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Midvale, Ut, Us

Cary, Nc, Us

• Generated $1M/month in savings by migrating all Hive, Spark, EMR workloads, and ad-hoc query environments (~12 Hadoop clusters) to 4 environments running Databricks. • Increased overall end-user ad hoc query performance by 80% with a 90% improvement in query completion rate by optimizing the compute engine, data formats, and end-user training. • Yielded an ~18% increase in end-user query completion rate with a 70-80% improvement in query performance by leading a full EMR audit that led to critical modifications. • Built and managed a team of 1 full-time employee and 4 full-time contractors while establishing the Big Data support organization to manage several multi-tenant clusters. • Developed and maintained the core team initiatives in conjunction with business stakeholders' priorities, as well as specific team wants and needs.

Midvale, Ut, Us

• Optimized a team budget of ~$750,000/year while integrating big data tools and technologies across the organization, as well as supporting all marketing initiatives. • Drove a 25% increase in target population engagement with $200,000+ in additional email revenue per month by integrating custom user fingerprinting leveraging site abandonment data. • Established Big Data initiatives, including reporting structure, tools, and initial projects. • Collaborated with the BI and Marketing groups to identify needs and methods of leveraging Hadoop and Big Data tools to increase marketing and reporting. • Advanced big data initiatives by building and leading operations and development teams. • Maintained and nurtured all vendor relationships and evaluated new vendors. • Embedded Hadoop and big data tools across the organization, providing critical support for the Marketing, EBI, and Operations groups.

Midvale, Ut, Us

• Saved $200,000+/year in vendor agreements by pushing the personalization development team to use big data tools and platforms, providing technical guidance and direction.• Streamlined integration of 2 3rd-party search applications, ultimately leading the search development team to develop a novel in-house search platform using Apache Solr. • Delivered key technical leadership to the Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, DevOps, and Security operations teams, advancing infrastructure goals and functionality. • Empowered team members by facilitating leadership and training on new technologies. • Bolstered performance of eCommerce search platforms and recommendation platforms. • Evaluated, architected, and deployed the initial Hadoop deployment. • Created training and troubleshooting documentation. • Defined initial use cases for using Hadoop and big data in general.

Midvale, Ut, Us

• Directed activities of the Systems, Network, and Security Operations teams. • Offered key architecture support to the Search Development Team. • Enhanced application and systems performance while overseeing design and deployment. • Aligned network upgrades and designs with corporate policy and objectives, setting the course to sustain projected growth. • Strengthened security by upholding IT and information security best practices.

Midvale, Ut, Us

Midvale, Ut, Us