Architecting, building and supporting complete cloud, data and AI solutions and providing knowledge leadership in Azure, AWS, Databricks and Snowflake.

Developed flexible, highly-configurable ingestion and data processing pipelines that moved data from a variety of on-premise and cloud-based data sources in diverse data formats, transforming it along the way into a downstream presentation layer useful for business analytics and reporting. The product was built using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ADLS, Azure SQL, serverless functions with judicious use of Microsoft's AI services for specific business domain purposes.

Led a team tasked with implementing and integrating new data sources into a Hadoop-based data lake hosted in Azure. The data sources feeding this lake include the company’s MDM system, accounting system, and a wealth of ancillary sources of financial and portfolio information in a variety of formats, such as CSV, JSON, RDBMS and XML.

Responsibilities include designing scalable, resilient processes for data ingestion and end-to-end transformation using a broad spectrum of technologies including Hive, Spark, HBase, Apache NiFi, Python, Java, Sqoop, Oozie and others as well as daily hands-on development across the entire technology stack; mentoring and client interfacing.

Other tasks include global responsibility for refactoring legacy data lake-related processes and remediating performance bottlenecks.

Managed the development of metadata acquisition for a cutting-edge media consumption startup (product name: Buzzangle Music) offering analytics for the global music industry, including album and song sales, audio and video streams, and airplay.

Co-architected and managed the development and roll-out of the latest version of metadata processing software using the Hortonworks suite of big data tools (Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Oozie, Spark, Sqoop) and ancillary technologies (such as Solr) developed in Java and Perl. The previous version of the platform used traditional database and software development technologies (MySQL and Perl).

• Managed and mentored the applications development team with an emphasis on C#, SharePoint, Java, SQL Server design, Oracle, web services, and performance tuning.

• Participated in an international committee governing software engineering initiatives for the entire company.

• Worked with IT business analysts and business users to gather requirements and estimate project scope for application development tasks.

• Managed SharePoint projects involving data migration from companies acquired by Technip.

• Worked with external vendors to define the scope and budget of regional applications and infrastructure projects.

• Organized regular internal training sessions for application developers.

• Managed major web application upgrade project to improve performance and scaling of internal software applications.

• Coordinated SharePoint 2007 and 2010 Intranet farm rollouts for the North America region.

• Developed several Microsoft .NET/Silverlight applications used by hundreds of Technip employees. Used WCF, XML, LINQ, PowerShell, SQL Server stored procedures.

• Developed version control and continuous integration for Java applications employing Apache Continuum, Artifactory and Subversion.

• Presented lecture series to the Applications Development group on a variety of technical

subjects.