Jan 2020 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• The explosive growth of the digital economy is driving a profound transformation in the way data is managed and user experiences are delivered. Couchbase is disrupting the $40B database market with its data platform that revolutionizes digital innovation. Built on the most powerful NoSQL technology, the offering delivers the scale, performance and agility required by the most demanding organizations, including 40 of the Fortune 100.
• Support reps with technical validation of use cases
• Define use case, scope and success criteria of POCs
• Assist reps and marketing with pipeline building event delivery (live & online workshops, lunch n learns, etc.)
• Support POC delivery
• Coordinate discussions between engineering, product management and customers/prospects

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019 · 6 mos

• Provide leadership and guidance to account teams and delivery consultants in the technical competencies of data interation, DataOps, test automation, competitive migrations and data architecture. Develop internal business partner relationships with product engineering and other regions to collaborate on best practices and drive the constant improvement and evolution of delivery excellence. Support the development, presentation and estimation of client specific solutions to deliver tailored use cases to harness and leverage the value of their data and analytics.

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr

• Responsible for supporting the use of DevOps principles and tools across the Americas Data Foundation practice by establishing training, focus workgroups and guidelines on tools and their application. Support sales and service delivery of QA & DevOps optimization efforts to our clients in North America.
• Work with internal account teams to support and deliver pre-sale efforts related to DevOps, Test Automation, Test Planning and Strategy.
• #DataOps #DevOps

Oct 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Based on the goals of an enterprise, leading projects, teams and leveraging technologies to harness the power and value of their data. Utilizing modern data integration & metadata management tools that leverage their ability to ingest, manipulate and present data. Deliver DI Assessments to enable clients to optimize the delivery of their data pipelines.
• Playing with new things like Alation, ALEX Solutions and DiYotta along with established technologies like Teradata and Informatica PowerCenter to deliver foundational data use cases from automating impact analysis and DevOps to optimizing data discovery.
• Work with senior Teradata consulting management to develop and deliver consulting offerings across multiple industries and clients.

Apr 2016 – Oct 2016 · 6 mos

• Develop and manage PS resources dedicated to the migration of customer data platforms onto Teradata. PS resource management includes delivery teams in India and Manila.
• Oversee aspects of successful migration project delivery and setup the opportunity to sell additional data analytic related professional services including but not limited to the following:
• Statement of Work development
• Resource Planning and Allocation
• Monitor all projects in flight to make sure they are on time, delivering high quality work and within the budget
• Support sales team and other managing partners in additional sales opportunities at clients engaged in Migration efforts

Jul 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Canadian Retail Chain
• Worked with ThinkBig and Teradata teams to define Solution Architecture for a revamped customer loyalty system that would leverage the capabilities of Hadoop and Informatica PWC/BDE.• Designed and built a proof of concept set of Informatica ELT processes to take flat file delimited data through the data loading zones in Hadoop (stage, core, presentation) and then also push that data to Teradata to show how Informatica handle the performance scalability of Hadoop.
• Large High Tech Manufacturing Co.
• ETL Delivery architect for Informatica 9.6.1 PWC MSS Initial Load, MSS & Oracle CDC Real-Time processes to Teradata 15 ODS and then to a HortonWorks 2.3 Hadoop Data Lake.
• Led team of 6 onshore TD/Informatica ETL developers to gather requirements, design, build, test and deploy code into production.
• Worked with client to establish process and procedures for administering and deploying Informatica BDE/CDC/PWC in Agile SDLC model.
• Large International BigPharma
• One of the key project delivery leads with focus on ETL architect lead for the Data Intake & Hygiene(DIH) custom response data system developed as an integrated BTEQ/TPT ETL & Teradata Master Data Management solution.
• Led team of 8 onshore and offshore ETL developers to gather requirements, design, build & test the DIH components.
• Oversaw the Managed Service transition of the ETL, DBA and Business System Analysts roles to run the DIH system post implementation for Amgen on a day-to-day basis

Feb 2013 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Partner Delivery Management plays a key role in driving and managing services provided by contract, and/or partner resources:
• Overseeing vendor relationships and delivery of outsourced services.
• Supporting technology & operational support functions
• Providing and promoting framework and standards for Application Support of several large BI platforms including a 120 TB Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse
• Partnering with senior management to evaluate vendor performance, needs assessment, spend optimization and risk management by establishing and reporting on SLAs.
• Directing application support activities for existing contracts
• Working closely with internal business partners to forecast future needs and to develop cost effective strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Streamline project intake and deployment process and activities
• Driving strategy and selection of vendors.
• Managing a complex, flexible contingent onshore & offshore workforce.
• Evangelize data management key initiatives across the organization

Jun 2011 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Provide support for 2000+ independently scheduled Informatica workflows running version 9.1 into Oracle 11g staging databases and Teradata 13.1 EDW.
• Analyze scope of work, schedule and assign resources to deploy all data quality/maintenance releases related to the EDW.
• Deployed project and data quality releases composed of Informatica; Business Objects 3.1; Teradata mload, fastload & SQL scirpts; PL/SQL scripts; perl and ksh scripts into production environment.
• Led operational effort to upgrade Informatica 8.6.1 to 9.1 HF4 in production environment. This include migrating the UNIX host system, the Oracle repository and staging databases from 10g to 11g from one data center to another.
• Participate on project teams to analyze scope of effort and integration effort for components to be deployed into the EDW and Business Objects environments.
• Rotating on call support for EDW processes. Conduct root cause analysis on production job failures and determine work-around where possible, document analysis and work with development and architecture to develop a solution.

Apr 2011 – Jun 2011 · 2 mos

• Worked with marketing team to resolve outstanding or incorrect business rules and implement logic to provide additional marketing KPI values using Informatica 8.6 ETL load processes into IBM UDB database.

Dec 2009 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Designed and developed workflows and mappings using Informatica PowerCenter v. 8.6 in a UNIX Oracle 10g to transform data from a MS Dynamics CRM platform into a data mart. Supported the Informatica processes post implementation.
• Built attributes and facts in Microstrategy 8.1 to support end users ability to develop and execute reports against the data mart.

May 2009 – Sep 2009 · 4 mos

• Designed and built ETL mapping and workflows with Informatica 8.6.1, Oracle 9i and Solaris environment for SAP HR reporting interfaces to EDW for the USPS.

Jan 2007 – Dec 2011 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Financial Planner

Jul 2006 – Dec 2006 · 5 mos

• Data Warehousing - Developing ETL Systems
• Business Intelligence
• System & Data Integration
• Data Migration
• Dimension Modeling

Aug 2003 – Jun 2006 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Designed and developed numerous workflows and mappings to implement an ODS and downstream data marts using Informatica PowerCenter in a SQLServer 2005 environment.
• Wrote PL/SQL on 9i and Transact SQL scripts on Win 2000 & later 2005 to audit new system loads by doing source to target data comparisons.
• Replaced existing Oracle 9i, DTS and PL/SQL processes with PowerCenter to correct performance issues and unacceptable maintenance time and effort. Used existing PL/SQL packages as template for some of the Informatica mappings and processes.
• Led, trained and supported development team members in implementing standards, templates and architecture, including for example development of mapping templates and process control standards,
• Lead the system integration testing efforts for multiple data marts and was the liaison to QA for major defects.
• Managed the application versioning for release and deployment processes for entire project team including Informatica administration and code promotion.
• Worked with QA and System Administration groups to ensure smooth transition from development to production. This included extensive performance & tuning evaluations and solutions from time to time.
• Completed 15 life cycle releases of data warehousing ETL applications at this client.
• Architected, developed and successfully implemented the integration and conversion of legacy JH annuity data marts into Manulife’s ODS and downstream DMs.
• Completed hands on analysis of existing Informatica mappings and workflows in Solaris, Oracle 9i environment to identify performance issues contributing to slow running applications.
• Worked with systems architect to identify weaknesses in architecture contributing to expanding nightly load window

Jun 2001 – Dec 2002 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Consulted with fortune 500 financial institutions running S1's internet banking platform on data migration and management strategies. Managed development and implementation of customized functionality upgrades to existing customers instance.

Oct 2000 – Mar 2001 · 5 mos

• Chase Manhattan attempted to build a independent service offering directed toward small businesses by creating a specialized portal called BizBase. Jennifer was responsible for working with VARs that were to offer services via the portal to integrate their web based services into BizBase. She was also responsible for the collection and delivery of the business and fucntional requirements to the internal development organization and the VARs for future service offerings. She managed quality assurance for the web site and implemented Rational Analyst Studio for requirements definition and management.

Mar 1999 – Sep 2000 · 1 yr 6 mos

• • Project Manager/ lead application architect of web integration for a $25 million web start up – www.deepgreenbank.com.
• • Worked with business managers to translate business needs into functional and technical requirements. Managed vendor staffed teams of 30+ developers of interfaces between the web banking interface, real-time underwriting and core banking platform. Key player in the vendor evaluation and selection process for the solution.
• • Led team to develop web banking application architecture based on client business requirements for an NT, JAVA, Oracle and Edify Internet banking system.
• • Developed Fortune 500 client’s telecommunications technology roadmap to identify where IT spending could be consolidated and more tightly integrated across 13 subsidiaries. Consulted with International, Wireless and Billing teams specifically to analyze their existing technology and propose strategies for integration with other subsidiaries.

Aug 1998 – Feb 1999 · 6 mos

• Solutions Architect - S1 Professional Services
• • Consulted with development organization on how to improve data model for future releases and conversion path for data from release to release. Wrote custom ETL scripts in ksh and SQL to repair data problems that arose during conversion.
• • Responsible for the definition of specific business and system requirements for client running S1’s product in an HP-UX, BEA Tuxedo, Informix Online, Virtual Vault and Forte environment.
• • Evaluated the implementation process used for an e-commerce banking system by a large financial services core processor. Determined the staffing and tasks required reducing timelines and raising the effectiveness of implementations. Worked with client migrating to a new version to assess defects and change requests required for production.

Jun 1995 – Jul 1998 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• • Managed a team responsible for database administration of production environments, triage of failed production batch processes, production data repair for defect resolution and management of relationships with customers back office personnel.
• • Worked with customers to understand their needs regarding data mining from internet banking customer databases and developed ksh/SQL scripts to extract data from individual bank databases to feed their data warehouses.
• • Consulted with a banking core processor running S1’s internet banking platform. Assisted them with putting in process and procedures to resolve production runtime application issues and improve the overall production operations.
• • Worked with marketing to install Business Objects 4.0 and build initial universe based off of the data model. Created canned reports and trained users on ad hoc query features of Business Objects.

Nov 1993 – May 1995 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Duties included database and system administration of Sybase System 10 on HP-UX K class 9000 systems. Wrote UNIX and SQL scripts to support administration tasks and database release management process. Implemented a Business Objects 3.0 universe to support DSS queries on MIS client management database system.

Jan 1992 – Jan 1993 · 1 yr

• Built Informix 4GL code on HP-UX and NCR Unix for proprietary store payroll system that was implemented to entire Wal-Mart store stain.
• Wrote and used SQL/ksh scripts extensively to support testing and implementation of store payroll systems.
• Supported chain wide rollout of new payroll system.