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Suwanee, GA, US

Atlanta, GA, US

Hands-on Lead Data Engineer participating in building an event-driven Data Lake using AWS Database Migration Services and other custom ingestion patterns via Python. Services include DMS, AWS EventBridge, Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, Glue, Kinesis Firehose with data stored in s3 and reporting made available through Athena and Splunk. Working on a PoC.

Atlanta, GA, US

Enhanced existing DBT (Data Build Tool) application that transforms data in the client’s Snowflake data warehouse. Enhancements included adding new attributes to existing models and building complex unit tests using macros with Jinja templating language for parameterization.Developed and documented a repeatable framework for forklifting 400+ tables from.

Atlanta, GA, US

Developing Python-based AWS applications using Python boto3, API Gateway, Lambda, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB. CI/CD using CloudFormation, Serverless Framework and Jenkins.Contributed to various Lambda driven APIs whose purpose is to return json data from tables that lives in Elasticsearch indexes and AWS Aurora (RDS). Also enhanced ingestion processes of.

Atlanta, GA, US

Building out the Analytics Hub project using Cloudera Hadoop (CDH5) Responsible for design and implementation of our HDFS directory structure as the backbone of a Data Lake strategy. Implementation included building Sqoop jobs for bulk transfer of structured assets from Oracle and Netezza to HDFS. Participated in the design of HDFS permissions, group.

Atlanta, GA, US

Responsible for Netezza performance tuning of new and existing analytic queries and provided guidance to data architects new to Netezza on maximizing effectiveness of MPP architecture. Analyzed Netezza Plan Files for determining performance bottlenecks. Responsible for capacity planning within Netezza platform. Led PoC to demonstrate the power of Hadoop as.

Atlanta, GA, US

Designed and developed various ELT solutions (new & enhanced) within our Netezza / Informatica BI stack.

San Diego, California, US

Ticketmaster / LiveNation Integration:ETL lead on a very large integration project to implement a new Teradata 13.10 platform after the merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment. The project combined multiple disparate source systems into a single EDW environment with hundreds of source tables and flat files. Electronic Arts:ETL lead of.

Atlanta, GA, US

Lead Informatica developer on numerous substantial data warehouse initiatives that tracked and summarized clickstream data from the users and advertisers on the AutoTrader.com website. Metrics included impressions, clicks and click-through rates to measure the effectiveness of online Ad campaigns.

Dallas, TX, US

Developed ETL scripts on both Teradata and Oracle using Korn shell scripting and RDBMS utilities such as MultiLoad, FastLoad, FastExport, BTEQ using UNIX wrapper type processing.Migrated existing Oracle-to-Teradata load scripts from the older style ETL framework to Informatica. This consisted of a combination of proprietary UNIX-based ETL wrapper scripts.

Uxbridge, West London, GB

Part of Teradata development team tasked with adding enhancements to the Sales Edit application for processing incoming bottler data. The Sales Edit processes daily incoming bottler flat-files after first verifying file layout. Data is then collected into staging tables via MultiLoad. From there invoice headers and lines move separately via BTEQ through.

Developed ETL processes on both Teradata and Oracle using korn shell scripting. Teradata utilities included MultiLoad, FastLoad, FastExport, BTEQ. Oracle utilities included SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader.

Dallas, TX, US

Developed sophisticated budget models in Excel capable of running dynamic “what-if” scenarios for budget planning. Tracked and reported subsequent budget vs. actual variances. Monthly analyses required obtaining knowledge in broadband technologies including cable, telephony and high-speed data as well as proper construction practices and procedures.

Worldwide, OO

Member of audit teams tasked with testing corporate financial statements for compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Participated in testing of controls and substantive tests of transactions related to accounting cycles. Performed statistical analysis of financial statements comparing resulting ratios with industry benchmarks to.