Founder, President, and Principal Strategist at the Vagner Group, LLC, providing services in data strategy, analytics, artificial intelligence, data science, cloud computing, and executive consulting. Previous client engagements include:• Chief Technology Officer for a restaurant technology startup using Snowflake and AWS to provide AI solutions in the areas of pricing, menu optimization, and market analysis.• Product Strategist conducting a solution-gap analysis for a graph analytics software provider.• Strategic Data Architect for an independent pharmacy cooperative. Consolidated data assets, migrated infrastructure to the cloud, and streamlined data operations.• Chief Architect for a global display manufacturer leading the technical effort to develop a brick-and-mortar digital marketing platform on Azure using IOT, computer vision, and ML attribution algorithms.

Responsible for all aspects of technology at a financial technology startup with an AI solution for themortgage industry. Managed the technology organization of up to thirty resources across development,engineering, infrastructure, analytics and reporting, security, support, and quality assurance. Designed and directed the architecture and implementation of a cloud-based AI solution and APIservices ecosystem for the ingestion of data and delivery of insights to operational platforms.

Responsible for the cross-industry solutions team focused on identifying market and technology trends, their impact to customer interactions with the consumer, and bringing new capabilities to market through organic development, strategic partnerships or M&A. Currently manage a portfolio of consumer engagement solutions such as loyalty and offer management, marketing automation and analytics, mobile applications, voice of the consumer, and conversational ordering with a bias towards data-driven capabilities.

Responsible for developing the strategy to help customers leverage their data with analytics techniques to advise or automate value-driving decisions enabled in the business process of the core NCR hospitality solutions. Managed solutions driving data monetization of hospitality transaction data via data aggregation service and industry benchmark application.

Responsible for managing all data and analytics activities at TGI Fridays in support of finance, operations, digital, and marketing. Activities include data strategy and governance, insight development and delivery, data science and advanced analytics, and vendor management.

Direct and manage team responsible for enabling scalable business intelligence and advanced analytics capabilities for all Cox Automotive business units. Partner with business and product owners to design and develop next generation of data products and services for Cox Automotive customers. Worked with technology teams to develop and maintain the overall technical vision and alignment of analytics solutions for the enterprise.

Responsible for the strategy, development, and execution of Revolution R Enterprise as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) in the cloud. Architect and product manager for Revolution R Enterprise in the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Manage technical relationships with all cloud platform vendors and partners as related to cloud deployments and offerings. Lead solution architect for all customer deployments on private or public clouds.

Trusted advisor to clients through the selection, design, development and deployment of data analysis solutions. Work with clients to understand business drivers and processes then assess the best technologies, strategies, and models to leverage enterprise data for maximum benefit to the business. Provide guidance and leadership on all aspects of data analysis including tools, technologies, architectures, data strategy and management, and modeling to provide superior decision support systems.

Architect for business application solutions (CRM, ERP, BIDW, Analytics) on Sun-Solaris platforms. Provided infrastructure architecture and sizing, implementation support, performance tuning and data center consolidations and virtualization services to 60+ customers using Oracle, Oracle Applications, Siebel, Oracle Data Warehousing, and Solaris.

Lead Promotions Consultant for implementation of Manugistics NetWORKS Promotions in retail and consumer packaged goods clients. Led client and consulting resources through system requirements development and business process analysis. Led data identification, collection, validation, and transformation activities. Led statistical modeling for market response models and configuration of event-lift planning solution. Directed activities of implementation teams of 3 to 10 consultants and customer resources. Primary technical and implementation resource for NetWORKS Promotions sales pursuits.

Siebel subject matter expert and infrastructure architect and manager for large deployments of Siebel at retail and telecommunications clients.

Solution architect or project lead for multiple Siebel implementations. Guided customers through requirements analysis and helped customer adjust business processes to better match Siebel out-of-box functionality. Created functional design for multiple call centers and sales support systems. Managed resources involved in requirements analysis, design, development, testing, data conversion, and deployment on multiple implementations. Wrote proposals, performed product demonstrations, provided business and technical assessments of customer requirements, and met with directors and C-level business executives.

Microsoft technical architect implementing a web based commerce solution for a global machine tool manufacturer using Windows 2000, Site Server 3.x, SQL Server 7.0, Visual Basic 6.0, and ASP. Primary Microsoft technical and sales support resource for the BORN Atlanta branch.

Primary Airlift Investigator for the Warfare Analysis Research Laboratory (WARLab) directing airlift studies, reliability analysis, and simulations to support marketing and engineering.

Performed accident reconstruction activities including review of accident reports, depositions and expert analysis, crash site inspections, gathered data for post crash analysis, and conducted computer and paper based crash analysis using industry accepted software and techniques. Performed product liability and industrial accident investigations by designing and implementing product tests and accident recreations. Provided human factors, work design, and ergonomics analysis.