Resume

2022-04 - 2025-06

General Mills, Remote
Data Engineer

2019-12 - 2021-04

GSN Games, San Francisco, CA
Data Engineer

Developed Airflow batch jobs on a Vertica data warehouse to process and support game studio data for centralized business kpi usage.
App Annie bulk data integration.
Kochava reporting query API development, maintenance, and alerts.

2017-07 - 2019-07

Collective Health, San Francisco, CA
Data Engineer

Built a prototype health benefit enrollment billing job with extensive handholding from the PM and finance.
Making ORC and Parquet files for an S3/Hive/Presto/Looker stack which was consumed by roughly 80% of 500 people. Main consumers were analytics, operations, and finance departments.

2013-10 - 2017-03

BSSP (Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners), Sausalito, CA
Data Scientist

Developed and maintained data pipelines for full service marketing engagements with Python / MySQL / HDFS / S3 / Hive / Drill / Spark on collocation and AWS EMR.
DoubleClick, DataXu, CrimsonHexagon, MediaOcean API, integrations.
Developed cost calculations for fine grain/high dimensional marketing channel analysis.
Developed and maintained analytics dashboards with PeriscopeData, Jupyter and Zeppelin dashboards (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, plotly, ...).
Analyzed campaigns for funnel and creative optimizations.
Developed sales and activity forecasts using Bayesian GLMs, Decision Trees, and Keras LSTMs.
Analyzed experimental tests to determine best programmatic vendors, television spots, web banners, newspaper inserts, etc...

2010-10 - 2013-05

Sensor Analytics, San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer

Developer for an NSF SBIR funded startup to develop semiconductor manufacturing inspection sampling automation software.
Developed a Java EE / c++ / MATLAB based application to tie together a complex event processing system, integrated MATLAB analytics.
Integrated MongoDB for faster analytics to support fast Bayesian inference.

2008-08 - 2010-08

Loyalty Lab, San Francisco, CA
Operations Engineer

Designed and implemented custom client requirements on a professional services basis in SQL/Python.
Wrote custom SQL/Python data fixes for production databases due to client mistakes and software bugs.
Supported REST and legacy SOAP APIs for new clients.
Assisting account management with research, reporting, application troubleshooting using MS SQL on a multi-tier MS .Net platform. I advocate Linux.
Provided general application level operational support/getting paged 300 times a night for days on end and fixing bugs and issues in near real time to meet multimillion dollar SLAs.
Created and maintained inbound and outbound data integration projects utilizing custom XML, XSLT, Python scripting.

2006-06 - 2008-04

Advent Software, San Francisco, CA
Custom Reports Engineer

Produced customized financial reports for investment managers on APX SQL based portfolio accounting platforms on a professional services basis.
Consulted with the clients to develop technical and functional specifications, bidding the project, coding and testing the report scripts, and working with the client to debug and maintain the final product.

2004-03 - 2006-06

Systat Software, San Jose, CA
Technical Coordinator

Cold/warm/hot calling PhD level scientists by the thousands to talk aboutvstatistical software and sell software products that came in boxes.
Provided product training, seminars, and demonstrations to current and prospective customers.
Conducted customer surveys to guide new software development.
Managed Google AdWords and Yahoo Overture search engine marketing campaigns.
Managed Salesforce and Goldmine SQL based sales databases.
Produce Flash product demonstrations for website.
Managed trade shows to promote the company and it's products.
Managed CD/manual/box production back when software was transported by FedEx.

2002-06 - 2004-01

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Department of Physics, Graduate Research Assistant

Assisted in design and construction of a laser isotope separation plant for Mercury extraction with the goal of demonstrating financial feasibility for the production of more efficient fluorescent lamps. The actual research motivation was for a defunded EPR experiment.
Developed C++ and LabView based applications to control the system of valves, pumps, lasers, uv lamps, and heating tapes with feedback from numerous pressure, temperature, and optical sensors.