Systems Engineer
Austin, Texas Area
Systems Engineer
Austin, Texas Area
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; NZ; Computer Hardware industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
• Delivered technical sales support in sales/product presentations, product positioning and product demonstration.
• Created and demonstrated proof-of-concept applications based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping.
• Provided product evaluation support, product installation, application prototyping and benchmarks. Led post sales support training, problem diagnosis, escalation and resolution.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 10 months)
• Led development efforts of an integrated staff of employees and consultants for a real-time data warehouse supporting operations for a leading semiconductor manufacturer.
• Created flexible, innovative ETL processes with Ab Initio, UNIX, and Oracle. Delivered end-to-end solutions, including business analysis, software design and specification, data modeling, database integration, ETL transformation, and process automation.
• Architected software components and processes that were leveraged across the organization to resolve fundamental computational and information quality issues.
Major Accomplishments
• Devised solutions that eliminated bottlenecks and improved ETL processing time by up to 50%, helping to achieve a 100% increase in system throughput in 2007 without additional hardware or software resources.
• Authored Logger, an automated process for real-time monitoring of system performance and data throughput in a data warehouse handling 5 TB of data per year.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
May 2000 — January 2006 (5 years 9 months)
• Led development efforts of a large staff of developers, operators, and contractors creating the ETL and Data Warehousing for a Fortune 500 Company
• Architected, engineered, and managed a mission-critical, distributed, heterogeneous ETL system utilizing Ab Initio, UNIX, AutoSys, and RDBMS (Netezza, Oracle, Sybase).
• Formulated robust, scalable statistical models for real-world implementation. Provided mathematical modeling, data modeling, database design, development, and support.
Major Accomplishments
• Architected IQ, an enterprise data quality infrastructure based on Ab Initio and the EME supporting a 200TB Data Warehouse.
• Authored ETLDC, a software design lifecycle specific to ETL and Ab Initio development.
• Created Q-Cards, a database driven web application framework used as the primary tool for employee evaluation, compensation, scheduling, and business forecasting by the customer support arm of a Fortune 500 company.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2000 — April 2001 (1 year)
• Developed multi-platform e-business and web based applications on the server and client. Built enterprise-class, secure Internet and intranet systems.
• Researched new technologies for commercial application with an emphasis on open source and new technologies. Evaluated and implemented Linux, Apache, Java and advanced database technologies.
• Provided IT Consulting Services as well Business/Process Analysis focused on healthcare automation, web development, database applications, and e-business.
Major Accomplishments
• Led prototype development for Care Web, a $20 million healthcare automation project. Participated in specification and design, integrated technologies, provided technical direction interacted with customers (including medical and professional staff), coordinated team efforts, and reported to management.
• Conceptualized and organized Linux integration case study, introducing open-source development tools across the software life cycle.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
September 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 1 month)
• Created financial products to customer specifications, acting as primary point of contact for all parties. Performed total systems design, including hardware, software, testing, support, and maintenance.
• Performed data and systems analysis, integrating new products and reports into an existing product line in a tightly regulated environment.
Major Accomplishments
• Designed Enterprise Data Server, a mission critical application that unified IBM AS/400 Client/Server communications, reduced hardware and deployment costs by 50%+.
• Created Loan Assistant, loan origination and processing software that is certified for accuracy to $.001 and sanctioned for use by all credit unions in the United States.
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