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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Manage a Data Engineering team, addressing complex data challenges through the creation, enhancement, and retirement of cost-effective data solutions. Evaluate project scope and releases for alignment with business needs, prioritizing key functionalities. Identify solution areas for refinement, optimization, or expansion to achieve superior outcomes. Address data architecture gaps, handling issues, decisions, and escalations. Navigate long-term risks and challenging scenarios to discern a viable path forward.Key Achievements:● Optimized data ingestion pipeline, cutting time from 16 hours to 2 hours, yielding $2M annual savings.● Launched and managed the Traffic Program, a multi-year initiative merging traffic data from diverse sources into an authoritative dataset and metric, bolstering financial planning, statistical analysis, and unveiling new business opportunities.● Collaborated with Big Data team to refine code, eliminating data transfers between advertising lakes, resulting in 3,000 fewer transfer jobs and $3M annual savings.● Built a data mart with 10+ data dimensions for the Finance team, aiding in browser behavior analysis, root cause analysis, enhanced revenue forecasting accuracy, and insightful commentary. This initiative saved $1.7M in traditional ingestion costs, obviated the need for CCPA compliance, and amplified understanding of ads with positive OPS but not signaling to Ads server. Annual revenue impact: ~$151MM.● Implemented Alation data catalog and non-invasive data stewardship program, engaging 2,000 unique data customers in the catalog, slashing comprehension time valued at $9M, and reducing data-query response time to under 30 minutes on average.● Consolidated data signals to curate Brand Performance insights, leading to the Brand Metrics tab in Amazon Advertising Console, resulting in $64MM additional ad spend in beta release.

Established and spearheaded the launch of a distinguished consulting firm, delivering unparalleled expertise and innovative solutions to corporate clients such as Cargill, Optum, Ally Bank etc. , with a focused mission of optimizing data architecture, elevating data governance practices, and unlocking the full strategic potential of their valuable data assets.As the founder and leader of the consulting firm, effectively guided corporate clients through comprehensive data transformations, leveraging deep industry knowledge and cutting-edge methodologies to architect robust data frameworks that align with business objectives.Provided tailored guidance and strategic recommendations, enabling clients to streamline their data ecosystems, implement best-in-class data governance practices, and harness the power of their data to drive informed decision-making, operational efficiency, and sustainable growth.Engaged with clients at various organizational levels, collaborating closely with executive leadership to define data-driven strategies, aligning business objectives with data initiatives, and driving cultural shifts towards a data-centric mindset across the organization.Developed and nurtured long-term partnerships with clients, fostering a reputation for delivering exceptional results, nurturing trust, and serving as a trusted advisor on all matters related to data architecture, data governance, and maximizing the strategic value of data assets.

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Conducted source data analysis and designed a denormalized curated data layer to serve Fraud and BI Reporting teams. Managed sprint planning, reviews, and backlog grooming to address technical debt arising from bank merger activities, including consolidation, migration, application sunset, and big data platform incorporation. Recognized and minimized risks while establishing processes for non-invasive data governance.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

▪ Collaborate with global business partners and other key Stakeholders, Program Communication, Risk Management planning.▪ Manage using daily standup calls and monitor progress to ensure programs and projects are on track via daily and weekly status, various metrics in order to mitigate risks.▪ Manage Project Financials, Forecasting and Resource Management, Communicating Program/Project status to Senior level executives, Business Sponsor and Required Stakeholders in timely fashion.▪ Consolidated Skype Data (CDR & QoE) in Cargill Data Platform to enable a self-service reporting model using PowerBI.▪ Managed solution architecture and delivery of multiple phases of a project to enable Compliance Reporting and provide Global View of Commodity Physical and Derivative Positions, consolidating data into Cargill Data Platform (Big Data). End user data consumption using Tableau and PowerBI.▪ Establish a new consolidated repository on Cargill Data platform that can be leveraged as reporting platform for Global IT reporting previously supported by Business Objects universe sitting on top of BMC Remedy Database to allow a shift from centralized report development to enabling a self service reporting.

Wayzata, Minnesota, Us

Guided the product owner in gathering business requirements and developing user stories with acceptance criteria to create a reporting solution for the trading group to run daily reports on future contracts, options positions, and cash data stored in the data lake. Supervised program communication, education, and training of business partners, identified and minimized risks, managed financials and resources, articulated crucial business problems, and developed an application backlog.Key Achievements:● Directed Scrum teams in implementing enterprise data strategies, thus streamlining multi-source data ingestion into a big data platform and reducing reliance on SAP.● Managed the completion of five proofs-of-concept utilizing various solution design patterns across Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. These efforts resulted in the successful implementation of enterprise data solutions.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Designed an updated enterprise FBA infrastructure to support fraud detection and prevention capabilities for ACH transactions. Identified, communicated, and mitigated data lineage and metadata management gaps and risks.Key Achievement:● Deployed a new Payment Risk Manager (PRM) component from Fiserv with success.

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Led big data initiatives to develop data pipelines and data ingestion processes in the Data Lake, aligning the efforts of multiple Scrum teams to prevent duplication of work. Managed sourcing, ingestion, lineage, consumption, metadata management, and analytics activities. Implemented a non-invasive data governance strategy and developed processes for collecting and integrating metadata for data streams entering the big data system. Oversaw budgets and financial matters for projects and programs. Successfully handle on-boarding of Pharmacy data post merger with Catamaran.

Established and led multiple enterprise wellness/incentives portal projects, setting project guidelines and conducting customer requirements audits to ensure seamless implementation.Key Achievements:● Facilitated comprehensive requirement inspections to minimize coding errors and customer set-up issues, resulting in reduced development costs and improved customer satisfaction.● Successfully restructured processes and managed the migration of every customer from a legacy system to a new platform without any disruptions, achieving significant cost savings and high levels of member satisfaction.

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Design and implementation of Enterprise Wellness/Incentives Portal Projects, develop new business processes and introduce audit check points to streamline translation of customer requirements, reducing setup errors.• Reviewing, Inspecting Customer requirements and ensuring they are in sync with existing Product capabilities.• Ensured accuracy of customer configuration meta-data and reduce setup errors by 95%.• Work with Incentive Account Management and Product development teams to solution and design alternatives to customer requirements and meet their expectations.• Knowledgeable with Facets, CDB, COSMOS, UNET systems at United Health.

Designed and implemented frameworks for claims data analysis, enabling the identification of members with frequent ER visitsKey Achievements:● Spearheaded the design and development of multi-tiered, and secure member engagement application, a cloud-based enterprise SaaS solution using Agile principles, application to disrupt misuse of ER visits, minimize and reduce health care costs.which ensured secure and scalable healthcare applications and reduced healthcare waste and costs.● Conducted two pilot studies to demonstrate the viability of the solution, which resulted in significant cost savings of $17 per member per month (PMPM) and paved the way for its successful adoption.▪ Manage project scope, deliverables and risk mitigation for a Healthcare Consumer Engagement Application.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Played a pivotal role in co-developing a comprehensive Data Stewardship/Data Governance charter, successfully implementing robust Data Governance processes within a mortgage unit, ensuring data consistency, end-to-end data flow, lineage, and integrity with defined Data Access Controls.Defined critical attributes of enterprise credit risk metrics, utilizing risk data and analysis to drive data consistency, accuracy, and compliance, while ensuring adherence to defined Data Access Controls.Led the implementation of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) initiatives for mortgages and e-banking, proactively mitigating risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.Efficiently managed the seamless migration of applications and infrastructure from vendors to an Ally Bank data center, ensuring minimal disruptions and maximizing data security and availability.

• Managed a business critical application for capturing and reporting loan level financial information to manage Service Level Agreements for monthly reporting.• Championed various process areas for Data Stewardship and Governance programs.• Analyzed personal metrics and costs associated with poor Metadata.• Successfully migrated a critical bulk loan bidding project from Waterfall to Scrum within 6 months.• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption.• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing development time by 35%.

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• Oversaw teams responsible for creating data warehousing and reporting solutions for customers.• Managed the full life-cycle implementation of a centralized call center (ICC) PeopleSoft for 6 national and international sites that provided services for approximately 3,000 employees.• Architected an intranet site as part of an enterprise e-mail migration project that web enabled 200+ legacy Lotus Notes applications.• Trained Business Analysts on analysis of source systems and validation of Metadata.• Developed mapping templates to capture business requirements and source - target mappings.

Ms, Software Engineeering And Design

Mba, Finance And International Business

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering