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Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

• Lead visioning, design, prototyping, testing and implementation of the modernization of legacy analytics solution to utilize Azure Data Lake Gen 2 and Synapse Workspace to provide a centralized solution that met both.
• Drove end to end roadmap and associated solution to modernize and centralize data with associated capabilities in one solution that enabled data discovery, lineage, exploration, ideation, modeling, live scoring and.
• Built capabilities and patterns for performing machine learning either entirely within Apache Spark (Synapse) boundary, integrated with Azure Machine Learning for no/low-code ML via Auto-ML or via Azure Cognitive.
• Integrated Synapse Workspace, ADL Gen 2, Azure Machine Learning and Purview to provide complete end to end capabilities from data orchestration to exploration & modeling, through automated lineage & data cataloging.
• Mentored and trained junior Data Engineering team members, Data Scientists and Analysts on new capabilities and best practices across all capabilities of the solution from data ingestion, cleaning, transforming.
• Designed our Data Lakehouse strategy via ADL Gen 2 by implementing modern approaches to data warehousing, data lakes and hybrid solutions that incorporate capabilities such as lake databases, SQL Serverless etc.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Lead visioning, prototyping and implementation initiatives to modernize legacy business intelligence and analytical architecture and associated solutions that empower critical operational insights across all CSEO:
• Successfully influenced organization to implement a streamlined and simplified consistent architecture that reduced turnaround time from new data ingestion to lighting up associated insights by > 80% thereby enabling.
• Prototyped, showcased and implemented new solutions using modern analytics technologies and more importantly principle based architecture that reduced data cleansing, conformity and enrichment to one touch processes.
• Directly lead planning, coding and implementation of all stages of analytical processes from ETL/ELT in various technologies, reporting modeling in AAS and Synapse Analytics to presentation layers in multiple.
• Act in the capacity of several roles from crew member, project manager through program manager utilizing SAFe methodologies to insure we delivered fast and often while maintaining a focus on long term goals.
• Continual focus on what’s next, in particular envisioning self-serve no code capabilities solutions that enable data analysts to explore, ingest, clean and enrich their own new data with limited or no data engineering.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Conceived and lead development of multi-tier, comprehensive Business Intelligence solution for the wealth of data across IT Shared Services designed to empower company as data-driven organization. Combine data from.
• Cost Reductions: Eliminated $600K+ in direct annual vendor costs and enabled infrastructure hosting costs reduction identification of $2M+ annually with development and launch of Business Intelligence solutions.
• Improved Efficiencies: Reduced manual data manipulation tasks by equivalent resource time of five full-time employees.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed and lead multi-region team of technical experts to deliver on architectural platform requirements consisting of SQL, BizTalk, Dynamics AX, SharePoint and Capacity Planning services focused on the design.
• Operations Management: Coordinated team priorities with corporate strategy, managed team member performances, and implemented vendor model to manage costs and ensured right sizing of platform architectures while.
• Service Health: Translated customer needs to platform resource requirements for capacity planning and developed disaster recovery services to ensure continuity of client business activities with minimal redundancy.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Championed, built and managed Infrastructure Architecture and System Engineering team with 20+ Senior Platform Architect members in three regions to enable release, compliance, and archival of corporate products by.
• Cost Savings:  Received Deliver IT Award for leading a data center construction project in Puerto Rico resulting in multibillion-dollar annual tax savings. Slashed annual infrastructure hosting costs by 50% via.
• User/Employee Satisfaction: Drove 75% increase in user approval rating with development of custom incident tracking tool in addition to achieving high MS Poll WHI results and feedback from direct reports.

Honors Degree In Information Systems

Advanced Diploma In Electronic And Computing Systems (C&G), Electronics And Computer Systems

Certificate, Data Science