Nov 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• People data: data architecture, pipelines, transformation, tables, and visualization supporting HR and recruiting analytics.
• Close partnership with Analytics Platform team.

Jan 2022 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Threads realtime development and launch reporting (fun fact: we actually broke our in-memory analytics systems with higher-than-expected launch growth, and had to shift tactics)
• Instagram-wide measurement, executive dashboarding, and technology upgrades for better exploration capability

Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 · 5 yrs

• Enabled industry-leading experiments and progress by supporting the 200-person People Analytics team’s “chaos” (their word 😂) through remodeling data to ensure higher quality and lower turnaround time
• Pioneered security and compliance (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) on the previously “all access” big data tech stack, and scaled that across the company

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

• Enabled a sales strategy shift and revenue boost by improving small- and medium-business sales analytics, which, due to the volume of data, required a total overhaul for scale.
• I also won internal awards for keeping the immense data warehouse clean and speedy in my spare time.

Nov 2010 – Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Los Gatos, California

• Migrated from the local datacenter to AWS cloud, and moved to micro-batch processing to handle big data
• Led the change in our hiring strategy to identify strong cloud data engineers, since experts didn't exist yet
• Scaled MicroStrategy and Teradata beyond previous limits
• Optimized and automated executive reporting for accuracy and speed
• Built custom email segmentation tooling
• Built our first web-based query portal
• Built an automated data engineer to write pipelines for us
• Increased company data quality by building configurable data quality controls used across all data teams
• Managed common datasets

Jul 2004 – Feb 2005 · 7 mos · Columbus, Ohio

• Attended and occasionally led user group meetings
• Answered questions and gave advice about the Apple product line
• Distributed assorted propaganda

May 2004 – Apr 2005 · 11 mos · Columbus, Ohio

• Designed and built custom web applications to standardize and automate repetitive tasks for the physics department.
• For example: I built a system to map out network jacks in the new physics building.

Jan 2004 – Oct 2010 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Columbus, Ohio and Orange County, California

• Designed and built a ticketing system for task tracking and project management
• Designed and built a closed-loop email marketing system
• Tracked actual marketing ROI by linking marketing activities to opportunities and closed sales (both causal and correlational)
• Designed and did project management for a central global, localized web site directly managed by our marketing team
• Designed and did project management for sales and marketing analytics dashboards
• Trained and gathered requirements from global sales and marketing teams
• Intern and part-time during school until 2005

Jan 1997 – Jan 2001 · 4 yrs · Rocky River, Ohio, United States · On-site

• Run the school computer labs
• Develop and maintain school district, city, and chamber of commerce web sites