Data Architect

Anthony Uwaechia

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PROFILE

A Data Architect professional focused in providing stable, scalable, and robust infrastructure for robust organization while leading the strategy of their integrated data engineering solutions.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

BlueChip Technologies Company Lagos, Nigeria

Data Architect June 2019 – April 2023

Designed business processes on a flow chart using tools like Draw.io and Talend for integration that enabled businesses to achieve targeted marketing after capturing relevant product features in source systems and applying transformation for predictive analytics.

Developed proof of concept -PoC with a clear plan to take a prospect successfully through a gap analysis phase that aligns with their strategic vision and turn them into a happy customer.

Designed, implemented, and supported an Enterprise Data platform (Data Lake, Data Warehouse, etc.) that provided ad-hoc access to large scale structured, semi-structured, and/or unstructured datasets.

Integrated results of different sectors of the business using Tableau and Power BI and convey dashboard reports which increased business agility from 20% to 70%.

Proposed best practices on AI/Machine Learning use cases to optimize customers’ business environment in cost savings, staff productivity, operational resilience and business agility using value added framework in cloud computing that grew revenue by 80%.

Worked on Google ads and Adobe analytics to analyze data from the entire customer journey and capture web behavioral data.

Publicized to the clients modernized data architecture strategies and data pipelines to process streaming and batch data which overcame staff cost from 60% to 25%.

After several business engagements and executive buy in, service reports were designed to include a high- and low-level document to capture technical solutions like enterprise data warehouse structure and ETL/ELT process from source to target tables reducing daily refresh to minutes.

Developed a Star schema and remodeled a Bus Matrix to capture slowly changing dimensions and fact tables.

Adopted best strategies to secure information architecture and increased operating systems availability.

Collaborated with product and technology infrastructure teams to ensure both test and staged environment were scalable, reliable for builds and deployment that revitalized go-live from 3 weeks to 1 week.

Executed data profiling to have informative/statistics summary about the data spotting overall trends then documented procedures to use Power BI to create reports that enhanced the banks marketing campaign and reduced customer churn out to 9% and met metrics to improve data quality by 85%.

Moving Shop Data Solutions Limited Lagos, Nigeria

Data Architect September 2005 – August 2017

Evaluated business requirements from clients and selected big data tools like Hadoop that provided cost savings of 50% and increased operational efficiency, price optimization, resource forecasting on big data to 85%.

Worked collaboratively with product owners, executives to translate business goals into technical solutions and advising teams on optimal technology strategies to achieve business results.

Proffered solutions that leverage data as an asset ensuring data quality is reliable, readily available, secure, and accessible to stakeholders from minutes to milliseconds.

Provision of web scraping tools like Rapid Miner and python to gain more insights on competitors reviews.

Communicated and expedited ticket resolved time from 2 days to 1hour when customers had issues assembling data pipelines in Azure and AWS which I accelerated using phone, email, live chat, and face-to-face meetings.

Facilitated the benefits of cloud services to clients via AWS trusted advisor and Azure Value Added Framework for best practices to validate an enterprise strategy and enable them to gain more in cloud computing.

Validated solutions from 85% to 95% level of accuracy using machine learning to predict variables which had the most impact on profit.

Verified a gap analysis comparing on-premises cost savings of 20% viz a viz 60% savings when data pipelines and the client’s infrastructure is in the cloud to establish the most impact on targeted marketing from customer data.

Delivered product presentations and demonstrations tailored to customers’ requirements and tuned to suit the level and nature of the audience.

Integrated an architectural data framework and data analytic solutions on the front end to back end of a product that captured its functional and non-function specifications and managed sustainability of its growth in the client’s marketplace that on boarded more customers from 12000 to 135000.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: R and Python

Web Development: Html, PHP, MariaDB

Machine Learning Algorithms: Regression – (Linear, Logistics, Multiple), Random Forest, Naive Bayes, Knn

Data Manipulation: SQL, Python, Talend, PySpark, Spark SQL, Scala, PowerShell, ARM templates SSIS

Libraries: Tidy Verse, dplyr, NumPy, Pandas, Theano, Scikit-learn

Data Visualization Tools: GG plot2, Tableau,Power BI, Google and Adobe Analytics

Data Quality & Discovery: Colibra, BigEye

Database Management: SQL, POSTGRES, DYNAMO DB, RDS, RedShift

Architectural /design Tools: MS Visio, ER WIN, PowerPoint, Lucid chart, Draw.io

IDE: Visual Studio, ECLIPSE, IntelliJ, NetBeans

ERP: SAP, MICROSOFT DYNAMICS

ACADEMIC PROJECTS / PERSONAL PROJECTS

University of Texas at Austin - Cloud Computing Projects July 2022 – February 2023

Implemented a Team Communication Solution using Matter most and AWS. This is a scalable solution that can be hosted on-premises data center or on a public cloud, with its servers, storage completely managed and controlled by your IT team in accordance with a company’s governance and security requirements. This architecture was achieved using skills and tools to build a custom VPC, public subnet for Web Server on EC2, private Subnets for my MYSQL, Security Group, API Gateway, Bastion Host, NAT Gateway.

Lift shift & deployed a classical web app to AWS ECS containers, it was a complex application that required decoupling into microservices so developers can run upgrade patches in different sandboxes. It was achieved using the following tools like Docker, ECS, Load Balancer, far gate.

Provision of EC2 instances on ubuntu and Linux to serve high computing needs.

Built an automated Business Process integrating Managed Services on AWS Public Cloud to carry out SQL queries and updated a table on a Relational database. This was achieved using the following tools like Amazon S3, SNS, Athena, RDS.

Built an automated, event-based real-time process that triggered the process of converting text file into CSV and uploaded into Azure SQL Server and Blob Storage where further analysis can be performed on the latter in a Public Cloud.

Pace University Group Project Name- Matrix app Mar 2022 – May 2022

Structured and Led a Project Team on the research of a climate change analytic app for Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance with a focus to reduce carbon footprint emission to the barest using a hybrid project methodology of Waterfall and Agile.

Pace University Individual Projects- A Mortgage loan app, Conceptual and Logical model of a university system

Designed a front-end mortgage loan app architecture capturing functional and non-functional requirements. Then built back-end analytics with tableau to derive insights from the inputs in front end. It was proof of value.

Designed a logical model of a university system capturing business objects, properties, attributes, and relationships.

Pace University Individual Big Data Projects Jan – April 2023

Performed a big data project which collected data from various sources such as website clicks, purchases and social media interactions and processed using tools like Hadoop, Spark, EMR, NoSQL databases like Cassandra to manage customer profile and HBase to ensure real time access to customer data.

Real time analysis of reviews on twitter to gain insights on trending topics.

Carried out a big data project into customer behavior and preferences, improved customer engagement and retention, and suggested revenue growth strategies after deploying big data techniques such as MapReduce, Spark streaming and machine learning algorithms to extract insights from the data in real time.

EDUCATION

Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science, and Information Systems New York, U.S

MSc Information Systems: Honors: GPA: 3.80 Apr. 2023

Robert Gordon University, School of Computing Aberdeen, Scotland

MSc Data Science: Honors: GPA: 3.00 Sept.2018

University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas

PG Cloud computing: Honors: GPA: 3.80 Jan.2023

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS & CERTIFICATIONS

DAMA - Data Management Professional Member Jan. 2023

TDWI -Transforming Data with Business Intelligence Member Jan. 2023

AWS/ Solutions Architect Associate Nov. 2022

AWS/ Data Analytics Specialty Oct. 2020

AZURE/Solutions Architect July 2021

AZURE/ Data Engineering Feb. 2021

Scrum Fundamentals Certified Dec.2019

Systems Applications Product SAP June 2011

Certified Scrum Product Owner (In View) May 2023

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