Stephen Tiepel
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Sagar Patravale
Working with Stephen has always been a privilege and pleasure for me. In more than five years that I worked with Stephen, he had profound impact on my career. As a senior director of the team, Stephen has rare blend of extensive knowledge, decisiveness, ownership, and patience that makes for a top leader. He is collaborative, can operate at a very detailed level, and has a firm grasp on the strategic big-picture vision. I have looked up to him as a leader and a great mentor who always motivated his team. He stood with the team and guided us through thick and thin and made sure we excelled as a team. He ensured that he brought right set of talent and helped them grow beyond their capabilities. His words of wisdom, appreciation, feedback comments have helped me a lot during 5 year stint. I’ve always seen him readily share his extensive experience in technical and professional skills to the benefit of his teams. He is very responsive, he clearly understands complex and technical issues, and he provides leadership that people respond to and gets things done. His diverse experience in technology, coupled with excellent communication skills make Stephen a very well-liked leader. He is indeed a very valuable asset to our team and organization. I will remember Stephen as a talented, professional, always cheering, fun loving and a wonderful human being. It is a real pleasure and honor to work with him and I recommend him with the greatest of enthusiasm.
Trish Pendleton
I have worked with Stephen many years at Epsilon. As a software engineer, Stephen employs and understands the development life cycle from gathering requirements employing Agile methods tuned to customer delivery. He stays current with new technologies and where possible applies advanced technology to product ideas. Where Stephen is exceptional is his ability to liaison between engineering and business associates. His work ethic and willingness to help anyone can not be underestimated. I wholeheartedly support Stephen for any software engineering role.
Sagar Patravale
Working with Stephen has always been a privilege and pleasure for me. In more than five years that I worked with Stephen, he had profound impact on my career. As a senior director of the team, Stephen has rare blend of extensive knowledge, decisiveness, ownership, and patience that makes for a top leader. He is collaborative, can operate at a very detailed level, and has a firm grasp on the strategic big-picture vision. I have looked up to him as a leader and a great mentor who always motivated his team. He stood with the team and guided us through thick and thin and made sure we excelled as a team. He ensured that he brought right set of talent and helped them grow beyond their capabilities. His words of wisdom, appreciation, feedback comments have helped me a lot during 5 year stint. I’ve always seen him readily share his extensive experience in technical and professional skills to the benefit of his teams. He is very responsive, he clearly understands complex and technical issues, and he provides leadership that people respond to and gets things done. His diverse experience in technology, coupled with excellent communication skills make Stephen a very well-liked leader. He is indeed a very valuable asset to our team and organization. I will remember Stephen as a talented, professional, always cheering, fun loving and a wonderful human being. It is a real pleasure and honor to work with him and I recommend him with the greatest of enthusiasm.
Trish Pendleton
I have worked with Stephen many years at Epsilon. As a software engineer, Stephen employs and understands the development life cycle from gathering requirements employing Agile methods tuned to customer delivery. He stays current with new technologies and where possible applies advanced technology to product ideas. Where Stephen is exceptional is his ability to liaison between engineering and business associates. His work ethic and willingness to help anyone can not be underestimated. I wholeheartedly support Stephen for any software engineering role.
Sagar Patravale
Working with Stephen has always been a privilege and pleasure for me. In more than five years that I worked with Stephen, he had profound impact on my career. As a senior director of the team, Stephen has rare blend of extensive knowledge, decisiveness, ownership, and patience that makes for a top leader. He is collaborative, can operate at a very detailed level, and has a firm grasp on the strategic big-picture vision. I have looked up to him as a leader and a great mentor who always motivated his team. He stood with the team and guided us through thick and thin and made sure we excelled as a team. He ensured that he brought right set of talent and helped them grow beyond their capabilities. His words of wisdom, appreciation, feedback comments have helped me a lot during 5 year stint. I’ve always seen him readily share his extensive experience in technical and professional skills to the benefit of his teams. He is very responsive, he clearly understands complex and technical issues, and he provides leadership that people respond to and gets things done. His diverse experience in technology, coupled with excellent communication skills make Stephen a very well-liked leader. He is indeed a very valuable asset to our team and organization. I will remember Stephen as a talented, professional, always cheering, fun loving and a wonderful human being. It is a real pleasure and honor to work with him and I recommend him with the greatest of enthusiasm.
Trish Pendleton
I have worked with Stephen many years at Epsilon. As a software engineer, Stephen employs and understands the development life cycle from gathering requirements employing Agile methods tuned to customer delivery. He stays current with new technologies and where possible applies advanced technology to product ideas. Where Stephen is exceptional is his ability to liaison between engineering and business associates. His work ethic and willingness to help anyone can not be underestimated. I wholeheartedly support Stephen for any software engineering role.
Sagar Patravale
Working with Stephen has always been a privilege and pleasure for me. In more than five years that I worked with Stephen, he had profound impact on my career. As a senior director of the team, Stephen has rare blend of extensive knowledge, decisiveness, ownership, and patience that makes for a top leader. He is collaborative, can operate at a very detailed level, and has a firm grasp on the strategic big-picture vision. I have looked up to him as a leader and a great mentor who always motivated his team. He stood with the team and guided us through thick and thin and made sure we excelled as a team. He ensured that he brought right set of talent and helped them grow beyond their capabilities. His words of wisdom, appreciation, feedback comments have helped me a lot during 5 year stint. I’ve always seen him readily share his extensive experience in technical and professional skills to the benefit of his teams. He is very responsive, he clearly understands complex and technical issues, and he provides leadership that people respond to and gets things done. His diverse experience in technology, coupled with excellent communication skills make Stephen a very well-liked leader. He is indeed a very valuable asset to our team and organization. I will remember Stephen as a talented, professional, always cheering, fun loving and a wonderful human being. It is a real pleasure and honor to work with him and I recommend him with the greatest of enthusiasm.
Trish Pendleton
I have worked with Stephen many years at Epsilon. As a software engineer, Stephen employs and understands the development life cycle from gathering requirements employing Agile methods tuned to customer delivery. He stays current with new technologies and where possible applies advanced technology to product ideas. Where Stephen is exceptional is his ability to liaison between engineering and business associates. His work ethic and willingness to help anyone can not be underestimated. I wholeheartedly support Stephen for any software engineering role.
Experience
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Penn Foster Group
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United States
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E-Learning Providers
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500 - 600 Employee
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Senior Director, Data
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Jun 2021 - Present
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Epsilon
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Advertising Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Director Engineering
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Jul 2011 - Jun 2021
Manager and architect for the Data Division’s global Big Data, Oracle database and Data Engineering teams.• Manage a 25-person distributed global engineering team consisting of big data developers, database developers, reporting/analytics developers, ELT/ETL developers, data scientists, data engineers, QA engineers and managers (direct and functional management)• Built team for Big Data (Hadoop, Python, and PySpark / Spark) and Machine Learning (H2O)• Architected encrypted 1.5 PB Data Privacy Platform (DPP) to support CCPA compliance with automated access report generation and opt-out/delete processing utilizing microservices• Participated in SOX, GDPR and SOC 2 audit processes• Integrated key Data division transactional and demographic databases into Hadoop platform which includes transactional, online and demographic data with PII security and IAM• Migrated legacy marketing insight reporting to Hadoop platform with interactive dashboards and automated report generation containing dynamic recommendations• Deployed end to end automated self-service list fulfillment system for the Data division’s fastest revenue growth product, a 12.5 billion record non-cash transactional database.• Implemented a Data Enhancement product that can support 14MM calculations/sec• Led development of automated vulnerability management reporting system which increased visibility of vulnerabilities and allowed the DevOps team to reduce vulnerability severity by 90%• Implemented agile development methodologies (Kanban/scrum) and decreased release cycle duration by 50% as well as increasing project status visibility through Jira Show less
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ChannelView Manager
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May 2007 - Jul 2011
ChannelView is a B2B SaaS multi-channel analytics tool that enables multi-channel marketers to assess the impact of catalog and other direct mail campaigns by matching promotion history to customer behavior across incoming transaction channels. • Led Support and Engineering teams for the ChannelView product for 97 multi-channel clients• Improved average customer satisfaction from 6.8/10 to 9.4/10• Lead client facing consultant for marketing and technical recommendations • Participated in sales calls and presentations• Reduced new client onboarding from 6 weeks to 2 weeks• Negotiated, designed, documented and executed billable Statement of Work projects for • Reduced engineering response time for escalated issues by 70% Show less
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Lead Software Engineer
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Feb 2001 - May 2007
Key database design/development resource for Technical Development department• Coordinated with end users to define, refine, and document business and technical requirements• Pulled into many at-risk projects as a resource that can get up to speed quickly, find problems, resolve issues, and always remain calm in chaotic situations• Main contact for PL/SQL performance tuning and troubleshooting• Developed the marketing allocation engine for ChannelView • Traveled to client site and wrote Ecometry fulfillment system extracts for ClearEDGE client Brookstone when the client said they were unable to complete this task • Refined user requirements, and wrote design specifications for more than 10 major applications• Managed offshore development team for three releases of a Java based file analysis applications• Developed 2 new J2EE Weblogic applications for internal users Show less
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Senior Database Architect
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Jul 2000 - Jan 2001
Lead database developer supporting 15 Java developers, two database developers and one DBA • Designed database structures for 22 internal and external database modules, including over 400 tables and 1500 stored procedures • Worked with end-users and developers to create database models that would meet the needs of both parties, as well as be flexible enough for future needs • Created ETL packages to load the Data Warehouse Lead database developer supporting 15 Java developers, two database developers and one DBA • Designed database structures for 22 internal and external database modules, including over 400 tables and 1500 stored procedures • Worked with end-users and developers to create database models that would meet the needs of both parties, as well as be flexible enough for future needs • Created ETL packages to load the Data Warehouse
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Level 3 Communications
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Engineer
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May 1999 - Jul 2000
Develop datamarts and OLAP databases for customer facing systems • Developed custom ETL packages to feed DW and DSS projects utilizing Ab Initio and SQL*Loader • Implemented Express and Speedware multi-dimensional databases • Managed the interaction between the DSS group and the application developers for Order Entry Work Force and Work Flow management systems • Worked on the design and implementation team for a 5 TB Oracle Data Warehouse to identify telephone fraud Develop datamarts and OLAP databases for customer facing systems • Developed custom ETL packages to feed DW and DSS projects utilizing Ab Initio and SQL*Loader • Implemented Express and Speedware multi-dimensional databases • Managed the interaction between the DSS group and the application developers for Order Entry Work Force and Work Flow management systems • Worked on the design and implementation team for a 5 TB Oracle Data Warehouse to identify telephone fraud
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The Application Group, LLC
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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Consultant
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Nov 1998 - May 1999
Key data warehousing and OLAP resource for The Application Group • Created ETL scripts to extract data from Oracle Application Order Entry and load Express cubes • Managed and implemented the complete OFA lifecycle for a medium sized digital telephone company Key data warehousing and OLAP resource for The Application Group • Created ETL scripts to extract data from Oracle Application Order Entry and load Express cubes • Managed and implemented the complete OFA lifecycle for a medium sized digital telephone company
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Oracle
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Consultant
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1997 - 1999
Engineering and consulting resource for the National Utilities Group • Developed the first web based selector for an Express database • Team member for the third largest Oracle Financial Advisor (OFA) installation Engineering and consulting resource for the National Utilities Group • Developed the first web based selector for an Express database • Team member for the third largest Oracle Financial Advisor (OFA) installation
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Education
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1994 - 1999
Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Management Information Systems
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