Functional Skills

Performance Management
Agile Software Development
Software Development
Data Science
Business Intelligence
Data Migration
Data Governance
Data Engineering
Integration Management (IMO)
Operations Management
Innovation Management

Software Skills

Microsoft Excel
Log4J
IBM Db2
MySQL
SAP CRM
PostgreSQL

Sector Experience

Healthcare
Manufacturing
Financial Services
Technology
Life Sciences & Pharma
14
years

Years of Experience

4/24

Member Since


Experience

 
ClearSense Start-Up
SVP - GLOBAL DATA SERVICES & INSIGHTS
10/2022 - 04/2024
Accountable for $6.3m cost of revenue (CoR) organization. Within 4 months built a strategic roadmap of improvements to offset CoR by $6.4m with the net effect of doubling the teams output. Within the first year CoR reduced by $1.3m; allowing the teams to avoid doing ~11k hours of work while increasing throughput. As a result, for the first time in company history, Professional Services & Implementation Services yielded a positive gross margin. Created my sixth green field data science team that started implementing AI / ML services into data products and data operations. Managed a portfolio of ~190 client projects, largely through building AI Assistants. Graduated seven leaders from a personally crafted "Building High Performance Teams" master class. Architected a data platform to manage ~2pb of storage, ~50m patients, ~1 trillion total records, ~10 billion physical files. Remediated critically high security findings: Log4J, Okta breach, shared user accounts, Implemented a global data

TEKsystems Global Services Management Consulting
PRACTICE DIRECTOR (Azure & Snowflake)
10/2019 - 10/2022
Grew my direct division 5x YoY from roughly $4m to $20m revenue. Also directly grew my partner division by 30% adding $11m in additional revenue. Solutioned, Architected, Delivered full-stack, end-to-end data & analytics programs & platforms across 173 unique accounts. Primary industries: Healthcare (payer & provider), Financial Services, Higher Education, Oil & Gas, Consumer Packaged Goods, Retail, Manufacturing Automated effort-estimation process, reducing turn around time from weeks to minutes. Previously it took several client

Warren Memorial Hospital Information Technology
CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER
07/2018 - 07/2019
Created a data-driven, technology forward culture that enhances the healthcare delivery model to technology-based encounters that are virtual, on-demand and patient-generated. Created a 6-12 month strategic plan and 10 year budget in the first two weeks. The plan had a strong focus on cloud services and telehealth. Implemented proactive infrastructure monitoring and centralized logging environment that prevented more than $100k worth of hardware replacement costs, reduced downtime from days to minutes and reduced service calls by 58%. Created an MVP RPA/AI chatbot to automate administrative and clinical workflows. Implemented agile and Kanban work practices for all clinical and administrative departments. Implemented centralized alerting, ticketing, patch management, remote monitoring management, anti-virus, knowledge management, event logging, performance management and asset management systems. Reducing our IT budget by over 40%. Rolled out PowerBI dashboards to department managers f

Creighton University Product Management / Strategy
SR. DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & SERVICES
01/2016 - 01/2018
Started with a team of three and grew to a team of 30. Inherited a team that received a 37% reduction in team size and increased ticket throughput by 50%. Developed an architectural plan and strategy for the University's next generation digital experience platform including an industry leading Hadoop back-end. Established first ever product portfolio with more than a dozen market viable options. Within the first six months reduced the operational expense of technology budget by $900k by renegotiating IT contracts. Developed the University's first division of data science and implemented a fail-fast high performance team building model. Implemented a flexible workforce initiative that allowed individuals from all across the US to contribute to capital projects. Implemented Agile practices for software development, data science and software support teams.

West Interactive Services Data Science / Analytics
DIRECT OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE & DATA SERVICES
01/2014 - 01/2016
Supported: ETL (Datastage, ODI); Databases (Informix, DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Greenplum); BI Platforms (OBIEE, Tableau, Crystal, Microstrategy). Developed new data products, created TCO for infrastructure and reported ROI of BI initiatives. Redesigned teams to work in a collaborative environment with systemic data driven OLA's and SLA's. Spearheaded strategic and tactical end to end data governance practices. Built and maintained vendor relations for all Data Services assets Developed a "live" report/dashboard building process where stakeholders could provide requirements and see their report/dashboard built in real-time.

Datavault USA Data Science / Analytics
CHIEF DATA OFFICER
01/2010 - 01/2014
Developed reference architecture for data migration, system integration and analytical use cases. Developed a company wide data governance program including data quality, data definitions & catalog, data security and data standards policies. Managed cross functional project, app dev, data engineering, data science and QA teams. Maintained a cost-effective data ecosystem and infrastructure budget. Developed data-driven strategic initiatives that increased revenue by more than 42%