Robert Culver
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James Westphal, PhD
Robert is an excellent collaborator and a gifted developer. It was always a pleasure to work with him, even when he and I had extremely challenging projects with very unclear customer expectations. He was consistently able to craft reliable and creative approaches to solve the problems at hand.
Shawn Schollmeyer
I worked with Robert on our digital asset management system as our database expert. He did a terrifc job of explaining technical issues to non-technical users and his customer service support was excellent. His level of knowledge proactively kept systems running and provided awareness and solutions for potential problems before they occurred.
James Westphal, PhD
Robert is an excellent collaborator and a gifted developer. It was always a pleasure to work with him, even when he and I had extremely challenging projects with very unclear customer expectations. He was consistently able to craft reliable and creative approaches to solve the problems at hand.
Shawn Schollmeyer
I worked with Robert on our digital asset management system as our database expert. He did a terrifc job of explaining technical issues to non-technical users and his customer service support was excellent. His level of knowledge proactively kept systems running and provided awareness and solutions for potential problems before they occurred.
James Westphal, PhD
Robert is an excellent collaborator and a gifted developer. It was always a pleasure to work with him, even when he and I had extremely challenging projects with very unclear customer expectations. He was consistently able to craft reliable and creative approaches to solve the problems at hand.
Shawn Schollmeyer
I worked with Robert on our digital asset management system as our database expert. He did a terrifc job of explaining technical issues to non-technical users and his customer service support was excellent. His level of knowledge proactively kept systems running and provided awareness and solutions for potential problems before they occurred.
James Westphal, PhD
Robert is an excellent collaborator and a gifted developer. It was always a pleasure to work with him, even when he and I had extremely challenging projects with very unclear customer expectations. He was consistently able to craft reliable and creative approaches to solve the problems at hand.
Shawn Schollmeyer
I worked with Robert on our digital asset management system as our database expert. He did a terrifc job of explaining technical issues to non-technical users and his customer service support was excellent. His level of knowledge proactively kept systems running and provided awareness and solutions for potential problems before they occurred.
Credentials
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Apache Spark Essential Training
LinkedInJan, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Learning Bash Scripting
LinkedInJan, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Spark for Machine Learning & AI
LinkedInJan, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Thinking Machines
LinkedInJul, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Building a Recommendation System with Python Machine Learning & AI
LinkedInMay, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
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State of Washington
Experience
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Teleion
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Consultant
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Mar 2015 - Present
In this role, I am responsible for guiding enterprise organizations in developing and improving their ETL pipelines and functional components in order to enhance the quality and functionality of large data lakes. Significant accomplishments include: • Enabled budget insights to be available via self-service with 30% time savings compared to previous tool used by client. • Elevated the general quality of lead scoring with sales agents reporting that quality of the leads had gone from an initial average quality of "F" to "B." • Led the development and implementation of a customer life cycle model that provides insights related to Microsoft advertising into the customer life cycle, and enables targeted marketing according to platform engagement. • Introduced a lead prospect data lake that consolidates data from third-party vendors into singular lead sources for consistent quality and efficiency.
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Providence Health & Services
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Hospitals and Health Care
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Architect
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Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
In this role, I was responsible for guiding enterprise organizations in developing and improving their ETL pipelines and functional components in order to enhance the quality and functionality of large data lakes. Significant accomplishments include: • Enabled budget insights to be available via self-service with 30% time savings compared to previous tool used by client. • Elevated the general quality of lead scoring with sales agents reporting that quality of the leads had gone from an initial average quality of "F" to "B." • Led the development and implementation of a customer life cycle model that provides insights related to Microsoft advertising into the customer life cycle, and enables targeted marketing according to platform engagement. • Introduced a lead prospect data lake that consolidates data from third-party vendors into singular lead sources for consistent quality and efficiency. • Built ETL pipelines from multiple Epic EMR systems using ODI into a central Oracle database. Centralized Oracle system is used as a central repository for publishing to other tools such as the cardiac evaluation tool as well as management reporting. • Liaison between Healthcare IT and the Meaningful Use committee, responsible for communicating requirements back to HIT and documenting within our document repository. The purpose of this was to develop the framework for implementation for Providence's participation in the Boeing Accountable Care Organization.
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Teleion
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Development Engineer
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Jun 2009 - Sep 2014
As a Software Development Engineer, I was tasked with performing software engineering and technical guidance functions for Microsoft Search Advertising, while also serving as a traditional DevOps specialist and program manager. Significant accomplishments include: • Accelerated the replication process of the MOLAP cube to the remote data center by 800% by introducing a much faster and more efficient replication technique. • Improved the ability of sales, marketing, management, and finance teams to better understand the Search Advertising business, as well as prepare regulatory reports by creating a large multi-terabyte MOLAP cube, which was hosted on SSAS in the US, and had back-ups in both EMEA and APAC data centers. • Formulated a customer life cycle system based on SQL, which replaced a legacy system that offered limited insights into customer engagement, and proved challenging to maintain because of coding style.
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Volt
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United States
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Staffing and Recruiting
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Systems Analyst
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Aug 2008 - Jun 2009
As a Business Systems Analyst, I was in charge of gathering and analyzing business systems-related data for MSN Advertising in the small and medium business segment with the goal of identifying opportunities for improvement. Other duties include drafting analysis reports using SQL scripts, and submitting these reports to sales teams and enterprise executive customers. Significant accomplishments include: • Minimized the time required to support existing reporting process by 70%, thereby allowing for the addition of new features to the self-serve MOLAP solution to provide additional business capabilities. • Merged numerous Excel-based reports into a singular reporting solution using a MOLAP cube that caters to multiple lines of business. • Enabled thorough impact assessment of agent actions on campaigns by creating an Excel based workbook that monitors the effects of such actions through comparison against untreated campaigns.
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Essential Creations Inc
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Director of Research and Development
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Nov 2002 - Dec 2007
As the Director of Research and Development, I was responsible for leading the development of a dual-use soy wax candle that was able to achieve full adherence to ASME safety testing requirements, as well as FDA regulations governing body care products. Significant accomplishments include: • Played a key role in the development of a first-ever product that fully complies with all safety, regulatory, and product liability standards through rigorous effort in conducting multidisciplinary research and laboratory testing. • Spearheaded the transition of the product went from a $5,000 novelty market to a $750K mainstream market with high-value clients such as Drugstore.com and Victoria's Secret. • Ensured full implementation of OSHA standards within the company's manufacturing facility through the design of manufacturing and safety protocols. • Established official copyright registration for the company's preliminary patent in collaboration with patent and copyright attorney. • Sourced all products used in 'bodywax.com' products and ensured compliance with FDA regulations for body care products. • Developed the candles ensuring they met ASME safety test requirements for candles, in addition, I also ensured temperatures were skin safe through all phases of combustion. • Worked closely with our product liability provider to ensure all packaging met liability requirements. • Developed all manufacturing and safety protocols used in our manufacturing facility and ensured they complied with OSHA standards. • Developed all jigs needed to manufacture our products. • Worked with our patent and copyright attorney to establish our copyright registration and our preliminary patent.
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Microsoft
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Database Analyst
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Jan 1995 - Jul 2005
Responsible for the integration of numerous data systems within Microsoft's interactive production facilities. The purpose of which was to reduce the amount of paperwork required to produce videos and interactive games as well as increase the amount of content that was available for reuse. • Project-managed acquisition and integration of the Bulldog (now part of Documentum) digital asset management (DAM) system. This was used within the production and postproduction facilities. This allowed us to find and reuse assets that would normally be recreated. Worked with the Bulldog team to migrate their solution from Oracle to SQL Server by doing the initial port of Oracle to SQL for them and then providing them the code base back integration back into their main branch. • Implemented a facility scheduling system from Gentech (now part of Xytech) for scheduling postproduction facilities. Built an ASP web application on top of this system allowing the production facility to see their work and reconcile it from their workstations rather than manage work through paperwork orders. • Designed a digital library system to manage all the tapes produced by the production facility. Managed the team that built the system. We built the system using SQL and C++. This system integrated with both our DAM system and the scheduling system so users could check out tapes directly from the scheduling system allowing the librarians to have them ready for them and they could find the digital representation in the DAM system and have them downloaded from the server. • Designed a facility ticketing system and managed the team that serviced the tickets. Allowing anyone to submit a ticket for an issue happening within our facility. These went into a workflow queue were assigned, worked on, and resolved. We used SQL, ASP, and SMTP for our implementation.
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Boeing
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United States
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Aviation & Aerospace
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700 & Above Employee
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Flight Controls Engineer
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Jul 1988 - Jan 1995
Lead a cross functional team of engineers in pioneering the use of 3D computer systems to identify and correct installation and safety problems with the 777 airplane. Teamed with others responsible for all aspects of the 777 flight-control wiring. This was Boeing’s first fly-by wire airplane and most of the engineering was a revolution rather than an evolution of past Boeing designs. Responsible for risk assessment of flight control wiring designs in the 777 airplane that met safety criteria for certification. Responsible for working with other team members to ensure that wires could both be manufactured, installed, and maintained for the life of the aircraft. Responsible for design and testing of the primary flight-computers pre-flight check software. This software detects any anomalies with wiring or surface control actuators prior to flight. Additionally, ensuring all channels of the flight-computers agree.
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Education
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1984 - 1988
Walla Walla University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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