Maria Jackson Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Al, Us

Birmingham, Al, Us

Managed 2 teams of SRE.• ICCON conference talk "'Ironies of Automation' in Software" (https://bit.ly/Ironies-of-automation)

Birmingham, Al, Us

Use metrics and techniques like DORA, SPACE, and Value Stream Mapping to create effective countermeasures at high return on investment.• Lead DevOps Community of Practice• Mentor Associate Engineer

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

Enable AWS and DevOps adoption and implement Infrastructure as Code. Prototype technical solutions used by entire departments. • Code high impact, and highly reused Python applications and templates with 80%-95% code coverage.• Served as Tech Lead for team and for high priority enterprise initiative for business reporting and analytics.• Streamlined new engineer onboarding and cloud onboarding from days to hours for entire BU.• Recently, suggested, planned and moderated an AWS CDK best practices panel with contributors from 4 business units and 2 countries attended by 300 engineers across the enterprise.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Gather requirements, design, develop, and test Spotfire and MicroStrategy solutions. Collaborate with Data Warehouse and BA’s to create dashboards. Manage user permissions and maintain library objects for Spotfire. • Improved and simplified a common team process from 100+ steps to less than 10 steps. Then, proposed and implemented the primary portion of single step automated solution.• Headed UI/UX update for MicroStrategy implementation. Created inline help videos and main portal. Updated main user input; transforming user experience from essentially, “I can’t do it because I forgot my notes” to “I like these new reports because I can actually do it myself." Coordinated team’s development and testing of updated reports.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Supported end-user issues for Spotfire and internal applications. Advised clients on data collection and standardization for reporting. Worked with end users and Data Warehouse to deliver Spotfire dashboards. Provided analysis and testing for developers.• Received Research Contribution Award.• “Maria‘s proactive work for [internal application’s] data and security issues has made a huge difference in the number of support calls.” (Manager’s year-end comments)• Created SQL queries which reduced time spent on several common support processes from minutes to seconds.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Performed lab, field, and greenhouse experiments. Full-time position classified as “temporary.”• Maintained research pipeline of 25,000 plants by standardizing data collection and creating dashboards used by 4 departments.• Simplified data collection process from 100+ spreadsheets to 1 central database.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biochemistry, Cell And Molecular Biology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Chemistry