Mar 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Led enterprise technology strategy and cloud modernization across a large healthcare organization, influencing executive decision-making on architecture, cost optimization, and risk.
• Established Technology Centers of Excellence to define architectural standards, engineering best practices, and cost and performance optimization guidance for enterprise teams.
• Partnered with executive leadership on technology decisions, workload placement strategy, and risk mitigation.
• Mentored directors and solution architects on cloud cost optimization initiatives that generated approximately $3M in savings.
• Directed enterprise technology benchmarking and governance, shaping recommendations on preferred, acceptable, and emerging technologies.
• Delivered rapid cloud migration proofs of concept in 4–6 weeks to validate business value and support investment decisions.
• Built development and succession plans for technical leads, senior managers, and directors across the team

Aug 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Led global data engineering, data science, analytics, and reporting teams to deliver advanced analytics solutions across a complex healthcare environment.
• Directed global teams across the US, Ireland, and India to deliver advanced analytics solutions across multiple lines of business.
• Delivered analytics and reporting initiatives focused on improving member health, analyzing risk scores, and enabling early diagnosis.
• Mentored teams on architecture, algorithms, and code quality, improving delivery efficiency by 45%.
• Partnered with business, infrastructure, and finance teams to identify opportunities for legacy modernization, decommissioning, and implementation roadmaps.
• Conducted technical workshops and developed implementation playbooks to improve execution consistency across teams.
• Oversaw budget planning, staffing, vendor selection, and contract management.

Feb 2016 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Led big data architecture and advanced analytics initiatives to support near real-time data platforms and insight generation across multiple lines of business.
• Provided vision and direction for a robust, flexible, and scalable big data architecture to drive value across multiple lines of business.
• Directed multiple teams across design, development, and testing of near real-time data systems to capture, cleanse, store, and process data in Hadoop.
• Built data foundations to support data mining, behavioral segmentation, predictive modeling, insight extraction, and data visualization.
• Developed metrics and KPIs to promote data-driven decision-making for Provider Verification processes and support strategic and tactical planning.
• Mentored managers and analysts on advanced analytics, insight delivery, and the business impact of data-driven recommendations.

Feb 2015 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Led big data and analytics initiatives to improve visibility into claims, provider, and member behavior across the healthcare ecosystem.
• Developed strategies and methodologies to better visualize claims, provider, and member behaviors.
• Managed a team of developers to integrate data from multiple traditional relational databases into Hadoop, creating an integrated data lake.
• Developed automated processes to produce analytic reports refreshed on a weekly basis.
• Implemented Agile Scrum methodology to improve development execution and team delivery.

Apr 2014 – Feb 2015 · 10 mos

• Architected data ingestion, transformation, and reporting processes to load data from multiple databases into a self-service Hadoop platform.
• Provided consultation and analytics support to multiple teams adopting Big Data technologies.
• Created visually compelling and actionable interactive reports and dashboards using Tableau.

Jun 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Conceived and led multiple projects involving innovative, enterprise-wide analytics for Fortune 500 clients.
• Extracted social media data to perform opinion and sentiment analysis using text-mining algorithms.
• Loaded and transformed large volumes of structured and semi-structured data using Sqoop, Hive, and Pig.

Mar 2007 – May 2011 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Co-founded a company focused on website development, graphic design, and customized T-shirt design services.
• Developed multiple websites for small and medium-sized businesses.
• Built early hands-on experience in client delivery, design, and entrepreneurship.