Engaging organizational leadership in prioritizing value-driven endeavors to develop actionable insights and personalized next best actions to members of our communities.

Chair Analytics Community Skill Development for 500 analytic team caregivers. Engaging caregiver leadership teams to actively develop and demonstrate advanced analytics, human focused soft skills, and cross-learning across siloed business units.

Implemented advanced data science techniques and pipeline development to enable executive-driven strategic transformations. Enabling answers to questions people will be asking three years from now about affordable, quality healthcare. Motivating empowered teams of data warehouse, analysts, and ETL designers toward new frontiers of advanced predictive analytics, augmented insights, and industry admired data resources. Focusing upon value-driven solutions appropriate to today's biggest challenges. Positively differentiating healthcare in a challenging marketplace.

Delivered graduate level Hadoop course with emphasis on job market demand for predictive analytics skills. R, Python,Data Warehousing, SQL Analytics and Amazon Web Services Elastic MapReduce. Common themes through out the courses included skills required to pursue a career and delivering value to real-world business units. Flipped course methodology was introduced to encourage greater student interaction and opportunities for discussion in the classroom while presenting students industry research and reports by Gartner, Harvard Business Review and WSJ outside of the traditional classroom.Delivered graduate MIS course with my dear friend Dr. David Paper on SQL Analytics, Data Warehousing Architecture, Dimensional Modeling and Database performance optimization. Developed Big Data Analytics business acumen course with leading faculty members including Dr Zsolt Ugray, Dr Nicole Forsgren, Dr Kelly Fadel, Dr Polly Conrad, and the admirable Dr. David Olsen, MIS Department Head. Additionally courses were provided covering Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PL/SQL, PHP, XML, CMS, Tableau, Excel, HTML, SQLPlus and Talend ETL.

Responsible for Carnegie Research I University computing infrastructure for Utah Climate Center and College of Natural Resources Geographic Information Systems units. Provided strategic and operational guidance for world wide climate data analysis, national shared data governance and rapid growth of satellite/aerial image repositories for the Western United States Developed strategic growth, partnership, succession, and KPI / OKR reporting and succession plans to deliver, monitor and expand highly respected research and community programs. Analysis reporting and rapid expansion of national satellite and worldwide climate data repository exceeded 400 TB. Administrative Chair of initial High Performance Computing facility. Initiated budget redesign with maintenance support cost reductions of 68.3%. Introduced, established, and renewed numerous standard support and ITIL practices. Maintained extraordinary uptime metrics across critical system infrastructure, exceeding four nines on non-redundant systems. Deployed national data REST APIs for data mining, packaging and analysis, Provided early introduction and community training of NoSQL columnar, document, graph and key-value databases.Hands-on support of RDBMS, NoSQL, Linux, VMware, Solaris and Windows infrastructure.

Directly supported 250 corporate DMZ database and infrastructure Solaris, Windows, and Network Appliance systems servicing 4000 engineers and executives. Supported broad range of core IT services, corporate applications, and Openwave cellular gateways. Database Administration, governance and performance engineering. Significantly improved project management practices and reporting tools. Stabilized infrastructure fundamentals. Prepared readiness strategies. Documented, deployed, and automated standard operating and ITIL procedures. Implemented monitoring, backup, performance and contingency plans for headquarter infrastructure and engineering environments. Trained staff on RDBMS, Solaris, HTML publishing, and organizational skills.

Expanded server and database environment to accommodate merger of four corporate acquisitions, company growth from 90 to 500 employees, successful IPO, and headquarters move to Pleasanton, CA. Hands-on support of complete corporate infrastructure. Integrated database, Unix servers with Windows systems for 500 engineers and corporate staff across four major sites. Project manager and supervisor for headquarters support staff. Maintained 99.99% uptime in 24x7 environment. Responsible for architecture planning, implementation, and support of infrastructure systems. Lead technical advisor for database, internet and intranet architecture, tools, development, and reporting. Mentored systems administration staff.

Provided IT services for Sun’s largest engineering sites during periods of 200% annual growth and the launch of Java and the internet. Project Manager and site lead for up to twenty-five system administrators directly supporting 600+ users and 1500+ systems. New Product Introduction team. Senior technical lead for backup standards, and disaster recovery. Trained all levels of support staff. Supervised engineering site move team. Position required a broad range of technical skills, an ability to interact with customers effectively, and a constantly improving level of service. Progressively increasing levels of responsibilities with corresponding recognition for on-time, high quality project delivery. Quantifiably exceeded executive expectations for quality, reporting metrics, and customer satisfaction.