Kenneth MBALE
Huntersville,NC
Summary
Responsive expert experienced in monitoring database performance, troubleshooting issues and optimizing database environment. Possesses strong analytical skills, excellent problem-solving abilities, and deep understanding of database technologies and systems. Equally confident working independently and collaboratively as needed and utilizing excellent communication skills. Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives according to tight schedules while producing impeccable code.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Chief Technology Officer
Select Computing, Inc.
02.2005 - Current
- Managed company-level architecture, platform, and data configuration processes and implementation protocols.
- Maintained thorough understanding of all key and current technologies, platforms and trends.
- Devised and wrote corporate technology procedures, modifying security policies for each worker level.
- Built IT infrastructure to support key business strategies and evolving processes.
- Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
- Designed compliance frameworks for multi-site data warehousing efforts to verify conformity with state and federal data security guidelines.
- Built databases and table structures for web applications.
- Designed data models for complex analysis needs.
- Collaborated with system architects, design analysts, and others to understand business and industry requirements.
- Stayed current on developments in related Python frameworks.
- Worked independently to design, develop, and test code.
- Collaborated with quality assurance team to verify correct implementation of software development changes.
- Led Scrum development practices to maintain on-time milestone achievement.
- Engineered software within a service-oriented architecture.
- Used Airflow, Pandas, Kafka, Nifi, and Python to create data flows and transformations.
- Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
- Current Project: For federal agency, designed and implemented data pipelines to migrate data from mainframe and distributed databases into other databases and data warehouses. Data migration pipelines handle data translation from EBCDIC to ASCII, data cleanup and quality check, mapping to target schemas and loading. In total, 185 pipelines were running on Kubernetes to complete data migration in six hours.
Adjunct Professor
Bowie State University
08.2015 - Current
- Graded quizzes, tests, homework, and projects to provide students with timely academic progress information and feedback.
- Taught data mining, data warehousing, database design, cybersecurity, and hyperledger technologies courses, providing instruction to up to 10 graduate and doctoral students.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bowie State University
06.2015 - Current
- Contributed to and actively participated in research conception, design, and execution to address defined problems.
- Published research results in peer-reviewed Artificial Intelligence journals and presented at seminars. Publications available at https://bowiestate.academia.edu/KennethMBale.
- Prepared and submitted grant applications to corporate organizations, private foundations, and federal agencies to solicit grant monies for BSU Autonomous Systems Lab. Won grants from NSF, DoD, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Laboratory, and Office of Naval Research.
- For granting agencies, implemented comprehensive machine learning framework for enhanced acoustic signal-based classification and agent behavior under scarce/imbalanced training data, distribution shifts, high precision requirements, and presence of new classes, while adhering to SWaP restrictions, ultimately aiming to identify known targets of interest. Developed axioms and methods for metacognitive monitoring and control for perturbation tolerance in agent communication.
Education
Nanodegree - Data Engineering
Udacity
Emeryville, CA08.2019
Doctor of Science - Computer Science
Bowie State University
Bowie, MD12.2017
Certificate - Six Sigma Green Belt - IT Specialization
Villanova University
Villanova, PA07.2009
Skills
- Software Design
- JIRA, Allure
- Testing and Debugging
- Database Management Software
- Database Management and Programming
- Project Planning, Six Sigma, CMMI
- Agile Methodologies, Scrum, SAFe
- Oracle, MS SQL Server, Cassandra, Neo4j, MySQL
- Python, Java, COBOL, C, CUDA
- Machine Learning
- Time Series Analysis
- Neural Networks
- Deep Learning
- Test Automation
- Advanced Data Mining
Certification
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Scrum Master
- Facility Security Officer for Possessing Facilities
Timeline
Adjunct Professor
Bowie State University
08.2015 - Current
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bowie State University
06.2015 - Current
Chief Technology Officer
Select Computing, Inc.
02.2005 - Current
Nanodegree - Data Engineering
Udacity
Doctor of Science - Computer Science
Bowie State University
Certificate - Six Sigma Green Belt - IT Specialization
Villanova University
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