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Mark G. Ramsey

Laurel,IN

Summary

To obtain a full time position where I can utilize my technical knowledge, my strong leadership, and critical thinking skills to contribute significantly to the Information Technology team. As a seasoned Data Architect and people leader I am adept at understanding data, developing plans, and implementing enterprise-wide solutions. Complex problem-solver with an innovative approach. Ready to bring several years of progressive experience and take on a challenging new role with growth potential.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Data Engineer, Lead Quality Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton, BAH
07.2023 - Current
  • Developed and maintained data pipelines to ingest and store large volumes of data from multiple sources.
  • Led development projects from conception through deployment while managing resources effectively.
  • Implemented automated testing frameworks for validating accuracy of datasets prior to loading them into production environment.
  • Collaborated with customers to understand their requirements and develop data products that met those requirements on time.
  • Defined metrics, monitored performance, and identified areas of improvement in data engineering tasks as well as working with the visualization team to display those metrics in daily reports and dashboards.
  • Designed and implemented a data quality framework, in conjunction with other data engineers, that brought our number of customer facing data quality bugs down by over half in the period of six months.

Data Architect, IT Manager

Indiana University Health
01.2019 - 07.2023
  • Managed the Data Acquisition team, composed of five data engineers and two contractors.
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained new source mart loads into Azure SQL Data Warehouse utilizing IICS, PowerShell, Databricks, and Azure Data Factory.
  • Ensured all components of the data pipeline were properly source controlled
  • Designed and built CI/CD pipelines for the data pipeline that would automatically build and publish code updates once reviewed and approved
  • Worked directly with data requesters and vendors to build-out requirements on how to ingest new sources into the data warehouse
  • Metrics included were refresh SLAs, data quality testing and failure notifications
  • Managed Azure Data Lake Gen2 blob storage as ingestion location for data files from IICS cloud
  • Worked closely with other team members to design and implement a post-mortem review process for failures
  • Worked in an agile development environment
  • Assisted in developing a roadmap for data migration from legacy systems to new systems.
  • Evaluated existing databases for potential optimization opportunities.
  • Created conceptual and logical data models using Entity Relationship modeling techniques.

Database Developer

Lids Sports Group
04.2017 - 12.2018
  • Used knowledge of TSQL to write complex queries to manipulate, clean and process large amounts of sales data to meet business requirements
  • Maintained and upgraded SSIS projects which clean, process and load nightly sales data in such a manner to make recovering from job failures fast, efficient and with no data loss or duplication
  • Setup and maintained database alerts to alerts developers when critical jobs have failed
  • Used knowledge of GIT to make sure that all applicable code was properly stored in a versioned controlled environment
  • Designed and implemented relational databases following business needs and design best practices
  • Administered SQL Server instance including setting up standardized maintenance plans, creating and modifying logins and troubleshooting issues as they arose
  • Worked closely with my team and the business to clarify expectations, set deadlines and ensure deployments were executed with minimal user impact

Systems Analyst / Application Developer

Nyhart Actuary
05.2012 - 04.2017
  • Used extensive knowledge of C#, ASP.NET, TSQL and other relevant technologies to meet quality and time deadlines
  • Responsible for data transformation and reporting utilizing SSIS/SSRS
  • Experience developing web services in C#/ASP.NET
  • Worked on all levels of the application including backend, middle-tier and front-end
  • Design and development of custom web portals utilizing ASP.NET web-forms and MVC
  • Worked in a close team environment as well as individually to meet project deadlines
  • Continually updated my knowledge of current technologies relevant to my responsibilities to create a better user experience
  • Worked closely with clients to ensure that the products produced met all functionality and design expectations
  • Worked closely with business unit leaders to gather business requirements and transform those requirements into functional software to better serve the needs of the business
  • SQL server administration and programming including creating and monitoring backups and alerts as well as writing complex queries, stored procedures, and functions

Education

Bachelor of Science - Informatics (Computer Science), Cyber Security

Indiana University, School of Informatics & Computing
Bloomington, IN
05.2012

Skills

  • Cloud Architecture
  • Databricks development
  • Delta Lake
  • ETL development
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Data warehousing expertise
  • Quality analysis
  • SSIS
  • GIT
  • Azure DevOps

Notable Project Experience

  • SSIS package development and maintenance (Lids), worked in a close team as well as an individual environment, and with stakeholders to design, build, and deploy enterprise-sized SSIS packages to meet the needs of the business
  • SQL Server Administration (Lids), 04/15, 12/18, worked with the other DBAs to create an on-call schedule to monitor databases, set up user access accounts, monitor database size, and react to and fix job failures as they happen
  • Macy’s File Processing Project (Lids), 04/15, 12/18, worked with members of the finance department and members of the IT department on a large project to ingest Macy’s sales files into our system for inventory tracking and sales datath business team leads to report on the current status of the project, present current deliverables, and discuss and set timelines for product deliverables.
  • Data Pipeline Upgrade (IU Health), 01/19, Current, created an architectural plan to upgrade our current data pipeline with new ingestion and orchestration platformssive testing of Azure Data Factory functionality and Airflow for ingestion and pipeline orchestration. Wrote technology proposal and selection documentation to present to leadership.
  • Azure Databricks / Spark development (IU Health), Worked with the team to perform code changes to the PySpark library which currently performs all ETL within our current data pipeline. Set up regular training sessions with team members to explore, learn, and document our Databricks ETL load process
  • Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline creation (IU Health), Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines to manage the build and release of code changes to the data pipeline in Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines were created to trigger on pull requests completion post code review and approval.
  • Data quality framework (Booz Allen Hamilton), Created a quality framework to identify when key metrics for certain data products are not being met and alert the team through dashboards and notifications that action is needed. Also worked with the visualization team to create a quality scorecard dashboard for all data products that went to leadership and customers.

Timeline

Lead Data Engineer, Lead Quality Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton, BAH
07.2023 - Current

Data Architect, IT Manager

Indiana University Health
01.2019 - 07.2023

Database Developer

Lids Sports Group
04.2017 - 12.2018

Systems Analyst / Application Developer

Nyhart Actuary
05.2012 - 04.2017

Bachelor of Science - Informatics (Computer Science), Cyber Security

Indiana University, School of Informatics & Computing
Mark G. Ramsey