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Wren Davidson

Co-Founder

Boston, MA, USA10 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in data engineering and big data warehousing.
  • Proven leadership in technical direction and team management.
  • Successful integration of complex healthcare data systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineer specializing in Healthcare data systems and big data solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipTechnical DirectionData Build Tool (dbt)Data ModelingEtl

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAffinity DiagrammingAgile EnvironmentAirflowAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalysisApache SparkBusiness CasingBusiness PerspectiveCSSChoice ArchitectureCoachingCommunity OutreachContextual InquiryContextual Interviews

About

As an accomplished Data Engineer, I specialize in big data warehousing: mapping, analyzing, and efficiently transforming data from source to downstream consumers. My approach integrates human and business needs through interconnected information systems: databases, project management software, workflow management software, schedulers, and more. Solutions address systemic issues while fostering positive and enduring impacts within organizations.

Experience

10 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Chickadee tales, llc

Co-Founder

Oct 2023Nov 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

  • Moved to the Netherlands for 1.75 years on entrepreneurship visa via a tabletop roleplaying game. I pre-planned to return to Data Engineering in a year.
  • Successfully led Kickstarter campaign for funds and early player base
  • Launched user-friendly and attractive online version, as well as professional, print-ready PDF
  • Backend and limited frontend Wordpress programming, including bidirectionally interrelated custom post types (Pods and BetterDocs plugins)
  • Established Woocommerce shop, opened business bank accounts, linked to primary payment vendors including Amazon, Google, and Paypal
  • Hired and managed 3 contractors (illustrator, editor, and game consultant) to evolve game aesthetics and mechanics
  • Wrote scenarios, vignettes, and short comic series based on co-founder's world building
LeadershipTechnical DirectionEnglishProblem Solving

Agilon health

2 roles

Principal Data Engineer

Jun 2023Oct 2023 · 4 mos

  • Served as Technical Lead for integrating PARTNER sources (Electronic Health Records directly from agilon-affiliated practices) into Membership and consulted with Claims team
  • Cooperated with leadership and stakeholders, from pre-planning onwards, to write and prioritize engineering stories
  • Led development team in consuming data from numerous EHRs and dealing with complexities of conflicting information from established PAYOR/Insurance sources, delivering into production env
  • Introduced dbt as a transformation tool to improve build testing (for Data Quality team), simplify code from procedure wrappings, and bulk process more efficiently, serving as SME across agilon
LeadershipCoachingTechnical DirectionData ModelsAgile EnvironmentScrum+10

Lead Data Engineer

Jul 2021Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Acclimated brand new cloud team to Snowflake, from agilon veterans' prior experiences with SQL Server
  • Established agile methodology and ceremonies, best contributions to team culture through Retrospectives
  • Designed and implemented inline mastering of agilon patients, creating unique IDs per data source and PII to match and assign internal PATIENT_IDs
  • Architected schemas separating purposes/levels of landing data, standardizing it, enriching it, presenting to downstream users
  • Co-implemented unit testing framework for the procedure-based data pipeline
  • Designed evolving database framework for multiple databases and co-implemented our CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins and flywaydb
  • Led teams developing code of new PAYOR/Insurer Membership, Funding, and Claims pipelines
  • Principal peer reviewer for our department, using opportunities to demonstrate best practices kindly and encourage others to participate in reviews
LeadershipCoachingTechnical DirectionData ModelsAgile EnvironmentScrum+10

Unitedhealth group

Data Engineer

Nov 2016Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Ensure quality control and deidentification for monthly datasets of healthcare provider and claims data.
  • Automate testing for Hadoop and Oracle SQL datasets, primarily using SQL, Python, BASH, and Spark (Scala and Pyspark).
  • Create new business processes, including for SOC2 audits (see projects section of LinkedIn).
  • Also routinely utilize regular expressions, the JIRA API, Zeppelin, and some Elasticsearch & WebAnno.
  • (Formerly IT Data Analytics Analyst and Associate Data Engineer)
CoachingTerraformTechnical DirectionData ModelsAgile EnvironmentAWS Lambda+8

Liquidgoldconcept, llc

Consultant

Sep 2015Feb 2016 · 5 mos · Greater Boston

  • Consulted for startup on organizational strategies, product development, alternative revenue models, information processes, and team management.
  • Primary deliverables included organizational analysis based on executive employee interviews, site and user flowcharts, and financial projection changes

Meditech

Applications Specialist

Nov 2014Nov 2016 · 2 yrs · Framingham, MA

  • I immerse myself in SQL databases every day and assist hospitals across the country to identify and deliver data for financial and patient metrics as well as transfer data.
  • MEDITECH is an established leader in developing, implementing, and supporting healthcare organizations with its comprehensive EHR (electronic health record) solution.
English

City of jackson, mi and university of michigan

Policy Consultant

Jan 2014May 2014 · 4 mos · Greater Jackson Area

  • Drafted Michigan’s first law for making City data publicly available, adopted with minor revisions May 27
  • Organized meetings to discuss data sharing policies with the City Council, City Attorney, department heads, business and nonprofit leaders, and individual citizens

Creative commons

Policy Analyst Intern

Jun 2013Aug 2013 · 2 mos

  • Researched and wrote 7 case studies on open policy implementations, identifying important actors, rhetoric, policy language, political channels, and funding.
  • Representative case studies include:
  • NIH Public Access Policy
  • Australia's AusGOAL framework
  • Open Educational Resource (OER) legislative efforts in Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • World Bank "Access to Information" and "Open Access" policies
  • http://openpolicynetwork.org/resources/

Enabling technologies

Academic Publishing and Open Access Intern

May 2013Aug 2013 · 3 mos · Ann Arbor, MI

  • Conducted 22 in-depth interviews with researchers, administrators, librarians, and academic publishers about the research, legal, and business sides of academic publishing
  • Analyzed stakeholder positions and extensively outlined findings and institutional “next steps” for open access, represented these to colleagues
  • https://umichsi.digication.com/open_michigan1/Internship/published

University of michigan

Faculty Senate Liaison

Aug 2012May 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Ann Arbor, MI

  • Took minutes for faculty senate committees tackling complex issues including diversity, finances, and governance
  • Researched best practices related to sexual harassment claims, governance issues, and more
  • Collected materials, such as tenure considerations from all UM schools, vital to faculty committee deliberations
  • The SACUA Office

Open equal free

Content Development Intern

Feb 2012Jun 2012 · 4 mos · Sarasota, FL

  • Developed the beta Terms of Service for Teachbuzz affiliate site, housing open educational resources (OER)
  • Posted 250 lesson plans and exercises on Teachbuzz, with an emphasis on relevance to developing countries
  • Wrote weekly articles on education and open content news for Open Equal Free news blog:
  • http://www.openequalfree.org/author/jonathan-davidson

Education

University of Michigan - School of Information

Masters of Science in Information (MSI) — Information Economics for Management

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Free Code Camp

Full Stack Web Development Certification — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2015Jan 2022

New College of Florida

Bachelor of Arts (BA) — Economics

Jan 2008Jan 2012

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