David Schaaf Email & Phone Number

Plano, Tx, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

In this role, I led a large organization of over 125 engineers, product managers, process managers, and project managers that maintained and built data products and data frameworks that help our users at Capital One produce and consume data more effectively. We were a creative organization that drove innovation by working back from customer problems to deliver game changing experiences. In this role, I had a number of key responsibilities:- Led more than a dozen software and data engineering teams that designed, built, and maintain data products and data frameworks for Financial Services.- Served as the product and technical lead for data in Financial Services.- Used agile to effectively manage software engineering delivery and scope with a tireless focus on timely, high quality feature delivery- Made heavy use of open source products like Airflow and Jupyter combined with homegrown tools to help users consume and analyze data.- Designed and developed analytical products and model platforms using AWS, APIs, and containerized technologies.- Built products in Python and Angular, leveraging core CICD practices to ensure rapid iteration on our products.- Aggressively focused on cost, saving >$10M in technology and analytics spend over the last five years.- Drove cutting edge innovation with multiple patents confirmed, pending or in flight.- Led Coders for the Plano region, our award winning, volunteer STEM program for middle schoolers.

Mclean, Va, Us

Currently leading Financial Services data product engineering with a focus on building analytical products and platforms that drive rapid insight delivery and seamless end to end analytic workflows:- Lead several development teams that actively contribute to open source tools and build new data products targeted at specific business use cases for our Financial Services division- Use agile to effectively manage software engineering delivery and scope with a tireless focus on timely, high quality feature delivery- Serves as both a product and technical lead across the data organization in the Financial Services division at Capital One- Work heavily with open source products such as Jupyter and Airflow and work to actively adapt open source analytical products for use within highly regulated corporate environments- Active in the Business Intelligence vendor community and work closely with vendor products such as Tableau and Business Objects to provide solid analytical and operational reporting to our analysts and operational reporting teams- Design and develop analytical products and model platforms using microservices in a containerized environment using technologies like docker, ECS and Kubernetes- Builds products in Python and Angular, leveraging core CICD practices to ensure rapid iteration on our products- Leverages low touch and automation practice to ensure developer bandwidth focused on deliverying value v maintaining existing infrastructure- Aggressively focused on cost, saving >$1M in technology and analytics spend over the last five years- Key focus on innovation and cutting edge work with multiple patents pending or in flight

Mclean, Va, Us

Led Home Loans Mortgage Data Analysis for 9 months:- Managed the HMDA+ submission and control reporting.- Oversaw data & analysis support to a broad set of groups including CRA, Capital Markets, M&A, Underwriting and Fulfillment.- Managed Enterprise-wide projects for Mortgage, including email unassailability and process improvement and the implementation of federally mandated LCR data processes and reporting.- Led the implementation of Mortgage data products, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud.- Provided product management leadership for data infrastructure in Teradata to support Mortgage analytical & operational data needs.Led Home Loans Servicing Data Analysis with 22 employees for 1.25 years: - Managed the CCAR Y-14M schedule & recurring regulatory reporting.- Provided data & analysis support for audits & exams.- Provided data & analysis support for servicing projects.- Built data products that marry data & tech using Python & modern web technologies, including AngularJS, Grails, Javascript, & Java.- Provided product management leadership for data infrastructure in Teradata to support servicing analytical & operational data needs.Led Home Loans Reporting with 38 employees for 1 year:- Managed 2000 Cognos, Business Objects, Excel, & Tableau reports.- Reduced report inventory by 60% & eliminated Cognos to save costs.- Oversaw 9 large projects, including implementing Tableau Server & managing through multiple report conversions due to acquisitions. - Brought in new talent to transition team to predominant associate mix.

Mclean, Va, Us

Managed the Modeling Analytics and Stat Infrastructure support team for Capital One Financial Services for 2.5 years, including Home Loans, Auto Finance, and Consumer Loans:- Developed a comprehensive framework to monitor the quality and application of a variety of different kind of models.- Wrangled and cleansed data for model development.- Developed automated processes to deliver data for production model execution.- Worked with business and stat partners to continuously improve model infrastructure w/ a primary focus on SAS, SAS Grid and home grown tools developed in both SAS and Java.Implemented Federal Reserve Guidelines for CCAR for the Y-14M schedule:Co-led a team for 6 months that peaked at 28 data analysts, business analysts, and key operations personnel to implement the Y-14M for Capital One Home Loans:- Successfully implemented processes to pull together data for ~200 variables from multiple acquired portfolios, most of which did not previously exist in our production data and reporting environment.- Created the guidelines and processes needed to successfully execute CCAR each month.- Successfully transitioned the process to BAU and reduced headcount needed to support from 28 to 6.

Mclean, Va, Us

- Manage the US Card Aquisitions monitoring and reporting team- Provide SAS expertise as needed for key projects- Conceive and develop new analytical and decision support tools

Mclean, Va, Us

- Monitoring and data processing developer and technical consultant- Key provider of data and data consulting for business projects in card acquisitions- Project lead for several analyst training initiatives- Consulting analyst for technical issues, including VBA, SQL, SAS, etc.

Mclean, Va, Us

- Developed tools to facilitate the independent access of core data- Worked on key projects as the lead provider of data and data related consulting- Consulted on SAS and VBA and mentored others to help improve their skills in these areas

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- Analytical Project lead and primary contact for all cross-functional marketing campaigns and drive periods:* Provides support for planning through historical analysis, forecasting, and Monte Carlo simulations.* Supports broad strategic themes by tying each marketing objective to a measurable goal and communicates objectives to supporting analytical teams to ensure consistency.* Develops postmortem analyses, including estimated sales lift and assessment of marketing financials- Provides ad hoc analytical and technical support for other projects, including:* Developed a baseline forecast for all tab items using the generalized additive model (SAS).* Co-Developed a standard method to assess the estimated sales lift for marketing promotions using the general linear model (SAS).* Provides support to the pricing team for projects related to price elasticity, price optimization, and unit forecasts.- Provides ad hoc support to senior level management as needed.

Roanoke, Va, Us

- Created database marketing program from scratch and developed and identified customer profiles that led to improved acquisition and customer retention.- Managed and developed a database marketing tool in SQL Server 2005 that combined source systems through a nightly ETL process using Integration Services and provided a unified view of departmental data for analytical needs.- Co-developed mission critical call system for nightly retention team in Microsoft Access and SQL Server 2005 that was configured for a multi-user environment and that maintained a high-level of availability.- Helped design and maintained departmental intranet site that made use of XML and XSLT to satisfy client-side data needs, CSS for consistent formatting, and javascript for dynamic display.- Provided actionable analysis and reporting and worked with marketing management to produce improved results.- Provided daily, on-demand analysis to seven person management team.