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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 the data and feature needs of multiple roles:• 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 operationalization of their workflows.• 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 Services.• 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, efficient exploration and modeling using all components of the solution including pipelines, data flows, SQL Serverless and in particular best practices for Spark usage.• 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.• Integrated entire solution with Azure Devops enabling secure builds and releases for our CI/CD processes that enabled true sharing of central environment while safeguarding production data and code.• Fully developed many of the data pipelines used in the solution, that utilize many different capabilities to match different pattern requirements, from simple SQL Serverless based extracts through complex PySpark transformations 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 both individuals and senior management to make data driven decisions more quickly.• 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 that both significantly reduced implementation time and troubleshooting complexity.• 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 technologies.• 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 involvement.• Significantly reduced operational costs by eliminating need for multiple vendors resources for maintaining legacy system as well as migrating solution to lower cost more performant storage solutions.

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 multiple heterogeneous sources into single, trusted, conformed data model based on Kimball best practices. Create flexible, scalable reporting tools with multiple presentation services available without need for continual recoding while retaining data consistency. Developed and prototyped advanced predictive capabilities for future system needs including 95%+ accuracy rate model for determining issue escalations to most expensive tiers. Solution designed to easily onboard new datasets and provide adaptability to accommodate dynamic needs of IT while enabling non-technical users to access multi-faceted reporting tools.• 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, innovation, health, and optimization needs for the corporate physical and digital manufacturing supply chains.• 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 maintaining flexibility to adjust scale for peak loads.• 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 addressing design needs of security, infrastructure, platform and operational applications. Collaborated across disciplines and with external vendors to create custom design solutions for advanced operating system, networking, availability, storage, security, and platform functions. Managed over $20M in annual capital expense budget and oversaw resource and expense planning for annual operating expense budget. Assisted in authoring the three-year roadmap based on research results, prototyping, and proof of concept (PoC) for integration of existing technologies and adoption of innovative technology solutions.• 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 virtualization hosting solutions.• 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