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Houston, Texas, United States

Designed and implemented solutions and frameworks, achieving higher integration maturity levels as defined by Gartner’s model to support IT strategic partnerships with the business.Developed a 3-year integration roadmap for technical debt reduction and technology selection Led the complex migration of a large-scale BizTalk integration environment (120+ interfaces) to Boomi, ensuring seamless data flow to mission critical applications such as SAP and Salesforce.Developed and delivered a training program on a new PaaS solution, enabling citizen integration and increasing Motiva’s capacity for completing integration development.Developed a new solution flowchart for integration, reducing software design time by 25%.Partnered with the Project Management Office (PMO) to create a groundbreaking engagement model. This model ensures Enterprise Architecture is woven into the decision-making process from the start, bridging the gap between strategy and execution.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Spearheaded a 30% improvement in customer matching accuracy for our recall system by refining the matching logic. By leveraging Python’s library of phonetic matching algorithms and address standardization techniques, I addressed the challenges of inconsistent name variations and incomplete addresses. This breakthrough ensured we reached a significantly higher number of impacted customers, leading to a more successful recall campaign for commercial operations. Developed a custom Python script that automated a repetitive task for a business user, saving his team 1.5 hours of work per week.Developed a knowledge base by using collaboration skills to define frequently asked questions and troubleshooting guides, reducing customer support inquiries.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Reduced AWS operating expenses by $1.5M annually by implementing various AWS cost management techniques including following recommendations from AWS Compute Optimizer and AWS Trusted Advisor reports, converting EC2 instances from on-demand to spot pricing, optimizing our data storage needs and utilizing an EC2/RDS instance scheduler to activate resources only when needed. Earned AWS Cloud Solutions Architect Certificate and used that knowledge to develop the architecture around our Data Warehouse and Big Data platforms. Virtualized our on-premises compute workloads and data storage optimizing resource allocation and reducing hardware dependency.Supported the implementation of a 300+ SSIS package Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) solution, facilitating data quality, metadata management and streamlining reporting processes for improved decision-making.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Led development efforts as lead architect, defining system architecture, data architecture and providing technical direction for successful project outcomes.Implemented and maintained application development governance frameworks, ensuring consistent code quality and streamlined development processes.Led migration of 250+ SSIS packages from SQL Server 2005/2008 to 2012 as part of a company-wide server upgrade project, ensuring seamless data integration for critical business processes.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Personally developed SSIS and SQL Server solutions as well as directed and oversaw all software development. This included helping guide the entire software development cycle from defining requirements to the delivery and maintenance of industrial strength applications and services.Help ensure software is released in a controlled, maintainable and repeatable fashion – on time and to specification Authorized holidays, sickness and timesheet entry for development team. Ensure skills set of team remain up to date on technology and tools. Planned software development task lists for development iteration. Provided weekly status updates on assigned tasks/projects. Responsible for personal time planning, team time planning, and escalating issues where SLA’s will not be adhered to, to the Manager of Application Development. Absorbed and helped evolve corporate coding standards by working with senior developers, while hiring and mentoring less senior developers. Mentored the development team on improving and adding value to the overall process.

Master'S Degree, Data Analytics, 4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.83