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Huntsville, Al, Us

Huntsville, Al, Us

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Directly responsible for simultaneous product life stage management, planning, strategy and maintaining the roadmap for multiple relational databases (RDBMS) with a $40+ Million budget, utilized by of ranging from supporting the customer journey to analytical workloads. Created and deployed feedback loops with products users. Collaborated with Google and Microsoft, managing vendor product requests and development of their products.● Authored a product strategy, based upon market… Show more Directly responsible for simultaneous product life stage management, planning, strategy and maintaining the roadmap for multiple relational databases (RDBMS) with a $40+ Million budget, utilized by of ranging from supporting the customer journey to analytical workloads. Created and deployed feedback loops with products users. Collaborated with Google and Microsoft, managing vendor product requests and development of their products.● Authored a product strategy, based upon market analysis, user feedback, and industry trends. Presented findings and recommendations to the Vice President, garnering support and alignment for strategic product initiatives affecting 11,572 global stores, 5,197 Pharmacies, and 466 global Distribution Centers.● Established a robust feedback loop with Cloud Powered Checkout (CPC), Health and Wellness, multiple 3rd Party Vendors, and architects to conduct consultations and analysis identifying requirements, assessing technological needs, and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives to support Walmart’s stores, pharmacies, and distribution centers.● Utilized surveys to collect NPS scores and advocated for the integration of customer satisfaction and customer effort scores, to continuously collect user feedback. ● Strategically planned and prioritized self-service features including: failovers, password rotations, user administration, and scaling, resulting in enhanced user autonomy, reduced operational bottlenecks, and improved overall team efficiency.● Produced and curated suite of over 100 user-facing documents, including user guides, FAQs, announcements and instructional materials, ensuring seamless user onboarding and product adoption, enhancing communication and transparency with users, driving product awareness and engagement.● Collaborated with the 15 member SQL Server team, identifying five key initiatives, targeting an $11 Million reduction to the operational budget while improving customer satisfaction. Show less

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

Responsible for leading team in scrum ceremonies, product backlog, planning, tracking, and reviewing product deliverables critical to multiple successful projects with over a $10 Million annual budget. Facilitated collaboration among cross-functional teams to drive essential process improvements, ensuring seamless integration and operational efficiency. Utilizing JIRA, I enhanced engineering team efficiency and user experience by streamlining the development process and ensuring the achievement… Show more Responsible for leading team in scrum ceremonies, product backlog, planning, tracking, and reviewing product deliverables critical to multiple successful projects with over a $10 Million annual budget. Facilitated collaboration among cross-functional teams to drive essential process improvements, ensuring seamless integration and operational efficiency. Utilizing JIRA, I enhanced engineering team efficiency and user experience by streamlining the development process and ensuring the achievement of project milestones.● Leveraged JIRA and Confluence to effectively manage agile development and the product backlog, facilitating communication and collaboration among cross-functional teams, while enhancing transparency and traceability of features throughout the development lifecycle.● Improved user experience and recognized automation opportunities by optimizing efficiency of SQL Server team's JIRA Service Desk, decreasing backlog from ~120 cards to 50 cards and reducing broken SLAs by 95%.● Analyzed historical SQL Server JIRA data to develop system for categorizing and prioritizing automation requests, resulting in 33% reduction of 3,000 customer requests per year. ● Successfully led the Spanner / MySQL team to attain Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance through networking and security challenges to handle all gift, credit and debit card payments, accommodating over 1,000 queries per second.● Championed self-service password rotations, storage scaling, and failovers for Azure and Cloud SQL products saving ~20 minutes per task. These features were used over 500 times in first year. Show less

Bentonville, Ar

Promoted development and operational functions associated with 19,000+ servers as key member of international team supporting Informix in the Stores, Pharmacies, Distribution Centers, and Home Office along with UDB in the Home Office. 95% of all data necessary for successful Walmart operations flows through an Informix database. Provided subject matter expertise on entire set of procedures associated with Walmart's Informix databases for 250+ distribution centers, while completing engineering… Show more Promoted development and operational functions associated with 19,000+ servers as key member of international team supporting Informix in the Stores, Pharmacies, Distribution Centers, and Home Office along with UDB in the Home Office. 95% of all data necessary for successful Walmart operations flows through an Informix database. Provided subject matter expertise on entire set of procedures associated with Walmart's Informix databases for 250+ distribution centers, while completing engineering task scripting and change implementations, upgrades, migrations, and configuration of new database servers. Solidified cross-platform UDB team by documenting standardized operating procedures into single repository and emphasizing automation of routine tasks to manage 300+ UDB servers. ● Eliminated 200 hours of manual tasks within first six months of joining UDB team by creating scripts to perform standardized installations.● Drove server migrations to current hardware, OS, Informix versions, resulting in significant reduction of incidence tickets, support time, and operational costs.● Scripted audit configuration to maintain compliance for 4,650 servers in Walmart Store chain, saving over a year installation and configuration time. Show less

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Analyzed alternative processes to provide the C-RAM Business Management Directorate with increased visibility to direct execution of government funding across hundreds of projects. Designed automated solution which consolidates and summarizes input from existing corporate accounting and finance systems to generate bottoms-up analysis and reports supporting both top-level summarization and drill-down analysis. Briefed executive leadership on proposed solution, which represented customer… Show more Analyzed alternative processes to provide the C-RAM Business Management Directorate with increased visibility to direct execution of government funding across hundreds of projects. Designed automated solution which consolidates and summarizes input from existing corporate accounting and finance systems to generate bottoms-up analysis and reports supporting both top-level summarization and drill-down analysis. Briefed executive leadership on proposed solution, which represented customer savings of $75K/year.● Granted DoD Secret Security Clearance. Show less

Huntsville, Alabama Area

Teamed with Department of Defense (DoD) Business Management customers to design and build application that optimized resource requirements and funding to contractors based on funding source, contractor skillsets, rates, and availability, as well as tracked adherence to approved plan.