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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Design cloud-based data pipelines and products primarily using Snowflake, AWS, and Azure - Lead teams of data engineers to implement data pipelines and products - Design MLOps platforms on AWS with Airflow and MLflow to manage the full ML lifecycle - Lead teams of ML engineers to implement MLOps platforms

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Cross Site High Availability Services - Develop and maintain a set of cross site high availability REST services on Kubernetes backed by Kudu, Kafka, and HDFS - CICD with Azure DevOps pipelines to automate build, deploy, and test in 4 distinct data centers including automatic rollback on failures - Redesign the Spark library for downstream clients to use REST endpoints and common libraries - Create a canary application to periodically check service and backend health SQL Query Generator - Design and develop a library for generating complex SQL from business rules with the goal of denormalizing fact tables into structured JSON - Automate integration testing with Spark application

Rochester, Minnesota

- Create Angular web app for visualizing ingestion metadata and results, including a continuous deployment pipeline in Jenkins - Design and develop Elasticsearch and Solr based data stores - Create automated unit tests, integration tests, and build verification tests - Architect content ingestion pipelines (i.e. transform unstructured data, understand, store) - Design and develop large scale distributed content ingestion process - Create/modify build process to produce ingestion specific builds - Architect a custom replacement for UIMA to support enhanced capabilities, testability, and decrease maintenance requirements - Design and develop Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) analysis engines and tests - Design and develop python framework to manage content ingestion/NLP pipeline - Analyze source documents and ingested data - Create DevOps tooling to facilitate automation

Rochester, Minnesota

- Refactored NextCall client using object-oriented techniques - Developed new user interface for NextCall client - Created unit test suite for NextCall client - Designed and developed JAX-WS holiday schedule service, database, and client - Designed, documented, and developed KVM image and tools installation process - Created knowledge database for RHEL6, Windows 7 KVM, Windows 7 - Provided technical support for RHEL6, Windows 7 KVM, Windows 7, Windows XP KVM, Windows XP

- Managed church website using a Content Management System - Responsible for generating reports, creating queries, and data integrity of database

- Managed groups of 5-10 Soldiers as a noncommissioned officer - Instructed Soldiers to use specialized aviation maintenance software - Responsible for managing the enlisted flight training program

Rochester, Minnesota Area

- Excelled in product knowledge and customer communication - Exhibited professional and personable demeanor to all customers - Created individualized installation plans - Operated specialized computer systems

Rochester, Minnesota Area

- Managed front-end personnel - Mastered operating point of sale computer systems - Instructed seniors, peers, and subordinates in operation of computer systems

- Developed automated data migration tool for US Army’s Unit Level Logistics System—Aviation - Developed XML modification tool for use on US Army Interactive Technical Manuals - Developed LAN chat and file-sharing software utilizing private and public key encryption - Developed encryption software utilizing user specific vaults securing notes, calendar entries, and files

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Computer Science

Software Engineering