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Naples, Fl, Us

Naples, Fl, Us

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

★ Technical Leadership and Strategic Alignment: Reported directly to the VP of Data. Provided strategic insights and aligned initiatives with broader organizational goals. Provided technical guidance and mentoring to a team of engineers, overseeing code reviews and ensuring project alignment with best practices.★ Scalable Data Ingestion: Architected a real-time data cloud-based ingestion system consisting of billions of records and capable of processing 8 million transactions daily. Leveraged Datastream to create highly scalable and reliable data pipelines. Utilized Pub/Sub for real-time messaging and event-driven architecture.★ DevOps and Automation: Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Google Cloud Build and Jenkins to streamline development and deployment processes. Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build to streamline development and deployment. ★ Data Security and Compliance: Adhered to strict security standards, including PII management and GDPR compliance, to protect sensitive data.★ Architectural Modernization: Migrated from batch processing to a real-time, event-driven architecture, improving data latency and responsiveness. ★ Cost Optimization: Conducted a thorough cost analysis to identify areas for optimization. Implemented strategies to optimize infrastructure costs by identifying and offloading specific workloads to more cost-effective solutions, such as utilizing PostgreSQL for real-time duplicate checking instead of BigQuery. ★ Framework Design: Designed and implemented a reusable ingestion framework to accelerate development, reduce coding errors, and improve integration efficiency. ★ Data Quality and Governance: Reviewed and participated in the approval of data models. Oversaw the design and implementation of a data quality framework to validate data accuracy and consistency. ★ Enterprise API Design: Currently defining an enterprise API to manage access to the Data Platform, meeting the needs of internal and external stakeholders.

Provided integration services with Talend and MuleSoft for the following client organizations in the Education Technology sector: ★ New Mexico Public Education Department - Created an integration platform using Talend and PostgreSQL for the statewide ingestion and transformation of student data into the Ed-Fi standard.★ Paramount (Noggin) – Defined xAPI compliant implementation strategy for tracking user experience data. Developed data pipeline and automation processes using Airtable, Talend, and Snowflake to enable seamless data capture and reporting. Assisted the data science team by building Snowflake views to parse xAPI data and perform complex computations for required reports.★ US Chamber of Commerce (T3 Innovation Network) – Design, manage, implement a tool for creating and maintaining crosswalks between different data standards including IEEE, Schema.org, CTDL/ASN, CASE, and others. Designed and managed the implementation of a platform that increases accessibility of skills and competency data to machines and humans through a membership trust network of open registries.★ Relay Graduate School of Education – Developed an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) utilizing Mulesoft to manage student, applicant, employee, hiring, job posting, student registration/course information. Managed all aspects of the AWS infrastructure, including Route 53, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, and VPC configuration.★ Technical Consulting – Provided consulting services to KIPP NYC and Calbright Community College, involving organizational structure and technical improvements, as well as risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

North Mankato, Mn, Us

★ Provided systems support and integration services with webMethods for an organization of 12,000 employees.★ Spearheaded a project to upgrade servers from webMethods 7.1, 8.0, 8.2 and 9.6 to 9.10. This involved migrating approximately 80 servers to the new platform and required a team of 5 offshore developers and 5 onshore architects. ★ Managed consolidation of 25 production servers with a total of 50 cores into 10 servers with 20 cores to bring the organization back into compliance with existing license agreements.

Maple Grove, Minnesota, Us

★ Implemented webMethods and Talend across the enterprise of approximately 2,500 employees, by creating and training a team of developers, QA personnel, operations managers, and systems administrators.★ ESB Software evaluation including needs analysis, vendor selection, cost and contract negotiations. ★ webMethods and Talend software installation, configuration, tuning, maintenance, patch installation and troubleshooting. ★ Analysis, design, coding and implementation using Designer, Trading Networks, Universal Messaging (Broker). ★ Managed user security and ACLs including both webMethods authentication and LDAP. ★ Primary liaison between organizational leadership, clients, project teams, and vendors. ★ Implemented technical solutions including Kohl’s, Nestlé Professional, Fidelity & Guaranty Life, Sony, TD Bank, Bayer, American Eagle Outfitters, Cablevision, UFC, Johnson & Johnson Canada, Wrigley / Mars.★ Managed all aspects of technical projects throughout the development lifecycle. Managed and trained on/offshore teams. Known as the ‘go to’ guy for solving technical challenges.

Charged with leading a wide range of projects for a provider of business applications to Fortune 1000 companies and the higher education market. Defined and standardized the implementation process for an award-winning student information system that enabled the company to increase sales of the software solution by 100%.

Santa Paula, Ca, Us

Oversight, support, design and implementation of campus administration software including managing an Oracle database, building custom reports, data entry screens, providing mapping and data conversion services.