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Long Island City, New York, Us

Responsible for ensuring that all data practitioners at JetBlue have access to stable, insightful, and simple-to-interpret datasets using JetBlue's modern data stack. This includes:- Helping to define and implement an overall data product strategy for JetBlue's modern data stack, which leverages a Snowflake Enterprise Data Warehouse, Azure Data Factory, and DBT among other cloud-native tools.- Serving as a subject matter expert for the data stored inside JetBlue's modern data stack, guiding data practitioners towards the correct dataset based on their needs.- Championing the creation of new datasets by crafting artifacts such as Solution Design Documentation and data models that document the technical requirements for engineers, as well as User Guides that educate data practitioners on the intended use for each new dataset.- Working to support JetBlue's data-driven culture by inspiring all JetBlue Crewmembers to consult data when making decisions. This includes onboarding new Crewmembers into Snowflake, teaching basic how-to functions, and connecting them with other data resources at JetBlue. - Amalgamating corporate strategic interests, new data sources, and the demands of JetBlue's operation to understand what data blind spots exist in the organization, and creating curated datasets to close these gaps. - Reviewing Snowflake usage data to understand what areas of JetBlue are using Snowflake, what areas could stand to use it more, and how the operations JetBlue's data practitioners are undertaking perform inside Snowflake.

Long Island City, New York, Us

Manages IT projects inside a 3-year program centering around the modernization of more than a dozen products inside JetBlue's instance of Sabre's Customer Service System (CSS) platform.

Long Island City, New York, Us

Manages IT Infrastructure projects at JetBlue airport locations across the US, Caribbean, Central and South America.Works in portfolio of projects surrounding moves, adds, and changes of physical infrastructure such as new terminal constructions, gate and terminal moves, and manages all IT-related aspects of these projects. Acts as a liaison in these projects between the client base, facilities team, and IT department, helping define requirements and track schedule items for all IT-related deliverables.

New York, Ny, Us

Manages large IT-related projects for a university serving roughly 17,000 students, faculty and staff across three separate campuses totaling over 1 million square feet of space. Works in the realm of construction projects, partnering with university construction managers, architects, builders and clients to outfit spaces with the most intuitive and useful technologies based on their use case and space programming. Manages the design and installation process of low voltage networks, AV appliances, and other technologies in the context of capital projects ranging in size from $300,000 to $60 million. Works directly with university stakeholders- ranging from staff associates to vice presidents- to collect IT design requirements, forwards these onto technology vendors, architects, structured wiring designers and works to create tech-ready spaces best outfitted to serve Pace students, faculty and staff. Also manages a set of software-related projects. Ensures goals and objectives are accomplished within stakeholder expectations and budget, schedule, and scope constraints. Works to identify critical project decisions, making recommendations to program leaders and service owners to maximize payback. Facilitates effective cross-functional collaboration with business leaders, subject matter experts, and other key stakeholders

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Works collaboratively with staff, managers and other stakeholders, to serve as the project manager for enterprise IT projects, working toward shared technical goals and implementation or enhancement of technologies and services.Develops project charters, communication plans, schedules and task lists, coordinating staff involvement through negotiation and collaboration with supervisors. Consults with staff and clients to determine budget, format, audience, and other objectives. This includes coordinating work with authors and technical staff as needed.Monitors and evaluates the progress of projects. Continually assess and adjusts project priorities and assignments as necessary to ensure that objectives are met. Identifies and resolves key project risks, working with management to develop risk mitigation strategies.Supervises, mentors and coaches student staff on effective project/requirements management, customer service and other professional skills. Participates in planning and strategy sessions with other UITS mentors to share and incorporate best practices for the effective management of a student-staffed customer service unit.

Helpdesk support services, predominantly in the realm of software and operating system troubleshooting, leveraging personal knowledge and online resources to solve issues.Primary responsibility was the inventory upkeep of the Fire Department’s 645-unit I.P. based OpenSky Digital Land Mobile Radio system. This includes troubleshooting of radio issues, in order to determine if further testing is needed; responding to firefighter’s troubles and errors with the system; and educating firefighters about the different aspects and technologies of the system.