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Alex Doyal

Alex Doyal

Denver,CO

Summary

Cloud Data and Analytics Architect, specializing in Amazon Web Services (AWS) with 15+ years of IT experience in architecting, designing and implementing strategic data solutions for complex and large organizations with teams across multiple locations, technologies and functional disciplines.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud, Data and Analytics Architect

Raytheon Contractor
01.2017 - Current
  • Worked with Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community to identify data platform gaps and created strategic roadmaps and blueprints.
  • Closely worked with Chief Architect in creating Data Strategy, Data Vision and Reference Architecture.
  • Experienced in working with vendor, national procurement office and legal teams for vendor contract negotiation.
  • Designed and architected cloud native solutions in AWS using various services such as EC2, ECS, Kinesis, EKS, Glue, RDS, Redshift, etc.
  • Responsible for leading technology proof-of-concepts by closely working with business, technical teams and vendors.
  • Sound understanding of modern data architecture such as Data Lake House and Data Mesh.
  • Wrote PySpark/Python Scripts to apply data checks at a record level. Leveraged Apache Airflow to generate reports for end users.
  • Created patterns and blueprints for secure data storage and access management.
  • Hands on experience in setting up IT infrastructure using Terraform (IaC).
  • Designed data virtualization solutions to allow businesses to run federated workloads by allowing them to join disparate data sources.
  • Experience in integrating SaaS solutions in AWS Cloud.

Application Developer

Raytheon
09.2015 - 01.2017
  • Designed and developed a modeling and simulation prototype that was used for forecasting scenarios and making sound decisions.
  • Worked closely with customers to understand business initiatives, long term plan and developed IT strategies.
  • Provided conceptual/technical roadmap to new enterprise-wide initiatives.
  • Worked on the DevOps team and built custom solutions, including Kubernetes implementations.
  • Visualized holistic picture and provided right solution.
  • Architected solutions for large turnkey projects
  • Provided support and hands-on technical expertise to developers throughout the project implementation.
  • Architected end-to-end data management solutions in AWS cloud by combining data from various record keeping systems and sources.
  • Designed and implemented Data Ingestion Framework with IBM sterling and S3 from multiple sources.
  • Designed and built Data Processing and Transformation framework using Talend, Apache Airflow and AWS services including, but not limited to EC2, S3, Zeppelin.
  • Implemented Data Provisioning framework in AWS Aurora for downstream systems and consumers.
  • Collaborated with multifunctional team to architect and automate CI/CD of AWS resources hosting data platform components.
  • Developed and implemented cloud patterns such as Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) using and Pilot Light for Disaster Recovery on Cloud.
  • Leveraged information security principle to ensure compliant handling and management of data.
  • Agile project leadership of self and others including fellow architects, developers and offshore resources.
  • Designed microservices using API Gateway and AWS Lambda (Node.js).
  • Designed system architecture using Java/J2EE technologies.

Cloud Solutions Architect

National Security Agency, NSA
11.2014 - 09.2015
  • Demonstrated proficiency in designing and developing efficient data pipelines and integration processes, as demonstrated by significant reductions in data processing and transfer times from on the field to data warehouse.
  • Worked with business leaders, analysts and architects to come up with data conversion roadmap and strategy.
  • Architected and implemented metadata driven spark framework in AWS cloud to aid data conversion effort.
  • Leveraged native AWS services such as s3, Dynamo DB, RedShift, and Lambda to implement data conversion/engineering framework. Also setup ElasticSearch on AWS.
  • Built an AI/ML model leveraging Python and AWS to forecast business results.
  • Evaluated and implemented a Data Virtualization tool to blend data from heterogeneous sources without moving the data from their original repositories.

ETL Developer

National Security Agency, NSA
12.2013 - 11.2014
  • Performed Data Analyst role by working closely with end user and identifying data elements.
  • Developed various batch mappings sourced from SQL server and DB2 using Informatica PowerExchange.
  • Developed web services to integrate between agency portal and data source.
  • Used Angular for doing the front-end development for visualizations and analytics of an operations research product.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

NCAT
Greensboro, NC
12.2013

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City, NC
05.2008

Skills

  • Cloud Computing and Automation
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Enterprise Data Platform Architecture
  • Solution Architecture
  • Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data Lake house and Big Data (Hadoop, Cassandra)
  • Container Computing
  • Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Self Service Business Analytics
  • Agile/Scrum Methodology
  • Defense, Aerospace, Mission-Critical Systems
  • Network Infrastructure Support
  • Data Extracting
  • Architecture Oversight
  • Engineering Team Development
  • Monitoring Tools

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect- Associate
  • CCNP
  • CCEI
  • CCDE


Timeline

Cloud, Data and Analytics Architect

Raytheon Contractor
01.2017 - Current

Application Developer

Raytheon
09.2015 - 01.2017

Cloud Solutions Architect

National Security Agency, NSA
11.2014 - 09.2015

ETL Developer

National Security Agency, NSA
12.2013 - 11.2014

Master of Science - Computer Science

NCAT

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Elizabeth City State University

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