Current position: Principal Technical Product Manager, Data Architecture at Lithium Technologies

Specialties: Distributed Data Warehousing, Parallel and Distributed ETL and ELTLT using clustered partitions (sharding), High Performance, SQL RDBMS Data Warehouse and Hadoop technologies (HDFS, Hbase and Hive). 3NF and 2NF OLTP, Kimball Star Schema and Inmon database design. Analytical data processing and report development.

Created strategic Master Data Management Plan which integrates all Lithium data flows, Meta Data and Analytics / BI Reporting systems and corrects inconsistencies in the reporting metrics. This was necessary to open the door to new innovation in the product line. Created a Product Roadmap including the project and staffing plan to maintain existing systems while developing new systems. Re-designed Lithium's Reporting Data Architecture to be more accurate, flexible and scalable. Evaluated several emerging Big Data technologies, including Hadoop / Hbase, SAP HANA, VoltDB, Infobright, Teradata Aster, LexisNexis HPCC, Greenplum, MapR, Sisense Prizm, AWS, Datameer, Karmasphere, BitYota KDS and EdgeSpring.

Delivered very high performing multi-threaded and distributed ETL and Distributed Data Warehouse management applications using horizontal partitioning (sharding) techniques across several data warehouse partitions in EMEA and the US. Currently adding Hadoop technologies (HDFS, Hbase and Hive) to the BI stack to enable a more web scale and flexible approach - using ELT (Map and Reduce) instead of ETL (Pentaho PDI).

Excellent development environment and great people creating Social CRM Software as a Service (SaaS). In the first months dropped Pentaho PDI ETL run time by 10 hours - from 24 hours down to 14. This gave us the time to re-architect several systems and scale them using sharding techniques - and then move to Hadoop based technologies. Delivered a Distributed Provisioning and Distributed Benchmarking system that computes data stored in the US and EMEA partitions (shards). Used SAP Business Objects to maintain their Reporting Universe and used Model Right for Data Modeling. Developed SQL and Stored Procedures in MySQL using Navicat.

Previous positions:
Oracle, Teradata, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop / HDFS / Hbase / Hive, PL/SQL, SQL, Pentaho PDI, Business Objects, Perl, PHP, Shell, Pig, ERwin, ER Studio, ModelRight
Lead Data Modeler, Developer and Data Architect at Bank of the West
Senior Oracle Data Architect, Developer and Data Quality Engineer at Delta Dental
Senior Oracle Data Architect, Developer and Technical Team Lead at Wells Fargo Bank
Senior Trizetto FACETS Engineer and Data Architect, Muir Mt. Diablo Health System
Senior Oracle DBA and Lead Data Architect, Leapfrog
Data Warehouse Architect and Engineer, PG&E Energy Services
Senior Oracle DBA, UNIX Systems Administrator, Systems Architect, Transamerica Leasing, Inc
Senior Oracle DBA and UNIX System Administrator, PeopleSoft Incorporated
Senior Database Administrator, City and County of San Francisco
Technical Marketing Manager, Gupta Technologies
Database Administrator, Oracle

Amateur radio: I was first licensed in 1973 at age 13 (WA2QHN). I was inactive from 1977 - 2001, but jumped back into the hobby as a DX-er. I have 332/328 entities (3 away from Honor Roll), and have earned 8BDXCC and am almost at the DXCC Challenge 2000 level. I need 3Y0/B, E3, FR/G, FR/T, FT5Z, KH5K, KP1, SV/A, Z8, VK0/H, VP8/S, and ZL9 to get to DXCC #1 Honor Roll. After only working one all time new one in 2010 - 2011, I have worked HK0NA, EP3PK, 7O6T and E40VB in 2012.

Education: Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania