Experience

CHAS Health

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Data Engineer

  • Dec 2021 - Present

  • Developed processes and procedures within a HIPAA/HITECH environment with HL7 systems, Active Directory and Cisco Unified Communications Manager • Applied SOLID principles to SQL work within the domain to ensure the code used is well-designed, extendable, and maintainable. • Analyzed data processing checklists for optimization and impact analysis of failure modes. • Verified business environment using process and impact analysis, reviewed log files and asset inventory of relevant items within the domain. • Reviewed and refactored the unconstrained organic growth of the domain's core data set, solving among other issues a key amalgamation crisis of two data sets in a table that were simply offset by a large row number with a constructed key and pending collision, moving to a composite key and further identifying opportunities to build surrogate keys appropriately to more efficiently use data across the domain. • Built scaffolded queries to analyze data structures to then build demarcated layers of data flows to properly separate tasks and orders of operations in the data environment. • Ran a development sprint to take a database's daily Fill and kill process taking 8 hours a day and turned it into a 7 minute process; replaced 60GB data traversing the network to under 1GB per day. This resulted in freeing up sufficient resources to allow the domain to run a true dev environment for the first time. • Built dependency aware job parallelization process for queries to minimize server job execution times. • Assisted IT with implementing role-based ACLs for current and new employees. • Developed and implemented a SQL skills training program to update the data team on modern best practices.



Qualfon/Center Partners

• United States
• Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior DevOps Specialist (title Software Developer)

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2021

  Learned Agile/Scrum methodologies, utilized them to lead the development and deployment of our company's first Software Development Lifecycle.Developed deployment model (SDLC), then automated it with using Jenkins for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD.)Prototyped moving to GOCD for automated deployment moving to swarm architecture using an AWS backend with on-prem Docker swarm with a model of resource availability by max concurrent users by node. This required data layers that were scoped to be for it and applications (.net with angular UI/UX and SQL backend) that were designed for this process.Led Stkaeholder meetingsWorked with 30 programmers across multiple disciplines and continents to work on the same standards/branching strategies/code reviews/pipelines by interviewing them, training them, and coaching them to the process of the SDLC that we created.Worked with systems team to get architectural support for those same systems in AD, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Supported non-AD/MS systems (Linux/MySQL) as well.Personally did all deployment prototyping during testing and implementation phases of the SDLC. • Coordinated deployment strategy and served as the administrator for source control, knowledge base, and bug tracking solutions. • Designed, implemented, and maintained automated deployment pipeline using Jenkins and GoCD. • Advocated for better communication and collaboration between enterprise groups. • Ensured adherence to best practices for application data layer design standards.

• Senior Database Architect (title Senior Database Administrator)

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2016

  Hired multiple team members to build an enterprise variant of the datamart implementation that was successful in a single businessline. This allowed for corporate KPIs across all clients, allowing for greater forecasting of data needs into the future. Built a spec document for onboarding new clients as part of the Master Service Agreement(MSA) to provide immediate reporting capabilities. Time from spec document being filled to being onboard capable was 6 hours.Recovered in-house developed legacy payroll system after a critical failure by using an 8 year old backup of the software and rewrote the transformation logic that had been lost. Successfully imported data-only backup with no data loss after recovery.Supported an enterprise wide version update from Avaya R13 to R18, reviewing, documenting, and refactoring undocumented legacy code, migration from primary to composite key data solutions.Replaced legacy in-house onboarding and provisioning system with a new system importing from a single source of truth to a data warehouse using a process execution engine that recognized differences across records (change data management) and making actions based on those changes for employee management across Active Directory, Avaya, and other supported systems as needed.Created and implemented a corporate Disaster Response/Recovery strategy. Spec'd out online retention, deep storage retention, backup and test of systems, documenting backup availability and SLAs, monitored growth, and HA/DR criteria. • Scoped, designed, built, and implemented data flow processes from over 100 application types and sources to Data Warehouse and Data Mart storage. • Managed data availability, integrity, security, and redundancy for both client and enterprise data. • Provided project management and resource allocation for a 4-person team. • Created and managed disaster recovery strategy. • Communicated and enforced best practices for development using SQL, SSIS, and MDX.

• Senior BI Developer (title Reporting Technology Specialist)

  • Jun 2013 - Apr 2014

  Built from scratch reporting for Zendesk email/chat interface including text parsers and interface analyzers to output quantified solutions for end users based on established data.Built systems for second vendor (cloudconnect) for telephony and applied distributed systems architecture using Big Data models.Prototyped an enterprise wide data vault implementation for benchmarking against the current datamart model. • Managed the BI Development lifecycle in the reporting group. • Defined and established best practices for new data model development, dataset validation, and report automation. • Designed and implemented a customer-driven reporting interface. • Led ongoing performance improvements for report and query execution. • Created continuing education guidelines for SQL, SSIS, and KPI Definition Structure.

• BI Developer (title Report Technician)

  • Jan 2011 - Jun 2013

  Built from scratch reporting for a new telephony system (Five9), built the data models, import process, KPIs, reports, and also isolated API discrepancies with the new system and reported them to the vendor for their own process improvements.Learned SSIS and became SME for the department as a result on this subject, created templatized package design that allowed for design requirements needing only 20% of user-defined configurations that were better performing vs previously deployed solutions.Worked with data architect to build enterprise level packages as a result of the quality of the above builds.Worked with developers to expand sales trackers to handle credit card data while respecting all legal requirements (PCI-DSS, etc.) for data security.Scoped, designed, built, implemented a datamart and templatized report interface that had core KPIs built into it and added the ability for users to modify the report as a configuration to send it back to the data team in a format that could be one click deployed. • Managed project intake and executed and validated over 50 hosted reports. • Created dynamic reports and automated reports using data-driven techniques. • Designed unique set-based calculations to efficiently derive contact center KPIs using SQL, SSRS, and SSIS. • Consistently maintained high standards for SQL query performance and report accuracy.

• Process Improvement Specialist/Data Analyst

  • Oct 2010 - Jan 2011

  Worked with discrepancy reporting team, credit team, and goods movement team: interviewed them and established lifecycle policies for their workflow to reduce errors and increase accuracy, etc. and provided visibility into the efficacy of each team with advanced data reporting. • Documented existing processes for various specialty solutions supporting the web and tele-sales fulfillment team. • Created training programs and established continuing education guidelines. • Established consistent and accurate reporting of performance statistics. • Provided risk assessments and customer impact reporting to clients and stakeholders.

• Global Queue Analyst

  • Jun 2010 - Oct 2010

  Monitor real time and historical data to identify trends with the directive of improving performance for multiple skills/groups in a contact center with a staffing level of >700 people

• CSR/Back office specialist

  • Aug 2007 - Jun 2010