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Norwell, Massachusetts, US

Boulder, CO, US

• Manage a multi regional Snowflake environment for internal and external customers as well as data replication and data pipelines.
• Managed all aspects of a multi-region Snowflake environment for our internal customers as well as the data product in the Snowflake Marketplace for the external customers.
• Partnered with the owner of the product in the Snowflake Marketplace to leverage any new Snowflake features that would benefit the data product, growing the adoption rate by 30% and helping it be the fastest growing.
• Oversaw the data replication to several hundred tables supporting the external data product in Snowflake, responding to any data issues or data lag greater than 20 minutes.
• Created alert sensors for any server or replication issues to help attain a 99.99 up-time, where my team were on call 24/7/365 to handle any issues.
• Supervised the implementation of a database deployment tool to streamline the twice weekly releases of code changes to Snowflake and Oracle for a more streamlined and failsafe process and cutting each deployment time.

New York, New York, US

• Oversaw business intelligence, systems integrations, and data conversions during a 6 month $200M integration of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt data into HarperCollins systems.Position eliminated on 1/7/2022.
• Selected by senior leadership to be the subject matter expert (SME) and workstream lead of a roughly $200M Houghton Mifflin Harcourt system and data integration into HarperCollins.
• Supervised resources and an aggressive timeline for data engineering, business intelligence, and application projects during a 6-month transition period, ensuring HMH business ran smoothly and efficiently during the.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Guided team of 3 Developers accountable for business intelligence, system integration, operational strategy, system development, and data governance.Directed the development of data mart, MicroStrategy implementation.
• Orchestrated strategy, design, and launch of a data mart from over 200 data sources serving 250 people and supporting an annual revenue of approximately $200M.
• Architected the MicroStrategy metadata layer for a centralized reporting environment, enabling users to access reports accompanying critical decisions.
• Designed summary and aggregation tables for more efficient reporting and achieving a decreased response time of as much as 30 minutes to 10 seconds.
• Instituted automated data integrity checking, resulting in an average of 10-20 data error / issues per week identified and corrected to support the general data governance initiative.
• Drove power-users and data scientists in accessing data for deeper analysis, delivering a 2% boost in net profits.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Championed operational strategy, system development, and systems integration.Managed the successful design, development and implementation of several critical business applications. Spearheaded a process automation.
• Spearheaded development of a cooperative advertising application, managing a yearly budget of $8M.
• Partnered with sales management to architect and implement a forecasting system, improving print runs and budgeting for 1K titles per year.
• Led automation of processes between divisional and corporate systems, enhancing data integrity and enabling team members to get reassigned to other projects.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Served as Lead Developer for business intelligence, operational strategy, system development, and systems integration.Led the creation of the first implementation of a divisional data mart and development of a division.
• Developed a series of systems to manage financials of publication process of 100 programs per year.
• Created a catalog maintenance application to organize both print and web catalogs.
• Designed first divisional data mart for 300 users, achieving a 5% increase in profitability with gross sales of $300M a year.
• Converted 4 PowerBuilder applications and data mart from Sybase to Oracle.
• Built a central reporting portal with static downloadable and live reports.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

System development, system integration and reporting.Managed the support and enhancements of financial and royalty systems and headed the ad-hoc reporting environment.