SUMMARY:

Tools: and Platform Management professional with a proven ability to address project risks, analytical challenges and quickly resolve environment and data issues. Excellent contributor with over 23+ years’ experience in multi - platform Data Delivery, Environment Management, Platform Administration and Configuration Management. A skilled record of Application Support in Financial Services, and Information Technology Divisions across an Enterprise Environment. Driven to enforce processes that support the business and the customer. Adaptable to a dynamic environment with ability to embrace change and be successful learning new processes, procedures and skill sets.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Unix/Linux: Python

Change Control & Release Management: Data Delivery & Management

Building Data Pipelines: Builds & Deployments

ETL Job Scheduling & Monitoring: Platform Administration

Mainframe Support: Environment, WEB and SOA application support

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, Tx

Senior Data Analyst

• Researched application Lifecycle Lineage information by Application Tracking Identifier (AIT Number) to report on new and retired data elements
• Performed quality control reviews of documents, feeds, tables, transformation and data object asset information via the Collibra Data Catalog
• Validated data process flows end to end lineage and reported discovery information to Enterprise Data Management

Confidential

Data Workflow Administrator

• Managed the Data Discovery of Metadata and Data Profiling results in a HIVE data lake
• Reported and overseen that bug fixes for the Global ID’s System and configuration changes got implemented, tested and installed to production in order to operate and optimize system performance on the Hadoop Cluster
• Created semantic Data Domain Profiling of enterprise ingested data on the banks HIVE Data Lake for business stake holders.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Platform Engineering/Data Quality Analyst

• Established Security Profiles for User Groups on the Data Quality Tools System based on Information Security Entitlements for specific access to non PII and SII Data Segregations
• Scheduled SQL Rules and Monitoring Jobs to run only specifically based on times when external systems where down daily and only after batch processing was completed to avoid external system degradation
• Technical point of contact for PoC's of a Data Quality Tool Methodology (Parent Child Architecture) that allowed multiple Linux VMS (Habitats) to be dynamically restarted/halted for load balancing effort.
• Worked with Storage Management to allocate a NAS Solution to archive Large Data Sets that were used for Tableau Reporting and Dashboard Distributions
• Met with Business Stakeholder’s and Data Owners clients to assess needs and deliver business requirements, assessment’s and target technical requirements before delivering intended solutions
• Built-out the Global Ids Data Quality infrastructures in DEV, UAT, PTE, PROD, HA and DR on Windows, Linux VMs
• Configured Connections to multiple data sources inside the Global Ids Environment to Oracle, MSSQL Server, Postgress SQL, and HIVE Data ecosystems (DEV, UAT and PROD)
• Performed and Scheduled Global IDs Data Discovery and Profiling Workflows on 100+ TDA Enterprise data sources
• Technical lead for EBX5 throughout SDLC for projects requiring Reference Master Data at TDA throughout the enterprise
• Contributed to product development lifecycle activities, System Maintenance, Change Control and Administration for the MDM Solution Master Data Management Platform
• Hands-on experience in writing and reviewing business requirements, architecture diagrams, test plans, and Technical Runbooks for Data quality analysis and helping with the software release process.
• Worked heavily with Security Admins, DBA’s, Network Admins and Windows Engineering to deliver appropriate security implementations in Kerberos, SSL, HTTPS, Windows Security Certs, LDAP and Firewalls.

Confidential, Keller, TX

Software Configuration Specialist / Deployment Specialist

• Provided enterprise support and managed baseline procedures required by release process.
• Conceptualized and built Java/C++ and .NET applications for multiple development branches and Release candidates found in SVN (Version Control)
• Provided enterprise support and manage baseline procedures as part of the release process
• Contributed to the migration of applications from WebSphere Application Server 5.0 to WebSphere Application Server 6.0
• Monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottlenecks on the cluster
• Worked on Administrative Tasks like Configuration, Deployment, Trouble shooting and Scripting of WebSphere Application Server 5.0
• Upgraded applications with various patch files (JSPs, Class Files, changing various property & configuration files) on DEV and UAT environments

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Billing & Data Coordinator/Applications Systems Administrator

• Served as Lead Developer in re-engineering efforts and collaborated with other developers to transfer data feeds from clients using manual ETL processing from ZOS DB2 tables to Oracle tables on UNIX platforms
• Developed ad hoc reports and made modifications to support Billing, Invoicing, and Accounts Payable Systems on the Mainframe
• Analyzed and developed Stored procedures, COBOL & Easytrieve programs
• Enhanced the quality of data-handling programs and utilities using SAS and File-AID on mainframes
• Developed packages, procedures, and functions using PL/SQL and PL/SQL Developer in an Oracle 8i environment
• Maintained database operations, Autosys scheduling systems, and application load balancers

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Programmer Analyst - Corporate Financial Reporting Systems

• Managed special projects while overseeing program specifications and coding procedures
• Initiated and maintained applications for a Financial Sales Data Warehouse system
• Translated business rules into technical requirements and re-engineering reporting systems
• Communicated effectively with colleagues and mentored 4 entry-level DB2/SQL programmers