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San Francisco, California, US

• Provide stakeholders insight into how customers buy, use, and adopt Splunk security products
• Engineer and evaluate features from product telemetry data useful in predicting subscription renewal
• Use process mining to identify common product purchase paths for use in cross-sell and up-sell sales motions
• Identify key page visit groups for monitoring use of security product features to identify customers that may be struggling in realizing full value from the product

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Led project team developing an inventory forecasting system subject to both constrained supply and seasonality
• Designed and implemented a large scale feature engineering SQL pipeline for use in e-commerce product recommender system and customer analysis

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Grew and managed a team of 10 data scientists, while co-leading a team of data engineers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists team responsible for improving product recommendation models
• Supported A/B testing for product recommender system, supply chain, and multichannel marketing campaigns
• Designed and maintained predictive model configuration, performance, and tuning database

Seattle, WA, US

• Led the Customer Analytics Modeling and Data Science team, supporting the Starbucks Rewards (loyalty) program to drive the acquisition and engagement of 10 million active members
• Saved over $2M in future infrastructure costs by optimizing physical data warehouse storage

Seattle, WA, US

• Key liaison between decision makers in Marketing, Category, Finance, and Supply Chain and the Business Intelligence team
• Developed and maintained a product taxonomy using mutually exclusive binary attributes that allowed complex analyses to be performed using simple SQL

Seattle, WA, US

• Designed and managed a 90-day time-boxed data warehouse appliance bakeoff pitting solutions from three vendors to solve our most pressing reporting, analytic, and extract, transform and load (ETL) challenges. Obtained.

• Delivered core Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing courses at 4 World Conferences, 3 Regional Seminars, and provided tailored on-site education for several public and private sector clients for The Data.

• Engagement manager for a variety of public and private sector clients
• Developed web-based survey delivery platform used on several client engagements
• Enhanced and taught DecisionPath’s BI Pathway methodology
• Business Development activities including proposals, project plans, and cost & feasibility estimates

CZ

• Lead architect and mentor for a team of 15 Sybase consultants supporting the GSA’s e-Commerce and Data Warehouse systems
• Managed 9 consultants on the Compliance Data Warehouse and Compliance Research Intranet projects at the IRS

CZ

• Developed a data driven data acquisition process enabling the IRS to easily keep their data warehouse up to date despite annual changes to tax law. The solution won The Data Warehousing Institute’s (TDWI) Best.
• Advisor to Ministry of Finance, Republic of Turkey on data warehouse design and operation

Washington, DC, US

• Real-time and mutli-threaded systems development and maintenance in C/C++
• Financial and diplomatic systems development and maintenance

• Software development and maintenance on federal financial systems

Ms, Software Systems Engineering

Bs, Information Systems Management