THOMAS EDWARD KOVARIK, M.S., M.C.P.

Curriculum Vitae

Senior Lead Cloud Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Architect

SQL & ETL & BI Developer

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EXPERTISE – Management Skills

●Manager of Business Intelligence and Reporting

●Team Lead in Database Development, Software Development & ETL

●Management of IT

Coaching, Team Building, Mentoring & Interviewing

●Project Estimates, Agile and Scrum

Time, Resources, Cost; Project Crisis / Project Rescue

●Mentor to permanent staff

EXPERTISE – Technical Skills

●Databased Design and Development

Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Teradata

SQL Data Tools (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS), T-SQL; Power BI

Database Administrator (DBA)

Cloud Databases and Cloud Data Warehouses (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, MS SQL Server)

●Data Architect, Metadata Architect, Data Warehouse Architect

●Software Development Life Cycle

Agile & Waterfall; GitHub, Jira, Rally, DevOps

Agile User Story Analysis, Design & Development with Jira and Rally

●Data Analysis, Data Analytics, Data Analyst

●Business Analyst

Working with end business users, Interviewing business users

Needs assessment and analysis

Requirements gathering and documentation; source-to-target mappings

C-Level Presentations

●Cloud Engineer:

ETL to and from Cloud and on premises

AWS Cloud (Amazon Web Services) & AWS DevOps

Azure Cloud (Microsoft) & Azure DevOps

Talend, Talend for Big Data, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, HEDIS, Aurora, RedShift

●Master Data Management & Master Data Services

●SQL complex queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers

●SQL optimization & performance tuning

●Best Practices for Data Management, Data Warehouse & Software Development

●Data Steward & Data Governance Board

●ETL (Extract Transform & Load)

●Java

EXPERTISE – Most Recent Technical Skills used at BCBS MN

AWS Cloud

SQL expert: PostgreSQL, Aurora, Redshift, MySQL, SQL Server, DB2, MariaDB

ETL / ELT: Talend, SSIS, GLU (ETL), data integration, SQL development

BI: SSRS / Reports

CI / CD: GitLab

Data Warehouse / Data Marts

Data Analyst, Data Analytics

Dashboards: Sumo Logic

Data lineage, metadata, data consistency, federal compliance

CAREER SUMMARY

Thomas wears many hats. This includes:

Practical experience with multiple large data warehouses (Snowflake, MS SQL Server, Infor)

Big Data Technical Tools (Talend for Big Data, Snowflake in the Cloud, Infor in the Cloud, PostgreSQL in the Cloud)

Agile/Scrum project methodology (Jira, Rally, GitHub)

AWS Cloud, Azure Cloud, DevOps in the Cloud (Azure and GitHub/AWS)

Experience with structure, semi structured, and unstructured data

Experience in Health Care Industry, Health Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid at:

o4 years ETL and Software Development at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Internal Medicine and Surgery Departments

o4 years ETL and Software Development at University of Nebraska at Omaha Medical Center in Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Departments

o2 years ETL and Software Development at Allina Health System in Minneapolis, MN

o2 years ETL and Business Intelligence Development at Hennepin County Government in Minneapolis, MN

o1 year ETL and Software Development at Optum/United Health Group in Minneapolis, MN

Experience on Cloud environments:

oAWS, at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

oSnowflake (Data Warehouse) in the Cloud at Optum/UHG

Experience working with and managing in-house technical teams, business units, outside vendors, and overseas technical staff

ETL data engineering and integration design and development experience on a variety of tools, including

oTalend Open Studio, Talend Open Studio for Big Data, and Talend Studio

oMicrosoft SSIS

oHome grown ETL stored procedures and job orchestration

SQL experience, at expert level, plus Microsoft Professional Certification in SQL

1 year Java experience, at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and Old Republic Title & Insurance Inc.

Experience in performance tuning of data bases, data warehouses, complex SQL queries, Business Intelligence end-to-end solutions, Cloud databases, plus Microsoft Certification (one of four parts of certification is Performance Tuning of Data Base systems).

Thomas has been a Principal ETL Lead data engineer and software developer, working as a Data Architect, Data Analyst, Data Modeler, Software Developer, Cloud Data Engineer, ETL Engineer, Technical Business Analyst and Report and Dashboard developer, working with business users.

Always professional, calm, respectful and polite, Thomas always welcomes questions and, no matter how busy, takes time to mentor permanent staff.

Thomas served as Team Lead & Manager (direct reports: 12 FTEs and 5 contractors), and a seasoned IT International Consultant and has worked on site in London, Hong Kong, Beijing, in Phnom Penh & Kampot in Kingdom of Cambodia, Shanghai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tansen in Nepal.

EDUCATION

M.S. Data Management and Applied Software, University of Texas

B.S.C.S. With High Distinction Computer and Information Sciences, University of Minnesota

B.A. Summa Cum Laude Mathematics and Liberal Arts, University of St. Thomas

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wells Fargo Bank – Minneapolis MN

Lead Senior Cloud Data Engineer, Data Architect, & ETL Developer – June 2023-January 2024

Data architect in the Cloud and ETL software developer and tester

Move premises data to Azure Cloud, verify completeness and correctness

Data Engineer in the Azure Cloud; hybrid data - joins of Cloud & on premises

Azure DevOps, SQL Server, data lineage, metadata

ETL and prepare Cloud and on premises (hybrid) data for BI developers

Blue Cross Blue Shield – Minneapolis MN

Lead Senior Cloud Data Engineer, Data Architect, & ETL Developer - Dec 2020 through March 2023

Data architect in the Cloud and ETL software developer and tester

Move enterprise data to the Cloud, verify completeness and correctness

Automate movement of all data to Cloud, performance tuning in the Cloud

Big Data Technical Tools: AWS Cloud, Talend, Snowflake, Teradata, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Java, GitHub, Jira.

Agile/Scrum project methodology

Talend Big Data software developer and tester in the Cloud

Some Java programming to support Talend extensions and Talend modules

Knowledge of and experience with Health Care, Health Insurance, HEDIS

Snowflake in the Cloud data warehouse

Type of Employment - first 5 months were contractor through Diversant Inc.; the last 22 months were as permanent employee of BCBS of MN

UnitedHealth Group/Optum – Minneapolis MN

Principal Data Architect, ETL Engineer & Software Developer - Apr 2020 to Oct 2020

End to end software solutions design and development for medical and clinical business intelligence, reporting, compliance, and data analytics.

Work with Nurse Practitioners and MDs for Business Systems Analysis and requirements.

Data architect and software developer and tester.

Design, develop & test House Calls software whereby Nurse Practitioners go into homes of insured members and conduct face to face tests and medical clinical reviews for ages 65+

Tools: SQL Server 2019, Visual Studio, AWS (Amazon Web Services in the Cloud), S3 buckets, SSIS, Talend, XLDeploy, JFrog, Cloudberry, Rally (Agile), Snowflake in the Cloud, DevOps, MySQL

Type of Employment – Self Employed Contractor

Old Republic Title & Insurance Inc. – Minneapolis MN

Principal Data Architect, ETL Data Engineer & Software Developer - Sep 2019 to Jan 2020

●SQL Server 2019 & SSIS, SSRS, SSAS 2019 Business Intelligence and Analytics software design and development and testing, MySQL

●Create SQL Server 2019 objects (tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers)

●Data Architect new Tables, Views, Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes, with both Business and Surrogate Keys and composite primary key columns.

●Test and work with corporate Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

●Write test scripts for use case stories and automate scripts

●Document all development and testing work and results

●Mentor permanent staff in learning SQL Server Data Architecture & SQL Software Development & Data Analytics for Business Intelligence users in finance, law and compliance

●PowerBI Developer and Analyst, DevOps

●Type of Employment –Contractor through LogiSolve Inc.

CDK Global – Destin Fort Walton Beach, Florida

Principal Data Architect, ETL Data Engineer & SQL Software Developer - Apr 2019 to Sep 2019

●SQL Server SSIS, SSRS, SSAS and Power BI merging data for Corporate Merger of CDK Global and eLead1 Inc.

●Create SQL Server objects (tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers)

●Data Architect new Tables, Views, Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes, with both Business and Surrogate Keys and composite primary key columns.

●Test and work with corporate Quality Assurance and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

●Write test scripts for use case stories and automate scripts

●Document all development and testing work and results

●Design & develop optimal strategies for merge data from two very different corporation’s legacy data, including joining SQL Server to MYSQL data and MariaDB

●Mentor permanent staff in learning SQL Server Data Architecture and SQL Software Development.

●Type of Employment –Contractor through CDK Global Inc.

Ramsey County Government – St. Paul MN

Principal Data Architect, ETL Data Engineer & SQL Software Developer - Nov 2018 to Mar 2019

●Solve problems in SQL Server, SSIS & SSRS & Power BI in Community Corrections Department working with County Probation Officers & Law Enforcement (State and Federal)

●Mentor permanent staff in learning SQL Server Data Architecture and SQL Software Development.

●Data Architect new Tables, Views, Clustered and Non-Clustered Indexes, with both Business and Surrogate Keys and composite primary key columns.

●Test and work with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

●Create SQL Server objects (tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers)

●Write test scripts for all use case scenarios and all processing paths, automate scripts

●Document all development and testing work and results

●Modernize and convert to version 14, 71 SSIS Packages; test; deploy

●Type of Employment –Contractor through TEKSystems Inc.

Agribank – St. Paul MN

Principal Data Analyst, Cloud ETL Data Engineer & Software Developer - June 2018 to Jan 2019

●Lead Data ETL Cloud Engineer to move data to and from Infor CloudSuite in the Cloud (Amazon web Services) (Infor bought Lawson software)

●Mentor permanent staff in transition from premises to Cloud based systems

●Data Modelling and Data Analysis, DB2 and SQL Server

●Lead Software Developer for Data Analysis and Data movement to Cloud using IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server with SQL Server Performance Tuning

●Test and work with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

●Verification and certification of Cloud data

●Create SQL Server objects (tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers)

●Write test scripts for all use case scenarios and all processing paths, automate scripts

●Document all development and testing work and results

●Data moved to Cloud was General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets

●Type of Employment –Contractor through TEKSystems Inc.

Young America - Minneapolis MN

Principal Data Architect, ETL Data Engineer & Software Developer - Jul 2017 to May 2018

●Data Architect, Database Developer, Business Intelligence Developer, Data Analytics

●SQL Server: Design, build, and test new Business Intelligence platform:

oT-SQL Stored Procedures, function, complex queries, triggers

oSSRS Reports, PowerBI developer and analyst

oSSIS ETL (Extract Transform & Load) Packages

●Test and work with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

●SQL Server Performance Tuning

●Create SQL Server objects (tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers)

●Write test scripts for all use case scenarios and all processing paths, automate scripts

●Document all development and testing work and results

●Type of Employment –Contractor through LogiSolve Inc.

Wells Fargo Bank (a Fortune 64, and 3rd largest USA Bank) – Minneapolis MN

Principal Data Architect, ETL Data Engineer & Software Developer – July 2016 to Jun 2017

●Data Architect, Database Developer, Business Intelligence Developer

●US Government “Too Big To Fail” for 5 largest US Banks High Priority Project

●Data Modelling and Data Analysis

●ILMS (Intraday Liquidity Management System) New System Development

●Business Intelligence & Reporting & Federal Government compliance for mortgage insurance and flood insurance; and Intraday Liquidity Monitoring System

●ETL (Extract Transform and Load) using SQL stored procedures and SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) packages

●Send data every 60 seconds to Federal Reserve Board with bank’s worldwide liquidity position

●Create SQL Server objects (tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers)

●Write test scripts for all use case scenarios and all processing paths, automate scripts

●Document all development and testing work and results

●Type of Employment –Contractor through INTtechnologies Inc.

United Health Group (a Fortune 17) - Minnetonka MN

Principal SQL Server & SSIS & SSRS Developer and Data Engineer - April to June 2016

●Data Architect, Database Developer, Business Intelligence Developer

●SQL Server: Design, build, and test a new system

●Business Intelligence & Reporting & Federal Government compliance for TriCare (military, veterans and dependents) health insurance analytics

●ETL (Extract Transform and Load) using SQL stored procedures and SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) packages

●Design and develop and test reports with Power BI

●Create SQL Server objects (tables, views, stored procedures, functions, triggers)

●Write test scripts for all use case scenarios and all processing paths, automate scripts

●Document all development and testing work and results

●Type of Employment: Self-employed through my own company Business Intelligence Consultants LLC

Pro Bono Volunteer Work for the Poor:

Lumbini Medical College & Teaching Hospital & Research Center - Tansen, Nepal

Principal SQL Server Developer and Consultant in Cloud Computing

(In the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains, Mar 2016)

●Data Architect, Database Developer, Business Intelligence Developer

●SQL Server

●Created the first “Database in the Cloud” (Microsoft Azure) for Lumbini Medical College

●This was a one-month consulting contract while I and my wife were in Asia for trekking in the Himalayan Mountain range.

●Gave a 2-hour lecture with open invitations to the entire campus and faculty, on Cloud Computing and first database in the cloud design, development, security and performance.

●Type of Employment: Self-employed through my own company Business Intelligence Consultants LLC

Wilson McShane Company – Bloomington MN

Principal Data Architect & SQL Designer & Developer & Data Engineer - June 2015 to Feb 2016

●Data Architect, Database Developer, Business Intelligence Developer

●SQL Server: Design, build, and test from scratch a new system for Business Intelligence & Reporting & Federal Government compliance reporting including “Obama Care” 1095

●ETL design and development using SSIS & complex stored procedures

●Report design and development using SSRS

●Extreme Agile design and development with daily early morning scrum with CIO

●Design and Develop Business Intelligence Reports, Queries, solutions

●Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, BIDS

●Created source-to-target mappings

●Mentored less experienced developers; Peer reviewed other developers’ work

●Introduced & pioneered new processes and technologies

●SQL Server Optimization and Performance Tuning

●Full ETL life cycle – design, develop, test, verify, sign-off, implement, go-live

●Type of Employment –Contractor through Principle Solutions Inc.

Dakota County Government – Hastings MN

Principal Business Intelligence Developer & Data Architect & Business Analyst

(2nd Contract: December 2013 – June 2015)

(1st Contract: Sept. 2011 – April 2012) Total: 26 months

●Data Architect, Database Developer, Business Intelligence Developer

●ETL Software Development Team Lead

●Data Modelling and Data Analysis

●Wrote complex SQL queries and Stored Procedures: Both SQL Server and Oracle PL/SQL

●Design and Develop Business Intelligence Reports, Queries, solutions

●Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, BIDS, Cognos Suite of Business Intelligence Tools

●Created source-to-target mappings

●Mentored less experienced developers; Peer reviewed other developers’ work

●Introduced & pioneered new processes and technologies

●Business Analyst, Data Profiling & Data Analysis; Metadata Modelling

●Full ETL life cycle – design, develop, test, verify, sign-off, implement, go-live

●Type of Employment –First contract, I was a contractor through RandstatUSA Inc.; Second contract I was self employed through my own company Business Intelligence Consultants LLC

SurgiSoft Inc. – Dallas Texas

Principal Consultant & SQL Server Developer (November 2013 – February 2014)

●Company experiencing explosive growth needed SQL Server Optimization and Performance Tuning because seemingly small design imperfections and violations of “Best Practices” suddenly grew into major problems, slowness and deadlocks

●Deadlock Resolution, Index Optimization, Database Partitioning

●Optimization of Stored Procedures; query optimization; execution plan optimization

●Type of Employment –Contractor through TruSource Consultants Inc.

U. S. Bank Inc. (5th largest USA bank) – Minneapolis MN

Principal Business Intelligence & Data Architect (October 2012 – September 2013)

●Data Architect & SQL developer for Dodd Frank Project in Capital Markets – Foreign Exchange

●Developed complex T-SQL Queries & Stored Procedures

●Data Base Developer, Data Management; Data Modelling and Data Analysis

●Kimball Method for Data Architecture of Data Marts and Data Warehouses

●SSIS, SSRS, complex SQL queries and Stored Procedures

●Crystal & Toad

●Created & automated SQL ETL testing library

●Peer reviewed other developers’ work

●Automated testing and regression testing in SQL Server

●Type of Employment –Contractor through Modis Inc.

CHS Inc. (Cenex Harvest States, a Fortune 80) – St. Paul MN

Principal Business Intelligence & ETL Developer & Data Architect (May 2012 – August 2012)

●SSIS, SSRS, complex SQL queries and Stored Procedures

●Created & automated 1450 file ETL testing library

●Created source-to-target mappings

●Mentored less experienced developers & Peer Reviewed other’s work

●Performed Business Analysis, Data Profiling & Data Analysis

●Data Warehouse Design and Development (Star Schema & Snowflake Schema)

●Automated testing and regression testing in SSIS.

●Type of Employment –Contractor through my own company Business Intelligence Consultants LLC

Health Partners Inc. – Minneapolis MN

Principal Business Intelligence & Report Developer (May 2011 – August 2011)

●Report Software Development Team Lead

●Wrote complex SQL queries, SQL stored procedures, SQL functions

●Performed Data Profiling & Data Analysis & Data Analytics

●Deployed new reports to Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Customer Resource Management system

●Created library of test data for testing and verification

●Mentored less experienced developers; Peer reviewed other developers’ work

●Type of Employment –Contractor through Harbinger Partners, Inc.

Pro Bono Volunteer Work for the Poor:

King Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope & Sonja Kill Memorial Hospital for Children

(1 month per year in each of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)

HOPE Worldwide LTD.; St. 134, Sangkat Vealvong, Khan 7 Makara,

Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia

& 7km NH 3, Kampot, Kingdom of Cambodia

Data Architect and Data Management “Best Practices” Consultant

●Review Data Management Practices at Hospital and Clinics

●Best Practices for SQL Programming & Software Development

●Review DBA Practices at Hospital and Clinics

●Performance Monitor and Tune-up Data Bases

●Advise & mentor Technical Staff & Upper Management on ‘Best Practices’ Data Management

●Data Architect for Business Intelligence design and development

●Peer reviewed DBA’s work

●Type of Employment –Contractor self-employed through my own company Business Intelligence Consultants LLC

University of Minnesota:

Office of the Vice President of Research & College of Continuing Education

Minneapolis/St. Paul Campuses

Senior Data Architect & Senior Database Developer

(2009 – 2010)

Senior Data Architect, BI Developer and Senior Data Scientist

●Report Software Development Team Lead

●ETL – Extract Transform & Load Development Team Lead

●Created Testing and Verification libraries, lead testing team

●Wrote complex SQL queries, SQL stored procedures, SQL functions & Triggers

●Performed Data Profiling & Data Analysis & Master Data Management

●Performed Business Analysis, Business Requirements gathering

●Wrote Technical Specifications; Created source-to-target mappings for ETL

●Data Modelling and Data Analysis

●Mentored less experienced developers & Peer reviewed other developers’ work

●Designed & Developed with end users, Master Data Services for Dimension Tables updates

●Type of Employment –Self-employed Contractor and Permanent Employee of U of M

Hennepin County Government & State of Minnesota (9 years, permanent hire)

I.T. Department & District Court, Minneapolis, MN

Promoted to: Manager of Business Intelligence & Reporting

Promoted to: Principal Data & Data Warehouse Architect

Promoted to: Principal Business Intelligence Developer

Promoted to: Senior DBA (Data Base Administrator)

Hired as: Senior Business Intelligence & Database Developer

●Thomas wore many hats in his 9 years in County Government, including:

SQL Developer, SQL DBA, Data Architect, Data Modeler

Business Intelligence & Report Software Development Team Lead

ETL (Extract – Extract Transform & Load) Development Team Lead

Technical Business Systems Analyst

IT Manager (2 years), Project Estimates

Type of Employment –Permanent employee of Hennepin County.

Note: I was hired as a permanent Hennepin County employee, then all Court employees were changed to be State of MN employees; then in my last two years I was an IT manager back at Hennepin County as an employee. So even though I never left the building (government center in Hennepin County, I went from Hennepin County permanent employee, to State of MN permanent employee, back to Hennepin County permanent employee, all in 9 years)

Health Care IT Experience (10 years total) at:

oAllina Health System, MN (2 years)

oUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha NE (4 years)

oUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas TX (4 years)

●Thomas wore many hats in Health Care IT, including:

SQL Developer, SQL DBA, Data Architect, Data Modeler

Business Intelligence & Report Software Development Team Lead

ETL (Extract – Extract Transform & Load) Development Team Lead

Technical Business Systems Analyst

Data Warehouse Developer

Star and Snowflake Schema data modeling

Full Business Intelligence Development Life Cycle (end-to-end BI solutions)

Medical & Hospital & Clinical Data & HIPPA and Medical Data Privacy

Data Outcomes in Healthcare; Healthcare Data; Medicare & Medicaid Data & Compliance

PASSPORTS and LANGUAGES

USA citizen by birth, also a dual citizen of Italy (European Union)

Thomas can enter, live, work anywhere in European Union without visa or permissions

Italian Language; semi fluent conversation, reading, writing

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

●DAMA Data Management International Association – Minnesota Chapter

Phi Kappa Phi (National Honor Society)

●ΤΒΠ Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society)

●ΔΕΣ Delta Epsilon Sigma (National Catholic Honor Society)

INVITED TALKS

“Meeting Best Practices with Talend and SQL Solutions for ETL (Extract Transform & Load)”, UnitedHealth Group/Optum, September 2020.

“How to Perform SQL Code Reviews as Learning Experiences for Software Developers”, CDK Global Inc., Destin Fort Walton, Florida, July 2019.

“Testing & Quality Assurance in Cloud versus On Premises”, Agribank FCB, November 2018.

“First Database in the Cloud for Lumbini Medical College & Research Center and Teaching Hospital: Security, Performance and Availability measures”, Lumbini Medical Center, Tansen, Palpa, Nepal (in the foothills of the Himalaya Mountains), March 2016.

“SQL Server Optimization of Queries with Stored Procedures, User Defined Functions and Triggers with Performance Tuning”; Wilson McShane Inc., January 2016.

“Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions using SQL Server, SSIS and SSRS”; Dakota County Government, Hastings MN Government Center, October 2015

“SQL Developer’s Sandbox and Development Tools Knowledge Sharing”; US Bank (2013)

“Designing and Constructing End-to-End Business Intelligence Solutions that Meet End User Requirements”; University of Minnesota College of Continuing Education (2010)

PUBLICATIONS

Thomas is the author of articles on Data Management and Database Design & Development at "SQL Server Central", a community of more than 1,500,000 database professionals worldwide:

www.SQLServerCentral.com

●15 Quick Short Interview Questions Useful When Hiring SQL Developers

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Career/96536/

●Oops! SQL column swap or SQL column clobber?

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/

●The Lonely and Neglected Cartesian Product (Cross Join)

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/

●BIT Primary Key

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/

●BIT data type

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING

Thomas has worked on-site in:

o London, England

o Hong Kong & Beijing & Shanghai, China

o Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

o Singapore

o Phnom Penh & Kampot, Kingdom of Cambodia

oTansen, Palpa, & Kathmandu Nepal

CERTIFICATIONS

MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional in SQL Server Querying and Optimization

THOMAS AT WORK

No matter how busy, Thomas always grants as much time as is necessary to:

Mentor permanent staff & build up the team.

Keep team attitude optimistic, positive, helpful, no “finger pointing”.

Explain complicated ideas in simple terms to co-workers and to management.

Help co-workers who are stuck and who are not making progress.

Politely and diplomatically explain “Best Practices” to co-workers who need instruction.

Always be polite, professional, upbeat; “We can get it done” positive attitude.

Professionally critique and peer review an idea when appropriate; but never criticize a person.

Teach the next generation of software developers and IT professionals in competence, courtesy, professionalism, how to optimize their time productively for their employer, and the lifelong desire to always learn more every day of their careers and keep their skills modern and hot.

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INTERVIEW

Tom was interviewed in Nepal by Dr. Rajesh Kumar Aryal of Madan Pokhara FM National Public Radio Nepal, original broadcast Sunday March 13, 2016: subsequent rebroadcasts ensued.

http://www.radioannapurnanepal.com/

Public Billing Announcement:

“How Nepal and its Young People Can Prepare for Nepal’s Emergence into our Global Interconnected Hi-Tech Modern World, a Conversation with USA Software Developer

Thomas Edward Kovarik, M.S., M.C.P.”

PRO BONO - HEALTHCARE IT WORK FOR THE POOR

Tom’s work in Kingdom of Cambodia and in Nepal was pro bono, in Health Care Hospital and Clinical work, for some of the poorest people in our world.

Completed through HVO – Health Volunteers Overseas, a 503c licensed not-for-profit company.

Photo: Tom in Florence Italy in springtime (Tom is a dual citizen of Italy and USA).

Hobbies: World Travel, Kayaking, Cross Country Skiing, Canoeing, Volunteering with the poor.

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