Darrin Gaines Email & Phone Number

Professional with over 20 years of consulting successes, including award-winning data warehousing and operational analytics implementations. Dedicated analyst, driven to solve complex customer problems, by implementing optimized and efficient solutions. Frequent conference speaker who has proudly presented insights at many Teradata conferences and on Teradata Education Network webcasts.

Listed skills include Teradata, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Sdlc, and 12 others.

• 

  Principal Consultant

  Teradata

  2012 - Present - Dayton, Ohio Area

  Consulted at US Air Force, implementing data warehouse and analytic solutions. Performed requirements, logical and physical design, development, user acceptance testing, deployment, and sustainment for wide range of maintenance and supply data supporting thousands of users.Teradata Partners Conference – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018Authored and presented sessions including: “Data-Driven Vehicle Management at United States Air Force”Presented how USAF Vehicle Management community utilizes the Vehicle View application accessing USAF warehouse on Teradata, for both operations and planning. Described the analytical models which USAF uses to determine vehicle requirements, predict sustainment budget needs, and determine which vehicles to purchase and replace. “Advanced SQL for Time-Series Analysis” (multiple versions)Demonstrated methods to solve common but complex time-series problems using SQL. Using DBQL performance metrics demonstrated the advantages of using Ordered Analytical Functions rather than Stored Procedures or other SQL approaches. Enhanced presentation to highlight how Teradata temporal features offer additional effective solutions. “Recursive SQL for Solving Real Business Problems”Provided Recursive SQL overview including graphics to depict the flow of data during execution. Described several business problems and demonstrated both a Recursive SQL solution and a non-recursive SQL solution to each. Compared performance characteristics of the solutions by using DBQL performance metrics.Teradata Education Network (TEN) Webcasts - 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012Authored and instructed courses available on TEN: #46063 - Time Series Analysis using SQL with Ordered Analytic Functions #48443 - Recursive SQL for Solving Real Business Problems #49872 - Teradata SQL Solutions for Real-World Temporal Problems

• 

  Miami University

  Computer Systems Analysis