FELIX KIKAYA

Email: adirxt@r.postjobfree.com - Phone: 616-***-**** - Houston, Texas, 77054

SUMMARY

Over 10+ years of varied professional experience in engineering, system design, process control, industrial automation, data engineering, cloud computing, and project management.

Proficient at applying and adopting DevOps practices such as Continuous Development (CD, Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Deployment (CD) in building and deploying services in the public cloud.

Experience in creating CI/CD pipelines that integrate various tools for to running Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) on Azure Cloud.

Hands on experience in designing and building pipelines for migration, extraction, transformation, and integration of large-scale data for effective analytics and business intelligence.

Experienced at designing, architecting, and implementing end to end IoT based solutions including device provisioning, analytics, and orchestration on Azure Cloud.

Extensively knowledgeable on the big data technologies, architectures, data management, and their applications in an enterprise environment.

SKILLS

PLC Systems: Allen Bradley

CAD: AutoCAD Electrical

Industrial Networking: Ethernet/IP, Profibus

Data Modelling: Power-BI, Tableau

Programming: Python-Numpy, Pandas, matplotlib, seaborn.

Machine Learning: Scikit-Learn, Azure ML Studio

Deep Learning: TensorFlow, Keras

Operating Systems: Unix/Linux

Knowledge of IoT, Strategy, Protocols and Standards.

IoT PaaS: Azure-IoT

Big Data Frameworks: Hadoop, Spark

Data Integration: MS SSIS, Talend

DevOps: Jenkins, Terraform, Git, Ansible.

Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP

Project Management and Agile: Azure DevOps

Cloud: MS Azure, GCP, AWS

Relational Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle

EXPERIENCE

Solutions Architect, June 2019 to Current

Emerson Electric, Houston, TX

Configure, maintain, and automate the deployment of compute and other services on Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Develop and maintain ETL pipelines for data migration, integration, and data warehousing and build scheduled jobs to ensure all required data is collected on a timely basis for efficient business reporting and advanced analytics.

Architect and Develop end to end IoT/ IIoT solutions and explore Machine Learning/AI approaches in the optimization of these solutions while aligning them to the company's digital transformation initiative.

Work as a subject matter expert Emerson's IoT solution offerings and liaise with Microsoft to understand how these solutions can be enhanced using Microsoft Services and Azure IoT Suite of products.

Apply Scrum agile management methodologies towards researching and developing various solutions and ensure tasks are assigned, resolved, and documented throughout the development lifecycle.

Define the integration and deployment of CI/CD strategy for various solutions and enforce proper development processes using industry tools.

Effectively created and managed a portfolio of IoT use cases, adapted them to customer requirements and communicated their applications to each specific environment to the stakeholders.

Controls Systems Engineer June 2015 to May 2019

Honeywell Intelligrated Inc. Louisville, KY

Collaborated with team members at creating system architectures, electrical schematics, and PLC programs and observed operations to ensure conformance to design specifications and safety standards.

Analyzed and effectively strategized project activities regarding business goals, deadlines, budgets, schedules, and resources while monitoring project progress and deliverables.

Mentored and provided leadership and guidance to junior members of the team and ensure that they are successful at achieving the company’s goals and prepare them for more challenging roles in the projects.

Work closely with the research and development team in assessing and evaluating system performance and so that defects can be resolved and performance improved.

Control Systems Engineer, November 2011 to June 2015

Dematic Corp. Grand Rapids, MI

Supported the integration of various project activities while providing feedback to the project management team to ensure that milestones and project deliverables are in adherence to scope and quality standards.

Completed the design of electrical schematics, system layouts, control panels, and PLC software for various control systems according the functional specifications of the customer.

Applied technical expertise and product knowledge towards problem resolution process when interfacing with the customer, engineering team, and product support team.

EDUCATION

M.S DATA SCIENCE, Indiana University

Bloomington, IN

M.S COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Michigan

Flint, MI

B.S ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, Hope College

Holland, MI

May 2020

May 2017

Nov, 2011

CERTIFICATION

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Microsoft Azure IoT Developer (AZ-220)

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