SUMMARY:

Senior IT strategist with 18 years of experience managing programs, leading analytics teams, designing big data cloud infrastructures, and developing custom software solutions. Able to combine a strong business acumen, advanced education, and hands - on technical abilities to lead organizations through the selection, development, implementation, and adoption of advanced solutions. Certified in Scrum Agile, PMP, and Six Sigma.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Management Consultant

Confidential,Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Technical advisor to senior leadership of Fortune 500 clients.
• Provided strategic analysis and design recommendations for IT initiatives including: private/public cloud migrations applying analytics & machine learning to business decisions leveraging big data platforms business intelligence technology evaluations global software deployment and upgrades
• Project manager over initiatives consisting of third party vendors, IT consultants, and, client resources.

Senior Analytics Program Manager

Confidential,Houston,TX

• Program manager over the development and operation of HPI's Global Personal Systems Supply Chain's analytics pipeline.
• Responsible for a team of direct reports consisting of data scientist, DevOps resources, software engineers, and test engineers located across Houston, Brazil, and India.
• Built data pipelines in AWS to ingest real-time data, cleanse data, extract insights through predictive analytics, and provide information to customer through visualizations.
• Accountable for maintaining the technical integrity of the analytics system by validating architectural design decisions, ensuring best practices testing against large data sets, and aligning developers and DevOps engineers on automation and optimization techniques.
• Improved program team performance by leveraging technical and analytic experience to facilitate effective inter-team technical communications.
• Team liaison to the Global program for software engineering and analytics insights.
• Technologies utilized include Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services, Kinesis, JSON, Athena, Redshift, Hive, Spark, S3, Scala, Python, SPARK, and Databricks.

Senior Implementation Project Manager

Confidential,Houston,TX

• Led teams consisting of consultants, data scientists, and on-premise infrastructure resources through multiple multimillion dollar concurrent SAS engagements at Energy and Oil and Gas Companies.
• Deliverables included customer segmentations models and predictive models that determined asset failure.
• Built solutions that extracted data from Teradata, Hadoop, SQL Server, Oracle, and PI and gained insight through supervised and unsupervised machine learning models.
• Instrumental in improving the performance of SAS’s data extraction products by leading a cross-functional team of implementation consultants and software engineers. Provided hands on leadership to improve .Net code and increase the speed and performance of SAS’s data loading and transformation technology.
• Gained customer satisfaction by delivering high quality, on time, and on budget solutions. Used PMP experience to manage projects and Agile Scrum Product Owner knowledge to assist stakeholders with align goals and priorities.
• Prescribed specific solutions from SAS’s analytics portfolio to target help clients reach their objectives

Senior Consulting Manager­­

Confidential,Houston,TX

• Managed multiple concurrent engagements for Palantir’s ERP and economic forecasting suite at upstream Oil and Gas client sites.
• Mitigated engagement risks by leveraging technical expertise in data management, software development, and system architecture to assist clients with integrating Palantir’s platform into their technical strategy.
• Actively involved with projects from pre-sales concepts through final deployment.
• Used C# and advanced SQL to build Extraction Translation and Loading (ETL) tools for clients to ingest data into Palantir’s platform.
• Developed Palantir’s resource and talent pool by mentoring college grads and conducting performance evaluations during and post project execution.
• Collaborated with international offices (Calgary, London, Singapore, Perth, and Bogotá) on strategic decisions that impacted internal operations.

Management Consultant

Confidential,Houston,TX

• Reported directly to the CIO and SVP of Information Technology. Project manager over custom application development projects and third-party vendor implementation projects.
• Ensured successful project delivery by tracking project schedules, managing project budgets, and providing outside the box solutions to lead projects past risks.
• Responsible for the implementation of IHS’s operations compliance and notification system within a leading energy retailer.
• Hands on development and implementation of a custom supply chain reporting application. Reports were utilized by C-Level executives in order to monitor the company’s supply chain delivery performance.
• Hands on development and implementation of a custom chemical ratio balancing application used by downstream petrochemical refining clients.
• Interviewed and evaluated potential development resources and new hires.
• Technology used during application development included: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Web Services (WCF), XML, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server, Oracle, AJAX, Active Directory Integration, Team Foundation Server (TFS), JavaScript

Senior Analyst

Confidential,Houston,TX

• Senior consultant who provided global enterprise solutions for clients internal to Saudi Aramco.
• Performed presentations and demonstrations to company president and upper management illustrating the financial and business process benefits of solutions that were developed.
• Gathered requirements, defined scope, identified risks, and reported status updates.
• Provided deliverables such as Statement of Work (SOW) and System Architecture Document (SAD)
• Designed enterprise applications using Microsoft’s .Net Enterprise Application Libraries
• Developed applications in the .Net Framework using C#, ASP.Net, XML, Web Services (WCF), AJAX, and JavaScript
• Utilized SQL Server, Oracle, LDAP, and EXCEL as data sources. Performed DBA activities.

Senior Consultant

Confidential Houston, TX

• Created a web based portal that facilitated the communication of key metrics between energy traders and utility asset managers.
• Portal allowed stakeholders to track and monitor forecasted and historical facility base loads, forecasted and historical facility peak loads, current production, weather data, commodity pricing, and ERCOT bid requests.
• Developed web based portal using SQL, .Net Framework, C#, ASP.Net, XML, AJAX, Web Services (WCF), and Microsoft’s Enterprise Libraries.

Web Applications Team Lead

Confidential,Houston, TX

• Led team development standards in .Net Framework, C#, ASP.Net, ASP.Net, and Oracle, AJAX. Designed and developed a 3 tier framework that included Presentation Layer, Business Logic, and Data Access Layer.