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New York, NY, US

• Led project which successfully designed, developed and deployed their first automated, real-time evaluation (RTE) and trading platform. The new serverless solution, combined with real-time market data pipelines, made.
• Deployed a set of real-time APIs and WebSocket connections to global exchanges, alternative data providers, etc., which reduced annual spend for subscriptions and off-the-shelf software by more than $1M.
• The solution and its AWS State Machines, which coordinated a series of serverless Lambda functions, and built atop AWS SageMaker reduced deployment times for new trading strategies by 90%.
• Designed training curriculum, delivered courses and mentored traders, compliance team and researchers to ease migration to the new system.

• Create, edit and publish YouTube content focused on AWS architecture, AWS Administration, Data Science, Sagemaker and Metadata Management.
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Chevy Chase, MD, US

• Led the IBM team which successfully migrated the legacy, back-end systems for GEICO DriveEasy app from a Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture onto a new, scalable Snowflake/ Azure cloud architecture.
• The system onboarded, corrected, enhanced and managed the metadata from the several thousand public, government and purchased datasets which arrived each day, including structured, unstructured and geospatial data.
• The conceptual, logical and physical data models for the data lake were aligned to Data Vault 2.0 and were created using ERwin Data Modeler. This resulted in a 30% drop in the number of datasets being stored for more.
• Geospatial technical stack: ESRI ArcGIS, Geopandas, Folium, GDAL/OGR.

• Led the second project which successfully designed and deployed a new, scalable AWS architecture at a large pharmaceutical company after their first project with the same goal was scrubbed in 2019. Signoff was obtained.
• Migrated the research work of 50+ research scientists, mostly Python, MATLAB and R running on local PCs, onto AWS SageMaker. Used AWS DataSync to move each scientist’s files, scripts and images into S3 buckets which.
• Designed a curriculum and delivered the courses, with live and recorded versions, to executives, scientists and lab technicians to ease everyone as they transitioned to AWS SageMaker and use S3, rather than their.
• Developed all the natural language processing (NLP) code used to parse over 2 billion pages of research notes, compliance & GxP documents, governmental agency documents, etc. which resulted in the retirement of.

Horsham, PA, US

• Led team of 7 people distributed across the U.S., U.K. and India who delivered a Real-World Evidence Platform which integrated healthcare messages (HL7, EMR’s) with data collected during clinical study enrollment and.
• Delivered business glossary, data catalog and metadata management system built atop my own Chameleon Metadata™
• Created Neo4j graph and populated it with every study present at ClinicalTrials.gov and the EU Clinical Trials Register and linked everything to AES’s internal systems by sponsor, indication, protocol, etc.
• Technology Stack: AWS, Snowflake, S3, Kinesis Firehose, Glue, SageMaker, Spark, Python, Neo4j and Elasticsearch

Langley, BC, CA

• Led a team of 11 people to successfully deliver a master data management (MDM) solution built with Python machine learning microservices which predicted seasonalized inventory levels, optimized product pricing by.
• Designed a Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture which integrated their legacy systems’ data with Oracle’s cloud-based point of sale (POS) software and AWS using Python and APIs and WebSocket connections.

Topic: "Building a Data Science Information Architecture." Please see https://tinyurl.com/wu68hxhMy presentation and all the Python scripts used in the examples are found here: https://github.com/chameleonmetadata/DATAx_NYC_2018

Rio De Janeiro, BR

• As an induvial contributor, I successfully delivered a scalable, low-cost cloud-based solution to this real estate investment firm which integrated Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, ElasticSearch and Neo4j with the goal of.
• The solution was deployed as a fully functional proof of concept (POC) which leveraged an array of machine learning microservices to demonstrate the concept to prospective investors during ‘Seed Round’ presentations..
• Machine Learning and natural language processing (NLP) work used Python SciPy and SpaCy. Visualizations were done with open-source software: Matplotlib and Neo4j Bloom depending on the use case.

New York, New York, US

Led a team of 9 people tasked with designing a set of machine learning models meant to replace human review for parts of the Commercial Loan Application (CLA) process which involved reviewing huge number of supporting documents with many formats. The project successfully demonstrated that most components of their current manual CLA approval workflow could.

• Successfully delivered, as an induvial contributor, an architecture and data science infrastructure which registered, ingested their proprietary database of digital property records, at the town and county level of.

New York, NY, US

• Designed and deployed a new Data Science infrastructure and led an India-based development team. The new system successfully delivers Natural Language Processing (NLP), supervised learning and unsupervised learning.

Boston, MA, US

• Delivered Neo4j recommendation engine which predicted the best mix of resumes for a future proposal to a known past client using Python and R-Studio for machine learning, natural language processing. A Data Vault ETL.

• Led team of 27 people geographically distributed across Canada, Malaysia, India and the United States which successfully delivered an information integration architecture to integrate two sets of legacy, mainframe.

Raritan, New Jersey, US

Provide design enhancement recommendations for an analytics environment staging via Data Vault stores (i.e. Hubs, Links and Satellites) atop Terradata.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Performed a data quality and analytics assessment focused on: Financial and Compliance Services; Risk Management and Compliance; Product Development; and Global Account Management.Technical landscape included SAP (ECC, SD, CRM, BP, BI BOBJ and BW), MicroStrategy reporting and Microsoft TFS for service design and delivery management

New York, New York, US

• Captured existing business processes, lineage and metadata as RDF Subject, Verb, Object (SVO) Triples for their new Hadoop, HDFS, HIVE and HBASE data stores.
• Designed Object-Oriented RDF using CmapTools 5.0.03 to segment incoming source data and UDEF-based RDF Schema aligned to W3C XSD 1.1 Part 2 datatypes for organizing captured domains and ranges and linking to source.
• Architecture components included: Cloudera; Talend Big Data (5.3.1); IHMC Cmaps; Datameer; Tableau; Python 2.7.3; and R for polynomial equations.

• Designed the Exchange-to-Hadoop/HDFS Business, Information and Technical architectures for any data lifecycle.
• Designed and executed a migration of 18 legacy systems and existing business processes to a new architecture and data lifecycle based on Data Vault data models for ETL feeding downstream traditional databases, NoSQL.
• Standardized the valid Linked Data value pairs and their relationship(s) to the GDSN GS1 Global Product Classification (GPC) ontology. And, where possible, linked ISO 10383 MIC identifiers for source data vendors.
• Created a Corporate Product Information Ontology using the Florida Institute for Machine & Human Cognition (IMHC) CmapTools Knowledge Modeling Kit.
• Created a TOGAAF-based workflow management, role-based product entitlements and task-level audit metrics to capture data product information management (PIM) knowledge.
• Data Governance solution used my own Chameleon Metadata key-pairs data quality management system.

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GB

Review their current data architecture and design solutions for throughput challenges to completing nightly Siperian workflows within the allotted time window.

Westport, Connecticut, US

Designed and delivered a fully functioning, multiple vendor, Proof-Of-Concept EIM system running atop Informatica's 9.x PowerCenter, DX, DQ and MDM/Siperian in just 14 weeks to support continuous/incremental improvements to their data's quality.

Lawrence Township, NJ, US

Designed the business and information architecture which ensured auditable PPSA compliance (i.e. Aggregate Spend) in a SAP ECC environment.The delivered assessment created a framework within which BMS could capture and audit all money spent, per physician, on gifts, honoraria, consulting fees, food, research, continuing medical education and clinical.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Detailed Enterprise Information Management assessment of, and suggested improvements to, their proposed business & information architectures

New York, New York, US

Lead an assessment and road-mapping effort in support of a new US/EU Customer Relationship Management multichannel marketing effort. Collaboratively designed an MDM-centric framework with Pfizer's Marketing, Technical Infrastructure and BI/Analytics Organizations.Sitting atop an Informatica/Siperian stack, this framework consisted of: A conceptual data.

Designed the master data (MDM) and metadata management approach to be supported by IBM’s InfoSphere Master Data Management Server. Designed and staffed Medco’s new MDM center of excellence organization charged with integrating multiple business units’ data across technical, political and geographic boundaries often using disparate currencies. Deployed a.

New York City, NY, US

This readiness assessment delivered a detailed product master capabilities model and an overall Enterprise Product Information Management (EPIM) functional architecture model on top of Oracle’s AIA PIM Hub framework for LexisNexis. Delivered roadmap to Lexis Nexis which included enterprise product definitions and taxonomy representing their product.

New York, US

Led programme to deploy “Location/Site” master data from sources distributed across 41 countries.Deployed proof-of-concept Siperian MDM systems (profiling w/DataLever, ETL w/ IBM DatStage, metadata/data governance/stewardship w/ custom MySQL/PHP metadata repository & front-end).Designed Siperian MDM models for MDM metadata, profiling and data.

Durham, North Carolina, US

Successfully deployed custom, in-house developed master data management (MDM) infrastructure. Designed a new ITIL-compliant, DataFlux-based approach to audit, report and correct data across seven lines of business in accordance with the new MDM standards.Deployed proof-of-concept MDM systems (profiling w/ DataFlux, ETL w/ Informatica, metadata/data.

BP 55288 Villepinte, Roissy CDG Cedex, FR

Roissy Cedex, FranceProvided executive and technical leadership for the design and deployment of a Master Data Management (MDM) solution supported by the IBM Websphere MDM suite conforming several subject areas of their globally distributed SAP ERP, SAP R/3 and JD Edwards (Sales Force) applications. Bacou-Dalloz is a world leader in the manufacture of.

Atlanta, GA, US

Designed, planned, deployed and tested a comprehensive management process which identified potential risks to the organization, the impact of those risks may have on business operations and a disaster recovery process to restore an organizations' technology infrastructure after a disaster or failure. The process ultimately deployed accounted for employees’.

Skaneateles Falls, New York, US

Provided executive and technical leadership for customer data integration (CDI) feasibility study at Welch Allyn, a medical device manufacturer based in Skaneateles, New York. Delivered current state assessments of their current SAP CRM, SAP R/3 and Sales Force applications as well as the conceptual, logical and technical roadmaps for implementing.

Jacksonville, FL, US

Dun and Bradstreet entered into a joint venture with American Express (AMEX) providing online credit, marketing and collection tools for their OPEN: Small Business Network (OSBN) clients. The new website (open.americanexpress.com) provided real-time, online access to D&B information.Designed enterprise, common information (CIM) and canonical data and.

Newark, New Jersey, US

Designed and deployed a metadata-driven information architecture along with an automated data integration lifecycle required for the conversion of the Agencies Database (ADB) system from IDMS to DB2. Gathered business requirements, conducted stakeholder interviews, and reverse-engineered the existing ADB system which was running atop IDMS.Documented the.

Retained by brokerage firm (jointly owned by Wertheim Schroder & Co., Inc and Hambrecht & Quist) to migrate Internet application back-end components from a combination of Oracle and SQL Server back ends to MVS DB2 via DB2 ConnectReduced "T+4" settlements to "T+1" as per Securities Industry Association (SIA) recommendations.

Newark, New Jersey, US

Led multi-phased transition and capacity plans for migration to CORBA UDB Version 6 MPP environment. Requirements included Client access to MVS/DB2 data via DB2 Connect and MQ-Series which increased throughput for the nightly batch run process by 300%.Obtained Prudential's first Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level-2 Certification whilst concurrently.

Dallas, TX, US

Retained by IBM to design a Customer Data Integration Client / Server applicationApplication exploited XML-type messages, stored in VSAM files, to resolve message meaning via DTD for multi-platform MQ-Series data messages.

Retained by Price Waterhouse to design Customer Data Integration solution to shift "atomic business focus" from credit card account# to individual cardholder (Party) using ADW design workstation and ERwin.

Created in-house performance and tuning group for FTI DB2/CICS software. FTI's products included: multi-currency global custody; trust; mutual fund; brokerage; and securities-position management software products.

Princeton, NJ, US

Retained by IBM to remedy performance issues with the leading test administration and scoring system (PRAXIS) Solely responsible for the direction of DB2 database strategies used in the first application this organization implemented using ADW, XDB, CICS and DB2 for design, coding and testing.Reduced response time of all transactions from 120 minutes to.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Deliver entire range of project management, DB2 design, administration, performance tuning and coding courses offered by IBM

Hartford, Connecticut, US

Production support DB2 DBA requiring 24 x 7 support for financial application called "FISC."

COBOL / CICS / DB2 application programmer on telephone invoicing application

New York, NY, US

COBOL / CICS / DB2 programmer on a claims processing application programmer

Newark, New Jersey, US

Trained at "The Cullinet Institute" as an IDMS database administrator supporting Cullinet’s General Ledger Application at Prudential

Master Of Arts (Ma), Instructional Leadership

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Double Major - Computer Science & Marketing Research