel\partner development and services activities, enablement initiatives geared at improving user experience and driving software adoption, and the development of design patterns and best practices to facilitate the integration of SAS edge streaming technologies into Azure, AWS, and GCP ecosystems. - Recruited and built a global IoT delivery and enablement organization with diverse technical competencies in streaming, high frequency analytics, computer vision, machine learning, and cloud\edge architecture. - Established a multi-channel content delivery strategy for enablement to drive adoption, improve customer experience, and scale through self-service. - Manage channel partner solution development of diverse IoT ecosystem solutions.

Built the global IoT delivery and enablement organization by recruiting and hiring high performing technical talent responsible for solution architecture and streaming analytics. Responsible for technical development and delivery of joint channel\partner solutions as well as enablement of key internal and external customers.

Provided leadership, guidance, and management of a central technical organization consisting of Data Management, Business Intelligence, Analytical, and Deployment professionals. Developed a highly accountable technical organization responsible for pre-sales, services proposals and estimation, delivery, and post implementation support. - Managed an organization responsible for 20MM in services revenue. - Integrated DATAFLUX technical consulting into the US Professional Services organization. - Drove the establishment of a consulting academy to recruit, train, mentor, and place new graduates into our technical consulting ranks.

Established and led the Data Warehousing Practice responsible for the implementation and delivery of SAS data management consulting services in the US.

Led the analysis, design, and development of a multi-million dollar EDI/EBI solution for a state run department of public instruction. Served as both the technical lead and project manager for much of the engagement.

Technical lead primarily responsible for the design and development of the Scenario Administration, Alert Generation, and Data Warehouse development activities for the SAS Anti-Money Laundering solution.

Lead consultant responsible for all phases of data warehouse project delivery.

Terre Haute, Indiana, United States

Engineer responsible for manufacturing process improvement projects. - Developed and implemented real time advisory systems that provided operational advice based on manufacturing plant operating conditions. - Developed a quality system data warehouse and BI reporting layer using SAS that merged process, quality, and sales information into a single system.

Elkton, Maryland, United States

Research Engineer primarily responsible for process control related projects. - Developed object-oriented model-based control simulations for use with supervisory controller design. - Developed a real-time application that applied advanced time series analysis and statistical process control techniques to diagnose process control performance. - Participated in a company-wide manufacturing re-engineering effort. Facilitated problem solving meetings and provided technical input during the development of re-engineered system implementation plans.o Developed and implemented process control system modifications for a pilot plant.

Newark, Delaware, United States

Systems Engineer responsible for delivery of technical client services. - Developed C program modules for a large scale automobile stacker application designed to automate the sequencing of automobiles from the paint department to final assembly. - Designed and developed an expert system to track critical milestones in the Navy's equipment procurement process.

Master Of Science - Ms Industrial And Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs Industrial And Systems Engineering