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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Manage a team of six full time and seven contracted data engineers. Leading the migration and build out of a new enterprise data warehouse (EDW) in Snowflake. Established a development framework to allow the team to self lead, design, develop, and test resilient and self healing data pipelines and data models using DBT and Airflow. Work to ensure the EDW aligns with security and governance policies and high quality development standards.

San Francisco, California, Us

Primarily responsible for driving company wide data related initiatives across all engineering teams over the last two years. Initiatives include Data Governance and data handling policy updates and training development, transfer of data ownership to individual engineering teams from the central data organization to ensure scalability as SoFi continues to grow, SOX compliant data change process development and roll out, vendor/contract management and overseeing the implementation of a data catalog, and coordination of the migration of our Postgres data warehouse to Snowflake. These were completed across data platform, data engineering, software engineering, data science, and business units as needed.Performed program/project management and scrum master duties for the online data platform, offline data platform, and Data Engineering teams until an engineering reorg. This included implementing a scrum framework across the Data Division.

San Francisco, California, Us

Worked directly with up to seven Product managers, five engineer managers, and their teams, performing project management and scrum master duties. Duties include ensuring Engineering understanding of requirements, managing scope, and coordinating single and multi-team development, testing, and release of requested changes. Responsible for successful delivery of small to large projects, coordinating and communicating prioritization of requested work, project and other necessary communication, cross-team collaboration, status reporting, and identification and implementation of process improvements.

San Francisco, California, Us

Remote management responsible for the growth and performance of a senior project manager in the San Francisco office, with the plan to grow the team in that location prior to organization restructuring.

Helena, Mt, Us

Manage a bureau of two Application Development Supervisors, twenty Application Developers and two Web Developers who provide systems analysis, programming, GIS services, and graphic design for the agency. This bureau designs, develops, implements and maintains over 100 systems and the MDT website in support of the Department’s mission to provide transportation information and services to the public.

Helena, Mt, Us

Directly supervise seven employees, including five application developers/computer systems analysts and two web developers/user experience experts. Responsible for performance management, mentoring, work assignments, project tracking, team building and communication with staff.Work as part of a management team to direct and manage the work of 21 application development staff. This includes defining bureau standards and processes, as well as identifying and researching budget and training needs each fiscal year.Recommend improvement ideas to upper management and assist with planning.Oversee bureau projects and maintenance activities for supported divisions. Projects include a variety of web and application development technologies and often include database design. Responsible for working to establish priorities and communication status to division liaisons.Part of the service management project team, learning about and documenting the business processes and services in the different areas of the Information Services Division (ISD), including the Systems and Operations sections of the Technical Operations Bureau.Responsible for contract negotiation and management, project management and design recommendations for the Aeronautics Suite (AS) vendor service projects.Assist with writing and scoring request for proposals (RFPs) to acquire large, often customized, IT investments.

Helena, Mt, Us

Project Lead/Scrum Master on a multi-year project known as the Aeronautics Suite (AS). Perform project management duties including requirements gathering and documentation, project and resource planning, quality assurance and closeout tasks as sections of the suite are completed. Assist development team with design and development activities. Responsible for customer and management project status reporting and vendor contract negotiations and management.Java developer utilizing MyEclipse to create internal facing applications including an Aeronautics Suite for the MDT Aeronautics Division, a Talent Management System (TMS) for Human Resources and other small projects.Designed Oracle databases for the AS, TMS and Electronic Timesheet Systems (ETS).Perform business analyst/project management roles on multiple projects, including AS, TMS and ETS.Mentor other development staff in areas of expertise.Act as interim Project Lead when necessary on medium and large projects.Create and modify Oracle reports for Engineering division project tracking.

Helena, Us

Designed an Oracle database for the Public Safety Officers Training (POST) system and began business analysis for a new system. Created and updated Oracle forms and reports for the Criminal History Records System (CHRS) and completed minor programming for broker connectivity to the CHRS data.

Owatonna, Mn, Us

Coding experience: Support and enhance Microfocus Cobol code interfacing applications used in rating insurance policies. Regularly write one-shot programs in Easytrieve and mainframe Cobol to create business reports.Project Management experience: organized and communicated with business partners for the rollout of almost five hundred new PCs while allowing regular business operations to continue.

Owatonna, Mn, Us

Coding experience: Support and enhance Microfocus Cobol code interfacing applications used in rating insurance policies. Regularly write one-shot programs in Easytrieve and mainframe Cobol to create business reports.

Bachelor Of Arts, Computer Science

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