Veteran Senior Data Engineer experienced at leading data engineering teams. Ready to serve as leader and subject matter expert in all areas touching data maintenance, processing, and management. Trusted provider of humanistic management policies expanding data analytics performance.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
2
2
Languages
Work History
Senior Data Engineer
ConstructConnect
07.2021 - Current
Worked on large company initiatives to modernize enterprise data
Built several pipelines to load data from on-prem sources to a cloud-based data lake, using BigQuery, Data Fusion and Cloud Composer / Airflow.
Built pipelines from on-prem to Elasticsearch, using GitLab CI/CD Pipelines and Logstash.
Built several pipelines to curate and transform data from a data lake to a data warehouse, using DBT Fishtown
Worked in a highly Agile manner to deliver high quality and highly visible data products
Delivered greenfield projects with GCP tools and GitLab
Senior Lead Professional Software Engineer
Corelogic
03.2014 - 07.2021
Data Engineering Technical Project Manager for Big Data / Cloud Projects with AWS, HAWQ, Postgres, HIVE and Greenplum.
Lead programmer for major Business Intelligence projects
Coordinated closely with BI team and internal customers to develop Business Intelligence initiatives, ensuring that their needs and requirements were not only met but surpassed
Led, designed and championed major Data Warehouse innovations
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Coded, maintained and administered a complex ETL
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Analysis Services cube (SSAS)
Coded, maintained and administered T-SQL based ETL components
Coded Informatica ETLs, including Workflows and Mappings.
Business Intelligence Developer
Marshall & Swift/Boeckh
07.2012 - 03.2014
Lead programmer for major Business Intelligence projects
Coordinated closely with BI team and internal customers to develop Business Intelligence initiatives, ensuring that their needs and requirements were not only accommodated but surpassed
Designed and championed major Data Warehouse innovation
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Coded, maintained and administered complex ETLs
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Analysis Services cube (SSAS)
Coded, maintained and administered T-SQL based ETL components
Coded Informatica ETLs, including Workflows and Mappings.
Senior Systems Analyst
Children’s Hospital and Health Systems
09.2008 - 01.2012
Lead programmer for major Business Intelligence projects
Coordinated closely with BI team and internal customers to develop Business Intelligence initiatives, ensuring that their needs and requirements were not only accommodated but surpassed
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Coded, maintained and administered a complex ETL
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Analysis Services cube (SSAS).
Programmer / Analyst
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
07.2007 - 09.2008
Led a Business Intelligence Project to success, without having prior experience with Microsoft BI tools
Exceeded management’s expectations by quickly learning and implementing a data warehouse using SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SQL Server 2005 stored procedures, VBScript and VB .NET
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Coded, maintained and administered a complex ETL
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Reporting Services
Coded, maintained and administered SQL Server Analysis Services cube
Coordinated with multiple departments to gather complex business requirements
Mentored newer programmers and directed temporary contractors for project work.
Senior Software Engineer
RedPrairie (formerly McHugh Software Int’l)
10.2002 - 07.2007
As project lead, delivered high quality consultation, software solutions and support for Georgia Pacific, one of Wisconsin’s largest companies
Applauded for increasing warehouse efficiencies and saving the client money
Recognized by leadership for excellent project performance and converting struggling accounts into “referenceable” clients
Supported numerous other clients with consultation, software development and delivery, using PL/SQL, SQL Server, Unix Shell Scripting, Perl, C/C++, Uniface, Visual Basic, some VB.NET and Structured Query Report Writer (SQR)
Trained and familiarized IT and warehouse workers with new software and equipment
Discussed operations and software solutions with decision makers of large companies
Estimated software projects
Led teams of engineers on many projects
Mentored newer engineers.
Software Engineer
RedPrairie (formerly McHugh Software Int’l)
03.2000 - 10.2002
Managed and consulted clients
Recognized by leadership for above average performance
Developed GUI and Radio Frequency Terminal software for warehouse management systems
Provided troubleshooting for complex issues
Used SQL tuning skills to improve one of our client’s systems and helped turn them into a “referenceable” client
Innovated client’s warehouse operations to save them a considerable amount of money.
Product Development Intern
McHugh Software Int’l
08.1999 - 03.2000
Trained on complex warehousing software and repaired software defects
Was an important member of the Q&A team to prepare a new release of warehouse ERP
Scored high marks for problem solving and teamwork
Gained experience with new software development.
IT Intern
Migros Bank
03.1997 - 01.1998
Supported IT with day-to-day systems
Worked with the Accounts Department to process new customer applicants and respond to customers’ email
The working environment was only conducted in German.
Education
Associate’s Degree - Computer Programming and Systems Analysis
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, WI
09.1997 - 05.1999
Bachelor’s Degree - Letters and Science – German and Int’l Business