About Me

Data Engineer, Scientist and Composer.

I’m a Data Engineer with Director-level management experience. I improve quality, consistency and organizational agility with secure, reliable data engineering. I manage teams using agile values and a safe culture.

I provide air support to both data engineering and data science teams and guide analytics to bring sophisticated, evident insights into organizational processes. This drives change while improving reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Core Competencies:

Google Cloud Platform: Lambda architecture, Big Table, Dataproc, Kubernetes and Big Query. Amazon Web Services: Redshift, Athena. Cloudera: Mapreduce with Hadoop, visualization with Tez, Hive, Spark, Hbase, Kafka, Zookeeper, Mesos Programming: SQL, Python, C++, Scala, R.

Apache Airflow, Spotify Luigi, Docker, Docker Swarm.

Relational Data warehouse design. NoSQL with MonghoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB. Git with Github and Bitbucket. CI/CD with Travis, Circle and Bitbucket.

Academic skills:

Machine Learning/Neural Networks with Tensorflow.

Selected Publications

• 2003/03 — Graduate Research Paper at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC) Use of a 3D Graphic Environment in Superimposition Analysis
• 2004/10 — My team in Graduate School at UNC SILS Conceptions of Features and Semantic Clusters as Search Mechanisms: A Pilot Study

Professional Experience

Director of Data Engineering, 360i

In 2019 I met a group developing a data engineering platform during a Meetup of the New York Statistical Programming Group.

• Lead a team of data engineers and applying hands-on skills to build data pipelines from multiple channels including Google, Facebook and Twitter.
• Updated Apache Airflow to queue-based cluster with Celery and Redis as a message broker
• Working closely with media teams to meet the need for data insight from clients as diverse as Mini Cooper, HBO, Amazon, Ben & Jerry’s and Spotify.
• Developed ETL in Python and supported analytics with visualizations with Shiny Apps, Tez and Tableau.
• Performed analytics for CarMax Parquet files and semistructured data in Amazon Athena, Hadoop Mapreduce, Hive.
• Data ETL with Kafka, MongoDB Stitch.

Senior Project Manager - Solutions Architecture and Data, Macmillan Learning

Brought in to Macmillan by a former coworker at Cushman & Wakefield who was assembling an “A-Team” under the new CEO.

• Co-founded data pipeline and analytics system for Macmillan Learning. Provided Business Intelligence for executive negotiation with large contracts as well as more-focused sales, finance and marketing.
• Created Data Warehouse in AWS with Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB for transactional data and Python in Lambda Functions.
• Updated data pipeline to include containerized Python ETL with PyPi server.
• Rescued failing revenue streams by keeping them active with digital product availability.
• Converting failing infrastructure to Amazon Web Services Cloud. This involved Directed 43 resources across four continents and completed 2 weeks ahead of time.
• Provided first actionable market-share based sales and marketing insights with “threat matrix” of competitor products.
• Provided sales with previously non-existent insights such as potential customers using competitor products.
• Reduced Capex spend by $50,000 within three months by replacing vendor data services.
• Eliminated 40% duplication of effort on predictive analytics and data mapping initiatives.
• Provided sales, marketing and production with baselines and tools to compete in their markets.

Senior Project Manager - CRM Data, Cushman & Wakefield

Hired by Cushman & Wakefield to consolidate the CRM systems of all global agents into a single, enterprise instance of Salesforce.com.

• Created a single set of measurable services across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas with a single, enterprise instance of Salesforce.com. The scope of this initiative was over 250 instances of 20 different CRM systems across 35 countries in multiple languages.
• Created single online experience for employees and customers using Okta SSO.
• Provided company with global forecasting insight between Salesforce opportunities and actuals.

Senior Manager - Intranet Solutions and Architecture, AIG

Charged with unifying the multiple intranet technologies into a single SharePoint/.Net intranet.

• Provided single, global employee services with modernized and standardized global AIG intranet within a months.
• Eliminated fragmented technical obstacles which previously kept global business units from aligning efforts.
• Saved company 7-figure opportunity losses by creating efficient policy workflow from data insights on airline risk evaluations.

Other Activities

I am a classical music composer studying at The Juilliard School’s Evening Division. My chamber music piece “Merry Guesswork” was selected for Juilliard’s New Composers concert. My work is regularly featured in the yearly “New Music from Night School” concert. For more information about my music.

I founded and run a record label called Dymaxion Groove Records.

I also enjoy travel, sailing and diving.