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Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Current focus: Overall technical delivery responsibilities to migrate existing on-premises big data platform to Microsoft Azure's Data Platform.Key metrics:Rationalizing 20+ petabytes of dataMigrating 100+ million filesIntegration with 450+ upstream source systems18,000+ tables8,000+ ETL jobsUser Landscape:2,500+ data and analytics consumers500+ data engineersKey Technologies:Azure SynapseAzure DatabricksAzure Data FactoryDelta LakeAzure Purview

Detroit, Mi, Us

Technical leadership and oversight of API development, Data Operations, Automation, and Solution Architecture for Deposits, Mortgage, and Invest lines of business. Manage design, delivery, and operation teams consisting of 90+ technologists (Charlotte/Philadelphia/India) for a $40MM annual technology portfolio. • Always-On Program – Leading design of strategic initiative to provide always-on capabilities for bank’s authentication and dashboard rendering components. Strategy is to reduce dependency from 20+ to 2 core systems and leverage AWS resiliency and availability capabilities; foundation is a last-known-good value DynamoDB data store, FaaS on event-based architecture. • Savings Toolkit – Created a patentable capability that allows consumers to create accelerators (i.e. Round-Ups) that drive savings into sub-accounts of their savings account. Custom built subledger system is anchored on Exadata platform with a data model to support a 3ms flat response curve irrespective of data volumes and processing loads.• Championed effort to rewrite bank monolith API into 60+ microservices built on a containerized architecture hosted on OpenShift platform. Cloud engineering: self-healing with unhealthy node detection/restarting along with capacity elasticity.• Incorporated DevSecOps into API SDLC and transitioned production deployments from quarterly to daily.• Lead strategy to develop a stove-piped stack implementation to allow blue/green and canary deployments to effectively eliminate planned down time, as well as increase quality of major releases by reducing/eliminating post launch defects.• Developed architectural blueprint and roadmap to migrate aging contact center technology to AWS hosted Contact Center as Services. Foundational to Omnichannel strategy, enabling interaction across channels while maintaining user context.• Retooled problematic (slow) ETL engine and data model of back office Exadata data warehouse to regain SLA compliance.

King Of Prussia, Pa, Us

Lead the technology department comprising of 10 scrum teams made up of 60+ onshore/offshore software engineering professionals (Philadelphia/Boston/Ukraine). Overall technical responsibilities for portfolio of 20+ applications. - Championed the efforts to build a 400+TB data warehouse to support 150 billion annual ad serving transactions. Built on Netezza appliance farm with MicroStrategy to support executive dashboards and self-service analytics. - Key member of leadership team that transitioned the organization to the adoption of Scaled Agile for Enterprises (SAFe).- Removed silos of specialization by reorganizing teams and cross training SME’s to reduce hand offs and risks, support efficient work distribution, and promote ownership and accountability.- Created a DevOps team that leveraged TeamCity and Octopus Deploy to implement a Continuous Delivery strategy; transitioned to a “deploy on demand” environment from an error prone manual process.

Bonita Springs, Florida, Us

Overall technical responsibilities for suite of Cloud-based SaaS products; establishing the company’s technical vision and leading all aspects of product development, infrastructure management and internal operations. Built a team to support development efforts by evaluating existing staff, identified/hired new talent to ensure proper staffing levels to meet established goals.- Stabilized legacy application prone to failures and performance issues; built data warehouse to track user activity, application performance and errors; leveraged data to focus break-fix efforts; reduced errors 85%. - Focused on development of next generation platform, leveraging .NET, Azure (PaaS) and MongoDB (IaaS). Platform design founded on CQRS, and asynchronous messaging via Azure Service Bus.- Built custom multi-lingual single-page application (SPA) solution on .NET, hosted on Azure (PaaS) for Chevron Oil. SPA provided rich user experience built with HTML5 and JavaScript for iPads and desktop browsers, maximizing code reuse.

Technical leader responsible for design and development of marketing solutions including campaign management, data marts, ETL and data hygiene to support high-volume of regulated member communications.- Delivered oft delayed and over-budget Marketing Database project that was in disarray in first year. Solution comprised of a Teradata data warehouse, Ab Initio ETL, and Unica Campaign.- Partnered with departments across the Enterprise; LOB stakeholders, ETL, Infrastructure Planning, PMO, DBA, Data Modeling, and FTP Operations to drive collaboration and focus combined efforts on delivering project.

Chelmsford, Ma, Us

Architected and developed solutions for Fortune 500 corporations by providing technical direction for database and distributed marketing solutions. Led team of 50+ engineers across disciplines. Partnered with business stakeholders to define technology vision, process and development standards, application of design patterns, and best practice guidance. - Created Customer Data Management (CDM) framework with SSIS and Trillium used to standardize the cleansing, matching, and loading of customer data into marketing database solutions.- Built a platform on Netezza and SSAS to provide advanced analytics/reporting of complex customer spending behavior and marketing campaign effectiveness for retail clients with large data sets (i.e. PetSmart, Toys “R” Us)- Designed and led the development efforts of a strategic initiative to create a general-purpose service-oriented application framework (SODA) built on .NET, MSMQ, Clustered SQL Server, SSIS, & SSRS used to create customer facing web solutions.- Championed use of SharePoint server to foster centralization of artifacts and collaboration across the Enterprise.

Designed the application framework and lead implementation of core class libraries for the company’s foreign exchange trading system.

Ca

Key player in the design and implementation of strategic component-based Point of Sales systems for convenience store market.

Began career in roles of Programmer Analyst and Senior Programmer for Mercury Tool & Mfg. and Pearl Computer System, Inc. Gained valuable experience in various business areas, including inventory control, purchase orders, sales orders, accounts receivable and accounts payable. Additionally, hired as a Consultant to design and develop a distributed, extranet-based banking application using Microsoft DNA technologies and architecture.