EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Over 14 years’ experience as data scientist, data architect, technical lead, and director in data warehouse and BI. Strong analytical skills with a broad range of BI, ETL, and data mining expertise. Demonstrated track record of delivering analytic frameworks that provide actionable and impactful insights for Fortune 500 companies. Effective and detailed, with the ability to transform high - level concepts into robust and scalable architectures. Possesses the capacity and the tenacity to build, train, and mentor the teams that execute them.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Business Intelligence
• Big Data
• Data Warehousing
• Predictive modeling
• Machine Learning
• ETL
• Social Media Analytics
• Project Management
• System Integration

SOFTWARE, TOOLS, AND SKILLS:

• Hadoop
• MapReduce
• Hive
• Pig
• NLP
• Elasticsearch
• MS SQL Server
• Oracle
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• SAP HANA
• SSIS
• SSAS
• SSRS
• Weka
• Erwin
• Logi Analytics
• DataFlux
• Trillium
• OBIEE
• Cognos
• Tableau
• BusinessObjects
• Python
• C#
• C/C++
• PHP
• Perl
• R
• Java
• Java Script
• VBScript
• Confidential -SQL
• PL-SQL
• .NET
• Salesforce.com
• MS CRM
• Google AdWords
• Windows Azure
• Amazon Web Services
• Social media tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, TX

Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Predictive Modeling: Despite access to user location and network activity data that could provide high-value insights into user behavior, Confidential & Confidential Wi-Fi was unable to create an advanced analytic solution due to a lack of predictive analytic expertise for such large data volumes.
• Called upon to build machine learning algorithms and design high-performance data processing systems to deliver user segmentation analysis for a POC customer.
• The results delivered turned around the customer from cancelling relationships to requesting a joint-effort project for target-marketing campaigns.
• The Sales team is planning to leverage these reports to acquire more business from other existing customers.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Big Data: Large amount of immunology literature published by reductionist techniques needs to be integrated to uncover the complexity of the immune system.
• Called upon to design a scalable information extraction system equipped with natural language processing.
• Original architecture could only process three years of summary data.
• The proposed architecture using the Hadoop ecosystem demonstrated a solution that could scale to the entire fifty years of full research data - a 1000-fold increase in scale and performance.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lack of robust quality control mechanism in the integration process of student data across the Confidential led to confusion and delayed dashboard updates.
• Called upon to develop an automated process to isolate problematic data, retrieve root-cause errors, and prioritize data issues.
• The solution was deployed to 7 school districts within 4 months, impacting over 9,000 educators, and representing nearly 200,000 students.
• This framework empowers data stewards to monitor data quality and consistency with actionable guidance. It became the blueprint for all subsequent projects with other agencies such as the Delaware Department of and the Denver Public Schools.

Confidential, Austin, TX

BI Principal Architect

Responsibilities:

• In the wake of multiple years with inconsistent systems and lack of established best practices, quality and data availability issues developed in the BI team.
• Partner data integration projects were developed one Confidential a time causing redundancies and lost opportunities.
• Immediately conceived and developed a reusable ETL system.
• Within 2 months, delivered a flexible and scalable framework that can support an unlimited number of data sources.
• This framework significantly improved accuracy and availability and reduced time-to-deployment from several days to a few hours.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Director of Data Services

Responsibilities:

• Researched abnormalities and inconsistencies in the data and developed interactive reporting and dashboard facilities. Despite 5 highly duplicated very large data sources, completed this end-to-end project on time in 4 months.
• This system provided such valuable strategic insight for Confidential decisions that it was used by other divisions within Best Buy.
• Resource-intensive data warehouse projects caused project overruns and clients were insisting on more frequent updates. Conceived and led an initiative to automate the update process thus increasing frequency and quality of updates.
• Reduced report delivery time from 3 days to overnight and cycle time from monthly to weekly. Tripled data warehouse developer productivity within a year; increasing profitability.
• Inherited a dysfunctional Data Services team; quality and on-time delivery issues led to attrition, plaguing Sr. Management. Within 2 months, recruited, established and led, and mentored a new team.
• Within 4 months, the Data Services team was fully functioning and able to deliver high quality work with great satisfaction from clients. The systems developed during this reduced on-boarding processes and delivered standardized and documented procedures.
• Communication issues developed between client representatives, analysts, and developers causing confusion. Created and introduced consistent communication tools; issue-tracking to maintain encode, and standardized fundamental terminologies. Within 60 days, communication issues were eliminated and costs reduced. This event created greater quality and faster development of data warehouses and analytics capabilities.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Manager of Delivery

Responsibilities:

• Tasked to lead delivery in a call center servicing Fortune 500 companies but without a mechanism to prioritize calls.
• Without modifying the .NET CRM application code, re-used existing tools that came with the CRM application and MS SQL Server.
• Created a ROLAP cube to expose aggregated data, used the cube as a data source for Report Builder.
• This web interface enabled the sales team to apply sophisticated business rules to prioritize their calls in the CRM.
• This solution was completed in 3 days, required no purchase of new software and dramatically improved usability.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• A large number of performance metrics collected from a variety of distributed IT components stressed the traditional three-tier architecture and prevented effective analysis of root-cause problems. Introduced a business intelligence approach using techniques such as dimensional modeling and OLAP.
• The resulting new product line enabled users to perform complex calculations and sophisticated analyses in a comprehensive and cohesive way.
• This capability set Confidential apart from its competitors in the IT management solution space.
• Challenged by the leadership team to become an expert on internationalization (i18n).
• Completed the system development life cycle (SDLC), from concept, planning and development to testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Within 6 months, internationalized the Confidential AppManager Suite.
• The i18n methodology was unique and intrigued the leadership to the point where Confidential sought to obtain a patent.
• Strict resource constraints required low cost outsourcing of software development. Commissioned to lead the recruiting and technology transfer, including spending time in India for and evaluation. Within 6 months, completed technology transfer to Symphony Services, Bangalore, India. This provided access to a pool of resources overseas with a minimal operational cost.