Denver Metropolitan Area
20+ years of software engineering, consulting and project leadership experience as a driven and conscientious professional. Success leading product development effort for the product planning and execution of next generation of accelerators to extend our Clarity’s methods with re-usable processes and templates for data and analytic solutions. Experienced Quality Assurance Architect leading large teams in terabyte class integration efforts using Informatica Power Center. Quality and Operations Engineering Lead experienced with enterprise-scale implementations to support the development and implementation of analytics platforms using Informatica, Ab Initio, TWS, Oracle, and Oracle Exadata. Dedicated to career through active mentorship and enhancing corporate culture. Proven ability to build, motivate, mentor and lead project delivery teams through the full system development life cycle. Expertise managing statements of work, streamlining costs, managing labor hours of contractors and subcontractors, reflecting correct expense exposure, and forecasting, while balancing constraints of scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, and risk. Solid background providing functional analysis and requirements, delivery, and testing for enterprise analytics and reporting, while leading and facilitating teams across all levels of the organization to deliver valued outcomes such as improved analytics, implementation of improved methodologies, and utilization of business analytics to drive business decisions and implement sound business solutions. Demonstrated track record aligning IT vision with overall business strategy of the organization, while ensuring all IT assets and systems functioned smoothly for employees and extended workforce of the organization.
Clarity Insights is the largest consulting company in the US that focuses exclusively on data strategy, engineering, science and visualization. We help our clients—Fortune 1000 companies across multiple industries—leverage data and analytics to find actionable insights that can help them seize new opportunities and solve their toughest business challenges.
Engagement Manager, Technical Project Manager ♦ Built fully satisfied, strong client relationships as the Engagement Manager and managed the profitability (direct revenue and expenses) of the client engagement in accordance with client commitments and internal policies and rules. ♦ Played a valuable business and technical leadership role in client solution delivery, including leading the client team’s delivery performance, identifying and responding to delivery extension and expansion opportunities, and actively managing the client relationship and expectations. ♦ Mentored Clarity Insights team members and contributed to their individual development, and led performance management processes for client delivery teams. ♦ Provided a consistent methodology as a Technical Program Manager to execute projects on behalf of customers by maximizing visibility and transparency of all aspects of work across the greater Facebook organization. ♦ Efficiently leveraged homegrown project tools and technologies, pushing the envelope of their capabilities to centralize all project information for ease and consistency of reporting and planning. ♦ Drove programs cross-functional, complex and high value in nature by facilitating projects that propelled change in the environment, collaborating with the Business and Service Owners to determine how to implement new functionality, and unblocking teams and projects through more transparent impact and priorities.
♦ Provided strategic advisory, subject matter experience, and coaching around SAFe agile methods and processes, advised on process improvements with USAA’s implementation of SAFe, and helped drive alignment across key stakeholder groups and constituents. ♦ Collaborated with stakeholders in various lines of business to facilitate activities to identify and drive opportunities for Agile transformation using Agile frameworks, driving Agile awareness, mindset, capability and evangelizing adoption across the EDI organization. ♦ Established curriculum and training utilized throughout EDI organization for Agile transformation and conducted hands on training and workshops. ♦ Guided and coached business and functional leaders on how to drive a culture of collaboration and learning, leveraging and applying strong leadership capabilities and a deep knowledge and understanding of Agile concepts, practices, and principles implementing Agile at an enterprise level. ♦ Directed and enhanced enterprise organizational initiatives by positively influencing and supporting change management, crafting and conducting Agile briefs to senior executive leadership on a periodic basis, and providing guidance and training around the creation and ongoing development of backlogs, artifacts, tracking and reporting. ♦ Assisted Scrum Masters and Agile Teams with planning and executing agile ceremonies, in the estimation of user stories, participating directly in project kickoff meetings, scrum meetings, sprint scoping and planning meetings to ensure agile approach was being executed optimally. ♦ Coached teams in Agile with an inclusive style that embraced diversity and allowed teams to successfully operate in a highly matrix organization where partnership and influence were key drivers of success.
Senior Data Analyst, ETM Test Lead, Release Delivery IM Lead, Production Support IM Lead, Scrum Master ♦ Identified, engineered and implemented complex, ETL performance tuning in Oracle Exadata for large, daily usage data records reducing batch processing by 70%, enabling expansion of the EDW to a larger business user community and ensuring OLAs and SLAs are met consistently. ♦ Developed client-specific quality assurance methodology, and executed full testing (system, performance, UAT) for billions of daily call detail records into an EDW based on the Informatica and Oracle Exadata platforms. ♦ Led release teams through full life cycle of multi-release implementation of a fully operational enterprise level data warehouse enabling advanced analytics capabilities in a complex environment. ♦ Directed and developed team of Test Analysts and improved deliverable quality through innovative automated testing methodologies and a test bed strategy, which allowed for rapid execution of test cases, the ability to affix additional test cycles, and opportunity to leverage regression testing. ♦ Introduced, developed, mentored and successfully transitioned a traditional production support team to Scrum and Kanban software engineering processes to a level of maturity which encompassed planning of sprints, prioritizing the sprint backlog, identifying and eliminating obstacles that prevented team from achieving their goals, measuring and reporting, and ensuring constant and clear communication among team and all stakeholders. ♦ Performed business and requirements analysis to extend existing warehouse quality assurance solution to meet business needs for customer and product categorization and segmentation. ♦ Accountable for pivotal, highly visible and critical role to operations of the EDW program delivered to the client through end-to-end Production Support service delivery against SLAs & required direct face-to-face with clients for delivery of Production Support functions.
♦ Managed twelve projects, from $50,000 to $2 million including: statements of work, change orders, management of labor hours of contractors and subcontractors, correct expense exposure reflection, scheduling, cost analysis, forecasting, plus providing remote coordination of clients and field personnel. ♦ Streamlined systems, processes, and procedures to eliminate necessity of manager level work onsite. Annual savings of $100,000. ♦ Prioritized needs, performed expense audit, and implemented accountability to schedule in order to turn around client project from prior leadership team. Brought project in on budget and recovered $31,000 in neglected billings. ♦ Championed $2 million project, $230,000 under budget. Result: shared savings and $95,000 profit.
♦ Managed offshore team of 15 developers situated in India, so as to bring projects in on time, on budget, and as specified. Required: coordinating and leading 7am and 10pm offshore conference calls. ♦ Established the Configuration Management environment, Policy and Procedure guidelines, Configuration Management planning and documentation for development, testing, and deployment of five concurrent projects. ♦ Collaborated closely with product management, business analysts, and team leads to translate business requirements into object models. Required: gathering business requirements and functional scope and, with a working knowledge of the data model, synthesizing these findings into technical specification documents for two healthcare systems (Medco and MedImpact). ♦ Developed ETL designs for use during the development phase in support of Michigan's leading health benefits organization, providing significant value to the client’s Blue Health Intelligence project.
♦ Independently created a fully-functional Excel VBA Macro as a solution to better analyze and identify source data, in order to effortlessly classify and create data cleansing and transformation rules of source to target mapping for population into the project code design tool (CDMA). ♦ Gathered requirements on a testing automation initiative that reduced internal resources required for testing by as much as 80%. Required: creating and enhancing testing methodologies, while documenting the process for transition to client resources. ♦ Participated in the complete development life-cycle for a healthcare strategic alliance entirely owned by not-for-profit hospitals and health system organizations in the aims of improving clinical quality and cost-effectiveness: initiation, planning, design, development, testing, implementation, project evaluation, and maintenance phases.