JULIUS KOLAWOLE, MBA

Dallas/Fort-Worth TX 972-***-**** adta19@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER PROFILE

Data Engineer with more than 10 years of overall IT experience and working with relational database management systems / multiple data management & infrastructure/integration projects. Experience with SQL, Python, Hadoop, UNIX/Linux, shell scripting and other data management / business intelligence or ETL tools and/or technologies; also, familiarity with Java & AWS. Ability to develop and implement data engineering solutions that facilitates better decision making for organizations, aligns with their strategic business objectives and delivers value to employees and customers. Highly creative, project oriented and analytical professional with excellent team building abilities and customer relationship management. Experience working in industries such as IT, Finance, Telecommunications, Insurance & Energy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Data Management/Big Data: Hadoop, Sqoop, Hive, Oozie, Data Analytics, PySpark

Databases: MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL

AWS Cloud Technologies: VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, SNS, RDS, CloudWatch, Glue, Lambda

Programming: Java, Python, C, C++

Scripting: Perl/Perl DBI, Unix/Shell Scripting

Agile: Scrum Master Skills

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 6.x

Web Applications & Internet Services: BEA WebLogic, Apache, MQ Series/WebSphere, LDAP, SiteMinder

Networking: TCP/IP, SNMP, Cisco Routers/Switches, LAN/WAN, VPN, DNS

HP OpenView: NNM, OML, OMU, OMW, OVPM, OVPA, Reporter, SPIs

IT Service Management: BMC Remedy, HP Service Manager

Operating Systems: UNIX, HP-UX 11iv2, Solaris 10, Aix 5.x, RHEL6.x/7.x, Fedora, CentOS 7.x, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2012

AREAS OF STRENGTH AND EXPERTISE

Agile/Scrum Research & Development Team Building/Collaboration

Systems Architecture Data Modeling Strategic Planning & Analysis

Requirements Gathering Project Management Change Management

Customer Relationship Management Data Management

RECENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Go Cloud Architect Training Mar 2022 – October 2022

Strategies for communication with C-Level executives on their business requirements and managing stakeholders across an organization’s value chain

Leadership and executive presence strategies and insights to facilitate better relationships with senior level executives

Improving presentation skills and tailoring communication to the right audience (e.g. CXO executive, Hiring manager or Peer relevance)

Creating design, present and sell solutions that can result in win-win negotiations with clients and solve customer problems

Designing solution architectures that are fault-tolerant, highly available, scalable, cost-effective and secure – resulting in improved company brand, customer satisfaction and better return on investment

Developing cloud migration strategies that are best-in-class in the industry, which will mitigate most cloud migration risks and deliver excellent customer experience

Developing disaster recovery techniques and solutions that align with business requirements; these techniques are robust and resilient to ensure business continuity at all times

Leveraging cloud technologies and services to provide innovative solutions for networking, security, databases, server management, storage & compute, virtualization, and container management/orchestration to solve complex problems and deliver customer value

Developing better skills for working with people from different cultures and improving cultural diversity

Personal Development Initiatives October 2019 – October 2022

Sharpening my skills in Big Data Technologies including Python, PySpark, SQL, Hadoop (and Ecosystem)

Involved in data management volunteering activities

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COGNIZANT

Cognizant, Raleigh NC Consultant/Big data Engineer

Cognizant Project Deployment Pool Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

Cognizant (AAP Project) Apr 2019 - May 2019

Data Engineer and member of store reporting project at customer location focused on delivering an enhanced and more agile reporting system to AAP management and other stakeholders. Team was responsible for transforming (ingested data which was extracted from various sources) using AWS services such as AWS Glue, Lambda, Step Functions etc. and loading the transformed data into the snowflake database. (Short project due to reduction in scope of project activities that eliminated my role in the project)

In preparation for the store reporting project, familiarized with ETL tools such as AWS Glue, Lambda, PySpark, Python, Boto3 etc. Created a Glue job utilizing inbuilt features of AWS Data Catalog, Crawlers etc. to generate unified schema and metadata properties for a mini project.

Mini project was to combine multiple test source files (first with .csv files and then with .json files) with same data structure/schema but different data in each .csv or .json file into one unified schema using the data catalog; and then using a glue job with Pyspark and Lambda to transform the files into a single file in parquet format through the coalesce command.

Cognizant, Irving TX Consultant/Big data Engineer Feb 2019 - Mar 2019

Contributed to the Test data generation project (project planning, design & coding) in the Cognizant IMS solution center developed using python tkinter. Project was focused on developing a solution to be used by internal Cognizant customers for generating random test data based on their own models.

Learnt python tkinter GUI features and how to design screens to add, modify, delete test data, and generate response to data entered by user (based on functional requirements/use cases). Worked on design and coding aspects assigned from the project and collaborated with other team members on the project at daily scrum meetings.

Led/Facilitated the daily scrum meetings to ensure team was self-organized, impediments were resolved, and progress was made in line with the sprint plan towards the business objective.

Platform by PerScholas Data Engineering Case Study Project September 2018 – December 2018

Developed Java program to get customer details from relevant tables in case study - MySQL project database according to requirements in the functional specification document. Some of these details include

customer transactions by zip code for a specific period, aggregation of customer transaction details

by geographic location, generation of billing reporting etc.

Extracted data from relevant fields in the project database, transformed data according to the

functional specification using Sqoop and loaded the output data into Hive running on top of Hadoop

File System (HDFS) for data partitioning and further transformation.

Developed Oozie job to automate the ETL process initially with full and then with incremental

imports with the aid of job.properties, coordinator.xml, workflow.xml and Sqoop jobs run through

the meta store.Performed data analysis and visualization on the data that imported from MySQL using

Sqoop and loaded into Hive.

I was selected to participate in a 12 weeks full time development hands-on program sponsored and developed by Cognizant as a pipeline into the data engineering field.

Curriculum includes the following SQL, Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, Sqoop, Oozie, Databases (Oracle), Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Big Data, Data Distribution, Agile/Scrum, Requirements Gathering, Software Development Processes, SDLC Models and Methodology, UML, Java, JDBC

Full-Time MBA with specialization in IT Nov 2015 - Apr 2018

Led group project to simulate starting a new for-profit company and developed a growth strategy to make it a very profitable and successful company as it competes in the global economy using the principles of conscious capitalism; the balanced scorecard was used to evaluate performance of the company as compared to its competitors at various stages of the growth process

Gained some leadership insights from courses taken as part of my MBA such as Strategic management, Strategic HR management, Leadership strategies for a changing world, Managing the value chain, Managing IT in a business environment, Measurement & decision making and IT Project management.

State Farm Insurance, Bloomington, IL Projects/Enterprise Monitoring Analyst (Contract role) July 2014 - February 2015

Member of ESM Team that provided monitoring services for various ongoing Projects and Service groups within the organization using OML9.x.

Developed monitoring services for J2EE (SFEventing), WebSphere, QPasa, MQSeries, Mainframe, UNIX/Windows based applications.

Wells Fargo, Remote Projects/Enterprise Monitoring Engineer & Consultant (Contract role) August 2013 - December 2013

Provided monitoring solutions/monitoring consultancy services at Wells Fargo Bank.

Developed new policy standards for monitoring to be migrated to OML9.x,

Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC Projects/HP Operations Manager (Contract role) December 2011 - August 2013

Led and directed project to convert Duke Unix Baseline and Business application monitoring policies from OMU to OMW resulting in reduction of company monitoring costs

Created Perl scripts for monitoring of several Duke Business applications such as Cybernation, Dimensions, Marimba; and created other monitoring solutions for Microsoft Exchange SPI to ensure quick detection and resolution of issues.

Led and directed project to automate the addition of servers to the OMW Business application policy for activating server monitoring enable/disable

Led effort to upgrade the OpenView Operations windows agents to new agent version 11.03.012 (which was the vendor supported version) on about 3000 servers

Created new architecture diagrams for the OM application in Production and DR environments, and developed DR plan for Duke’s OM application to support the Duke Energy IT Business Continuity Plan.

Wells Fargo, Remote Projects/Enterprise Monitoring Consultant (Contract role) June 2010 - December 2011

Member of project team that converted the monitoring solution for Wachovia from BMC Patrol to OpenView after the Wells Fargo/Wachovia merger; to facilitate an efficient monitoring system after the merger.

Designed OMU template standards that provided flexibility in interaction between OMU and the Netcool notification layer

Designed OMU monitoring solutions for multiple WebLogic and WebSphere applications

Developed a Perl script to support monitoring of clustered servers for the Connect-Direct application used by the WF transmissions team

Presented on the “Detect and Resolve” concept to team members to demonstrate benefits of automation using OMU automatic actions

T-Mobile, Bothell, WA Projects/HP OpenView Developer (Contract role) September 2009 - May 2010

Developed monitoring solutions for Tealeaf, Site refresh, Connect Direct, JDA and other Web / Database applications

Developed and deployed improved standards for T-Mobile Baseline and application monitoring in OMU and OMW

Integrated VMWare/SiteScope alarms into OpenView Manager for Windows

Developed monitoring solution for Microsoft Exchange/BES running in a Cluster

Wells Fargo Bank, Des Moines, IA Projects/Enterprise Monitoring/Consultant (Contract role) June 2007 - December 2008

Led and directed project for testing/validation for OVOU basic monitoring enhancements deployed on 12,000 Unix/Windows servers.

Member of project team that migrated WF OVOU monitoring software from version 7.x to 8.x

Conducted research on how to use BAC to optimize availability and performance of WF applications and business services, resulting in improvement of customer experience

EDUCATION

Purdue University Global (MBA with specialization in IT) – April 2018

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT July 2015 – October 2022

10/2022 – AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Certification

10/2019 – AWS Certified Big Data – Specialty Certification

06/2019 – AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification

09/2018 – Scrum Master Certification

11/2017 – AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification

02/2017 – Linux Systems Administration Training

11/2016 – Hadoop Administration Training

03/2016 – VMware vSphere (ESXi 6 and vCenter Server 6) Training

07/2015 - Linux Professional Institute - LPI Level 2 Part I exam (LPI 201)

07/2015 - KLAY PM Project Management Training

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