Professional
Summary
Passionate knowledge-driven data professional with 20 years of experience working within many industries and roles. Database architecture and design is my core focus with other extensive technical full-stack knowledge, enthusiasm and experience leading projects, and developers of all types and technologies. This often provides me with exciting opportunities presenting themselves along the way. Continuous learning, improved ways of thinking, and advancing my development skills are what motivates me daily.
Industry Experience
Cryptocurrency, Building, Banking / Financial, Real Estate, Oil & Gas, Health & Wellness, Healthcare, Laboratory/Pharmaceutical, Multi-Level-Marketing
Technical Synopsis
Manager of Data Engineering - Builders FirstSource
January 2020 - Present
Proven and promoted to become Technical Manager-Architect of a team of data acquisition and data integration professionals. Responsible for all new database architecture and data integration. Determine the best and most feasible architecture for the situation provided.
Environment: Agile, Corporate, Small elite team of data and analytic professionals
Technology Stack: SQL Server 2016, SSRS, SSIS, Jira, Informatica, MDM, MicroStrategy, .NET, Powershell, Kafka
Responsibilities:
●Plan and prioritize projects to align with strategic goals - Daily, Monthly, Yearly
●Lead, mentor and guide staff and colleagues across multiple departments
●Align and foster relationships to promote more cross-department efficiency
●Continued technical role as listed below: Lead Database Engineer
Lead Database Engineer - Builders FirstSource
November 2018 - Present
Hired to take over lead database engineer position, providing architecture, management of projects and development of the data and data movement (ETL) tier supporting some existing architectures, as well as providing solutions to new data and process problems in a simple yet effective way. Develops process and development standards, as well as advocating for continuous improvement and industry best practices. Mentors junior and senior staff.
Environment: Agile, Corporate, Small elite team of data and analytic professionals
Technology Stack: SQL Server 2016, SSRS, SSIS, Jira, Informatica, MDM, MicroStrategy
Responsibilities:
●Reduce complex business and technical problems into simple solutions
●Data Architecture and Modeling - Logical / Physical (Star)
●Advanced SQL Server Development (T-SQL) - design, develop, unit-test, enhancements, performance tuning
●SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) - Scale-out design & management, report design
●SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - design, implementation, performance enhancements.
●Mentors Junior and Senior Staff - advocates and influences adherence to industry and development best practices
●Improves processes with reduced work through workflow improvement, documentation, and colleague buy-in
Senior Data Architect - Cryptocurrency Startup
November 2017 - June 2018
Hired to provide architecture, management and development of the data tier supporting a new venture capitalist funded cryptocurrency exchange to back an existing coin offering.
Environment: 100% Remote, Agile, Startup, Small team of expert developers
Technology Stack: Amazon RDS/EC2, MySQL, SQL Server 2016, LucidChart, Slack, Confluence, G-Suite, NordVPN
Responsibilities:
●Database Technology Evaluation, Selection - MySQL versus MS SQL Server 2016
●Data Modeling - Logical / Physical using LucidChart
●SQL Server Development (T-SQL) - design, develop, unit-test, enhancements, performance tuning
●SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) - Scale-out farm design & management, report design
●SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - design, implementation, performance enhancements. Created SSIS (ETL) processes to load data marts
Lead Database Developer - Kaiser Permanente
November 2015 - November 2017
Responsible for leading and managing projects for migration of legacy data integrations as well as developing new solutions to load various data warehouses and data marts. Given additional opportunities to work on high profile projects during my time of employment.
Environment: 50% Remote, Agile, Corporate, Large team of 50+ developers, PHI (Protected Health Information)
Technology Stack: SQL Server 2012/2014, SSIS, SSRS, Teradata, Tableau, HL7, SAS, EPIC, Clarity, HealthyPlanet, Attunity, IBM Watson (EMRA), Subversion (SVN)
Responsibilities:
●Technical lead, mentored junior developers
●Performed data modeling (logical / physical)
●Created SSIS (ETL) processes to pull ADT data from EPIC (Clarity)
●SQL Server Development (T-SQL) - design, develop, unit-test, enhancements, performance tuning
●SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) - design & management, report design
●SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - design, implementation, performance enhancements
●Developed Tableau visualizations on warehouse data for business team
Lead Application Developer - Herbalife International
March 2008 - January 2015
Senior database/application developer at Herbalife, became the SSIS and CLR subject matter expert. Acted as lead developer on multiple projects, responsible for system analysis/design, development, and implementation. Mentored junior developers on new features and general development approaches. Worked heavily with SQL Server 2012, .NET (C#, MVVM, WCF, WPF) to develop data solutions for loading the data warehouse used for reporting and analysis and complex calculations required for the compensation of worldwide direct sellers of health and wellness products.
Environment: Agile, 200+ developers, large corporation
Technology Stack: TFS, C#, MVVM, SQL Server 2012, SSIS, Oracle, Oracle BPEL, XML, Redgate SQL Compare
Responsibilities:
●Managed development activities and daily Agile stand-up meetings for international teams of developers
●Data management subject matter expert, mentored junior developers and created development standards and best-practices
●Performed extensive SQL Server database and SSIS development activities
●Developed custom SSIS Script (C#) Task to invoke Oracle’s SOA (BPEL) services
●Programming WPF, WCF, Silverlight (C#) applications using MVVM design pattern
●Agile work environment, 50% Remote
Senior Database Developer (ETL) - Rapattoni Corporation
August 2007 - March 2008
Responsible for custom ETL solution providing real estate listings to the Nation’s largest Real Estate Associations, at the time. Also responsible for data design (logical and physical), performance monitoring and optimization.
Environment: 20 developers, smaller company
Technology Stack: SQL Server 2008 R2, SSIS, C#, CLR
Responsibilities:
●Full SDLC including requirements, design, development, testing, and implementation of DTS, SSIS, VB and C# .Net solutions
●Monitored and improved performance bottlenecks (Profiling and optimizing query plans)
●Acted as senior SQL development resource for all developers including contractors, report writers and SQL development team.
●Provided Database Administration as needed (Disaster recovery, index maintenance and security etc.)
Database Developer (ETL) - WB Mason
November 2006 - August 2007
Developed/Managed entire SDLC of production 24/7 ETL (SSIS/DTS) processes. Heavy emphasis on transformations from legacy mainframe order entry system to SQL Server 2005 data warehouse environment.
Environment: 200+ developers, large corporation
Technology Stack: SQL Server 2008 R2, SSAS, SSIS, VSS
Responsibilities:
●Rearchitected SSIS / ETL processes and improved ETL framework
●Responsible for nightly business critical ETL processes loading warehouse
●SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - design, implementation, performance enhancements
●SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) - design, implementation, and usage
IT Champion / Six Sigma Black Belt - RBS Bank
November 2005 - November 2006
Recruited internally to manage this small technology department. Responsible for contributing to the Six Sigma initiative by automating tasks within Citizens Bank to save money, improve efficiency and quality of experience. Bank automation included extensive SQL Server database development which involved creating DTS (ETL) packages as well as writing stored procedures, views and complex reporting queries with T-SQL. Also acted as senior database developer and mentor for the team of eight junior developers.
Environment: Onsite, corporate, 100+ developers
Technology Stack: SQL Server 2008, Visual Source Safe
Responsibilities:
●Responsible for creating ETL processes to support 60+ Black Belt/Green Belts data needs. Processes included creating complex stored procedures (T-SQL, PL/SQL) and DTS packages to extract data from many disparate systems including SQL Server 7/2000, Oracle, MS Access, XML and Mainframe.
●Created screen scraping utility to extract mainframe data which was being presented on a web front-end. Extensive VBScript and SQL Server 2000 programming was included in development.
Application Developer - RBS Bank
September 2003 - November 2004
Hired as a staff application/database developer working on internal desktop classic ASP/SQL applications supporting a banking call center and its staffs performance (ie. cost per call, etc.). Designed and developed an internal directory application called Green Pages, that was used by over 50 branches and its employees to locate internal staff and escalation hierarchy.
Environment: Onsite, corporate, 100+ developers
Technology Stack: SQL Server 2008, Visual Source Safe, Classic ASP, VBScript, Javascript
Responsibilities:
●Application development using: Classic ASP, VBScript, Javascript
●Database Modeling using: ER Studio
●SQL Server Development (T-SQL) - design, develop, unit-test, enhancements, performance tuning
Education
Microsoft Certified Professional – Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (70-229)
Northeastern University – Boston, MA
Currently enrolled in third year of Bachelors Degree Program in Management Information Systems(MIS)
Developmentor – Los Angeles, CA Completed in 2012
Guerilla .NET Training covering topics including Windows 8, MVC 4.0, LINQ, EF5, jQuery
Wintellect – Torrance, CA Completed in 2011
Silverlight 4: Mastering Silverlight 4
QuikStart – Irvine, CA Completed in 2010
Visual Studio 2008: Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Clark University – Braintree, MA Certificate Awarded August 2000
Client/Server Programming and Web Development (9 month) Program Certificate Awarded
New Horizons – Boston, MA
System Administration for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, Implementing a Database on Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Certificate Awarded, Crystal Reports 11, Oracle 11 PL/SQL, Introduction to Java Programming