Professional Experience

Principal Architect

Aug 2021 - Present

Google

  • Promoted to Principal Architect (Jan 2023) to lead architectural design for complex data solutions on Google Cloud for top enterprise customers.
  • Serve as a senior technical authority on Google Cloud's data and AI platforms, advising C-level executives on digital transformation and GenAI strategy.
  • Function as a SME for data engineering, influencing both customer-facing and internal engineering teams.
  • As a Senior Customer Engineer (Aug 2021 - Jan 2023), specialized in migrating legacy data warehouses to BigQuery and accelerating customer adoption of GCP.

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2021 - Aug 2021

Macy's

  • Helped to architect and lead the migration of a petabyte-scale Teradata enterprise data warehouse to Google BigQuery.
  • Designed and implemented a standardized data ingestion platform to migrate on-premise systems to GCP.
  • Revitalized a stalled data ingestion platform project, advancing its status from 'yellow' to 'green' by resolving key infrastructure gaps.

Director of Data Engineering

Sep 2019 - Feb 2021

FreightWaves

  • Managed and mentored a team of four data engineers, establishing PEP8-based code style guides and a GitHub-based workflow.
  • Architected and directed the corporate migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to enhance data security and leverage advanced data science tools.
  • Engineered scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines on GCP to support the flagship SaaS product, SONAR.

Lead Data Engineer / BI Programmer

Jan 2013 - Sep 2019

Unum Group & Colonial Life (subsidiary)

Lead Data Engineer (Feb 2017 - Sep 2019)
  • Developed a data matching engine from the ground up in Python, significantly increasing the quality of marketing leads and intelligence.
  • Initiated and led an enterprise-wide, executive-sponsored project to build a dedicated data science environment.
  • Led a digital marketing project to build a datastore in Google BigQuery for advanced reporting on lead generation performance.
Business Intelligence Programmer (Jan 2013 - Feb 2017)
  • Developed applications to administer over $2.5M+ in annual sales bonuses.
  • Initiated and built a QlikView data library of over 500 million records, reducing team's turnaround time by 50%.
  • Automated weekly sales reports with Python and SQL, achieving a 75% reduction in processing time.