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Brandon Hotsinpiller

Brandon Hotsinpiller

Summary

Process-driven and results-oriented professional with extensive experience in data analysis, process improvement, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA). Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, streamline operations, and drive cost savings. Passionate about fostering collaboration and optimizing workflows to deliver innovative solutions. Ready to leverage skills in process engineering and leadership to contribute to a forward-thinking organization.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Application Support / Data Engineer

AT&T
01.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: Construction & Engineering Department
  • Utilize Palantir Foundry and Snowflake skills to create business ready datasets related to the organization’s new project management application (Rakuten’s Symworld/Site Manager), utilized by over 3,000 employees.
  • Develop and maintain ever changing audit reports as new functionality is added to the platform and nation-wide business practices are changed and standardized.
  • Partner with application development teams to refine interfaces and process flows.
  • Participate in the planning of future development and functionality adds (PI planning / Agile Release Train).
  • Construction & Engineering Department

C&E Wireline Palantir Lead

AT&T
01.2021 - Current
  • Company Overview: Construction & Engineering Department
  • Facilitated the onboarding/cleansing of data from over a dozen large applications onto the Foundry platform.
  • Continue to manage two widely utilized Palantir Foundry Use Cases (development spaces) utilized by 1000+ individuals each.
  • Developed a data pipeline for forecasting annual man-power requirements across the organization of nearly 11,000 internal employees.
  • Working to replace a time-consuming internal process and eliminate third-party workforce modelling software costing $100K per year.
  • Construction & Engineering Department

Professional Network Support

AT&T
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Company Overview: Construction & Engineering Department
  • Managed the intake and review process for my organization’s grass roots level process improvement and development request portal.
  • Sped up the review process, cutting time spent in review by over 40%.
  • Ensured key information was provided, necessary stakeholders were included, and the clear valid benefit was documented.
  • Implementation of ideas submitted through process provided over $12,000,000 in annual process savings.
  • Performed regular usage audits and stakeholder reviews to drive retirement of unnecessary tools.
  • Retirements prevented over 41,500 development hours that otherwise would have been spent bringing them up to current company standards (off older technologies).
  • Construction & Engineering Department

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Developer

AT&T
01.2017 - 01.2021
  • Company Overview: Construction & Engineering Department
  • Utilized RPA platforms such as Power Automate Desktop and Automation Anywhere to develop automation scripts/flows to automate repetitive tasks and free up employees to focus on more value-added work requiring critical thinking.
  • Regularly utilized adjacent skills in areas like VBA, REST API’s, and SharePoint to support these automations.
  • Automations provided roughly $250,000 in annual cost avoidance.
  • Construction & Engineering Department

National Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Lead

AT&T
01.2018 - 01.2019
  • Company Overview: Construction & Engineering Department
  • National point of contact within the wireline construction and engineering organization (12,000+ internal employee organization) for all things RPA.
  • Fostered collaboration between regional teams to develop best in class standardized processes to support automation efforts.
  • Worked with process stakeholders and tool owners to eliminate automation roadblocks.
  • Increased annual cost avoidance related to RPA by 250% ($4.3M to $15.2M) on only a 100% increase in deployed automations.
  • Construction & Engineering Department

Staff Support for VP / Project Manager – Southeast Construction & Engineering

AT&T
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Company Overview: Construction & Engineering Department
  • Collaborated with 3rd party vendors such as Level 3 and Equinox and internal engineering teams to reduce space and power rental fees in Carrier Hotel facilities through equipment upgrades, retirements, and reorganization.
  • Efforts eliminated roughly $670,000 in annual rental expenses.
  • Partnered with leadership, local contacts, and the corporate real-estate organization in order to facilitate and manage the spending of over $400,000 dedicated to improve outdated work facilities.
  • Construction & Engineering Department

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

University of Georgia
Atlanta, GA
09-2019

Bachelor of Industrial Engineering - Business Administration, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering

University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
12-2015

Skills

  • Snowflake
  • Palantir Foundry
  • Ontology
  • Power Automate Cloud & Desktop
  • Alteryx
  • Excel/VB
  • Power BI
  • REST APIs
  • Automation Anywhere
  • SQL
  • Python
  • R
  • Pyspark
  • Java
  • Process Improvement
  • Data-Driven decision making
  • Influencing without Authority
  • Cross functional communication
  • ETL processes

Timeline

Application Support / Data Engineer

AT&T
01.2023 - Current

C&E Wireline Palantir Lead

AT&T
01.2021 - Current

Professional Network Support

AT&T
01.2019 - 01.2021

National Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Lead

AT&T
01.2018 - 01.2019

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Developer

AT&T
01.2017 - 01.2021

Staff Support for VP / Project Manager – Southeast Construction & Engineering

AT&T
01.2016 - 01.2018

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

University of Georgia

Bachelor of Industrial Engineering - Business Administration, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering

University of Tennessee
Brandon Hotsinpiller