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Ruben Alvarez

Houston

Summary

A highly skilled team player with expertise and data domain knowledge to add new value by defining, building, and supporting BigData & data science in analyzing business operations to guide strategic decision making. I always been passionate about solving business challenges with a data-driven approach.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Data Ops Analyst/Eng

Teladoc Health
09.2022 - Current
  • Set up SFTP connections for seamless file transfers to S3 and Box.
  • Implemented the ingestion of a diverse range of medical data feeds through our ETL system.
  • Creating a cloud-native Big Data Analytics pipeline, I specialize in the following:
  • Utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision Azure and Databricks resources across diverse environments.
  • Implementing CI/CD pipelines with expertise in GitHub Actions and Jenkins
  • Developing ETL pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Databricks with PySpark, and MySQL.
  • Utilized FastAPI to develop efficient and high-performance APIs for file monitoring, queuing, and tracking.

Data Analyst

Energy Transfer
11.2019 - 09.2022
  • Build automated reports to aid in decisions and planning for management team, including metrics that support dashboards, scorecards, and organizational planning models and analysis.
  • Standardized ETL processes and tools to automate data extraction from different source systems. (SQL, Web, SharePoint, Access, Flat Files)
  • Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize business processes, identify areas for cost savings, and other business outcomes.
  • Perform activities to address data validation, data mining, data cleansings, data harmonization, business logic, exception handling, and required data indication.
  • Provide insights, stays at the leading edge of emergent trends and technologies and advises management team on the introduction of new Data technologies.
  • Work with various business areas to gather requirements, identify process improvements, and implement solutions using Nintex Workflow and Forms.

Accounting Analyst

Codilis & Moody, P.C.
05.2017 - 11.2019
  • Build data models and dashboards to analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements; billing, collections and A/R.
  • Provide data collection and reporting assistance during internal and external audits.
  • Research and analyze client contracts, update billing system with client specific requirements, and work with other departments to ensure that the firm is in full adherence to client/investors guidelines.
  • Prepare and analyze daily reports of invoice status; denied, check confirmed, adjustment, short paid, or not submitted.
  • Monitor AR aging and analyze payment performance.
  • Prepare monthly detailed analysis on billed revenues for the month, including invoice vs. accrual analysis.
  • Generate and modify queries to measure the completed work and project the estimated revenues.

Billing Specialist

Codilis & Moody, P.C.
02.2017 - 05.2017
  • Reviewed and confirmed all expected client invoices to be billed.
  • Created accurate and efficient billing invoices.
  • Resolved and/or communicated all billing invoice exceptions with intention to resolve for all clients.
  • Gained and retained working knowledge of all client requirements as it relates to billing and ensured the requirements were met.
  • Managed and reconciled pre-billed processes for clients with the controller.
  • Effectively communicated and followed up with the controller to increase optimal solution regarding client billing.

Education

Accounting

University of Houston-Downtown
01.2022

Associate's degree - Accounting

Lone Star College

Skills

  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Databricks
  • Infrastructure as code (IaC)
  • Jenkins
  • Github actions
  • Analytical Skills
  • Team Building
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Power BI

Certification

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate

Timeline

Data Ops Analyst/Eng

Teladoc Health
09.2022 - Current

Data Analyst

Energy Transfer
11.2019 - 09.2022

Accounting Analyst

Codilis & Moody, P.C.
05.2017 - 11.2019

Billing Specialist

Codilis & Moody, P.C.
02.2017 - 05.2017

Associate's degree - Accounting

Lone Star College

Accounting

University of Houston-Downtown
Ruben Alvarez