Kyle Cooper Email & Phone Number

Covington, Ky, Us

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Responsible for defining a comprehensive separation strategy and coordinating all projects associated with the successful migration of applications to the new GE Aerospace business in support of the separation of the General Electric Company.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

- Architected a serverless, event-driven system processing commercial engine and aircraft configuration changes in near real-time into a unified Asset data model, ensuring alignment to the most accurate Asset data across over 40 applications within GE Aerospace.- Led a Data Domain initiative across GE Aerospace to reduce data copies and bring consumers closer to the source of truth while still supporting various operational and analytical access patterns, enabling the business to use more timely and accurate data in a performant manner.- Launched a Custom Cloud Architecture Community across GE Aerospace, facilitating discussions amongst over 40 architects on development standards, community initiatives, and technical growth opportunities.- Accelerated a decentralization initiative across GE Aerospace by building and developing communities of Cloud Network and Access Administrators across the business to enable self-sufficient teams that function autonomously to drive success across the organization.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

- Designed a unified Asset Data Model by merging the best data available across 9 isolated data sources storing 50+ years of asset data to ensure the business is making decisions with the best data available.- Drove the implementation of a Data Strategy across the CEO & Service organization focused on reducing data copies and aligning our data processes with our business processes by leveraging the CAP Model to secure support and alignment across both technical and business leaders.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

- Developed an automated pipeline for conducting security validation and implementation of self-service AWS IAM requests, reducing the cycle time for implementation across 6500+ IAM requests while enhancing the security posture across all 57 GE Aerospace AWS accounts.- Designed an Analytic Workbench software product empowering analytic inventors to seamlessly build and deploy analytics directly into production environments, eliminating over 10 weeks of re-coding effort per analytic to streamline operational efficiency and productivity.- Architected a cutting-edge serverless data exchange service, integrating mutual SSL authentication alongside client authentication protocols, to securely transfer data between GE and its joint venture partners in a secure and near-real time manner.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

- Led the re-design of GE Aviation's Big Data Analytics job supporting commercial airline customers, reducing time to market by 33% for new analytics while improving stability through automation and re-use.- Migrated GE Aviation's full suite of Commercial analytics to a cloud-hosted Hadoop platform, saving $1.5MM by decommissioning the on-premises platform.- Enhanced the premiere analytic suite for the GE90 engine line to monitor 2x engine components, support 6x customer growth, and realize $65+MM in customer contracts.- Developed multiple Java analytics utilizing the MapReduce framework to monitor and notify commercial customers of potential engine failures, avoiding $30+MM of potential maintenance cost.- Deployed Java enhancements to support tracking critical engineering flight parameters for streaming engine flight data across our 36K assets.

Cincinnati, Oh, Us

Digital Data Services Cloud Migration LeaderDigital Data Delivery3rd Rotation, Feb. 2015 - July 2015I led the migration of GE Aviation's web services environment to Amazon Web Services. These services support applications across GE Aviation, including MyGEAviation.com, our main customer portal with over 20,000 registered users.Accomplishments:- Designed and implemented a hosting environment in AWS for GE Aviation's web services, meeting strict security requirements while improving performance compared to our internal environment.- Led a POC of New Relic for performance monitoring in the cloud with automated generation of incident tickets in Service-Now.- Assisted in the design and implementation of the GemfireXD POC, to cache data from our web services, and a CI/CD pipeline, to automate code deployment to our cloud environment.Platform Implementation ArchitectProduct & Platform Services4th Rotation, August 2015 - January 2016I supported the Teradata Replatforming efforts during this rotation, while delivering core infrastructure automation for GE Aviation's Cloud Platform Team.Accomplishments:- Drove the migration of over 100 GB of commercial Asset data from Teradata to Oracle RAC, enabling consumption by both reporting and web service layers.- Automated the installation of Nginx as both a web server and proxy, supporting both SSL and SSO integration, to provide a consistent, repeatable installation for Aviation’s Internal Cloud and AWS environments.- Facilitated the Digital Review Board meetings for the GE Aviation IT Executive Team to support project approval and funding decisions for all IT projects.

Louisville, Ky, Us

Mobile DeveloperMarketing IT1st Rotation, Jan. 2014 - Sep. 2014I led the development of multiple upgrades to the GE Appliances Trade Catalog mobile application. Accomplishments: - Integrated with Oracle WebCenter Services to reduce cycle time from 6 weeks to 1 hour to modify application resources. - Key upgrades include enhanced search capabilities and the integration of an analytics engine. - Provided a video management solution to the business to save $56k annually.Cloud ArchitectTAS Cloud Enablement - Edge Team2nd Rotation, Sep. 2014 - Feb. 2015I worked alongside one other team member to migrate two business critical marketing applications to Amazon Web Services.Accomplishments: - Architected, Developed, and Deployed two critical applications to AWS - Passed the Amazon Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level exam - Leveraged Java, JSTL, Jenkins, and Endeca

Louisville, Ky, Us

I worked with the ERP+ Supply Chain team to lead our FTI application into production as well as simplify user provisioning processes.Accomplishments:- Led our FTI application into production and delivered 4 weeks early- Led the simplification process to automate user provisioning processes- Automated an Excel scorecard to report on quarterly projects

Louisville, Ky, Us

I worked with the Connected Home Web Services team to automate manual processes, find standard solutions to difficult problems faced, and develop detailed test cases. I also owned a field test for the summer where I worked closely with both the technical and business teams.Accomplishments:- Owned a field test where I determined product issues, developed tests to replicate the issue, found solutions to the issues, and reported the results to the business team- Used PL/SQL and Tibco Designer to automate manual processes- Drove a standard solution to a major connectivity issue the team faced- Wrote and developed detailed test cases for both my work and others

Louisville, Ky, Us

I worked with the IT Service Management team to customize an instance of Service-Now for General Electric Appliances. I directly worked with creating the incident form and finding the best solution for the Data Center team to manage their incidents.Accomplishments:- Used JavaScript to automate multiple tasks on the Incident form- Used JavaScript to calculate yearly costs from financial data imported from Excel- Developed reports within Service-Now for the Data Center team- Integrated Incident reporting for Data Center team into general Incident form