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Senior Director, Global Data Architecture

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I am a data architect and modeler, with a reputation for rigor, creativity and pragmatism. I work at the intersection of data, business, data science, and change management. I have modeling experience in diverse verticals, including bank card processing, insurance underwriting, retail forecasting, corporate tax accounting, and railroad optimization. Most recently, I have been designing architectural solutions, both traditional and non-traditional, to fit within the complex ecology of financial systems for the payroll processing arm of US Bank. This has been as much an endeavor of culture and process change, as it is about project management. I am also a believer in continuous process improvement, as a strategic factor in I.T. And I have worked in both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.On a technical level, I excel at data models, whether for relational (SQL), dimensional (OLAP), or Hadoop (Hive, Hbase, Sqoop, Oozie) systems. I also have particularly strong experience in logic and declarative languages (Prolog, Datalog). I am adept in diverse modeling notations (UML, ER, ORM). Less recently, I have also worked in diverse procedural and functional languages (Java, python, C++, Erlang, LISP).