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Knoxville, TN, US

Knoxville, TN, US

• Lead a team of cloud and automation engineers to support enterprise-wide cloud initiatives on Azure and AWS.
• Architect a unified data platform using Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Machine Learning and Azure Kubernetes Service to be leveraged for data analytics on streaming sensor data from PMUs (Phasor.
• Design a cost-effective data strategy leveraging cloud storage in Azure for long-term storage of high-resolution data from various IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Devices).
• Serve as the lead solutions architect on enterprise portal platform initiative to streamline the technology stack used for building internal and external portal experiences across the enterprise.
• Establish standards for identity management to provide secure access to cloud-based and on-premises applications using Azure Active Directory and Azure Multi-Factor Authentication.
• Serve on multiple core teams to lead the charge of migrating on-premises applications to the cloud (Office 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure).

Knoxville, TN, US

• Manage a team of software engineers to develop and support core tools and platforms used across various software development teams.
• Develop and implement software development standards on mobile development, web services, application security, application user interface and application monitoring.
• Oversee the development and implementation of Asset Information Repository, a Master Data Management and Data Virtualization system that can be used to seamlessly access data across disjointed systems throughout the.
• Oversee the rollout K2 blackpearl, a Workflow and Business Process Automation tool that enables the enterprise to automate business processes by combining data across multiple systems to gain efficiencies in business.
• Oversee the rollout of eDNA, a data historian system for real-time sensor data, to consolidate over 35 installations of an in-house developed data historian (DatAWare) across the generation fleet to a centralized.

Knoxville, TN, US

• Manage a team of software engineers in the development of Demand Response Management System used by Transmission and Power Trading organizations to manage load during extreme weather conditions by utilizing a variety.
• Incorporate demand response products from two legacy systems into the new Demand Response Management System and realize O&M cost savings from the retirement of legacy systems.
• Recipient of Salute to Excellence award in the technology innovation category for the development of Demand Response Management System.

Knoxville, TN, US

• Design and develop a framework using WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) for rapidly authoring web services secured using a common security layer.
• Rewrite TVA’s proprietary data historian, DatAWare, in.NET to gain 2x performance and efficiency improvement.
• Design and develop a Windows service architecture that allows for remote interaction with Windows services from command-line or Windows applications using TCP/UDP based inter-process communication.
• Design and develop a communications framework in VB.NET 2.0 that allows for TCP, UDP, Serial and File based communication in an abstract manner used by various real-time systems.
• Design and develop a security framework used to secure websites, web services, Windows services and Windows applications though an easy to use.NET-based API.
• Design and develop web-based dashboard using Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 technology to display data from SCADA system in real-time using TCP communication.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Computer Science