SUMMARY:

• Client centric, hands - on technology professional, with over 15 years experience in various industries, including technology, financial services, retail, oil and gas and advertising.
• Solid history designing and building large scale cost effective analytics and data driven solutions in global environments.
• Skilled project team leader; able to lead cross-functional teams from diverse backgrounds and delivering projects within planned time and budget to meet business goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed data architecture solutions for a big data environment consisting of Spark, HBase/MapR, Kafka and Informtica Data Quality
• Collaborated with project leads, information owners and architects in various regions (worldwide) to set up test plans and use cases to evaluate new Hadoop-native technologies for ETL/ELT, visualization, data science and discovery
• Performed a detailed analysis between Spark and Storm platforms and built a proof of concepts by running a benchmark test with anticipated workload.
• Worked on the integration between the big data environments and metadata management platforms, to ensure efficient capture and use of metadata to govern data flow patterns and access controls across the firm
• Analyzed multiple data domains and developed strategies to improve data integrity and accessibility by partnering with technical teams to deliver maintainable and reusable data architecture
• Implemented tactical solution to meet immediate requirements (mostly from regulators) and converted/reimagined new long term strategic solutions and op models
• Analyzed, proposed improvements and implemented better logical data integration strategies for data flows between disparate source/target systems for structured and unstructured data into common data reservoir and the enterprise information repositories
• Developed and implemented controls on data quality issues remediation to effectively manage corporate risk

Confidential

Director

Responsibilities:

• Designed the architecture for big data & analytics platform (Hadoop, MongoDB, pentaho, Tibco hosted on amazon cloud) to optimize the ingestion and management of varied sources of high volume data. Built and maintained high performing ETL processes, including data quality and testing.
• Led a large team of data scientists, engineers and BI developers to deliver state of the art analytics/data solutions to Linq3 customers (state lotteries).
• Supported multiple agile scrum teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for the new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production.
• Integrated and translated complex concepts into tactical/strategic action plans
• Collaborated with firmwide data management team on data model requirements and developed logical and physical data models for new application projects
• Provided technical guidance and thought leadership to the cross functional teams and established lean data governance to drive data standards and data quality

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built data solution using SAP data services with framework to deploy Restful web services
• Designed ETL processes and distributed caching and messaging services
• Provided data integration services including acquisition, cleansing, merging, validation, visualization and data mining analysis
• Analyzed large customer datasets and delivered analytical output that helped generate insight into marketing campaigns and decision making
• Designed, built and supported reusable data analysis structures to enable self-service analytical capabilities for key technical stakeholders
• Conducted production and non-production bug investigation with engineering team
• Worked on leveraging data driven capabilities and development efforts of the Data Sciences team

Confidential

Regional Manager

Responsibilities:

• Decomposed business charters and strategies into well-defined architecture guidance for software development and infrastructure teams
• Created architecture artifacts including business context diagrams, conceptual, logical, security, and physical architectures, data flow diagrams and entity relationships.
• Worked with IT and business units to create investable and executable technical roadmaps
• Worked with business stakeholders and gained support for critical technology investment decisions
• Evaluated technologies, vendor solutions and applications and implemented architecture best practices across the organization in support of the firm-wide technology strategies
• Managed the application portfolio lifecycle, and champion IT assets that can be leveraged across lines of business

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Translated functional requirements into conceptual and detailed designs
• Developed software package for various products including transactional, API, SDK and control software
• Contributed to decisions on project and infrastructure needs, including the evaluation of server technologies, languages, platforms, and frameworks
• Developed timelines, technical diagrams, project plans, and resources allocation