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Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• Responsible for the Dataworks reference architecture that ensures all solutions create a coherent end to end set of capabilities that contribute to the common platform, ensuring we maximize reuse for value creation.
• Collaborate closely with Dataworks team members at all levels, enterprise wide business partners, IT and other architects.
• Create end to end views of all solutions and the full Dataworks architecture to ensure new solutions seamlessly and intentionally fit into and leverage the existing architecture components.
• Provide high level design on experiments and work with all Dataworks architects to collaboratively drive the detail design of solutions as development begins. Early in a solutions Lifecyle, I will drive the creation.
• Work very closely with other architects and data engineers to design, implement, test, and deploy data driven solutions.

• Collaborate with Platform, product, and data science teams to deliver platform architecture for model driven business solutions.
• Lead Architect for a Labor Insights Platform to integrate common workforce data objects into our analytical platform in Microsoft Azure.
• Develop secure data consumption patterns for role-based access policies.
• Develop terraform based infrastructure pipelines for solution development.

• One of the Lead platform and framework architects for a 5-year digital analytics platform to transform the FedEx Ground delivery network optimization using the Google Cloud Platform.
• Delivered architecture patterns for platform ingestion, data consumption, data publishing, data engineering, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Led the technical architecture process for a self-service analytical platform including the introduction of data products and opinionated analytics workspaces.
• Built the quarterly architecture roadmaps for team PI planning sessions.
• Directed collaboration between Principal architects and business-based data scientists with regards to the usage of the platform and its capabilities.
• Collaborated closely with other FedEx operating groups to complete cloud-based analytics POCs for HR workforce analytics and IOT use cases.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Lead offshore development team leveraging agile methodology.
• Solution architect for several highly complex high value advanced analytics projects leveraging the big data eco-system of technologies.
• Created solution Architecture for pluggable analytics into ingestion framework to increase metrics, support, and operational efficiency.
• Designed the architecture for ELT framework resulting in reduced development costs and increased rate of artifact delivery.
• Reduced project delivery time to 70% by improving data mapping and data analysis process.
• Improved support efficiency by integrating ingestion and ETL frameworks with the enterprise service management system.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Led architecture and design for an ingestion framework to load data lake using Talend Data Fabric and the Hortonworks HDP technology stacks. The framework included the ability to ingest RDBMS, flat file, and web-based.
• Led technology evaluation of big data tool selection and implementation in support of batch and real time ingestion and processing.
• Led the solution architecture for a Hadoop data lake incorporating tiered data layers.
• Collaborated on building best practices for data lake security, data governance, and data privacy.
• Developed standard practices for Talend code development.
• Created a standard SDLC process for artifacts using GitHub, Nexus, and Jenkins.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Led technical architecture for Oracle Financials messaging integration using Oracle Advanced Queues and WebSphere MQ
• Developed a pub / sub messaging framework to enable real time event-based integrations between Oracle financial systems and CRM systems.
• Developed messaging frameworks that empowered the business to create real time transactional integrations that reduced business costs by over 30%
• Implemented queue data pipelines to convert existing batch processes to event-based workflows.
• Streamlined java artifact deployment using Jenkins and standard version control policies resulting in zero downtime deployments and reduced deployment errors by 100%
• Created java software solutions for enterprise Oracle financial systems.

Cork, Ireland, IE

• Delivered initial messaging framework prototypes using WebSphere MQ and Oracle Advanced Queues
• Created Java solutions for in-house business web applications.
• Developed SQL solutions against Oracle financial databases to prepare data sets in support of business reporting.
• Established coding standards and best practices within development team.

Support,Software development and R&D for campus IT department.Personal Workstation set-up for incoming faculty.

B.S Computer Science, Software Development, Networking, Databases, Mathematics, Web Design

B.S History, English, History