David Grady Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

-Primary focus on providing data architect oversight and guidance for a cloud based distributed event driven architecture platform, powering petabyte scale IoT vehicle telematics streaming data ingestion and processing. - Defined data architecture standards and best practices for operational data persistence and data events exchange patterns, and promoted their adoption. - Established and facilitated a semi-formal architecture review process that emphasized fostering collaboration and promoting standards, while also empowering teams to take ownership of their own detailed designs. - Led the end to end conceptual system architecture design process for creating an industry first platform to return driving telematics data for use in insurance pricing activities on demand at time of quote. - Developed the strategy and conceptual designs for several key complacence initiatives, including CCPA, GDPR, and FCRA, and led the implementation of these solutions. - Partnered with product owners to help refine product features and roadmaps, seeking to balance business desires with technical capabilities and to provide clarity on product and system boundaries. - Worked with external customers and vendors on B2B interfaces and data exchanges, providing clarity on specifications and data mappings to both internal and external teams. - Provided data model reviews for engineering teams implementing on Cassandra, AWS Aurora Postgres, and data lake object storage on AWS S3. - Created an enterprise level data flow diagram depicting key systems, interfaces, and data persistences.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Responsible for managing operational data related assets and assisting in defining data architecture strategy and standards. - Owned and maintained the enterprise data model for an Oracle Exadata OLTP database backing the consumer facing website. - Played a leading role in creating the product strategy for and the technical design of a vehicle features search functionality within the website’s search guided navigation. - Documented data modeling standards and provided data modeling expertise to engineering teams across the organization. - Defined a comprehensive strategy for NoSQL data modeling standards and the physical implementation of a Couchbase document store NoSQL environment. - Provided application DBA level support to engineering teams interfacing with Couchbase, and defined query optimization best practices. - Assisted in planning a migration to a distributed event driven microservices architecture pattern on an AWS cloud environment. - Supported a master data management framework for defining internal attribute terminology and metadata, and mapping across internal and external vendor sources. - Facilitated cross team collaboration within a Lean Agile project methodology environment.

Northbrook, Il, Us

- Main responsibilities in logical and physical data modeling, metadata management, data analysis, and enterprise data strategy. - Maintained an enterprise wide master data model which provides a strategic, highly reusable, rationalized platform for database development. - Supported a variety of SQL Server and Oracle databases, including OLTP and data warehousing environments. - Developed and supported database application code, including experience in SQL performance tuning in both SQL Server and Oracle. - Defined requirements for internal ETL pipelines and for third party integrations. - Partnered with business intelligence teams on reporting processes and requirements. - Assisted in developing architectural guiding principles for data usage and governance.

Northbrook, Il, Us

- Developed an ASP/C# web application for ETL job status reporting.