Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
18
18
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Data Engineer
Climate Corporation/Bayer
06.2023 - Current
Created and configured reproducible custom compute cluster environments for team development, testing and support requests
Updated CI/CD pipelines to be within security compliance standards set by organization
Prepared documentation and analytic reports, delivering summarized results, analysis and conclusions to stakeholders.
Evaluated emerging technologies and tools to identify opportunities for enhancing existing systems or creating new ones.
Established standard procedures for version control, code review, deployment, and documentation to ensure consistency across the team's work products.
Ensured data quality through rigorous testing, validation, and monitoring of all data assets, minimizing inaccuracies and inconsistencies.
Senior Lead Analyst
Wells Fargo
02.2023 - 06.2023
Surfaced new data applications and reporting features within our Financial Forecasting Model Platform on linux systems with python
Championed data literacy initiatives throughout the organization, empowering employees with the tools necessary to make informed decisions based on data insights.
Automated and updated our model pipelines from legacy languages including Stata, SAS, Angular JS, PERL, and C++ to Python.
Established strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment between analytical efforts and business objectives.
Senior Geospatial Data Engineer
Freight Science
05.2022 - 01.2023
Creation of public endpoints using python and typescript for customer facing Freight Science UI
Created private API endpoints for consumption by our Optimization AI model to enhance predictions for asset planning
Development of a geospatial algorithm to predict if a trailer was tethered to a tractor
First of its kind developed to be independent of the problematic source data system
Reengineered existing ETL workflows to improve performance by identifying bottlenecks and optimizing code accordingly.
Built databases and table structures for web applications.
Created automated data pipelines transforming telemetric and sensor data for trailers
Worked on implementing medallion lake house architecture, and strategy to create consistency in data across our platform
PySpark scripting with DeltaTables for ML model training.
Cloud Geospatial Data Engineer
Syndicus /Bayer
02.2021 - 05.2022
Lead Engineer of cross functional effort to stand up a production irrigation recommendation platform from an outside organization to our organization’s AWS account for testing and documentation, and enhancements
Responsible for delivering project estimates for in and out of scope enhancements for AWS Irrigation Platform
Achieved successful project outcomes by maintaining accurate documentation and meeting strict deadlines.
Designing and deploying real-time data pipelines to process semi-structured data by integrating spatial data streaming from an Oracle Database using Confluent Kafka and stored processed data in Google BigQuery
Creating Grafana dashboards using Kabana AWS EKS logs to track process status and send alerts to Microsoft Teams.
Data Science Engineer II
Centene
05.2019 - 02.2021
Data engineer architecting and integrating the ML model pipelines used for predictive UI features on our new healthcare platform
Created and maintained a python streaming application transforming unstructured data from Kafka event streams into user KPI’s for Leadership, Product Engineering, and Product Owners
Architected DS Team’s Cloud bees Jenkins CI pipelines, ensuring the use of secure secrets management, unit testing, and linting strategies Developed architectural design and building foundations for the new Data Science initiative to facilitate CD machine learning workflows.
Designed Field Research Data Engineer
Climate Corporation/Bayer
10.2013 - 05.2019
Led a team of 4 on the Designed Field Research Team (DFRT)
My team was responsible for integration of data from multiple sources across our global organization into our prescribed field research pipeline
Used Python and PySpark to ETL Avro, shapefiles, parquet, txt, json, tiff, and more geospatial data types
Created a Big Data Framework and deployed tools to capture, transform, analyze and store structured and unstructured data in Postgres, and s3, and our Data Science Warehouse
Orchestrated a strategy and schemas for migration from Google Sheets to POSTGRES Database
Represented our team in multiple cross functional science teams to ensure successful integration of science models and experiments into the field research pipeline.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Urban Planning
Alabama A & M University
Normal, AL
08.2006 - 05.2024
Skills
Kafka Streaming
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Accomplishments
2018 Presenter on Big Data Management at the 126th Annual Farmers Conference in Montgomery, AL.
2018 Facilitator of Information Technology at the 6th Annual Smart Girls Conference.
2018 Panelist on Artificial Intelligence and Agriculture- A Growing Opportunity for African Americans at the 48th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference.
Canadian Commercial and Marketing Lead at Climate FieldView/Bayer CropScience CanadaCanadian Commercial and Marketing Lead at Climate FieldView/Bayer CropScience Canada
Marketing Coordinator of Women’s Healthcare BU at Bayer Yakuhin K.K. - Bayer Healthcare (Japan)Marketing Coordinator of Women’s Healthcare BU at Bayer Yakuhin K.K. - Bayer Healthcare (Japan)