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Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

As the Senior Director of Data Architecture, I led teams of 15 data architects and managers to increase operational efficiency on 800+ projects, including:◆ Continuously collaborated with product management and Faction’s strategic partner, Dell, to solve for accelerated service offerings, enabling direct sales by Dell and helping several thousand Dell sales professionals succeed with Faction’s products and services. ◆ Led the execution of pioneering PoCs, demonstrating AI model training and migration between cloud providers, reinforcing key product value propositions for Dell channel sales by 24%.◆ Transitioned the Faction strategic product focus and narrative from multi-cloud data to AI and data by applying rigorous, continuous research and analysis of markets and technical trends.

◆ Managed product strategy and development teams, resulting in an immediate 80% reduction in lost time due to roadblocks, missing information, and communication issues.◆ Built ETL data pipelines and automated deployments, reducing client operational costs by 25% and doubling the enterprise’s addressable market.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

◆ Conducted SE training sessions on “trusted advisor” approaches and architecture, enabling a 50% increase in overall confidence in SE execution strategy and an increase in opportunity identification by at least 25%.◆ Data Warehouse design and implementation for operational and product management reporting and analytics, enabling Tableau visualizations in collaboration with the product management data scientist. ◆ As a non-Sales staff member, ViaWest invited me to the President’s Club to recognize my outstanding impact on sales and overall corporate reven

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

◆ Transitioned Copart auction services to internet-only, resulting in a 2x revenue increase and a 100% elimination of all costs associated with live auctions at salvage yards, resulting in several millions of dollars of annual yard costs and an elimination of costs and safety risks associated with managing salvage yard auctions.◆ Conducted multiple infrastructure consolidation studies in concert with sales teams, generating at least $50 million in pipeline opportunities and $15 million in converted revenue.◆ Conducted pre-sales support and a consolidation study for Mattel Corporation, which not only realized at least $5 million in cost infrastructure savings but also provided strategic plans and roadmaps for at least $20 million in cost savings for Mattel and $15 million pipeline opportunity in sales and services for Sun Microsystems, transforming Sun into a trusted advisor for Mattel.

Lead Architect for Collaboratek developing several portals utilizing IIS, Silverstream, SQL Server and Oracle. BPR consulting for Level(3) process modeling in ARIS. Lead Architect at Broadwing for ATL/COM and VB/COM and SQR utilities integrating Kenan; SQR and Oracle billing applications. Recovered $100K/month lost revenue. Database architect and business analysis for a 1.5 terabyte pharmaceutical marketing data warehouse for SmithKline Beecham.

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Developed new EAI messaging product for DB2 and ODBC in C++. Performance more than 100% faster than the current product. Product more portable and maintainable. Supported a port of NEONet to Informix using Informix CLI. Performed port of NeoNET EAI messaging product to AS/400 in C++ and DB2/CLI..

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Expanded Neon Western consulting team by 5 times from 3 to 15 consultants. Pre-sales support for over $1,000,000 in license sales. Implemented project controls for consulting engagements. Successfully managed over a dozen consulting engagements for Neon.

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Developed, deployed and supported many C++ applications leveraging NEONet, New Era of Networks messaging middleware product and Oracle OCI and Sybase dblib. Ported 1000 lines complex Sybase stored procedures to Oracle in 4 days. Developed OCI implementation techniques for Oracle messaging product for port from dblib. Managed engineering team and provided field support for Neon's first commercially released messaging product.

Performed many full life cycle client-server deployments including specifications, design documentation, front and back end development, client and server procurement, deployment and configuration, software configuration management, data and application migration, application deployment, end user and administrative training, and operational procedures, documentation and operational support. Designed, developed and deployed many C, C++, PowerBuilder and Visual Basic, Sybase and Oracle applications. Designed, developed and many custom integration and reporting applications for Primavera scheduler using C, C++, Lex and Visual Basic.Developed Pro*C applications for to report against an Oracle database. Developed PL/SQL stored procedures for aggregation, translation and transformation of data.

Reston, Virginia, Us