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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.• Identify opportunities with Science and Engineering R&D teams for new product development.• Meet with stakeholders and executive leadership to obtain alignment in business priorities, from which roadmaps and vision documentation are created.• Provide leadership for the 6 geographically distributed Agile teams and 6 architects.Features of the Platforms:• Built using on premise Hadoop/Spark, GCP and Azure Cloud services• Event driven RESTful microservice architecture using Java Spring Boot, Go, Python, PubSub, and Docker• Google Kubernetes Engine and Azure Kubernetes Service for containerization platforms • Open Source data science software (Python, R, Scala, Spark, XGBoost, Tensorflow, Pytorch, H2O, etc.)• Native cloud services, including BigQuery, DataProc, Databricks, Data Factory, Messaging, Cloud Functions, etc.• Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) using Microsoft Azure DevOps and Team City• Supports the entire Data Science lifecycle, from data acquisition to productionizing and operationalizing models• A/B experimentation using discrete populations and a metrics evaluation engine• Model Registry with model metadata, such as hyperparameters, feature importance, evaluation metrics, etc.• Leverage external science resources such as DataRobot & API services

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.• Develop prototype applications and services in new technologies for development teams to use as Proof of Concepts.• Create PoC Data Science for segmentations, clickstream analysis, recommenders, natural language processing, etc.• Conduct Proof of Concept (PoC) evaluations of new technologies for Analytics and Big Data.• Responsible for overseeing Science products going through Engineering development and production deployments.• Member of the Kroger Data Strategy team, focused on modernizing data acquisition, structures, business process, etc.• Create strategic vision for Hadoop and other Big Data platforms (HBase, Databricks, Spark, etc.).• Create strategic vision for Data Analytics (Hadoop MapReduce, Mahout, Spark, Python, R, H2O, etc.).• Provide direction, education and training to Hadoop Engineers, Data Science, and Architecture teams.• Provide tactical guidance to dev teams on Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark, Sqoop, NiFi, Python, Analytics, Security, etc.• Author training materials and conduct training for administrators, engineers, developers, analysts, and data scientists.• Craft and publish development standards and best practices for Scala, Python, R, Spark, Hadoop ecosystem, etc.• Work with Science R&D teams to identify product gaps that require additional architectural runway.

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.• Develop solutions for integrating SAS products with open source Hadoop technologies (Sentry, Spark, Docker, etc.).• Provide technical expertise on critically escalated issues relating to Hadoop, Sentry, Spark, Python, Kerberos, etc.• Author position papers, white papers and technical documentation on Hadoop and Spark for clients and partners.

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.• Conducted Proof of Concept (PoC) trials of new software, hardware and infrastructure technologies.• Authored architectural blueprints, operating procedures and standards documentation for technology deployments.• Developed software for various applications primarily in Python, R, Java, Perl, SQL and shell languages.• Provided leadership for the globally distributed Linux, Storage and SAN admins teams, as well as Project teams.• Technical and capacity approver for all UNIX, Linux, and SAN changes on the Change Management Board.• Enterprise Architecture representative for the Technology Steering and Standards teams.• Lead architect and developer for custom Disaster Recovery, monitoring, and archival solutions.• Performed capacity planning and information lifecycle management for the enterprise (US and UK).• Responsible for infrastructure risk assessments and served as the Enterprise Architecture champion for security.• Development of capital budget projections and operational expense estimates per quarter/annum.

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 analyzing data from experiments performed on those environments by the weapon systems developers.• 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.• Architected and developed network and system monitoring solutions.• Developed and deployed system and network security hardware and software.• Engineered bespoke security scanning and distribution software.• Developed customized Sun Ray virtualization cluster solutions for two factored secure sitewide hotdesking.• Programmed in a variety of languages, such as shell (bash, ksh, tcsh, and sh), C, Python, Perl and C++.• Hardware and system analyst, detailing hardware and software needs and optimal configurations for the weapons lab.• Performed as the team lead and mentor for 10 middle and junior level analysts.• Authored Standard Operating Procedures and documents pertaining to the Department of Defense's (DoD) System Security Authorization Agreement (SSAA) accreditations.

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 contract compliance, and providing trending and analysis data to the United States Navy and US Government agencies upon request. • 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, and Projected IT Growth Requirements.

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 (FTP)Network File System (NFS)Network Time Protocol (NTP)Structured Query Language (SQL)Virtual Private Networking (VPN)Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)Secure Shell (SSH)Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)Constructed an internal gigabit backbone network infrastructure using Cisco routers and switches. Installed Packet Over Sonnet (POS) Optical Carrier 3 (OC3) and 48 (OC48) connections, in addition to bundled T1 lines for failover. Responsible for BGP4 route installation, configurations, and management. Created, installed and configured multiple solutions to monitor and manage the networks. Developed, installed and configured network security mechanisms, such as router access tables, intrusion detection systems, and firewalls, both physical (Cisco Pix) and software (Linux IPCHAINS and IPTABLES).Provided hosting for popular online websites, such as http://www.AmericasArmy.com, which sustained more than a million hits each day. Constructed mirroring and clustering systems for popular websites, such as http://Penny-Arcade.com. Hosted popular service packs and patches for a variety of software programs, leading to an average of 300,000 files downloaded per week via FTP and HTTP services. Performed programming tasks in Perl, C, SQL, PHP, and shell. Provided network and systems engineering for a contract with the U.S. Army pertaining to their "Americas Army: Operations" software.

Anchorage, Ak, Us

Master'S Degree, Applied Data Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)