Elliot Benjamin Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Oct 2022 - Present: Strategic Solution Owner for a 2+ billion dollar financial services firm creating comprehensive cloud enablement standards across the following work streams: Containers, Disaster Recovery, Workload Automation, and Observability. This work kicks off a 5 year cloud enablement journey in a multi-cloud and multi-region environment.@Slalom - I'm involved with our ID&E initiatives. Specifically our Slalom Veterans Employee Resource Group which is dedicated to supporting, mentoring, connecting with, and recruiting veterans. At present I am working to address the unique challenges within _build our software/data engineering arm.

Greater Seattle Area

Sept 2021 - Sept 2022: Program Solution Owner for a large scale data migration and modernization for a Fortune 100 consumer electronics company. This was an evolution of the work started in the previous year but included a pivot focused on migrating away from Hadoop and into an S3 Data lake with a Snowflake data warehouse. Managing petabytes of data this will be one of the world's largest Snowflake projects by data volume to date.Jul 2021 - Sept 2021: Program Solution Owner for a modernization and cloud migration of machine learning data pipelines at a Fortune 100 consumer electronics company. Most of the work is under a strict NDA, but the effort supports a $14B business unit. The work involves standardizing and reengineering data pipelines into repeatable and more maintainable patterns. Along with complex data dependency mapping and data lineage enhancements.Feb 2020 - Jul 2021: Program Solution Owner for large scale data migration for a Fortune 500 insurance company. Directed multiple teams and work streams building a data pipeline to scan, move, and secure on-prem data in an AWS S3 data lake and Snowflake data warehouse. This multi-year cloud data enablement program included architecting technical solutions, standing up development teams, and training the client on both SDLC and cloud architecture best practices.

Greater Seattle Area

In partnership with a team of data analysts and data engineers designed "Tideworks Insight" a real-time and historical data platform for marine and intermodal terminal operators. The only data platform of its kind that provides real-time data transformation.Hire, mentor, and coach data analysts and product owners on agile best practices and data analysis, pipeline delivery, and visualization techniques.Provide ongoing strategic vision for "Tideworks Insight". Own the product roadmap and challenge Tideworks to create ever sophisticated KPIs, metrics, and data visualizations for our customers.Lead a team of consulting data experts specializing in marine and intermodal business intelligence and data warehousing. Co-create BI delivery solutions adaptable to any terminal's idiosyncrasies.Oversee requirements gathering, source-to-target-mapping, data modeling, and data visualization design for Tideworks Insight and Tableau Server.Product managed the Insight 2.0 initiative transforming the platform leveraging Dremio and Nifi into a containerized, horizontally scalable, cloud agnostic platform. Oversaw development process changes as we build a full CI/CD pipeline with full separation of data and compute.Full time data evangelist and sometimes data wrangler.Essential Functions:Insight Team LeadershipOwn Product Roadmap and StrategyOversee Requirements GatheringPromote Data Visualization Best PracticesDevelop Analytics/KPIsCollaborate on Front-end BI Development (Tableau)Oversee Source to Target MappingEnsure Compelling User Stories and Manage EpicsBacklog Management and Grooming (JIRA)Provide Live Software DemonstrationsSpeak on Data and Analytics Topics Relevant to Maritime and Intermodal Applications

Greater Seattle Area

Act as product owner and agile coach for a data engineering team engaged in rapid prototyping and data platform development.Continuously define and prioritize features leading to the MVP version of what became Tideworks Insight.Conduct market research on data and analytics technologies suited to the marine and intermodal terminal environment.Essential Functions:Data Platform Team LeadershipData Platform Project ManagementOwn Product Roadmap and StrategyRequirements ElicitationBusiness AnalysisDevelop Analytics/KPIsFront-end BI Development (Tableau)Source to Target MappingDatabase ModelingWrite User Stories and Manage EpicsBacklog Management

Product Owner for Forecast by Tideworks a web portal for trucking companies, steamship lines, and BCOs.Designed Forecast Mobile Tideworks the first mobile app to alert truckers about container availability in Boston, MA.Lead analyst for first ever TOS deployment in New Caledonia, praised by World Cargo News for the seamlessness of the rollout.Essential Functions:Backlog Management (VersionOne)Requirements ElicitationBusiness AnalysisWrite User Stories and Manage EpicsProcess and Product DocumentationUX/UI Design for Desktop and Mobile ApplicationsBusiness Process ImprovementDefect/Enhancement TriageBacklog ManagementCustomer Facing DocumentationInternal and External Live Software DemonstrationsUser Training

Iraq

2003-2005 OIF Deployment, Combat Arms2007-2008 OIF Deployment, Network\Systems Administration