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Eden Prairie, MN, US

• Founded besys to assist small- to mid-sized businesses to compete and increase profitability by applying Fortune 500 capabilities in data science, technology architecture, and new technology identification
• Worked with business owners/senior management to identify problems or new business areas, and developed proposals and project plans to implement solutions
• Used a variety of data science methods to solve customer problems, including time-series, geospatial analysis, regression analysis, cluster analysis, PCA, neural networks, and others.
• Increased retail client profits an average of 11%, logistics clients 6%, and reduced manufacturing client unscheduled downtime by 37%
• Successfully maintaining a consistent 6-12 month ROI for clients on consulting feesPlease see Projects section of my profile for details on selected projects.Software tools used in data science projects include: R.

Was responsible for the overall architecture of a production distance learning SaaS application with global clients in an Agile and Continuous Integration environment. Areas of focus included integration with third party services, development of an analytics environment, refactoring and code retirement efforts, performance improvements, and deep dive.

A commercial spin-off of International Simulations and Training systems, focused upon advanced training solutions, natural language processing, and networking systems. The timeline of this position was concurrent with ISTS, on an as-needed basis.

• Member of CTO's team, working on CEO-directed programs for DoD and commercial clients, including a $120 million federal program. Areas of emphasis included: advanced technologies, modeling and simulation, technology.
• Architecture and successful implementation of a $120 million dollar federal program focusing upon information fusion and machine learning
• Lead architect for a multi-million dollar federal program focusing upon modeling and simulation
• Identifying and developing relationships with companies for strategic partnerships, prior to hand-off to CEO
• Member of CEO's core technology advisory team, focusing upon emerging and advanced technologies and options
• Hired and managed an 4 person electrical engineering team

• IT employee #3 of a startup telephone company acquiring GTE Iowa properties to become the #13 largest ILEC, responsible for the rapid development and implementation of UNIX systems architecture to support the.
• Within 4 months, grew the environment from nothing to a $4 million UNIX environment, comprised of three high-availability clusters, and several single servers, enabling processing for provisioning, customer support.
• Responsible for the stand-up of the Central Office Engineering Program from GTE on an Iowa Telecom system. COEP held all CAD diagrams, component and financial information for each central office, and was a core.

Des Moines, Iowa, US

• Provided pre-sales enterprise system and network architecture and post-sales support and contract systems, network, and firewall engineering for a value-added reseller
• Responsible for executing the system engineering contract for the Internet gateway for a major government entity, providing engineering and operational support of core router, firewall, and mail gateway with no outages.
• Lead engineer on an on-site contract for a global seed genetics client, providing HQ firewall management support, and designing and managing their initial computational genetics platforms, ensuring maximum I/O.
• Provided systems and statistical analysis support for the marketing research team of a publishing company, focusing on SQL query design and performance tuning, and statistical analysis including cluster analysis.

Boston, MA, US

• In a two-fold position, was responsible for all aspects of the GECFS operational UNIX environment, as well as a member of the Emerging Technologies team. Highlights include:
• Managed all aspects of a multi-million dollar UNIX enterprise server environment for a global leasing services company, growing environment from 2 to 12 enterprise servers
• Managed UNIX environment employees and contractors, responsible for hiring, termination, tasking and reviews
• Developed budget for UNIX environment operations and foreseen capitalized projects, resulting in 15% lower operating costs and a 34% decrease in budget variances
• Reviewed UNIX environment support contracts, and developed a consolidation plan resulting in a $18,000/year cost savings
• Collaborated with and backed-up senior DBAs in support of a multibillion dollar data value Oracle environment, working on database architecture, developing SQL and PL/SQL queries, and performance tuning

Eden Prairie, MN, US

Was responsible for all IT in a mid-sized, family-owned manufacturing company, including desktops, servers, ERP application, and special projects. Developed business cases, budgets, coordinated external vendors, and project management.For specific projects, please see the Projects section of my profile.