SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated technologist with seventeen years of experience including multiple start - ups as a top performing contributor at Confidential and Confidential responsible for helping customers implement big data & cloud native solutions valued at over $100 million. Fulfilled technical pre-sales, management and consulting positions to deliver high value & high performance solutions at Fortune 100 telecommunications, media, financial services, and retail companies.
• Reputation for dedicated work ethic, building rapport, and recognized as one of the more technically savvy individuals thinking outside of the box in high-pressure environments to solve complex business challenges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Big Data: Greenplum, HAWQ/HDB, IBM DB2, Oracle, Teradata, MySQL / MariaDB, Postgres, SQL Server, SQL, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, IBM BigInsights, IBM Streams, Spark, YARN MapReduce, PIG, Hive & HQL, Sqoop, Hcatalog, HBase, Oozie

Business Intelligence Software: Microstrategy, Business Objects, Cognos, SAS, SPSS, R, OBIEE, Tableau, QlikView, Analysis Services, Integration Services, Informatica, Ab Initio, DataStage

Cloud Native and DevOps: Cloud Foundry, BOSH, Microservices, 12 Factor, Netflix OSS, ELK, Consul, App Dynamics, New Relic, Artifactory, Jenkins, Github / GitLab, Chef & Puppet

Cloud Infrastructures: Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware vSphere/vCenter, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform

NoSQL: Redis, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Cassandra, Gemfire

Programming Languages: Shell Scripting (BASH & KSH), Python, JSON, XML, PL/SQL, NZPLSQL, PHP, Perl, HTML, some Spring/Java & Objective-C DB2 UDB Database Admin and App Developer for Linux, UNIX and Windows Linux Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Solutions Architect

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Conduct POCs for Podium, a data management marketplace on Hadoop
• Present Confidential vision, strategy and product roadmaps to executives and technical management
• Qualify new opportunities in the terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision making process and funding

Founder and Managing Member

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Your Apps and Data. Our Passion. Cloud Scale.
• Founded company focused on merging the best of both worlds as it relates to cloud native application development and big data.

Big Data Engineer

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administration, development, production support of 400+ node system running Hortonworks 2.3 ingesting hundreds of billions of network events daily from Confidential Per Call Measurement Detail system.
• Worked with data scientists, product management and executives to deliver new features and reporting to end users.
• Assisted in development and support of Hive, HBase, PIG, & Datameer jobs

Advisory Solutions and Platform Architect

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Conduct POCs for Confidential Cloud Foundry, Greenplum, HAWQ (SQL on Hadoop) and all supporting products
• Present Confidential vision, strategy and product roadmaps to executives and technical management
• Act as technical intermediary between clients and Confidential engineering, product management and sales to develop and implement big data and cloud native solutions and drive the adoption of Confidential products within strategic accounts
• Qualify new opportunities in the terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision making process and funding
• Conduct hands-on workshops with customers on relevant topics including Becoming Cloud Native, CI/CD, Operations, DevOps and Microservices
• Regularly Installed / Managed PaaS and related services (RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, Spring Cloud Services, etc.) on multiple platforms including vSphere, OpenStack, AWS and Azure

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Engaged Confidential prospects and customers in financial services, banking and telecommunications verticals to migrate from expensive large warehouse implementations to low cost, easy to manage commodity hardware using Confidential database on a variety of platforms, including Hadoop, Amazon EC2, NAS, EMC Isilon and content addressable storage such as EMC Centera.
• Promoted to director to assist with recruiting, performance management and mentoring efforts for system engineering at Confidential, leading a geographically diverse team in the US & UK
• Presented Confidential technology to cable industry executives at CableLabs Winter Conference 2013 in Orlando, FL

Senior Solutions Architect

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Led effort to design, develop and deploy Confidential ’ first cable decisioning application, an Operations Portal for CDN and player analytics for an IPTV based service rolled out out
• Worked hand in hand with cable VP to build out a new vertical at Confidential focused on cable/MSO industry
• Delivered customer data discovery workshops to flush out data sources, dimensions, and measures utilized to translate customer business objectives and requirements into big data decisioning applications
• Provided input for RFI / RFP / statements of work, including the level of effort, project team, timeline, implementation methodology and solution components

Director Systems Engineering

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to recruit, train and manage the Confidential and utilities system engineering team through complex, multi-million dollar big data implementation cycles
• Lead a team of 5 presales engineers, located across a geographically diverse region in support of all telecommunication and cable customers / prospects in North America
• Assessed requirements, scoped solutions, and managed proof of concept efforts related to IBM big data and analytics solutions
• Designed and delivered IBM enablement sessions on Big Data, POC Best Practices and IBM Band 10+ enablement to assist in the transition from Confidential to IBM

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Marlborough, MA

Responsibilities:

• Top performing systems engineer: achieved over $50 million in sales as an individual contributor
• Proof of Concept success rate of 100% with competitive wins versus Teradata, IBM, Oracle, HP and Greenplum
• New customer wins include Confidential (largest telecommunications implementation with 3+ petabytes across multiple appliances), MasterCard, Confidential , Clearwire, Alltel, H&R Block and Corporate Express
• Exceeded targets every year, achieving Confidential sales incentive trip 4 consecutive years
• Responsible for technical execution of proof of concepts including qualification, conversion of DDL/SQL from other databases to Confidential, data migration, planning / execution of benchmark tests and integration with third party tools
• Delivered technical presentations and demonstrations to prospects and customers throughout the entire sales cycle

Senior Database Administrator

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Responsibilities:

• Involved in administration, design, development, and support of a 7 TB DB2 MPP warehouse on an IBM p690 running AIX. This was the central repository for various business units including Collections, Credit Card Strategy, Profitability, Loans, Debit Cards, Funds Transfer Pricing, Automated Clearinghouse and eCourier
• Responsibilities included performance and tuning, troubleshooting, on-call duties, automation, providing database-related assistance to development staff, DB2 software maintenance, database structure maintenance, correspondence with system administration staff, and regular production implementations

Senior I/T Specialist

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day database administration and production support of a 500 terabyte DB2 MPP data warehouse serving as a repository for all 2G, 3G and web usage data on the Confidential PCS wireless network. This warehouse provided near real-time loading of usage data and was the source of reporting by multiple business units including Activity Based Management, Corporate Security, Fraud, Network, Customer Care, Finance, Billing, Intercarrier Settlements and Mediation Systems.
• Lead effort to design and implement replacement system comprised of IBM p570’s & p590’s, AIX 5.2 LPARs and DB2 ESE 8.2 with DPF partitioned over approximately 500 terabytes of Shark storage to simultaneously insert, query, purge, summarize and backup 3 billion records daily for a rolling 60 days.
• Participated in SQL reviews to improve performance of applications as data volumes continuously grew, reporting requirements changed and new DB2 capabilities became available.
• Drove proof of concept efforts to test alternative database technologies as part of Confidential ’s Cost Improvement Program, including Confidential, HP NonStop, and zSeries DB2. Created test cases and executed proof-of-concepts to discover which vendors could effectively be implemented in the Confidential infrastructure.

Software Engineer IV

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for new application design / development and 24x7 production support of a 171 terabyte IBM DB2 ESE 8.1 database partitioned over 66 IBM Nighthawk II nodes running AIX. Recognized by Winter Corp as one of the largest databases at the time, this was utilized as a near-real time data warehouse to store over 700 million call detail records daily for rolling 60 days.
• Performed C, C++, Embedded SQL, Shell Scripting, MQSeries, Syncsort and Perl application development & reporting
• Engaged developers, database / system administrators, users, management and helpdesk to resolve outages.
• Designed and implemented two DB2 user-defined functions (UDFs) using C and embedded SQL to store a 15 byte IP address as a packed 4 byte field, resulting in a 73% storage savings for each IP address field.
• Assisted finance team with identification of a bug in referral credits, saving $300,000 on an annual basis plus another $10,000,000 in annualized saving in reduced referral credit postings.