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Chapel Hill, NC, US

San Francisco, California, US

New Britain, CT, US

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Chief Architect for the 84.51° Data Science Platforms products.
• Chief Architect for the 84.51° Data Management Platform products.
• Developed and successfully pitched the concept of modernizing our data science and data management capabilities using Open Source to executive leadership (CEO, CIO, and Head of Engineering).
• Member of the cross functional leadership team, representing Enterprise Architecture and Engineering.
• Author various architecture views of the platforms for solution architects to reference and refine during planning.
• Approve solution architectures created for development teams to use in Agile planning and development.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Performed the Scalable Agile Framework (SAFe) role of Enterprise Architect during the 84.51° Agile transformation.
• Planned new features and capabilities to build out the Architectural Runway roadmap for existing products.
• Align with the System and Solution Architects on new technologies, strategies, and evolutionary architectures.
• Feature owner for approximately 40% of the Engineering department’s workload, budgeted at 18.75M per annum.
• Work with executive leadership and product owners to prioritize requirements for the value streams.
• Meet with development teams to provide feedback on products, as well as receive feedback on architecture.

Cary, NC, US

• Subject matter expert for Hadoop ecosystem, distributed computing, open source analytics, and security integration.
• Advisor to SAS senior leadership on open source trends and developments in distributed computing and Hadoop.
• Technical manager for high value financial partners, focusing on Banks, Credit Bureaus and Credit Card corporations.
• Deliver Hadoop & SAS integration presentations to diverse audiences, ranging from technical to C-level participants.
• Develop architecture plans for large customer and partners, focusing on Hadoop and High-Performance Analytics.
• Partner with SAS R&D to prioritize feature requests for Hadoop & SAS integration based on partner requirements.

Brook Green, London, GB

• Technical Architect for Linux, Clustering, Storage Arrays, SAN, Data Warehouses, Couchbase, MongoDB, NoSQL, Exadata, Cloud, Virtualization, Hadoop, R, etc.
• Architect and strategist for Big Data, Cloud, Grid, Linux, Data Warehouse, Clustering, and Storage technologies.
• Principal architect and strategist for Hadoop, Hive, Cloud, Spark, Linux, Data Warehouse, and Storage technologies.
• Developed recommender engines using Hadoop, Mahout, Spark, Couchbase and Cloud for Tesco and Kroger.
• Lead architect for designing and engineering secure analytic solutions to process HIPAA and PCI regulatory data.
• Engineered solutions to process client data from organizations such as Home Depot, Kroger, Macys and Tesco.

Anchorage, AK, US

• In this role at the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Integrated Weapons Systems Lab (NSWC IWSL), I was responsible for replicating the types of systems found on United States Navy surface ships, and then collecting and.
• Project planning, development and engineering for multi discipline solutions.
• Research and Development into new technologies.
• Developed UNIX (Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX) & Linux (RHEL, SuSE) solutions with Veritas and TruCluster AdvFS.
• Engineered storage solutions using NAS and SAN hardware.
• Engineered fiber networks using Brocade Silkworm and Director switches.

Anchorage, AK, US

• IT manager for Naval Air Station Fallon, NV. Responsible for IT budget, staff reviews, and operations management. Contract value was $240M.
• Developed all procedures, blueprints, and code required to deploy the MAXIMO Asset Management System (AMS).
• Centralized financial, labor, asset, purchasing, and inventory records for the Naval Base operating contract into the AMS in a multi-year project.
• Performed database engineering and administration, using MS SQL, Oracle, and MySQL.
• Developed statistical analysis and models for reporting using SQL, PHP, HTML, JSP, Java, Perl, XML, etc. to determine the fiscal health and profit of the contract, project planning, disclosing required information for.
• Authored the entire requisite suite of IT documentation for Naval Air Station Fallon, including Disaster Recovery Planning, Incident Handling, Security Protocols and Procedures, Failure Point Analysis and Mitigation.

Built, managed, monitored, and maintained over 400 local servers and 1400 remote servers (Solaris, Linux, BSD, and Windows NT/2000) in 14 Data Centers located around the United States. Installed, configured, managed and maintained the core IT services running on those servers, including, but not limited to:Domain Name Service (DNS)File Transfer Protocol.

Anchorage, AK, US

Master'S Degree, Applied Data Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)