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CLAUDE PAUGH

Bedford,MA

Summary

Senior Cloud Data Architect, Engineer, and Project Leader offering 20+ years of experience. Motivated by solving challenges in data processing scalability and the opportunity to learn and improve skills .

Areas of Expertise: Cloud Data Architecture & Engineering, Large Scale Systems with High Performance Requirements, Business Intelligence Architecture & Implementations, Data Warehousing, Massively Parallel Databases & Analytics.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Analytics Architect

Atlantis Technology
Concord, MA
11.2019 - Current
  • Developed Analytics Engine using Python and Dask Machine Learning Framework. Proof of concept comparison and architecture with Dask and Ray to created distributed Python environment to handle computational load of several thousand requests per second from clients
  • Gathered requirements and built data schema for multi-terabyte warehouse in Azure
  • Managed Agile JIRA Kanban for epics, stories and sprints for deliverables
  • Design and Development of data quality testing automation to ensure 100 percent traceability

Senior Data Architect

Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC
Boston, MA
08.2019 - 10.2019
  • Leading technology implementation for Middle Office automation. The business objective is to enhance productivity by eliminating manual tasks and activities
  • Custom Python development for data processing which leverages company frameworks with AWS Redshift & S3 has been the focus when implementing automation
  • Data acquisition has been focused on XML, CSV, and XLS
  • Eliminated manual reconciliation of data to save the equivalent of 2.5 FTE resources

Senior Data Architect

Beyond Finance
Beverly, MA
01.2018 - 08.2019
  • Responsible for Leading AWS Cloud Data Architecture for startup company with three-person team
  • Collected, outlined and refined requirements, led design processes and oversaw project progress.
  • Role included technical architecture and implementation of Data Lake in AWS and Redshift (Spectrum), sourcing data from Salesforce, Five9, Bing, Google AdWords, Pardot, files (JSON, CSV, XML/SOAP), and PostgreSQL relational databases
  • Projects included implementing credit settlement machine learning models developed Python with pandas and numpy
  • Customized data processing using Python, Talend, and AWS Data-Pipelines
  • Developed and managed enterprise-wide data analytics environments.

DATA ARCHITECT

ELIASSEN GROUP
Boston, MA
05.2016 - 05.2017
  • Consulting with Putnam Investments on new Data Strategy "Big Data" initiatives
  • Role included targeted data source migration to Cloudera, master data schema design for securities, holdings/positions, and development of derived risk exposure analytics for "drill through" positions across all firm investment portfolios
  • Development of data warehouse design pattern using Data Vault 2.0
  • Created conceptual, logical and physical data models for use in different business areas.
  • Worked closely with team members to deliver project requirements, develop solutions and meet deadlines.

DATA SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Wellington Management Inc.
Boston, MA
04.2013 - 04.2016
  • Lead data architecture initiatives covering the Investment and Corporate applications business areas with five-person team
  • Created solution reference architectures, solution patterns, and enterprise implementation for data integration services and event-based ETL for AWS integration (Redshift, S3, JMS, Apache Service Mix)
  • Reference architectures were used for themigration of internal data marts from Oracle to Redshift
  • Architected and developed solutions with Talend, Perl, AWS Cloud Formation, AWS EMR, and Java
  • Enhanced SDLC productivity by developing enterprise data architecture standards and guidelines, developing data distribution strategies (services), enhancing data modeling standards (relational & dimensional), developing master data functional business specifications and translating those into data models

DIRECTOR - ARCHITECTURE

Fidelity Investments
Boston, MA
04.2008 - 04.2013
  • Led data architecture solutions for highly visible multi-million-dollar projects, including multi-terabyte data stores
  • Constructed proof of concept web services prototype (Java simple authentication) for data services
  • Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies employed during software development for multi-year projects
  • Implemented Informatica Metadata management and infrastructure deployment to manage ETL, Data Analysis, and PowerCenter business data elements and lineage
  • Performed conceptual, logical, and physical modeling for multiple projects using PowerCenter
  • Delivered highest priority project for business unit in 2012 for trading straight through processing, with delivery on scope, on budget, and under schedule that improved analyst productivity by 500%

DIRECTOR, DATABASE ENGINEERING

Fidelity Investments
Boston, MA
01.2005 - 04.2008
  • Led the business intelligence governance three-person team and set the direction for Fidelity IT Roadmap, working with Enterprise Architecture team and company business units
  • Responsible for updates to SDLC methodology to include development deliverables for data and BI projects (Agile & Waterfall)
  • Led governance of the BI tools and the best practice adoption, including commercial and open source products
  • Evaluated vendor products and identified the best architectural fit for Predictive Data Mining (SPSS, R), Complex Event Processing (CEP), HR Analytics, and Data Warehouse appliances

DIRECTOR, DATABASE ARCHITECTURE

Fidelity Investments
Boston, MA
01.2002 - 01.2005
  • Architect and Project Management of application performance testing for $50 million project covering domestic and international business operations for pricing of asset management products, leading project team spanning five domestic and internal sites with 100+ team members
  • Managed combined on-shore and off-shore team of 12 individuals
  • Instituted development methodology process improvements that increased data quality control and more efficiently executed data provisioning during development and testing cycles
  • Data quality went from poor to superior and delivery times went from 3 days to 2 hours
  • Chosen to lead several special high priority assignments that specifically targeted difficult business process re-engineering analysis and application performance issues
  • Managed triage and resolution of performance issues, which delivered orders of magnitude of performance gains for application

Education

Associate degree - Computer Engineering

COMPUTER ENGINEERING, HOLLAND COLLEGE
PE, Canada
1994

Some College (No Degree) - Business Economics

Harvard Extension School
Cambridge, MA

Skills

  • Project and Team Management
  • Data Quality Management and Tool Development
  • Python and Python Machine Learning Frameworks
  • SQL and Linux/Unix Shell Scripting
  • AWS, Azure, and Snowflake
  • Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data Modeling
  • Agile SDLC, Git, SVN
  • Data Integration, Data Visualization (Tableau, Spotfire)
  • API's and Data Structures
  • Data Warehousing expertise
  • Relational Database Management
  • Written Communications

Timeline

Data Analytics Architect

Atlantis Technology
11.2019 - Current

Senior Data Architect

Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC
08.2019 - 10.2019

Senior Data Architect

Beyond Finance
01.2018 - 08.2019

DATA ARCHITECT

ELIASSEN GROUP
05.2016 - 05.2017

DATA SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Wellington Management Inc.
04.2013 - 04.2016

DIRECTOR - ARCHITECTURE

Fidelity Investments
04.2008 - 04.2013

DIRECTOR, DATABASE ENGINEERING

Fidelity Investments
01.2005 - 04.2008

DIRECTOR, DATABASE ARCHITECTURE

Fidelity Investments
01.2002 - 01.2005

Associate degree - Computer Engineering

COMPUTER ENGINEERING, HOLLAND COLLEGE

Some College (No Degree) - Business Economics

Harvard Extension School

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