Category: Technical Advisor

Accenture AI, Data Architect Innovation Principal

Agile Methodology, Asana, AWS Cloud Practitioner Cert, Big Tech Data Center Ops, Business Glossary/Data Governance, Collibra, Consumer Products, Data Governance Council, Data Governance Strategy, Data Mesh, Data Profiling/Data Quality, Delivery Lead, ER/Studio, erwin, Facets, GCP BigQuery, GCP DataStudio, GCP Plx, GitHub, Google Cloud Platform, Health Care Payer, Jira, Metadata Management, MS Azure, MS Project, Practice Leadership, Snowflake, SQL, Technical Advisor, Teradata

July 2020 – Present

Data Architect Offshore Team Lead for a large healthcare health plan provider. Lead and coach 5-member team on Teradata and Snowflake data modeling assignments and process using ER Studio. Establishing Jira format in conjunction with the Data Engineering teams to provide improvements in workload forecasting and assignments. Assess and define modeling requirements during project intake process.

Technical Architect and Advisor to well-known big tech services provider to implement data management capabilities in their new platform development. Grew implementation team from 4 to 13 as the technical architect and delivery lead from November 2020 to December 2022. Crafted SOWs for 3 extensions and followed approval processes, pricing, project staffing selection and client invoice management.

Data Governance and Collibra architect for large national retail chain to provide initial population of business metadata and data governance strategy.

Continuing participation in the AI Data Governance & Data Management Center of Excellence, managing intellectual property publication for the team.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

GCP Professional Data Engineer Cert (projected November 2023)

Principal Consultant — Data Intensity — Greater Cincinnati Area

Agile Methodology, Business Glossary/Data Governance, Data Profiling/Data Quality, Data Vault, erwin, Informatica Administration, Informatica/PowerCenter, Jira, Metadata Management, Multimedia, MySQL, Oracle, R, RapidMiner, SQL, Tableau, Technical Advisor, Unix Scripting

November, 2014 to November, 2015

Lead Data Architect/Integration Architect in an Oracle and MySQL environment; Data Vault data architecture; Expert ERwin Data Modeler (workgroup edition);  Informatica PowerCenter/IDQ/Metadata Manager/Business Glossary tools, RapidMiner, R, Tableau, Agile methodology, Jira.

Installed/configured/administered PowerCenter in an Oracle environment.  Designed and modeled data vault architecture for incremental load of Kantar Media data with transaction history.  Designed/built PowerCenter ETL to load/maintain 27 daily feeds. Provided extensive documentation and knowledge transfer.

Enterprise Data Architect — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana — Baton Rouge, LA

Business Glossary/Data Governance, Claims, Crystal Reports, Data Profiling/Data Quality, Delivery Lead, erwin, Facets, Health Care Payer, HP Quality Center, Informatica Administration, Informatica/PowerCenter, ITIL V3, Metadata Management, MS Project, Planview, Practice Leadership, Provider, SQL, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, Technical Advisor, Teradata, Unix Scripting

February, 2012 to October, 2014

Brought on board during Assessment Phase for the enterprise data warehouse solution.  Instrumental in technical and business analysis to determine the direction of the data management and ETL solution in a Facets-centered environment.

Lead data and integration architect for process improvements to mature the Enterprise Data Services practice. Design and implementation of a metadata-driven ingestion to the Enterprise Staging Layer allowing modifications at the schema, table and field level with adjustment of parameters.  This integrated data from multiple sources with supporting processes to include data quality profiles/reports, physical data models, changed data capture, historical data retention strategy and storage of metadata/data lineage into the Informatica Metadata Manager and Business Glossary.

Automated process to import/export vast metadata from spreadsheets to simplify maintenance by business analysts, providing training sessions and documentation.  Designed reporting solution to accompany the Informatica Metadata Manager roll-out to the enterprise.

Built initial data architecture practice, setting modeling standards.  Designed training documentation for the tool and trained 4 business analysts to become data modelers using ERwin model repository.

Completed certification for ITIL V3 Foundations.

Statistician/Data Analyst/System Architect — Wright State University School of Medicine– Dayton, OH

4th Dimension, Clinical Trials, Data Profiling/Data Quality, Delivery Lead, JCL, Macintosh OS, MVS/TSO, SAS, SQL, Technical Advisor, VAX

August, 1989 – December, 1993

WSU School of Medicine —  Fels Institute

Designed and developed SAS Biostatistics and lifestyle healthcare applications for Fels Institute which provides clinical human growth and development studies for various health care institutes and providers internationally.

Designed, analyzed, programmed, and tested database applications, as well as utilized various SAS statistical functions to conduct statistical analysis and regression.

Created library of SAS reporting functions and macros to develop flexible reporting.