Eric Hanson Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

United States

Responsible for defining and executing the company’s data strategy, fostering a data-driven culture and overseeing the data team to guide data governance and align data initiatives with broader business objectives.Lead and mentor the data team, aligning priorities and ensuring they have the resources, guidance, and support needed to deliver high-impact.

Built a metadata driven streaming ingestion framework to enable rapid development and migration of over 250 pipelines from batch to real-time streamingOptimized and tuned cloud services, reducing cloud compute and storage costs by over 40%Migrated Spark streaming pipelines and framework from Databricks to GCP Dataproc, reducing costs by over $1MM in vendor.

• Responsible for managing, developing, and leading the data platform team
• Own and manage the core Data platforms - Operational data stores, Analytical technologies and supporting tools
• Build core Data platform roadmaps, in close alignment with Data delivery team product roadmaps
• Research, evaluate and implement fit for purpose platforms and tools, in support of overall data platform architecture
• Implement policies and standards for consistent, reliable, and secure way of using Data on the Cloud
• Develop standards and provide SME level guidance to Data delivery teams in utilizing platform capabilities, in a cost-efficient way

• Created and led a new Data Engineering department responsible for building modern data architecture to enable advanced analytics and data science
• Led a platform migration project to move from Hortonworks Distribution to EMR with auto-scaling policies. Reduced platform costs by over 50% while more than doubling utilization and job processing performance
• Responsible for managing AWS costs for the Data Lake platform and optimizing overall ROI
• Implemented cost savings strategies through instance and EBS volume type optimization and designing lifecycle management policies
• Architected and engineered a real-time streaming data platform utilizing the latest cloud technologies to auto scale and adjust to constantly changing levels of volume
• Implemented a streaming event-driven architecture adopted throughout the engineering organization for exchanging data in real-time

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Designed and engineered data pipelines and ETL frameworks to deliver analytics solutions to business users
• Architected data engineering framework for increasing data pipeline performance and reducing data latency
• Provided technical leadership on tools, best practices, and methodologies
• Designed and developed full-stack business intelligence solutions from conceptual design through data pipeline development and OLAP data model delivery

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Led on-shore and off-shore delivery teams in a large public utilities merger responsible for merging and modernizing the data and analytics platforms
• Provided technical solutions to clients to enable data-driven business decisions
• Architected and engineered data and analytics platforms for customers based on business requirements

• Architected and developed data pipeline solutions to collect and consolidate transactional data from point-of-sale (POS) systems from over 420 convenience store locations into a centralized Data Warehouse
• Responsible for managing infrastructure developing maintenance programs for performance optimization and disaster recovery
• Designed and developed reports and dashboard for the executive team to monitor KPIs
• Administered user accounts and security for the company ERP system and for all company databases

• Designed and developed a database driven job tracking system that tracked customer orders through production and allowed management to monitor job performance and discover bottlenecks
• Developed and administered a company intranet reporting site that automated the company’s reporting and allowed for users to have real-time access to business-critical information
• Defined system/business requirements to design, develop, test, and implement technical solutions to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer relationships
• Created an integrated logistics management system that allowed the shipping manager to easily compare shipping costs across multiple vendors and automated the billing process

Bs, Business Administration

Ms, Accountancy