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Bethesda, Md, Us

Leading multi-year program to reimagine and modernize the data, analytics and machine learning environment to drive business growth. Platform leverages AWS S3 for Data Lake to store data from various sources via batch and real-time ingestion patterns. - Designed multi-zone Data Lake with automated batch and real-time ingestion with data cataloging and registration. - Built out multiple data pipelines using Hive, Spark and Nifi to create purpose built data sets. - Implemented SnowFlake Cloud Data Warehouse for analytics and dashboard reporting. - Integrated SageMaker, Jupiter Hub, Anaconda and Spark to enable Advanced DataScience team to build, train and deploy machine learning models as batch pipelines and realtime API's. - Migrated legacy Hadoop Data Pipelines and Analytics Workspace to modernized platform. - Implemented Informatica Data Governance application suite.Well versed in the following technologies...- Data Lake - S3, Glue, Athena- Data Pipelines - Spark, HiveQL, Nifi, Cloudera Data Platform- Data Warehouse - Snowflake, DB2 Warehouse Cloud- NoSQL - Cassandra, DynamoDB- Data Science - SageMaker, Anaconda, Python, Jupyter Hub- Orchestration - Airflow, Jenkins, Kafka- Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes, - Data Governance - Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog

Stamford, Ct, Us

Responsible for the end to end delivery of Starwood's Business Intelligence and Enterprise Data Warehouse platform. This includes implementation of strategic project initiatives, enhancements, operations, monitoring and evaluation of new technologies to advance the platform. The position is both business and IT facing requiring deep technical knowledge of Starwood's data warehouse processes as well as their business drivers. Responsible for $4MM operational budget and $5MM capital investment budget. Lead a team of 40 Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse resources in an onshore/offshore delivery model.

New York, New York, Us

RESPONSIBILITIES • Manage application teams in US, UK and India developing Data Warehousing, BI and Global Marketing applications.• Responsible for US Marketing Data Warehouse containing 100MM customers/prospects across 75MM households. • Set strategic technology direction for Global Marketing and Analytical Systems• Manage $4MM operational budget.ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Delivered an International Multi-Channel Marketing Database to centralize and standardize eMail Direct Marketing activities across Reader’s Digest. • Centralized US Marketing Data Warehouse & Tools to create a 360 degree view of RD US customers and deliver $2MM annual savings on $2.5MM Capital investment. • Principal of Global IT Outsourcing Initiative to significantly reduce IT Cost profile utilizing outsourced services model. Collaborated on evaluation and selection of outsource vendor, creation of engagement contract and definition of Service Level Agreements. Implemented the outsourced solution for the Customer Technology group.• Lead the implementation of a Marketing Data Warehouse and Campaign Management application for the RD German business unit. Solution delivered $1.5MM additional annual revenue in the German, Swiss and Austrian markets.• Implemented a global address correction and name/address matching solution utilizing SAP Business Objects DQXI Suite. • Delivered SOA architecture to provide a common Customer Self Service interface across multiple disparate Order Management systems.TECHNOLOGIES• Ab Initio, SAS, WebLogic, Unica, Netezza, Oracle, .NET, Solaris, AIX

New York, New York, Us

RESPONSIBILITIES • Led the Application Architecture team providing architecture direction for applications across the enterprise. • Researched, evaluated, prototyped and recommended technology solutions to solve business needs. • Led Application Technology Council which reviewed all new application development projects globally and governed adherence to technology standards. • Created business cases for build versus buy scenarios.ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Led the technical design and implementation of a 2TB Marketing Data Warehouse and supporting analytical tools for Campaign Management. Evaluated database technologies, ETL tools and Reporting engines. Selected an architecture based on Oracle, Ab Initio and Discoverer. Supporting applications were developed in ASP.NET, C# and SAS. This project won the 2006 Computerworld “Best Practices in Business Intelligence” for information and reporting. • Defined and delivered a strategy to provide a standardized global file transfer platform that ensured all data files leaving the company firewall via FTP were secure and that file delivery was automated. Researched, evaluated, negotiated, purchased and deployed the new platform (MoveIT) in 6 months and delivered $50K annual savings in global license reduction costs.TECHNOLOGIES • Ab Initio, Oracle, Unica, Java, .NET, C#, Perl, Apache, Solaris, AIX, Linux

New York, New York, Us

RESPONSIBILITIES • Provided technology direction for the ReadersDigest.com internet platform. • Led development of internet sites and supporting applications. • Led internet technologies team.ACCOMPLISHMENTS • ReadersDigest.com was a first generation website with static content and limited ecommerce capabilities. The site was stagnant and traffic was declining. Led the implementation of a world-class ReadersDigest.com website that provided dynamic content delivery, a personalized web experience, and robust ecommerce capabilities. Development was done in Java using the ATG Dynamo application server integrated with Teamsite content management. SQL Server was used for back end database services with Apache web servers running on Sun Solaris servers. TECHNOLOGIES • ATG, Teamsite, Java, Perl, SQL Server, HTML, Apache, Solaris

New York, New York, Us

RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOMPLISHMENTSDesign and develop applications for various business purposes. Most significant project was the replatform of a legacy mainframe system to Unix utilizing C++, Perl, KSH and MQ Series. Application execution time reduced from 60 hrs to 18 hrs and eliminated a significant mainframe workload avoiding a costly mainframe upgrade. TECHNOLOGIES • Solaris, C++, Perl, KSH, MQ Series, OS390

New York, Ny, Us

Designed and developed back end delivery services for market news data feed product offerings.

New York, New York, Us

Developed client server applications for various business requirements.

London, England, Gb

Developed analytics applications using SAS and Fortran to identify trends in fraudulent medical insurance claims.

Dublin, Ireland, Ie

Planned and executed customer acceptance testing for procurers of the firm's semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Msee, Electrical Engineering

Mscs, Computer Science