Whit Walters

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SUMMARY

An innovative information and technology leader with extensive experience in the entire enterprise data architecture, data management and data governance space. A technically-oriented performer, with extensive managerial and customer-facing experience in solving complex business problems. Builds teams and encourages diverse feedback in complex situations to identify best solutions and achieve long-term goals.

EXPERIENCE

International Hemp Solutions, Denver, Colorado

CTO/CIO 2019 to current

CIO/CTO for ehemp.com an ecommerce company specializing in finished hemp goods and CBD products. B to C

CIO/CTO for BijaHemp an agribusiness specializing in the import and sales of certified industrial hemp seed. B to B

Architected and developed an ecommerce platform based on Ruby on Rails from MVP to go live. Integrated payments, taxation, 3PL warehouse and shipping partners. Integrated SEO and Blogging platforms

Hired teams to develop multiple projects and platforms

Responsible for setting all IT governance and processes in a highly regulated industry.

Datavail, Broomfield, Colorado

Principal Solutions Architect 2018 to 2019

●Worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada to create cost effective and strategic plans to move their infrastructures to the cloud

●Principle Solution Architect responsible for selling, architecting, and delivering several multimillion-dollar migration projects to Amazon, Azure, and Google cloud providers that included recurring revenue for application, system, and data management

●Managed and Principle Solutions Architect for the Cloud Solutions practice. Responsible for over 2.5 million in project and 1 million in recurring revenue

●Managed strategic partnerships with AWS, GCP and MongoDB to increase revenue and service offerings

●Worked with Google Cloud Platform GCP to create a partnership for working with a Fortune 100 healthcare client

CapTech Consulting, Denver, Colorado

Data Management and Architect/Director 2017 to 2018

●Worked with a Fortune 25 Financial Services company migrating data infrastructure to AWS on Mongo, Cassandra and Spark

●Pitched and Architected an Enterprise Data Strategy (Data Management, Data Governance, Data Strategy and Future State Enterprise Architecture) to a large state government insurance agency in the western united states.

●Chief architect for Enterprise Data Strategy project for a large state agency overseeing over 5 billion in revenue

●Developed Data Management strategy according to DAMA’s DMBOK and the Data Management Maturity Model with training and implementation plans for data stewards and executives

Welltok, Denver, Colorado

Senior Data Architect 2015 - 2017

●Architected Welltok’s integrative Data Lake platform using SMACK architecture (Spark, Cassandra, Kafka).

●Integrated three companies (Incent One, Predalytics and Keas) onto a cohesive data platform

●Developed Welltok’s architecture practice

●Created numerous enterprise artifacts including Welltok’s Domain Model, Data Models, Business Glossary and Data Dictionary

●Instituted a Master Data Management and Data Governance practice and processes in a HIPPA HITRUST environment

●Vendor selection, negotiation and management

●Worked with the business to develop new features and functionality of the CaféWell, Concierge and Welltok platform

IMM, Boulder, Colorado

Senior Director of Data Analytics and Decision Science 2014 - 2015

●Managed a team of 7 analysts, statisticians and data scientists as well as had a team of developers and architects indirectly reporting.

●Provided cross functional leadership between IT and the data analytics teams

●Championed the implementation of a modern analytics architecture

●Developed, architected and managed the migration from manual data integration and reporting process to a full stack modern analytics architecture using the IBM tool stack.

●Implemented a predictive analytics and statistics practice using SPSS, Spark, and R over Hadoop that increased revenue 22% by optimizing campaign media spend by decreasing cost and increasing efficiency of media targeting

eCapital Advisors, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Senior Solutions Architect, 2012-2014

●Implemented data warehouses, analytics and business intelligence solutions for multiple Financial Services companies using a combination of IBM technical solutions of on premise and in the cloud.

●Subject matter expert in Big Data (Hadoop, unstructured data and very large data sets), Watson and Text Analytics, SPSS, Data Mining, Data Modeling and Data Warehousing

●Developed solutions using multiple vendors and technologies to better meet client needs.

●Certifications in SPSS, Pure Data for Analytics (Netezza), Cognos (dashboarding, reporting and administration), and R Programming.

MarketForce Information, Louisville, Colorado

Senior Data Architect/Manager, 2011-2012

●Led a team of data analysts and developers. Architected a custom reporting solution that incorporated financial, secret shopper, call center, and social media feeds (Twitter, Facebook, Yelp). Developed data mining models and data marts for statisticians. Developed and documented customer facing API’s and web services for rapid data integration. Created policy and procedure and standard operating procedure documents for data department. Held responsibility for hiring and training new developers and data analysts.

● Oracle Endeca Architect. Created pipeline/ITL processes for multiple clients across multiple streams of structured, unstructured and social media data sets.

●Modeled structured and unstructured data for faceted navigation and analytics in Endeca. Created complex data models for analysis of customer satisfaction, call center, financial and secret shopper data. Used Salience for text and sentiment analysis.

●Administered Linux servers containing Endeca ITL process and Dgraphs.

●Data Modeling of SQL relational, XML and dimensional databases. Modeled semi structured and unstructured MDEX/Endeca data structures.

●Architected ETL processes from multiple external vendors and international data sources.

●Administered several SQL Server 2008 R2 databases

●Developed and Managed ETL/ELT processes in SQL Server Integration Services

●Managed team of developers located remotely and internationally

●Developed a POC Apache Lucene/Solar application utilizing Hadoop architecture for customer sentiment analysis.

Exclusive Resorts, Denver, Colorado

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, 2011-2011

●Updated enterprise database to SQL Server 2008 R2 to implement SharePoint 2010 integration and self-service Business Intelligence tool sets

●Data Modeling, SSAS Cube creation and MDX development

●Migrated all reports from Reporting Services to SharePoint 2010

●Leveraged SharePoint reporting stack of Powerpivot, Performancepoint, KPI’s, scorecards and dashboards

●Developed Silverlight 4 OLAP data visualization tools using Visual Studio .NET 2010 and ADOMD.NET to visualize spatial data reporting

●Developed and Managed ETL processes in SQL Server Integration Services

●Worked with the business, users and SME’s to gather requirements for the development of departmental KPI’s, scorecards and dashboards.

Independent Data Warehouse/Analytics Consultant, Denver, Colorado

Independent Consultant, 2009-2010

●Developed several full lifecycle data warehouse implementations

●Developed Logical, Dimensional, Functional and Relational data models

●Created Reporting Portals containing operational scorecard, dashboards, executive and operational reports using Reporting Services and SharePoint 2007/2010

●Data Governance, Master Data Management, Data Stewardship

●Qualitative and Quantitative development and monitoring of ETL across platforms and databases

●Worked with stakeholders, business experts and users to gather requirement and development for Kimball style data warehouse implementations

●Agile Project Management, Project Planning and Project Reporting

Gaiam Louisville, Colorado

Analytics Manager – Data Warehouse Architect, 2008-2009

●Worked with business, Executives, SME’s and users to gather requirements for reports, predictive analytics, KPI’s, scorecards and dashboards

●Developed Business Intelligence Roadmap containing strategic and tactical plans for BI implementation

●Developed standards, procedures and policies as well as a code review process

●Led and successfully implemented a full lifecycle data warehouse implementation

●Was responsible for recruiting, hiring and mentoring data warehouse staff (ETL and reports developers)

●Served as data warehouse database administrator (SQL Server 2005/2008 SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and Replication)

●Upgraded SQL Server 2005 data warehouse to SQL server 2008

●Defined, documented and re-architected the data warehouse architecture

●Installed several multidimensional enterprise reporting tools

●Developed a reporting system that used SQL Server Replication to publish near real time financial data

●Developed multiple SSIS ETL jobs to populate data marts and data warehouse

●Administered SQL Server Reporting Services web site and report portal in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

●Developed disaster recovery documentation and plan

●Developed formal report request queue process. Developed reporting templates and models with charts and graphs in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005/ 2008

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNION TELEPHONE, Mountain View, Wyoming, Data Warehouse Architect -OSS Manager, 1995-2001 Responsible for administering production CRM and Billing system across three states with fifteen offices. Full life cycle development, architecture and implementation of a SQL Server enterprise data warehouse containing data marts and OLAP cubes. Worked with the business to determine the needs for production and reporting systems and developed business logic, data structures and processes to support the business needs. Modeled data for production and reporting systems using ERWin. Migrated all reports from production data systems to data marts and data warehouse. Created executive dashboard used for short- and long-term corporate decision making. Developed new reports, ad-hoc and formal reports.

Crafted policies and procedures that reduced software and systems defects by over 40%. Partnered with Marketing and Corporate Sales to develop new products and services resulting in an increase in revenue of $3 million annually.

ANTHEM BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD, Senior Applications Engineer, 2003-2005 Generated and presented formal analyses regarding Behavioral Health Information Management systems. Developed documentation, testing, and coding standards as well as policies and procedures regarding security and HIPAA compliance. Developed multiple data marts for use with SAS and Minitab for patient analytics. Worked with MD’s and PhD’s on developing Anthem’s Bipolar patient management system that saved over 40 million in inpatient visit expenses annually.

LEVEL(3) COMMUNICATIONS, Senior Engineer Team Lead, 1999-2001 Managed a team of engineers and analysts. Responsible for the documentation of Mediation, Fraud, and SS7 processes. As well as documenting all functional, regressive and performance test plans for all processes. Developed traffic and revenue reports for Chief Financial Officer. Developed a data driven application that handled over 100 million daily call records.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Data Management, Data Governance, Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Reporting, API Development, Data Analysis, Data Governance, Campaign Management, Sentiment Analysis, Data Visualization, Prototyping, Data Analysis

DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE: IBM Infosphere, Informatica, Colibra, ASG Rochade

DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE: R, SPSS, Spark, Python, SAS, Excel, Infosphere Data Analyzer

DATABASES: MSSQL, IBM Pure Data for Analytics (Netezza), Oracle, Hadoop, Couchbase, PostgreSQL, MySQL

BIG DATA PLATFORMS: Hadoop (Azure, IBM Big Insights, MapR, Cloudera), Databricks Spark, Datastax Cassandra

REPORTING PLATFORMS: Cognos, Tableau, TM1, MS SQL Reporting Services, Hyperion

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: R, SQL, Spark, Java, Python, C/C++, JSON

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS: IBM Watson, SPSS, SAS, Lexalytics

DATA INTEGRATION: IBM InfoSphere, MS SQL Integration Services, Kafka, Flume, Spark

Certifications

Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Architect

Coursera R Programming

Coursera Data Scientist’s Toolbox

IBM SPSS Technical Mastery

IBM Infosphere Guardium Technical mastery

IBM InfoSphere DataStage Developer

IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer

IBM Netezza Technical Mastery

IBM Pure Data for Analytics v7.0 (Netezza)

IBM Cognos Administrator

IBM Cognos Framework Manager

IBM Cognos Report Developer

IBM Spark

IBM BigSQL

IBM Watson

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