Summary

Data and analytics professional with an MBA and over 15 years of broad technical experience. Detail-oriented leader skilled at managing, designing, and developing products focused on delivering advanced analytics with a focus on metrics-based management. Skilled in aligning business needs through collaboration with business leaders developing technical roadmaps and solutions, advanced analytics, enterprise business intelligence, and data warehousing. Strong communicator with a proven track record of successfully delivering technical solutions.

Skills

•Business-Technology Alignment

•Technical Roadmap Development

•Metrics Focused Execution

•Data Science and Machine Learning

•Data Strategy and Governance

•ETL, Data Warehousing, Reporting and Visualization

•Agile Project Management

•Executive Communication

•Problem-Solving and Troubleshooting

Experience

Manager, Data & Analytics - Photobucket – Boulder CO/Remote

Feb 2023 – Present

•Manager for end-to-end analytics efforts, owning the technical product roadmap and ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs.

•Architect for systems using AWS Data Lake architecture and Redshift Cloud Data Warehouse, focused on delivering advanced analytics capabilities.

•Data analyst driving business decision-making and providing crucial insights to exec team, finance and marketing.

VP of Programs & Event Operations - DAMA Rocky Mountain Chapter – Part-time

Dec 2023 – Present

•Data Management Association – Rocky Mountain Chapter (DAMA-RMC) is a not-for-profit, vendor-independent, professional organization dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management (IRM/DRM).

•DAMA-RMC’s primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development, and practice of managing information and data as key enterprise assets.

Sr. Release Manager, Machine Learning Platform - Workday – Boulder CO/Remote

April 2020 – Feb 2023

•Managed technical cross-team projects. Including a multi-year re-platforming of the ML platform to leverage Databricks.

•Led cross-functional teams in executing multi-year technical product roadmap, including cloud migration and global expansion.

•Developed and maintained cost forecasting using FinOps framework, collaborating with finance and Long-Range Planning teams for multi-million dollar organization budget.

•Led Agile planning exercises, execution plans, and feature delivery across several dispersed engineering teams.

•Coordinated with security, compliance, legal, and PMO teams for coordination with the ML Platform organization.

Product Manager, Machine Learning Platform- Workday – Boulder CO/Remote

April 2019 – April 2020

•Aided in expanding an early vision for ML operations into a production grade enterprise platform serving a diverse set of application teams.

•Worked with cross team and multilevel stakeholder groups to develop platform roadmaps using Agile methodologies.

•Managed high level execution progress and alignment for several cross dependent technical roadmaps.

•Collaborated with business leaders to implement a data-driven system for measuring data pipeline health.

BI Architect, Manager - Community Company – Remote

Oct 2017 – April 2019

•Aligned BI strategy with company goals and developed a multi-year technology roadmap.

•Designed and developed executive dashboards and automated reporting systems for sales and customer retention.

•Led the development of a data warehouse and established key metrics for business success.

Principal – Craftworks - Broomfield CO

Jan 2015 – Oct 2017

•Led business intelligence and data warehousing efforts for a multi-brand restaurant operator.

•Replaced legacy BI environment, saving over $150,000 annually in contractor and license fees.

•Designed and implemented a BI system to enhance marketing efforts and campaign effectiveness.

Education

MIT – Professional Education

Applied Data Science Program: Leveraging AI for Effective Decision-Making

University of Denver

MBA – 2013 - Professional Cohort ‘08

Metropolitan State University of Denver

BA – Communication and Information Systems

Technologies and Techniques

Databricks, Hadoop, Hive, Datalake, Deltalake, Google Cloud, Postgres, AWS, Azure, Tableau, BigQuery, SQL, Terraform, Python, Matillion, MSSQL, SSIS, SSRS, Dataflux, SharePoint, Networking, Big Data, ETL, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, PowerBI, Excel

Certifications

Certificate of Completion Advanced Data Engineering with Databricks

Innovating with Data and Google Cloud

Apache Spark Programming with Databricks

Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals (expired Oct 1 2022)

Databricks SQL Analyst Associate (exp Dec 28)

Databricks Certified Professional Data Engineer (Online Course Complete)

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)

CAPM (Project Management)

CCNA (Cisco Networking)

Data Science and Machine Learning Essentials

MCP (Microsoft)

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