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Experieneced Data Engineer w/ Bond & Specialty division.Modernizing data warehousing & reporting in BSI. Primary focus is on ingesting Guidewire Policy Center data and transforming/loading it into Snowflake for downstream analysis. Tools, Tech &

Lead a team in building the first claims DBT (Data Build Tool) ELT cycle (750m+ records)loading snowflake claims data warehouse tables using Guidewire Claim Center data. This paved the way for theconversion of ETL tooling in the claims D&A space for other teams to follow our lead intothe cloud.Built and maintained DBT cycles loading to Snowflake based CWH (Claims DataWarehouse). Mainly financial data related to claims (Allocations & Offers) from Claim Center (historical) and Guidewire (New and future). Contributing member of Claim Center -> Guidewire data reporting transition. Experience with extract, transform, load of Guidewire claims data. (archive, unarchive process as well). Subject Matter Expert on Data Build Tool (Data Build Tool) at USAA for the claims dataanalytics space.Act as an accelerator, helping and consulting with sister teams to adopt DBT faster andwith less pain.Present technical demos and feature presentations to executive management oninnovations in data space (DBT).Production support of ETL cycles in the Claims analytics space.

Assistant tech lead on internal effort to capture and provide detailed claims data fromacross the entire analytics space. Worked in conjunction with vendor to create newinsights and reporting which lead to a 41% increase in USAA's ability to detect and stopfraudulent claim schemes.Facilitated migration of historical and current daily data loads from operational data storeinto Snowflake via ETL and snowflake streams and tasks.Optimized performance of ETL processes via Informatica pushdown SQL to make datawarehouses more performant.Built and maintained Informatica ETL to consume operational claims data andload/transform it by subject area into 'MegaMart' claims data warehouse.

Built and maintained Informatica ETL cycles and IBM Netezza database infrastructuresupporting claims data warehouse reporting.Wrote and maintained bash and python scripts for loading/receiving data files.Helped create python validation framework for checking record counts after ETL runs.

IT Technical Intern working with a Property & Casualty team focused on JAVA development for internal services at USAA. Heavy focus on Rest APIs

IT Technical Intern in Property & Casualty, Data Engineering. Developed ETL project to help with pricing reports for management decisions.

Student worker for Abilene Christian IT department. Handled cyclic hardware swapouts for campus staff and employees. Would collect old machines, duplicate the contents, and load pre-configured Images + prior content to new hardware. New machines would then be delivered to staff. Support of new hardware after being delivered.