Adam Plager

Lead Data Scientist, Data Engineer and Founder at Quick Software Solutions
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Missouri City, Texas, United States, US
Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Spanish Full professional proficiency
  • Russian Elementary proficiency
  • Spanish Full professional proficiency
  • Russian Limited working proficiency

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Gabriel Vega

I have worked for Adam while i was working on QKSS, he's one of the most skilled managers that i know, he's a great person, always kind to listen their employees. It was a pleasure to work for Adam on such a great company as QKSS.

Joseph Phelan

During the Enron years, Adam was a hidden gem behind the scenes and responsible for many of the more complex IT initiatives at EES. He added heaps of value, and I'm not at all surprised that he took the leap to found his own firm, QKSS, afterwards. In a sea of big IT egos his competence and professionalism shine like a beacon.

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Experience

    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Lead Data Scientist, Data Engineer and Founder
      • Mar 2002 - Present

      • Gained 22 years of international work experience • Started an offshore software development company utilizing 45 Argentinean developers and help desk to create customized software solutions for US and international companies • Created contractual offshore relationships in 10 different countries • Managed development and help desk contracts with multinational companies • Developed and managed multiple data science and data engineering projects for multinational companies Clients Include • Engie North America • Demand Control 2 • MRE Consulting, LLC • MegaEnergy, LLC • Direct Energy • Trusmart Energy • Uptake • Frosch Travel • Ultra Petroleum • TBC Controls • Valkyrie Commissioning Services • Texas Retail Energy • Windcomm • Walmart • JigaWatt • Quorum Business Solutions • ISTA, North America • Brentag Latin America • Methodist Hospital • Schubarth Software System • Custom Business Software Technologies used: Python, R, C#, .NET, Dockers, Apache Databricks, Apache Hadoop, Azure Data Factory, Azure App Functions, AWS Lambda Functions, SSRS, SSIS, SQL, Interbase, Postgres, SQL Server, Amazon AWS, Dockers, Kubernetes Show less

    • VP Of Software Operations
      • May 2022 - Feb 2023

      Creating and implementing strategies for hiring, onboarding, and retaining technical employees, leading and managing the training and mentoring for technical personnel, establishing our global network and process of hiring onshore, nearshore, and offshore resources, providing technical leadership, and helping establish new products. Creating and implementing strategies for hiring, onboarding, and retaining technical employees, leading and managing the training and mentoring for technical personnel, establishing our global network and process of hiring onshore, nearshore, and offshore resources, providing technical leadership, and helping establish new products.

    • Australia
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Data Scientist and Technical Architect
      • Oct 2015 - Feb 2018

      • Used Machine Learning, R and statistical analysis to analyze and mine marketing, billing, risk, and operational data to create data driven analysis to decrease churn and data errors and increase customer profitability • Designed warehouse to import and hold usage data from smart meters in Texas • Created C-Level executive financial and performance reporting dashboards for large Retail Energy Provider • Created data warehouse for billing, marketing, and operational data which was relied upon by the marketing, finance, and operational groups for reporting Clients Included: • Think Energy • Koch Industries • Luby’s Inc. Technologies used: R, C#, SSIS, SQL, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure Show less

    • Interim CTO, Technical Architect and Co-Founder
      • Mar 2011 - Oct 2014

      • Developed engineering software to increase the productivity of unconventional gas wells which was sold to a Fortune 500 Oil and Gas Company • Assumed the role of Interim CTO of company charged with separating company from parent, implementing billing system, and implementing network. • Designed and built unconventional oil and gas software designed to find the most profitable construction of well Clients Included: • Calpine Energy • Trusmart Energy • Schubarth Software Systems • Promethean, LLC Technologies used: C#, SSIS, SQL, SQL Server Show less

    • India
    • Construction
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • ETRM Project Consultant via MRE Consulting
      • Oct 2010 - Jun 2011

      • Provided short term relief as part of team implementing Endur • Provided short term relief as part of team implementing Endur

    • United States
    • Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
    • ETRM Project Consultant via Alitek
      • Aug 2008 - Sep 2010

      • Developed data warehouse which communicated with SCADA systems to store 2 terabytes of 5 second performance data inside of a custom SQL Server database • Mined and analyzed the performance data for various maintenance and performance issues to allow Horizon Wind to save millions of dollars in maintenance costs and to increase the predictive analytics for the wind farms • Developed communication systems for wind energy company between various MISO, PJM, and NYISO for scheduling and pricing information. Technologies used: SSIS, SQL Server, SQL, ASP.NET (Visual Studio C# and VB.NET), G Script (Scripting language specific to OPC Data Collection), Kepware, OPC Data Hub Show less

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • President and CEO
      • Feb 2002 - Dec 2009

      • Started an offshore software development company utilizing 45 Argentinean developers and help desk to create customized software solutions for US and international companies • Gained 7 years of international work experience • Managed contracts with multinational companies Clients Included • Just Energy • Direct Energy • Huber Energy • Ultra Petroleum • Walmart • Texas Retail Energy • Quorum Business Solutions • Methodist Hospital • Brenntag Latin America Technologies Used: SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, C#, ASP.NET, JAVA and C++ Show less

    • Oil and Gas
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Development Manager
      • Mar 2001 - Dec 2001

      Selected to resolve organizational and technical issues of the IT teams in the Houston and London offices serving the Weather, Coal and Crude Trading Operations. Managed a team of 21 developers, a $2.7 million budget and the delivery of two mission critical enterprise applications Technologies used: SQL, TIBCO, MFC, SQL Server and MFC Selected to resolve organizational and technical issues of the IT teams in the Houston and London offices serving the Weather, Coal and Crude Trading Operations. Managed a team of 21 developers, a $2.7 million budget and the delivery of two mission critical enterprise applications Technologies used: SQL, TIBCO, MFC, SQL Server and MFC

    • Manager, Quantitative Research and Development
      • Sep 1999 - Mar 2001

      Led research into data mining, artificial intelligence, and rule-based systems for risk management and marketing initiatives Technologies used: MATLAB, SQL, TIBCO, MFC, SQL Server, VB, Oracle, and Unix Led research into data mining, artificial intelligence, and rule-based systems for risk management and marketing initiatives Technologies used: MATLAB, SQL, TIBCO, MFC, SQL Server, VB, Oracle, and Unix

    • Oil and Gas
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Development Manager
      • Feb 1997 - Sep 1999

      • Managed team of 30 developers and $5 million budget to deliver risk management, trading and RAD software • Developed Rule Based Software for Utility Rate Analysis Technologies used: SQL, MFC, SQL Server, and VB • Managed team of 30 developers and $5 million budget to deliver risk management, trading and RAD software • Developed Rule Based Software for Utility Rate Analysis Technologies used: SQL, MFC, SQL Server, and VB

    • Senior System Analyst
      • Jan 1995 - Feb 1997

      • Developed a non-linear pricing application and web based safety application. • Supported the development and enhancements of a $1.6 million client/server pricing application. Technologies used: SAS, MVS, SQL Server, DB2, REXX, MVS, JCL, FOCUS, HTML, VB Script and Visual Basic • Developed a non-linear pricing application and web based safety application. • Supported the development and enhancements of a $1.6 million client/server pricing application. Technologies used: SAS, MVS, SQL Server, DB2, REXX, MVS, JCL, FOCUS, HTML, VB Script and Visual Basic

Education

  • University of Florida
    Master of Science - MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering
    1993 - 1995
  • University of Florida
    B.A., Russian Literature and Language
    1987 - 1993

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