Data Engineering Management

J e f f r e y S m i t h

Millstone Twp, NJ 732-***-**** *************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffosmith S U M M A R Y A N D S K I L L S

An experienced government technology leader with proven success delivering services and solutions to improve operations. Creates strategies and business solutions with measurable benefits such as a $14M recurring savings. Strategy Development Maturity Assessments Data Engineering and Governance Solution Architecture Capture Process Leadership Technology Modernization SBIR/SBTT/POC/Pilot Programs AI/ML Solutions Delivery Program and Product Management E X P E R I E N C E

AI and Data Engineering Director March 2020 – Current Burr Systems - Millstone Twp, NJ

Delivered impactful data strategy, architecture, program management and engineering to deliver transformative solutions for Defense Agencies, Government and well-known companies, including Johnson & Johnson and Startups.

• AI and Data Engineering Director for a digital healthcare startup creating a multi-agent AI architecture using collaborating agents to access general and specialized LLMs, RAG Knowledgebases and curated data sources.

• Led twenty engineers for a government and DoD contractor developing Data and AI/ML prototypes for Government contracts. Included defining R&D Lab, key projects, development tools, and mentoring junior staff.

• As Data Director for a military contractor creating R&D product roadmap and managed development releasing four AI products including Gen AI/Llama-RAG Models for proposal assistance, chatbots, and NLP classifiers.

• Conducted four technology modernization briefings for Company and Government Leaders on impacts of AI and Data solutions with specific recommendations including ethical uses of AI and data in government solutions.

• Technical Product Manager with an eight-person Master Data Management (MDM) team at Johnson & Johnson using Jira, SAP, Informatica, and EMR. Personally coded ETL, SQL, python, and spark to bring MVP on schedule.

• Designed architecture for $100M proposal to government agency (Tricare) processing trillion dollars annually in healthcare transactions and AI call center prototype with Amazon Connect, Lex, Gateways, and Lambda/python. Sr. Director Global Data Science and Analytics January 2019 – March 2020 Avis Budget Group - Parsippany, NJ

Directed business critical AI/ML development while rebuilding the data science, analytics, and governance teams in a complex ecosystem with 11,000 locations in 180 countries. Role expanded to include data governance until Covid.

• Launched ABG’s AI recommendation engine highlighted in press releases using driver and IoT data with machine learning that improved customer satisfaction and influenced 9% revenue growth.

• Hosted monthly leadership and global business team updates on analytics and AI progress with training sessions highlighting new capabilities, regulatory and privacy concerns of AI models and steps taken to mitigate risk. AI Strategy Consultant January 2018 – January 2019 Burr Systems - Millstone Twp, NJ

Led Big Data and AI Center of Excellence (COE) at Verizon to deliver AI strategy, training plans and knowledge sharing workshops while highlighting AI and RPA solution risks and benefits from over forty teams for the CEO. Director AI Transformation Consulting March 2015 – December 2017 Intel Corporation - Santa Clara, Ca

Joined Intel as Big Data Director, advancing to lead AI Transformation managing a Data Science and Engineering team to grow AI adoption using a multi-million-dollar budget proving the value of AI to customers and partners.

• Featured speaker at Federal Government AI Summit highlighting AI solutions in Healthcare and Government. J e f f r e y S m i t h

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• Conducting 20+ Analytics and Workshops with Government and C-level executives to accelerate AI adoption.

• Held monthly company briefings while growing solution catalog to 50+ government and industry AI blueprints.

• Presented AI/ML product briefings and panel discussions at 10+ Cloudera, Dell, Lenovo, SAP, and Arrow events. Director Commercial Services February 2014 – October 2014 UnitedHealth Group - Basking Ridge, NJ

Directed DaaS development on insurance and customer data until needed to stabilize mobile application including consumer portal. Applied ITIL principles to realign staff achieving 50% outage and 25% expense reductions. Director Enterprise Architecture May 2012 – January 2014 Sears Holdings - Hoffman Estates, IL

Led Architecture, Big Data, and Program Governance teams helping company navigate data quality, ownership, and governance during divestiture of a 130-year-old company with data on 75% of North America households.

• Tailored Big Data expansion to support upcoming project needs reducing risks and timelines by over 20% and applied Situational Leadership and Employee Engagement training to achieve 100% retention of key resources. Vice President Architecture March 2008 – April 2012 American Express Company - New York City, NY

Led technology staff modernizing a global 850-application portfolio. Managed and mentored Directors, Architects, Engineers and 150+ staff delivering technology projects while personally directing strategic programs.

• Led Program Governance Board to optimize $100M investment and manage risk in 100+ projects and established portfolio risk ratings and spearheaded corporate policy and procedure updates on cloud usage.

• Created six technology strategies and roadmaps to improve Finance, HR, Marketing, Communications, Tax, and CISO business groups’ KPIs and led cross-functional teams to deliver improvements. Recovered a $14M budget opportunity motivating business leaders to eliminate low demand/high-cost applications and using IT Modernization/Application Rationalization programs to migrate functions to cloud. Other Experience: Oracle Consulting Lead Stonybrook University Hospital, Clinical Systems Lead S A M P L E S K I L L S

Projects for: US Army, USACE, USAF, USMC, Homeland Security and Tricare Management Authority (DHA), NY State AI/ML Tools: Scikit, NLTK, GenAI (Bert, Llama LLMs), NLP, Bedrock, Sagemaker, MLFlow and Huggingface Programming: Python, CI/CD, SQL, Shell Scripting, VB, Java, BPEL, Lisp/Monk Tools: Jira, Git, RPA/Robotic Process Automation (UIPath, Automation Anywhere, and OpenRPA) Applications: Tableau, Power BI, Informatica, SAP, Salesforce, Oracle EBS and Fusion B O A R D M E M B E R S H I P S S P E A K I N G E N G A G E M E N T S Gartner Architecture Advisory Board National Science Foundation Data Corps Rutgers Big Data Advisory Board “Building Technology Roadmaps” Federal Government AI/ML Summit “Managing Technical Staff.” E D U C A T I O N P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T Stonybrook University, Stonybrook, NY - Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics Certifications and Training: Certified Scrum Master AWS Solutions Architecture Oracle Master Solution Architect

TOGAF Situational Leadership Microsoft Power BI and Tableau Platforms Active Security Clearance - Secret

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