Ray Harrison Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Driving the democratization of enterprise machine learning, AI ecosystems and data platform strategies for Comcast with modern data stacks, key external and internal partnerships and results-driven execution. Ensuring high levels of data security and governance to comply with all local, national and international laws with traceable lineage capabilities and through key partnerships with privacy and legal teams.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Delivering next generation Big Data solutions and driving business innovation, the Enterprise Big Data Architecture team at Comcast oversees multi-petabyte machine learning and analytics platforms that fuel our residential, business and advertising platforms. Spanning national data center and cloud ecosystems, we deliver stellar products to our business partners.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Delivering robust infrastructure and processes integrating development and operations for 15 PB Big Data platform supporting $100m+ key business initiatives for Comcast Management and build-out of 15 PB 500 node multi-tenant Hortonworks cluster for real-time and batch analytics Built 24x7 off and on-shore operations team supporting the software release process, cluster maintenance and outage mitigation for ecosystem Implemented key processes for development and user engagement with the platform (Ticketing and other communications processes) Developed and implemented key data center and hardware purchasing processes to allow for more efficient deployment of cluster assets Collaborated to implement automated processes and tools for the development teams Designed and prototyped analytics and collection processes for deeper insight into cluster behavior Key liaison with stakeholders in the business on cluster operations and support to ensure engagement and transparency

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Architecture & DevOps for Comcast's Identity and Preferences Management platform for the Business Class Portal initiative delivering a world class customer experience for users as part of Comcast's $2,000,000,000 Business Class offering.

Principal architect and Product Development director in a Colorado startup delivering innovative big-data analytics and machine learning solutions to international cable MSOs and third-party vendors Built and lead team of software developers and testers to deliver the first iterations of the product to customers Infrastructure and Data Architect for Cloud-based peta-scale Hadoop infrastructure to process full-band-capture modem polling data from MSOs. Delivered infrastructure for initial product release and product evolution for seed-round funding. Intellectual property development (patent pending) in techniques for categorizing modem spectra for business analytics on plant health Architected and delivered Amazon Redshift and EMR-centric infrastructure for integration with product’s front-end and machine learning back-end Architected and delivered innovative data visualization components Worked with VC firms to obtain and manage seed-round funding

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Determined and implemented future technical strategy for Comcast products across all lines of business. Established architecture for solutions and drove project engagement across multiple organizations and outside business units. Held responsibility for people leadership, budget forecasting and implementation, hiring and firing and managing multiple teams. Delivered business critical projects and managed capital and operating expenditures for each project. Mentored senior engineers and harvested intellectual property for potential patents. Strengthened company's business by leading implementation of high-performance identity and preferences management platform for 20,000,000 Comcast customers. Held accountability for CPNI regulatory compliance infrastructure including customer notifications, troubleshooting and customer satisfaction. Rolled out strategic operations and server architectures to deliver highly available, high transaction-rate SOA identity and preferences solutions for Comcast's high speed Internet and voice customers.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Prototyped new software and product solutions and engaged development teams to deliver within budget, mentoring junior engineers. Advised and consulted management on technical strategies for business critical projects. Engaged support organizations, supported deployments of software and wrote business critical software for Comcast projects. Held accountability for driving down costs related to stolen, missing or incorrectly provisioned customer devices. Created new systems to identify revenue gains driven by system reconciliation. Architected and delivered high performance ETL processes for billing and provisioning reporting and KPI management.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Wrote software to support business critical functions and products. Supported software deployments. Worked across organizations to prototype solutions for business and advised and consulted to management for technical solutions and approaches for new products. Performed business intelligence reporting and modeling centering on bandwidth usage. Designed and implemented Comcast's node combining plan application effort. Provisioned system migrations from mergers and acquisitions.

Engaged clients on solving business critical problems. Designed and architected business solutions. Connected with appropriate resources to develop solutions and followed up with clients on quality of work. Managed payroll and budgeting. Wrote software to solve business problems. Specialized in cable and telecommunications industry, specifically in regulatory and channel lineup workflow and external contract management systems.

Washington, Dc, Us

Developed software to analyze experimental data and mathematical models. Wrote device drivers for running experiment equipment. Co-authored papers for publication in scientific journals. Delivered custom device drivers and analytic software in support of NOAA research experiments. Wrote custom ETL and analysis software to support satellite and ground-based research. Performed numerical analysis and mathematical modeling in UNIX, VAX and Cray environments.

Ba, Mathematics

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