Aug 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• As a part of Perficient, I lead their Data Analytics and intelligence practice for various clients providing data & intelligence strategy for building data solutions for Marketing and Analytics using cloud services and data lakes. Business needs serving master data management, data migration, analytics dashboards or gleaning data for Artificial Intelligence for Products and Solutions.
• Manage a team of off-shore and on-shore with several direct reports of contractors and FTE’s.
• Innovate and engineer product and platforms for platform partners.
• Lead and manage customer accounts from projects to P&L.
• Manage client and partner relationships for Tools, Cloud, Big Data and PaaS/IaaS
• Head practice strategy and execution for Google Cloud and Cloudera.
• Assist in Presales, RFP/RFQ/RFI efforts across US.
• Advise clients and recommend approaches to maximize monetization from virtualization.
• Guide and resolve technical architecture and strategic needs.
• Hands on Technical solution delivery for Cloud, Big data and Machine learning.
• Encourage and enable innovation and latest technologies in roadmap and implemented POCs.
• Build data intelligence, governance and strategy practice with Analytics & visualization
• Assist in Artificial intelligence, Machine learning and BOTS practice and strategy
• Report findings to executive management, socialize results, consult on tactical solutions, and future
• strategies.
• Implement and enforce Agile practices and lead transformation using Scrum and Kanban.
• Lead efforts to identify gaps in architecture and performance and resolve them.
• Resolved security gaps with use of virtualization and security management tools.
• Hire and staff teams for Product development, Big data and Data engineering

Jun 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Worked on consolidation and reduction of db footprint on premise and help move applications into open db, cloud and big data stores. Stategize and implement innovation or industry standard methods to containerize and virtualize data access for applications to reduce cost and enhance performance for high volume and critical applications.
• Architect and engineer solutions for federation of data stores, load balancing between data centers. Work with vendors and db teams to identify and evaluate products.

May 2014 – May 2016 · 2 yrs · Troy, MI

• Hanzo provides IT Solutions and resources for Technology Enterprises. Hanzo focuses on the latest technologies in IT with a strong emphasis on Database, Big data and Business Intelligence. Hanzo's solution delivery helps entrepreneurs with the guidance, assurance and the right resources to turn great ideas into profitable businesses.
• As an Oracle certified partner, Hanzo helps in Data management of Oracle & MySQL databases for SME's.
• Innovation and Technology directives for 2016 with identifying cost and performance enhancements to solutions.
• Lead technology stack and manage teams to implement Cloud control implementation for Oracle
• Lead Data retention policies and efforts.
• Head projects to launch SaaS solutions and products from end to end.
• Lead BI and Analytics implementations using Jasper, Pentaho and OBIEE.
• Manage and head client relationships and delivery.
• Prepare costing and budget for projects undertaken in lead capacity.
• Manage offshore / onshore resources and vendors for product support and delivery.
• Tools: Microsoft Office, Jira, Github, Java J2EE, JQuery, Bootstrap & Angular, Phone gap, Linux, Solaris, Aix, AWS, Cloudera, SQL Server 2008 R2, Oracle 12c, OEM 12c, BI, Oracle 11G, RAC, Data guard, RMAN, OBIEE, PostGres, Hadoop, Hive, NoSQL, Elastic Search, MongoDB, JSON, Scrum Agile, Couchbase

Oct 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Dearborn, MI

• Worked with Ford Credit and Ford Data engineering business units.
• Responsibilities included:
• Plan, design and execute multiple Hosting infrastructure & enterprise architecture analysis.
• Certified versions of Oracle software for Plant and Data center deployments.
• Manage stakeholder expectations by partnering closely with the Client PMs and Business Managers.
• Planned and approved data conversion programs and archive models.
• Lead data migration projects from multiple Oracle instances to be decommissioned into SQL Server database.
• Enable data ingestion into SQL Server with batch and stream models

Mar 2003 – Apr 2012 · 9 yrs 1 mo · Michigan

• Service and consult with clients on Data migrations, database support and data management.
• Create and produce a practice within the Fintech, Retail and HR verticals using SaaS delivery model.
• Design and execute pre-sales and delivery models for global customers.
• Implement corporate culture and service mechanisms within the global framework.
• Create a vision and strategy for organizational future and development.
• Instrumental in working reseller agreements and working with vendors.
• Architect and implement IT strategies and solutions for customers in multiple accounts.

Jun 1997 – Feb 2005 · 7 yrs 8 mos

• Manage resources and various stake holders of accounts.
• Business analysis and requirements gathering for data center.
• Worked on architecture of database design enhancements.
• Architected migration from of various Oracle and SQL Server database.
• Manage teams of production on-Call 24x7 support for more than 20 databases.
• Testing and developing Oracle 10g Software.
• Instrumental in setting up Oracle replication between US and Australia.
• Project / program management for DSS and OLTP system using MS Tools.
• Physical and logical ER data modeling.
• Tuning system on a weekly / monthly basis. Includes all levels of tuning from SQL to Database/Instance.
• Programming shell and pl/sql for DB monitoring, alerts, ETL etc.
• Determined requirements and establish procedures for backup / recovery.
• Planned and executed Disaster recovery operation tests.

Apr 1995 – May 1999 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Design and Analysis of customer requirements.
• Database construction and planning of DRA
• Creation of DB Objects and striping - Manual RAID
• Data Transfer and Import of data from distributed environment into Oracle primary database.
• Scheduling of Jobs and transfers of files.
• Customer and Client interface training.
• Tuning for Design and Deployment phase.
• Integration for Data Warehousing.