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Reston, Va, Us

Dublin 2, Ie

Delivery Executive leading various projects and offerings for the Search & Content Analytics group within Accenture Data & AI group. I lead the Content Scanning & Analytics offering and am co-lead for the Data Marketplace, Data Discovery and Automated Metadata Generation offerings across multiple industries.

Herndon, Va, Us

Solution Architect and Professional Services Manager responsible for all projects and services delivery in the North East US.

Provide data and analytics leadership and consulting for boutique customers across several industries, including hospitality and financial services. Building platforms for data ingestion, processing/transformation and delivery of analytics and insights using open source and cloud technologies.Technical Environment: Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Bash, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, AWS, Redshift, Postgres, Shiny Server, Active Directory

Lansdowne, Va, Us

Led all IT and engineering functions for this small boutique company specializing in data and analytics for the hospitality and financial services industries. Led build out of new platform to ingest, process and deliver insights using open source technology to provide scalability, performance and advanced analytic capabilities.Technical Environment: Hortonworks Data Platform, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Sqoop, Pig, Bash, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, AWS, Redshift, Postgres, Shiny Server, Active Directory

As consultant - led migration from Oracle Exadata to Vertica (1.4M tables, 100TB) at Facebook (Menlo Park, CA)

New York, Ny, Us

Technical Director of Software Development in Data Technologies organization responsible for AOL's data warehouse analysis, project management, engineering and operations teams. Led a global staff of 75+ people located both on-site and offshore and including both contractors and employees. -Provided leadership in establishing and running a cross-department request intake forum to facilitate transparency and inter-departmental prioritization given an ever shrinking team.-Provided thought leadership and guidance to front-line managers with respect to determining reduced service levels following further downsizing.-Created and presented detailed information in a series of difficult meet-ups with major customers focused on drawing the line in the sand on reduced service levels.-Drove a significant reduction in technical debt, including the decommissioning of 10+ servers and 450+ jobs, as well as porting several key applications to Vertica.-Established and promoted a "labs" innovation initiative, focused on driving out-of-band innovation in bite-sized chunks.-Worked closely with architects to evaluate the merits of the AWS RedShift platform as a potential alternative/replacement for our existing database solution, presenting the results to executive management.-Oversaw the implementation of Hadoop/Hive for replacing some existing legacy ETL jobsTechnical Environment: Hadoop, Hive, Vertica, Netezza, Ab Initio, Business Objects, Tableau, Amazon Redshift

New York, Ny, Us

Managed staff of 15 data warehouse project managers, solutions architects & analysts supporting the content, advertising, consumer applications and paid services business units from an overall data and metrics perspective.Responsible for establishing and building relationships with these business customers both locally and internationally. Worked with customers and team to prioritize work requests, allocate resources, resolve technical issues and oversee high-level design.While taking on a management role, I still continued to play the role of solutions architect for the international and corporate work streams. In this capacity I was responsible for documenting technical requirements, designing technical solutions and overseeing the end-to-end implementation and delivery of several projects. These included an operational data store for the European advertising business, as well as a data mart and OLAP environment for the HR Analytics organization.I led the data and reporting initiative for the launch of Seed.com for AOL. This included the design and implementation of a database, reports and metrics for performance tracking and insights as well as a feedback mechanism to allow performance and payment metrics to be displayed on the contributor’s dashboard and for payments to be passed through to the billing system.Environment: Netezza, Oracle, Ab Initio, Tableau, Business Objects, MySQL, SQL Server Analysis Services 2005.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed customer relationship with European Business Intelligence & Business Teams.Led team responsible for technical requirements, design and end-to-end implementation and delivery of a comprehensive database, reporting & dashboard solution for the EU Executive Management Team.Led a team in the analysis, design and delivery of a complete data warehouse solution for the EU business providing a holistic view of the customer.Environment: Oracle, Netezza, Ab Initio, KSH, Business Objects.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed & implemented EU DW solution for behavioral targeting of online ads.Developed financial data mart and reporting solution for tracking active registered users.Initiated, managed & developed ETL standards & DW formal review process.Designed generic intraday metrics collection & reporting system for product usage, quality & performance (200+GB per day).Part of team re-architecting ETL infrastructure within department.Lead architect for ETL infrastructure improvements for data warehouse.ETL architect & technical lead for instant messaging DW (150+GB per day).Technical lead on various product usage metrics data marts.Environment: Ab Initio, UNIX, Netezza, RedBrick, C, Perl, KSH, SyncSort, NSort, CVS.

Built customized DW & reporting applications to track product usage, advertising, promotions and instant messaging activity.Designed & built custom ETL processes & data marts to support reporting.Designed & built e-mail & web reporting interfaces, including prototypes in Java.Maintained and supported existing production systems.Environment: UNIX, Shell script, Perl, CGI, HTML, C, Redbrick, RISQL, SyncSort, Impromptu, PowerPlay, star-schema, JavaScript, CVS, Syncsort.

Florida North, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Za

Designed and developed DW and BI applications, participating in full SDLC.Developed custom fraud detection application using Visual Basic.Oracle Parallel database SQL performance tuning.Designed and developed 'Customer Service' data mart in Oracle database.Environment: Unix, SQL, Shell scripts, Oracle 7.3, Windows, Gentia, Dos, Delphi 3.0, Visual Basic 5.0, NT Server, SQL Server, BCP, FTP, SQL*Loader, SQL*Plus, Business Objects, Cognos

Pre-sales and post-sales consulting, responsible for demonstrations and proof-of-concept exercises using the Cognos products. Designed many multi-dimensional (OLAP) PowerPlay cubes & Impromptu catalogs and reports.Designed and developed ETL processes and data marts for use with Cognos products. Automated data extraction, cube creation and report distribution.Developed and provided customized training courses to customers. Responsible for hardware & software evaluation, procurement, and installation. Maintained IBM RS6000 with AIX 3.3 and upgraded operating system from 3.3 to 4.2. Database design, tuning and administration (Interbase 3.3) Managed projects and teams implementing and maintaining Cognos solutions as well as the customer relationships and accounts.Environment: Dos, Windows, AS400, IBM RS6000, Interbase 3.3, Impromptu, PowerPlay, PowerHouse 7.3, Excel, SQL Server, AIX 3.3/4.2, NT, TCP/IP, Novell. Dimensional modeling

Designed, developed & provided training for commercial insurance application.Designed and developed automated insurance letter-diary system.Developed, maintained and provided training on commercial insurance broker application.Developed insurance policy printing application & financial statement reporting system.Environment: Prime, Prime Information, Info Basic, HP9000, HP-UX, Universe Basic, Universe

Bsc, Computer Information Systems

Bcom, Information Systems, Accountancy