Six month contracting position for DRC, a leader in the Survey and Assessment field. Working with the Automotive Solutions team. Position Overview: working as a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer, playing a crucial role in migrating the data environment to Amazon RedShift. Responsible for driving the migration process, leveraging my expertise to make architectural decisions, and collaborating with a team to ensure a seamless transition.

Actively researching Artificial Intelligence, Prompt Engineering, and changes in the Data Engineering field over the past 3 years. Volunteered at Kwaai Labs, a non-profit AI Lab, and worked with the AI for Life Sciences working group.Entered an AI Hackathon for AWS. Some of the Apps I generated:1. Used this to come up with ideas for the Hackathon: AI Hackathon Prompt Generator @ https://partyrock.aws/u/josher19/ZECh-mgdI/AI-Hackathon-Prompt-Generator2. Have a complex legal or medical document that you want explained to a Senior in high school or a 5th grader? Try my Text Summarizer @ https://partyrock.aws/u/josher19/si7oX85CG/Summarizer%3A-Simplifying-Complex-Ideas-for-All-AgesA couple of Email related Apps based on discussions at Kwaai:3. Need help categorizing your emails? Try my Email Categorizer @ https://partyrock.aws/u/josher19/zO-h7RBhk/Email-Categorizer4. Need help responding to emails? Try the Email Response Generator @ https://partyrock.aws/u/josher19/N4thF9wsy/Email-Response-GeneratorA couple health related Apps -- for educational purposes only (can't guarantee accuracy of results):5. Drug Side Effect Lookup @ https://partyrock.aws/u/josher19/k7JmK83xJ/Drug-Side-Effect-Lookup6. Want Anti-inflammatory Diet suggestions or know someone with Multiple Sclerosis? Try the MS Assistant @ https://partyrock.aws/u/josher19/SqsYGC4NC/MS-Assistant

Key highlights:- Large, highly complex Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for Pharmaceutical companies and contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO's) with no-code integrations- Contributed code in many places in the application, including to migration of code from Sails JS to Express and from Node JS to Typescript- Worked close with Mobile iOS team when developing endpoints- Worked closely with automated testing team while improving code coverage for the backend API- Responsible for Data Migration framework for MongoDB Schema upgrades and other data migrations that would be run during customer upgrades- Improved security around authentication and our AWS S3 storage- Eventually became de-facto backend code owner on Tandem, our Augmented Reality headset with built in Audio/Video Chat and QR Code scanning. Also worked closely with our iOS Mobile team to ensure it communicated with our iOS App via a pub-nub.- Worked closely with the Product team on integrations with external systems, including backend code to communicate with Zebra Printer via REST Endpoints

Worked with the Director of Data Analytics to bring cutting edge analytical methods and technologies to bear on the problems faced by all areas of the company, from sales to personnel management. Transform business needs into data requirements, and work with analysts, development & DevOps teams, database architects, and IT to craft and automate solutions that drive success throughout the organization.Fed data from a wide variety of internal and external sources including Slack conversations with customers and Twitter feeds to predict learning trends, churn rate, and make recommendations based previously viewed courses.

Primary Responsibilities○ Meet with CTO and other Architects on a weekly basis.○ Provide architectural blueprints and technical leadership to our Development team○ Write enterprise-level applications and services.○ Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product platform○ Review pre-existing code and provide recommendations to improve performance and maintainability.○ Add/modify code, perform enhancements that integrate with existing code, and implement new features.○ Create inline and supplementary documentation for existing and new code.○ Mentor and provide guidance to other team members.○ Proactively look for ways to make the company better.○ Interpret business requirements to articulate the business needs to be addressedTechnical competencies:○ Proficiency with Javascript and AWS technologies.○ Ability to work independently with limited supervision.○ Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where things change quickly.○ Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts and designs to non-developers.○ Ability to maintain a disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance.○ Experience with RESTful technologies.○ Experience leveraging open source projects.○ Proficiency with Git version control.Skills○ Proficiency programming Node.js / Javascript○ Experience using Amazon Web Services (AWS Lambda, S3, Kinesis, SQS, SES, Redshift, etc).○ Experience with Data Pipelines and ETL systems.○ Experience with Docker.○ Proficiency with with NoSQL○ Proficiency in relational databases such as Postgres and AWS Redshift○ Proficiency with Test Driven Development.○ Experience with modern JavaScript libraries.○ Familiarity with AWS Kinesis, and other stream processing technology.○ Proficiency with monitoring systems such as Grafana, Kibana, and AWS Cloudwatch.○ Detailed understanding of web technologies, including web services and web application servers.

Scrum Master and Team Lead of group that creates Data Pipelines which saves data into our Data Warehouse (AWS Redshift) for consumption by our Data Scientists and Business Analysts.Amazon Web Services Skills:- AWS Lambdas- AWS Redshift- AWS EMR (Spark)- Amazon Kinesis- AWS EC2 / Docker- AWS S3- Amazon SQS- AWS CloudFormationCurrently Learning:- AWS SageMaker- AWS DMS- AWS MLCurrent Programming Languages: - Node- Python- ScalaIntegration experiences (via REST API's):- Slack- Pingboard- Kibana / ELK- AWS CLI- Google Docs- Internal REST API's (CBT Nuggets)- etc

Helped a non-profit Electric Vehicle educational website apply for a Google Grant and when funding fell through, managed and sourced programmers to build an EV Charging Station Finder.http://www.4evriders.org/locator/

System Integration of an Enterprise Content Management System with an innovative, Mobile-first Web Application. Back-end development in Node JS calling REST services (mostly written in Scala). Front-end written in Angular JS. Served as Scrum Master for the first three months of the project. The web application was designed to use anticipatory computing to guide U.S. health plan customers to proactively stay healthy while saving money.

An International Comparative Study for Assessing & Improving the Quality of Higher Education: undertaking the world’s first large scale assessment of higher education learning. My role focused on a demographic questionnaire used in China.

Consultant brought in to improve the Front End User Interface of their core product, and the companies mission critical data import module (server side and client side code).LightMiner Systems sells an appliance that meets the critical needs of Data Scientists: full native SQL and R support, plug-and-play ODBC/JDBC integration with standard BI/reporting tools, and up to 10 terabytes of in-memory storage - all at a price that makes the decision to buy very easy. Due to the integration of several cutting-edge technologies with specialized software tuned for performance, the LightMiner Data Appliance can shift data scientists from "query, wait, grab lunch, get results" to a "query, get results" pathway that can improve the ability to iterate in real-time, resulting in better results delivered fast.

Moonlighting on some independent web and mobile application development projects.

Initially lead small team that translated POS from Spanish to English & Chinese. Responsible for designing and monitoring Custom IC Prepay Card system. Looked at possibility of e-Sourcing to reduce motor oil costs. Developing Financial Analytics & Reports for the Board of Directors and my boss (the President & COO). Website redesign for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Helped a small IT/Business consulting company grow and develop into a successful international trade and manufacturing company. ERP Consulting clients ranged in size from large MNC like Emerson Motors to small German-owned photovoltaic manufacturer doing business in China.

Foreign Expert Xi'an, China 2003 to 2005* Gave an Advanced Programming in Linux class and a Java Programming class to seniors at Northwestern Polytechnic University (NWPU).* Lectured on Web Design, Advanced Java, "High-Tech" Product Life Cycle, Extreme Programming, and Design Patterns courses to graduate and undergraduate students at Xi'an Science & Technology University.* Taught IT and International Marketing at a Singaporean Business Training Center.* Gave training seminar on Design Patterns to programmers from NEC, Fujitsu, and Greatwall at the newly completed Xi'an Hi-Tech Center.

Variety of consulting projects, including:* Web programming for an on-line bookstore project including secure login, templates, and 20,000 lines of SQL Stored Procedures.* Competitive Analysis for GetIt Multimedia, Singapore. Implemented critical chat program for on-line training courses given in South-East Asia.* Programming

During the early days of the World Wide Web, worked on many at that time "New Projects", involving OEM online Maps and Driving Directions, such as writing a client API, early adoption of XML, access to Starbucks locations via the Palm IV, and so on. In product marketing I concentrated on helping bring our services to New Markets, such as Germany and Japan, and expanding our product portfolio.