Jamie Tinberg
Westchester,IL
Summary
Results-driven Music Royalty Specialist and Data Engineer with 13+ years of experience in data operations, royalty reporting, and scalable data systems for the music industry. Expertise in ETL processes, SQL, and SSIS to automate royalty payouts, and optimize financial reporting. Skilled in data validation and DevOps practices to ensure reporting accuracy, compliance, and efficient pipeline deployment. Adept at building and maintaining automated workflows using tools like Visual Studio and Excel, and collaborating across departments to deliver high-integrity, high-efficiency data solutions.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Data Engineer
CD Baby
Portland, OR
04.2022 - 03.2025
- Developed and maintained ETL pipelines for seamless data extraction, transformation, and loading, integrating multiple data sources for accurate reporting.
- Created and managed SSIS reporting tools to automate data reporting processes, providing stakeholders with timely and accurate royalty reports.
- Conducted regular bug fixes and troubleshooting for data workflows, ensuring data consistency, and resolving issues in real time.
- Collaborated with teams to automate data processing tasks, enhancing operational efficiency, and reducing manual intervention in reporting workflows.
- Worked with Snowflake for cloud-based data storage, ensuring optimized performance and seamless data transformations for reporting.
- Conducted comprehensive end-to-end QA testing on data workflows to ensure accurate outputs, and a seamless experience for end users.
- Leveraged DevOps practices to integrate data solutions into CI/CD pipelines, enabling smooth deployment and updates to production systems.
Digital Accountant / Royalty Data Specialist
CD Baby
Portland, OR
05.2011 - 04.2022
- Reported digital sales and royalties to clients, ensuring timely, accurate payouts, and clear reconciliation.
- Validated and cleaned incoming royalty data to ensure reporting integrity
- Tracked digital royalties from third-party distributors to confirm licensing compliance.
- Produced monthly royalty statements and financial reports using advanced Excel and SQL queries.
- Provided analysis to the Controller, including monthly reconciliations, and variance reporting.
- Created, maintained, and documented data mappings for efficient downstream processing.
- Built and improved automated intake and upload workflows, reducing manual data entry and error rates.
- Collaborated with internal teams to design and deploy automated royalty payment systems.
- Registered artists with performing rights and copyright societies (BMI, HFA, ASCAP), and supported metadata setup.
- Streamlined ETL processes and developed scalable strategies for data collection, transformation, and validation.
Skills
SKILLS & TOOLS
- SQL and SSMS: Complex queries, performance optimization, and large-scale datasets
- Visual Studio: developed and managed SSIS, ETL workflows and implemented bug fixes
- ETL Tools: Snowflake, SSIS, and custom scripting
- Cloud Data Platforms: Snowflake for Data Warehousing and Transformations
- Automation: Reporting and upload automation to minimize manual processes
- DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automated deployments
- QA and validation: manual and automated testing, error identification
- Reporting: Excel, SQL reporting, and stakeholder presentation tools
- Collaboration: Agile practices, team documentation, peer review systems
Timeline
Associate Data Engineer
CD Baby
04.2022 - 03.2025
Digital Accountant / Royalty Data Specialist
CD Baby
05.2011 - 04.2022