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Data Scientist Ab Initio

Location:
Greensboro, NC
Posted:
July 31, 2025

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EARL THOMAS BILLINGSLEY

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linkedin.com/in/earl-billingsley-b910725/ Cell: 336-***-****

Oak Ridge, NC EMail:******@*****.***

Extremely Curious Team Oriented Data Scientist

Development of Enterprise-Scale Processing Platforms for Large Data Requirements

Highly skilled architect and application development leader with more than 20 years of experience as a data scientist also engaged in defining the architecture, delivering project management, leading engineering development, and the delivery of large-scale application platforms built on Ab Initio technology for Fortune 500 companies.

I have created innovative architectural solutions, solved difficult coding challenges, orchestrated transformational platform migrations, applied IT governance standards, and lead high-performance teams to on-time delivery of complex data processing solutions within budget and timeframe.

I have an MS in Computer Science, BS in Mathematics and Cognitive Psychology. I was previously a USCF road and track cyclist.

I am looking to join a team oriented company where I can use my skills to advance the corporate goals, solve interesting problems and have fun.

EARL THOMAS BILLINGSLEY

Resume

linkedin.com/in/earl-billingsley-b910725/ Cell: 336-***-****

Oak Ridge, NC EMail:******@*****.***

architecture and application development leadership

Development of Enterprise-Scale Processing Platforms for Large Data Requirements

Highly skilled Architect and Application Development Leader with more than 20 years of experience in the architecture, project management, engineering development, and delivery of large-scale application platforms built on Ab Initio technology for Fortune 500 companies. Possesses the technical ability to architect innovative solutions, solve difficult coding challenges, orchestrate transformational platform migrations, apply IT governance standards, and lead high-performance teams to on-time delivery of complex real-time data processing solutions within budget and timeframe. Holds an MS in Computer Science and BS in Mathematics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SET Software Consulting Services 5/2020- Present

Principal Consultant & Architect

Oversee the sourcing, placement, and performance of the technical delivery team on a range of client engagements. Provide technical leadership and take an active role in project engagements to facilitate quality delivery in line with the client’s budget, functionality, and timeline requirements.

Recent Activities include:

oDesigning an Ab Initio Center of Excellence program for a large bank.

oIntegrating Ab Initio with Agile/Point creating a corporate operations SLA process

oPreparing SOWs for a wide range of development activities.

oIntegrating MedDRA, Ab Initio Meta Environment, BPM tools, and Data Governance tools

Extensive experience with Unix and Unix tools.

AB INITIO SOFTWARE 5/1999-3/2020

Principal Consultant & Architect

Architect enterprise data processing solutions, capitalizing on more than 20 years of experience working with the Ab Initio Co>Operating System. Expert in architecting, integrating, building, and implementing large scale enterprise applications including operational systems, distributed applications, and complex event processing to data warehousing and data quality management systems using Ab Initio. Proven success delivering business solutions at Fortune 500 companies that require experience with core Ab Initio technologies, EME Meta>Environment®, Continuous>Flows®, Conduct>It®, and Business Rules Environment™. Design scalable and high-performance applications that are implemented and maintained through the Ab Initio Graphical Development Environment (GDE®).

Project Examples

Defined a successful bank acquisition model for the 6th largest Bank in the US, leading a 30- person Cobol maintenance team to convert the system to Ab Initio and provided the leadership to deliver the project on time and budget and turn the team into a high-performance Ab Initio development group.

Provided technical management and leadership in building a near real-time process to handle all shipping orders for a multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation, rescuing a troubled project by delivering the first incremental release that added $70M to the bottom line and covered one-fourth of the items.

Converted large Informatica applications to Ab Initio.

Converted large Informatica applications to Ab Initio.

Converted large Cobol applications to Ab Initio.

I can discuss projects but I can not provide written details.

SILICON GRAPHICS 2/1996-4/1999

Senior Scientist, Advanced Compiler Group

Led the design and development of support tools for analysis and display of code bases above 1 million lines of code.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY 6/1991-1/1996

Coo And Founder, Startup With Harlan Mills

Statistical testing product. Focused on protocol based devices. For example, cell switches, high performance storage devices, radar systems.

Dramatically improved processing speed at a large client, utilizing duals between matrix and graph representations of Markov models ranging from 20K nodes to 1000K nodes to decrease computation times on 5M tests per night, by a factor greater than 10000 for statistical reliability models.

Built development staff, designed initial products, was COO. Sold the company to Ericcson. after Harlan Mills died.

DATAVIEWS 1/1984-5/1991

VP Consulting, R&D

Startup doing real-time graphics for command and control HMI interfaces for continuous and discrete environments.

Started Consulting Group and defined its role as a family of offerings within the DataViews product family. The Consulting Group grew to represent 30% of corporate revenue.

Expanded coverage of consulting to X-Designer

Built comprehensive training offerings for both DataViews and X-Designer

USCF Bicycle Racer 6/1974-9/1982

Rode for 10 Speed Drive Guerciotti on the road and the track. Reached category 1. Was in graduate school and a contract programmer during this time.

EDUCATION

BS Mathematics and BS Cognitive Psychology, Florida State University, FL

MS Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, MA



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