I guide the business in the design and implementation of a foundational data platform - a robust data asset of trusted, quality data supporting multiple data products across the organization. I collaborate with executives and cross-functional teams across the enterprise to design and implement innovative data products, enhancing data-driven decision-making and supporting business capabilities.I engage with teams of all shapes and sizes to ensure proper data management techniques are in place to support the future of trusted, governed, quality data in all data endeavors within the organization. I actively support implementation of a medallion data architecture for the modern data platform.I guide the business to ensure the foundation for trusted data products exists supporting a modern data platform for enterprise initiatives such as generative AI and new data products.

I led a skilled team of Data Engineering Consultants executing data engineering engagements for an evolving portfolio of businesses and organizations, creating solutions to enhance the efficiency and productivity of business processes. Among my key contributions and achievements, I was involved in the following:Orchestrated pre-sales meetings, analyzing prospective clients' business needs and developing/presenting customized data engineering and visualizations solutions based on each client's unique requirements.Migrated from a SAS legacy platform to the latest Viya 4 solution, modernizing the data stack and data pipeline strategy.Boosted team productivity by over 30% across all consulting engagements by standardizing enablement content for GitHub and Airflow integration, enabling clients to get up to speed faster and handle new & existing client obligations far more effectively and efficiently.Rolled out the "Consulting Minute" training method, further improving the abilities of team members to maximize client success by 15%.Analyzed and revamped the RFP process, standardizing response content to reduce response times by 50%.

I worked hand-in-hand with internal teams to strengthen organizational data standards and utilization, evolving and modernizing the Data Architecture Practice strategy, while continuing to innovate next generation data engineering & integration solutions. Over my time with the organization, I was involved in the following:Leveraged TOGAF practices as the foundational approach for multiple projects to create high-performance, more efficient data integration architectures.Collaborating on design of a PowerBI dashboard providing real-time insights measuring performance vs. business objectives.Conducted intensive research and collaborated with stakeholders across the organization gathering artifacts on what was being used, what the traits of products were, and impact on the organization. I achieved tremendous cost savings and quicker value for application request times by establishing a standard graph databases pattern, enabling repeatability and reuse across the enterprise.

With the Burwood Group, I acted as a strategic partner with the CEO, playing a key role in the successful migration of the legacy project management system to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation. As key parts of my role, I…Was instrumental in the project meeting an aggressive timeline, with the new system fully configured and operating at peak performance prior to the older software no longer functioning by a set date.Engaged with the Business Enablement team to create and implement a data warehouse on Google Cloud Platform to provide critical insights highlighting progress in achieving internal project management metrics.Architected/configured a Fivetran data integration pipeline linking all internal systems with Google BigQuery.

For over 12 years, I excelled during my first tenure with SAS, spearheading the end-to-end planning, design, and implementation of data management systems of all sizes and complexities for Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), BI, and analytics solutions. For key contributions and achievements, I…Executed deep dive analyses of clients' capabilities, creating comprehensive roadmaps outlining existing business processes and leveraging insights to create new data analytics workflows to improve operations.Directed a major project integrating SAS with AWS to provide forecasting analytics, boosting efficiency in the push and pull of data from the cloud by over 70% to maximize client satisfaction.Instilled a collaborative mindset, working closely with key internal stakeholders to develop and deliver world class solutions dramatically improving data quality and analytics capabilities for clients. Clients came from the Manufacturing, Banking, Healthcare, Insurance, Digital Advertising, Education, and other sectors.

With Volvo IT, I was integrally involved in driving the on-time and within budget rollouts of multiple large business intelligence systems for Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) solutions. As such, I was able to…Fostered collaboration with internal stakeholders and creating highly effective development practices to enable more agile development.Showcased my technical expertise by architecting a dynamic Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) framework, increasing the performance of data load for claims data mart by over 20%.Improved query response times for consumer reports by 50% by designing partitioned tables.Helped implement a data profiling tool, resolution time of data quality standardization was enhanced by 50%.

Worked closely with all levels in the organization to provide business intelligence and database administration support for Oracle data warehouse and dimensional reporting data marts. Planned migrations to new database platforms. Designed Forecast-to-Shipment Business Objects semantics layer for end users. Tuned SQL queries. Created Business Objects reports. Trained sales personnel on Infoview reporting product. Configured WebIntelligence and Broadcast Agent tools.

Programmed for load processing and updating of multiple data marts. Set up BMC product suite for performance monitoring. Tuned queries for optimal performance against data marts. Supported SAP database administration as well as on-going web development projects backend SQL and PL/SQL scripts.

Led in the successful development and implementation of a truck remarketing data mart. Co-authored and conducted training classes on data mart reporting with Oracle Discoverer. Designed SQL scripts for the load processing. Designed a dimensional model for a web projects.