Experience

Mojo

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Data Engineer

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  Analytics engineering team lead • Prioritization and roadmap manager for analytics engineering • Executive, product, marketing, and engineering stakeholders • Managed two engineering resources Daily Fantasy Sports analytics lead • User event data pipeline architect • Data pipelines for backend services architect NBA projections machine learning engineering • Real time streaming stack utilizing AWS Step Functions, DynamoDB, Lambda, Docker Markets data lake • Lead data architect and team lead on consolidating historical sports statistics and odds Data analytics infrastructure architect • Improved analytics infrastructure reliability – weekly outages to month over month up time • Improved scalability and reduced data latency – AWS DMS replication using both full load and CDC • AWS Step Function, Lambda, Glue, S3, Kinesis, Redshift, and Redshift Spectrum stack (using Terraform) Show less



Gemini

• United States
• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Data Engineer

  • Nov 2021 - Nov 2022

  Anti-money laundering (AML) reporting • Lead engineer on AML reporting and account alerting • Utilized unit testing and automation on Apache Spark ETL to improve stakeholder trust and data reliability Ledger reconciliation reporting • Lead engineer on ledger reconciliation reporting in the analytics team • Snowflake and Airflow ETL Virtual currency transaction reporting (VCTR) • Lead engineer on VCTR automation and infrastructure • Collaboration between compliance, data, and cloud security • Removed manual processes and improved reporting reliability by 30% Data platform and data lake • Mentor and guide for data lake development • Helped the data platform team understand various data engineering technologies: Databricks, Delta Lake, Kinesis, Kafka, CICD, etc. Show less



Databricks

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Resident Solutions Architect

  • Dec 2018 - Nov 2021

  Technology enablement • CICD enablement in Databricks with multiple customers • Spark 3.0 optimization enablement • Google Cloud Go To Market (GTM) – contributor and BigQuery subject matter expert • Salesforce connector contributor – DBR 7/Spark 3 compatibility Strategic Customer Program – USA West • Trusted advisor/consultant to high potential customers in the west coast of the US. • Data engineering and science –architecture, pipelines, automation, governance, machine learning • Industries – Media, Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, Pharmaceutical, Financial Services • Supported the following clouds: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Data optimization • Data engineering at major food and beverage company. • Worked closely with engineering and senior leadership to deliver infrastructure changes in anticipation of major initiative around consumer loyalty program. Migration • Data engineering and data science at major film studio. • Migration of data pipelines and data science tooling to Databricks. • Established Databricks as the standard and advising other divisions. Data science and streaming • Data engineering and data science at major pharmaceutical company. • Streaming data replication (CDC) using Apache Spark structured streaming. • Data science advisor on operations and natural language processing. Show less



Red Bull Media House

• Austria
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Software Engineer, Data

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2019

  Recommendation Systems • Point of contact with confidential vendor on ML based recommendation engine. • Lead team to develop in parallel item/item based recommendations. • Organized API team to help develop APIs for both solutions. • Developed feature roadmap for both short term item/item recommendations and long term personalized recommendations. A/B Testing Framework • Lead manager on developing an A/B testing solution. • Estimated in house development costs and timelines. • Worked with multiple vendors on the proposal process. • Aggregated and reconciled requirements amongst all stakeholders (US apps team, Austria web team, US API team, Austria API team). • Point of contact with chosen vendor to develop a solution. Data Services • Lead engineer on developing a data warehouse for Red Bull TV. • Lead team of 5 engineers to develop the data warehouse over 1 quarter. • Developed road map to make development manageable and achievable. Red Bull TV Reporting Dashboards • Balanced architecture decisions and development effort around timelines. • Developed short term and long term development road maps. • Streaming ingestion of Conviva concurrent for real time dashboards. Monitoring and Data Quality • Designed system in Databricks, Apache Spark, Scala to monitor endpoints and data quality. Developed metrics to alert data services stakeholders of significant data quality issues. Show less



Edmunds

• United States
• Automotive
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Jan 2012 - Sep 2015

  Technology Management - IBM Netezza vs Amazon Redshift analysis – Potential $2M cost savings over 5 years. - Explored Hadoop cluster redundancy and high availability over cloud based solutions. - Cluster migration from physical data center to cloud (EMR and EC2) solution. Data Warehouse Migration to AWS - Architected new data warehouse to take advantage of the benefits of AWS and cloud. Used Netflix and Riot Games data warehouse infrastructure as a starting point. - Lead team (2 onsite and 4 offsite) on data and workflow migration. - Standardized migration procedure to make transition efficiently and seamless. - Coordinated validation and cluster switch over. Paid Search Metrics - Session revenue categorization to measure the impact of paid search campaigns. - Hadoop/MapReduce/Java implementation (managed via Oozie) that aggregates multiple sources of data (session level events, lead submissions, 3rd party ads). Data is stored in HDFS and Hbase. - Improved aggregate monthly estimates from 20% down to less than 3%. True Market Value (TMV) - Improved vehicle match rates of dealer partner inventory from 25% to near 100%. - Reduced complexity for incomplete data where previous implementation would fail. - Large scale Java project spanning multiple modules with various technologies (Oracle DB, Coherence) linked via ActiveMQ and Apache Thrift. OEM Reporting - Data verification – analyzed clickstream data for inconsistencies that were leading to anomalies in OEM reports. - Worked with statistics team and OEM team on identifying issues and creating the appropriate incidents. Automated process on Oozie/Java. Executive Reporting - Worked with analysts to scope out engineering work and manage engineering resources. - Created framework for aggregate creation and automation (Hadoop/MapReduce/HBase/Oozie/Java). Improved report generation time while easing engineering effort. - Provided support for Tableau for quicker ad hoc and automated reporting. Show less



Freudenberg Group

• Germany
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Strategy Intern

  • Jul 2011 - Sep 2011

  - Identified trends in the medical technology arena. Narrowed the scope of new business ventures to a manageable list of companies. - Developed market segment entry strategies. Provided options for Freudenberg to further expand their role in medical technology. - Analyzed customer requirements and contractor capabilities. Identified appropriate partnerships to leverage both sides with Freudenberg competencies. - Identified trends in the medical technology arena. Narrowed the scope of new business ventures to a manageable list of companies. - Developed market segment entry strategies. Provided options for Freudenberg to further expand their role in medical technology. - Analyzed customer requirements and contractor capabilities. Identified appropriate partnerships to leverage both sides with Freudenberg competencies.



The Aerospace Corporation

• United States
• Space Research and Technology
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Consultant

  • Apr 2010 - Aug 2010

  - Advised project managers and division director on Agile/SCRUM for organization wide implementation - Trained engineering teams on Agile processes leading to more efficient development teams - Developed template architecture for engineering teams lacking software architecture knowledge to reduce product development learning curve - Developed architecture using Java, Jboss Seam, RichFaces, JSF, Tomcat, Hibernate, MySQL - Advised engineering team with management and architecture knowledge and reduced first release lead time from 1 year to 1.5 months Show less



Main Point Systems, Inc.

• Software Development

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2008 - Mar 2010

  - Lead design and implementation on medical test database - Lead design and implementation on monitoring (customer service) tracking and logging database - Organized and reconciled differences between differing requirements from the US and Belgian stakeholders - Adobe Flex based front end with Java/Tomcat based server - Swiz Flex framework used for MVC architecture (Explored Carimgorm and Mate frameworks) - Spring MVC/JSP used for password reset/email confirmation module - BlazeDS layer (using AMF) to link front end with server - Used Flex messaging to manage domain object updates in the monitoring module - Developed using a Spring/Hibernate application stack Show less



Areté

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Member of the Research Staff

  • Jul 2004 - Jul 2008

  - Task manager and a customer point of contact on major program - Negotiate tasking and resources with customer - Manage staff hours - Expanding company role on task by exploiting new opportunities for growth - Lead a software effort on a system model - Analyzed system models and enacted improvements - Lead architect/developer on web application - Incorporated AJAX to improve UI - First project to integrate AJAX/MySQL/Apache/Tomcat - Encouraged others to expand beyond IIS/ASP.NET - Designed and developed features for existing software applications - Implemented algorithms developed for image processing - Designed and developed data analysis tools Show less



QK

• Civil Engineering
• 100 - 200 Employee

• GIS Intern

  • 2003 - 2003

  - Developed new features for existing AJAX GIS web application - Helped streamline UI - Developed database for business development project - Used the existing GIS web application as an expansion to that product line - Developed new features for existing AJAX GIS web application - Helped streamline UI - Developed database for business development project - Used the existing GIS web application as an expansion to that product line