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I am a highly skilled Big Data Engineer with over 18 years experience at the Bank Of New Zealand, (BNZ), part of National Australia Bank Group. I am a versatile professional who has held various high level roles including Kaizen Insights Manager, Senior Organisational Reporting Consultant, Senior Implementation Specialist and Business Process Specialist.I have extensive knowledge in sourcing data from a highly varied range of data sources, including a range of relational data base environments, txt files, scraping data from websites into structured files, structured and semi structured flat files. I am highly skilled in the ingestion of these data sources/files into a file/object storage environments such as HDFS, Amazon S3, etc. I am well versed in protecting data to preserve the authenticity of the data, lineage and reliability through the use of structure ingestion tools such as Informatica BDM, as well as tactical solutions such as Sqoop and Alteryx to enable delivery of results. In addition, I am highly skilled in the use of Big Data (Spark, Python, HIVE, Impala) technologies to work with object storage to produce highly robust and reusable data sets for use in additional analysis, downstream processes, reporting, etc.I have developed a reputation for being an innovative and motivated team player who independently learns new tools and techniques, sharing my knowledge and delivering workshops and training opportunities to benefit my team and organisation.

Listed skills include Business Process Improvement, Stakeholder Management, Requirements Gathering, Business Requirements, and 13 others.