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Sr. Data Architect / Director of Data Engineering
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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SUMMARY
Data Architect, Solution Architect, Big Data, Data Warehousing, Business Analytics, and Directing Data teams in a wide
variety of business critical applications. Particularly interested in opportunities that will drive analytical solutions to
business problems. Always interested in new or existing projects, as well as close interaction with the Business users in
solving problems and creating solutions. Designing and creating the environment to handle business critical applications
is a key aspect of my background.
Specialties: a) Creating Business Intelligence Solutions using all company data, b) data warehouse planning and
execution to drive analytics and intelligence to the business, c) business requirements gathering and creating data driven
business solutions, d) Business Intelligence delivery using various BI tools and the ability to communicate with business
users at all levels to deliver high quality results.
WORK EXPERIENCE
March 2021-Current
Sr. Data Architect / Director of Data Engineering
arganoKeste
Plano, Texas, United States
Duties include day to day management activities with new or existing customers.
Tasks include: Customer presentations which include technical architecture walkthroughs of new or current projects.
Consulting implementations using various data techniques to move data from external data sources to internal databases
or data lakes. Consulting implementations of new or existing data warehouses
Manage large projects, from customer facing requirements to final successful implementation of data driven projects
and business intelligence analytics platforms
Projects included taking data from raw input sources like S3, Blob, Sage, Salesforce, Workday, Excel, IOT and using
tools like Glue, Python, Workato, Fivetran, Data Factory to building centralized data warehouses using Redshift, PostGres,
AzureDB, Snowflake, MySQL, SQLServer and making the data available for business intelligence using BI tools using
Tableau, PowerBI, Quicksight
Built the teams to make the projects successful from beginning to end
Designed the eco-systems for each project and participated in each part of the implementation process as well as
working with each customer on requirements and final satisfaction of job completions
Implemented Data Governance across our enterprise which allowed the company to establish a single version of the
data truth and cut costs in hardware and software.
Implemented Erwin Data Modeler which is being used for each customer's data warehouse environment. This
modeling tool creates the data flow from the data sources, the database base layer design for the ETL process load and
the database semantic layer design used by the BI tools
Working knowledge of various data models, including Retail, Airline, Insurance (Property and Casualty), Film Industry,
Utilities (Oil & Gas), Finance (Trading), Restoration
March 2020-March 2021
Solutions Architect
Starburst Data
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Duties included day to day customer activities to acquire new Starburst customers.
Tasks included: Pre-Sale and Post-Sale POC, POV, customer presentations and hands on demos which include
technical architecture walkthroughs on how the technology can help bring together various data sources into a single
query using databases Snowflake, Teradata, MySQL, PostGres, Redshift, SQLServer, MongoDB and using various BI tools,
such Tableau and PowerBI to help depict business intelligence.
The engagements with all new customers helped in Revenue growth for a new company.
January 2008-March 2020
Senior Solutions Engineer
Teradata Corporation
Dallas, Texas, United States
Rancho Bernardo, CA
Duties included day to day Pre-Sale and Post-Sale customer activities with many Teradata customers.
Worked with and Managed teams in migrating from on-prem Teradata databases to cloud centric environments
Tasks included: working with customers to build the ecosystem to drive business intelligence thru their data, customer
presentations both technical and business demonstrating technology helping drive business using on-prem and all cloud
architecture
Involved heavily in analyzing business requirements to create specific analytics to drive business revenue thru use of
each customers data
Involved in implementing solutions that generated the business intelligence each customer needed by using the
Teradata database and surrounding BI tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, and QLIK
The consulting, pre and post sale activities, established major customer revenue wins. This included several large
Wireless companies, several large Airlines, several large Utility companies, several large Retailers, and several large
Movie Studios.
Received Consulting Excellence and Innovation Awards 3 years in a row
January 2007-January 2008
Chief Systems Officer
Ocean Tomo LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
In charge of all systems in the company. Involved in Program Management & Project Management, Data Warehousing
& Decision Support Systems, Systems Operations Management, Package Selection, Implementation and Integration,
Contracting, Product Development & Management, and Requirements Definition & Analysis.
Implementing a whole new data center environment cut costs which allowed the company to grow the bottom line
January 2005-January 2007
Senior Solutions Architect
NCR Teradata Corporation
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Duties include large system designs, implementation designs, and management of large scale project development for
various corporations. This included implementing the Teradata database, putting together the ETL using tools like
Informatica, designing and loading the database, and accessing thru various BI tools like Tableau. Also, involved in
business process engineering with major corporate entities. Last worked with a large Healthcare provider on several new
applications that used the large Teradata database already implemented.
Involved heavily in the model design both from updating it to adding entities based on the business user inputs.
Successfully created ongoing Capacity
Plans which drove business for this customer and Teradata for the next 3 years.
January 2003-January 2005
Member / Chief Operations Officer
Van Buren Advisors LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Designed and managed all daily operations for a startup Trading Company. Duties included computer systems
operations, all backend trading execution processing, all business correspondence with prime brokers and investors, and
all accounting operations.
Established a new trading operational environment which allowed the traders to use software to identify good and bad
trades. This allowed the business to grow while keeping costs to a minimum.
January 2001-January 2003
Technical Director
UBS O'Connor
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Project Manager of 2 trading desks (Statistical Arbitrage and Special Situations).
Designed and managed development of Order Management Historical Database (all Electronic Orders made by
UBSO). Designed and Managed Development a comprehensive financial analysis tool targeted at (but not limited to)
facilitating the trading process. Managed the O'Connor Research Analysis environment in which constant analytics were
being created and maintained to support the trading floor on day-to-day decision-making strategies.
Established a new trading desk data environment which allowed the traders to act faster
on their minute by minute trades. This expanded the revenue and grew the business.
January 1999-January 2001
Technical Director
Equifax
Lombard, Illinois, United States
Designed, Developed and managed a large data warehouse database that contained time series data for all US
consumers for 24 months using the Teradata database.
Developed and conducted technical requirements for a large retail customer. These technical requirements were used
in the proposal to win the business from this customer.
January 1993-January 1999
Senior Data Warehouse Consultant
NCR Corporation
Dayton, Ohio, United States
As a Senior Consultant, involved in various systems designs, implementations, and developments. Also, participated
heavily in customer presentations that included system architecture topics.
Accomplishments included: Designing and implementing a large data warehouse and network strategy to incorporate
Teradata Database at a large insurance company, designed and developed a large data warehouse for a major retailer,
designed and managed a large data warehouse for a major drug store chain, designed and managed a large data
warehouse at a major phone company.
January 1990-January 1993
Consultant/Owner
Altman Manufacturing, American Drug Stores, Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Illinois
Owned and operated Application Programming Inc., a consulting firm specializing in computer consulting, training, and
programming various computer systems. Assignments included, Altman Manufacturing, American Drug Stores, Baxter
Healthcare Corporation, Lehman Equipment Sales, Marketing Productions Inc., Packaging Systems Inc., and Sears.
Application involvement included Point of Sale systems, Accounts Receivable systems, Sales/Account Contact systems,
Human Resource systems, Order Entry systems, and setting up numerous small office networks.
January 1989-January 1990
Associate Consultant
D.H.S. & Associates
United States
Des Plains, Illinois
Associate consultant working on various computer programming and training assignments. Assignments included
work for Allstate Insurance and American Drug Stores. Applications involvement included Umbrella Coverage system,
Point of Sale system.
EDUCATION
-Current
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Elmhurst College
Elmhurst, Illinois, United States
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL
Computer Science
SKILLS
Network Operations Center Data Warehousing Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL) Informatica
MongoDB NCR Teradata MySQL PostgreSQL Tableau erwin Data Modeler
Requirements Management Amazon Web Services (AWS) Salesforce.com Software Engineering
Computer Programming Python Programming/Scripting Language Wireless Communications
Project Development Decision Support Retail Sales Business Intelligence Ecosystems Marketing
Trading/Stockbroking Analysis Skills Financial Analysis Project/Program Management Credit Reports
Accounts Receivable Process Engineering Operations Accounting Order Processing
Order Management Healthcare Coaching DataArchitect Data Modeling Tool Sales Presentation
Technical Presentation Consulting Customer Relations Business Intelligence Software
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Data Entry Snowflake Schema Microsoft SQL Server Power BI
Team Lead/Manager Data Modeling Tools Database Design Pre-Sales Post-Sales
Product Demonstration Revenue Growth Team Player Cloud Computing Cloud Architecture
Revenue Analysis Customer/Client Research Business Analysis Qlik System Operations
Product Development Operations Management Systems Administration/Management Product Management
Business Processes Capacity Management Healthcare Providers Business Plan Computer Systems
Computer Operations Brokerage Startup Business Growth Database Programming Data Management
Insurance System Architecture Point of Sale (POS) Systems HRIS/HRMS Training Program
Drug Manufacturing Property and Casualty Insurance Oil and Gas Data Modeling Film Finance
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Data Warehouse Professional
Certified Teradata Professional
Certified AWS Professional
HONORS & AWARDS
Received Consulting Excellence and Innovation Awards 3 years in a row
Playing Sports: Golf, Soccer, Basketball, Biking, Fishing, Martial Arts
Coaching Soccer Club, Coaching Basketball Club
LANGUAGES
English - Fluent Greek - Intermediate
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