SUMMARY

• Directly supported $30M+ in sales of big data analytics, network intelligence, and location intelligence products and services to the telecom, social media, banking, and real estate sectors.
• Transformed startup Confidential into major location intelligence data company with clients including Confidential . My very first solution doubled Confidential ’ revenues within a month of its release. (See Confidential / Confidential - darrin-clement/ and Confidential -acquired-pitney-bowes/)
• Optimized trait selection for Confidential ’s $25+ billion seed development pipeline with a massively scalable environmental classification engine to predict phenotype response, e.g. yield. Reduced computation costs by 83%.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Big Data • Cloud Analytics • Geospatial Intelligence • Location Intelligence • Business Intelligence • Data Science

Machine Learning • Computer Vision • Natural Language Processing • Data Stewardship • Contextual/Qualitative “Thick” Data

Sales Engineering • Product Ideation • Product Line Management • Customer Success • Training & Development

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AWS, Azure, Confidential Cloud: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka

Docker, Kubernetes: Cassandra, Accumulo, HBase

Vertica, Greenplum: PostgreSQL/PostGIS

MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle: GeoServer, Boundless stack

Python, JavaScript: MicroStrategy, Tableau

Jupyter, Zeppelin: ArcGIS, QGIS, MapInfo, SAGA

Pandas, OpenCV: NLTK, TextBlob

Pattern: GDAL/OGR

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Field Engineer,

Confidential, Plano, Texas, USA

Responsibilities:

• Led rollout of big data analytics services and customized network intelligence solutions for telecoms and network operators, supporting global sales with sales presentations, custom development, integration, training, etc.
• Designed and implemented solutions for advanced network intelligence analytics and machine learning at Web scale in real-time integrating Sandvine solutions with third-party data having rich qualitative context (“thick data”) using Vertica, Kafka, Hadoop, and Spark to inform better decisions, prescribe best actions, and drive automation
• Authored and delivered training globally on Deep Insights, Insights Storage, and all active network intelligence products
• Skills utilized: Vertica, MicroStrategy, ActiveLogic/PacketLogic, Deep Packet Inspection, Traffic Shaping, Network Policy Enforcement, Machine Learning, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Instructor-Led and Computer-Based Training Course Development

Confidential, Creve Coeur, Missouri, USA

Responsibilities:

• Engineered auto-scaling AWS cloud-based open source geospatial analytics infrastructure serving thousands of simultaneous users and automated processes worldwide and handling billions of API calls monthly.
• Constructed scalable APIs, data pipelines, and analytics engines for everything including topographical and hydrological data and satellite image processing for automated test plot selection and ponding/flooding risk mitigation, long range weather predictions for field operations and resource planning, and streaming IoT data for crop monitoring and real-time yield analysis.
• Enhanced trait selection for $25+ billion seed development pipeline with a scalable engine for land classification according to crop yield response to climate and environmental factors.
• Skills utilized: Geospatial Data Science, Python, AWS (EMR, EC2, EFS, S3, Lambda, etc.), Confidential Cloud, Docker, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, GNU Parallel, GeoServer, GeoMesa, QGIS, FME, GDAL, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Remote Sensing, Climatology, Hydrology, Digital Farming, Precision Agriculture

Confidential, Irving, Texas, USA

Responsibilities:

• Migrated the backend of the loan decisioning and servicing platforms from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
• Implemented secure ETL to validate, transform and ingest multiple vendors’ bulk deliveries of sensitive personal financial information for loan decisioning and servicing.
• Skills utilized: PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB, MySQL/MariaDB/Percona, NoSQL stores (key value, JSON/JSONB and XML document stores), Database Administration, Shell scripting, Pentaho, Linux administration, Python, PL/pgSQL

Confidential, Texas, USA

Responsibilities:

• Crafted revolutionary mineral rights trading platform to bypass landmen and connect mineral owners directly with mineral investors in a fair online marketplace.
• Evangelized the Mineralist marketplace by meeting face-to-face with over 100 farmers and ranchers who owned tens of thousands of oil/gas-rich acres in the Bakken shale play.
• Engineered web scrapers and NLP solution to extract intelligence from mineral deeds/leases, drilling permits, rig locations and movements, production reports and more to predict location and timing of authority for expenditures (AFE), to identify and contact mineral owners in recently AFE’d or soon-to-be AFE’d units, estimate mineral acre market values, forecast production curves, and generate marketing materials.
• Skills utilized: Python, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Selenium, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GeoServer, QGIS, MapBox, NLTK, Tesseract, Geology, Cartography, Web Scraping, Sales

Confidential, VT & Frisco, TX USA

Responsibilities:

• Conceived and spearheaded creation of Confidential ’ most successful geospatial data product lines and services.
• Assembled and led teams to bring new hyperlocal intelligence products and services to market.
• Directly supported large sales to Confidential, Confidential .com ( Confidential Inc.), Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and others.
• Assured customer and partner success by cultivating fruitful relationships and, after discovering spoken and unspoken needs and building trust, working tirelessly toward the achievement of their ultimate goals.
• Skills utilized: Geospatial Data Science, Location Intelligence, Machine Learning, Web Scraping, NLP, Text Mining, Bayesian methods, Imagery Analysis, Computer Vision, Health Geography, Economic Geography, Cultural Geography, Climatology, Database Administration, GeoServer, QGIS, MapInfo, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS, Postgres/PostGIS, FME, OpenCV, Python, C/C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic, VB.NET, VBA, MapBasic, GNU Parallel, Shell scripting, SQL, PL/pgSQL, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Mongo, Apache HTTP, NGINX, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Sales Engineering, Solution Architecture, Product Line Management, Product Ownership