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hello,greetings from devcare solutionsi got an opening with our direct client in michigan *need only local to michigan candidate 100% placement position* job title: business analystlocation: lansing, miduration: 1+yearsinterview mode: ms. teams responsibilities: minimum of 12 years of general ba experience minimum of 7 years conducting business process review and requirements elicitation and documentation minimum of 5 years facilitating executive and diverse groups to topic consensus on complex and competing perspectives minimum of 5 years providing strategic analysis and support to program, division and agency equivalent initiatives minimum of 3 years with agile scrum, use of jira, user story developmentvalidation, sprint planning and backlog grooming minimum of 2 years with contract compliance and contract change notices, specific to requirements specifications minimum of 2 years practicing lean principals and supporting lpi initiatives minimum of 1 year working with programs governed by state andor federal regulations

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<<profileexperience d corporate and software professional specializing in data & analytics, search and discovery turning data investments into business results. i am subject matter expert in search technologies and analytics. (solr/elasticsearch). leading & influencing large teams. reputation for building professional trust by focusing on hearts, heads, and hands. a polyglot programmer/engineer. excellent liaison between the technical and business world and facilitator of progress among various types of people, groups, and departments. i've been a software engineer, consultant, pre-sales, principal architect, manager of it systems, and an academic researcher.​ core qualificationsexcellent communicationtechnical executorfacilitator of progressliaison between business and technicalidea generatorteam integrator education:disruptive strategy,expected in2016toharvard business school - hbx-,gpa:course on disruptive strategy in organizations.:credential of readiness,expected in2016toharvard business school - hbx-,gpa:primer on the fundamentals of business through coursework in business analytics, economics for managers, and financial accounting.master of science:computer science,expected in2007togeorgia institute of technology-atlanta,gagpa:national science foundation fellowship winnerminors in finance and information securitybachelor of science:computer science,expected in2004togeorgia institute of technology-atlanta,gagpa:graduated with highest honors professional experience director of product management, data analytics, 11/2016tocurrentgenesys– ,building software data products for ge. as a director, responsible for finding repeatable problems and pain points for ge businesses and productizing the solution to it. subject matter expert in search/solr/elasticsearch and architecting analytics solutions. hands on building systems and mentoring other team members. currently leading a product team that is building a revolutionary data management and repeatable analytics product that will change how ge build analytic solutions. we are essentially productizing a solution that has been under r&d for years.primary responsibilities include:designing & developing products that include search and analytic technologies (solr, elastic search, and analytics frameworks)taking research solutions from the r&d arm and productizing it for mass use.helping to build an engineering team around the productinterfacing with customers to understand their pain pointtranslating customer needs to technical requirements for engineeringleading the engineering team with prioritiesfilling gaps technically personally when neededmarketing & and being the voice of the product​​​manager, data analytics of industrial iot, 11/2015to 11/2016us government other agencies and independent organizations– ,manager of data analytics driving an outcomes based approach to delivering analytics for internal ge use cases. this includes architecting and building search and analytics solutions (solr/elasticsearch/spark). essentially building the analytics portion of digital thread within ge that spans all ge businesses. use cases span from enterprise use cases to industrial operational analytical use cases. primary outcomes so far:founded the repeatabile analytics initiative at ge to scaleover 10 million in efficiency gains through the deployment of analyticschampioning cross business interactions and knowledge sharingover a petabyte of datastandardized and championed an approach being studied by other internal groupsrunning a team of 12 people.manager, business architect. search, analytics, industrial internet (iot, predix cloud), 05/2015to 11/2015verizon communications– ,manager and architect of the ge data lake and predix platform to serve industrial internet use cases and outcomes. principal solutions architect of ge's brilliant factory initiative guiding platform teams, ingestion teams, analytics teams, and visualization teams to make ge factories efficient. brilliant factory outcomes include drive energy efficiency, machine health, quality manufacturing, and process optimization. very diverse data sources from machine sensor data, erp purchasing data, unstructured work order, weather data, and more. responsibilities include:find millions in efficiencies in outcomes for ge factories and internal sourcing.play role of solution architect for all outcomes identifiedmanage client relationshipsmanage technical teams to drive implementation of outcomesplay mentorship role for technical teamsprincipal architect search & big data analytics, 03/2014to 05/2015avalon consulting, llc–city,state,director of the search practice (solr & elasticsearch). helping clients turn data investments into business results. many large implementations and integrations with hadoop. wells fargo, bell helicopter, fossil, and securian. responsibilities include:technical execution of the biggest clientspoc developmentproduction supportsales enablementproject oversight as architect & mentoring other team membersthought leadership through publications and speaking engagementsinternal trainingbig implementationssenior search architect, 05/2011to 11/2014turner broadcasting systems–city,state,architect and engineer for search implementations for all of turner’s public websites and mobile sites/apps. architect and engineer for all tbs and tnt tv show companion sync mobile app backend data publishers. (solr and autonomy idol).responsibilities include:design, development, -going support, and managing an enhancement roadmap of search implementations of a fast moving digital business. internal search consulting resource for many clients: cnn, nba, tnt, tbs, cartoon network, adult swim, trutv, golf.com, pga.com, sportsilustrated.com, hln news, cnn money, teamcoco.com, and thesmokinggun.comselected accomplishments:revamping the search implementations for: and many more. work is currently in progress.first of its kind companion sync mobile app backend architect - team coco sync app (won an emmy award!), big bang theory sync app, leverage sync app, falling skies sync app.implemented first of its kind online video feeds for fanhattan and other outside online video vendorssearch implementation for adult swim bump builders xbox video appvisual analytics research - data visualization & discovery, 07/2009to 07/2012georgia institute of technology–city,state,university research while pursuing plans to do a phd. exploring visual analytics and data visualization of business connections in converging business ecosystems. built a visually interactive platform that allows users (such as c levels, venture capitalists, analysts of any type to make sense of an entire industry or ecosystem of firms whom interactive with each other. this can be useful for competitive intelligence, firm research, and industry research.responsibilities included:intelligently aggregated open and closed data sources.mined the data.architect the platform for the research.visualized the connections found on an interactive platform for the user to play with.presented our work at the ieee visweek 2010 conference and the broadband institute annual meeting in 2011 as a poster paper.published in ieee cg&a 2012.selected accomplishments:innovation (r&d) of novel data visualization technology.2 publications (see publication section below)website: investments analyst,2009to 07/2009united parcel service–city,state,analyst supporting the chief investments officer and portfolio manager of ups's retirement and pension fund.responsibilities includedsupported investing, management, portfolio optimization of $17billion of the ups retirement and pension fund.performed quantitative model development, due diligence, interviewing of investment firms, and investment managers.analyzed return streams.worked closely with the cio and portfolio manager.selected accomplishmentsdeveloped model for portfolio optimization that allowed input of constraints to enable viewing of optimal portfolios in various performance requirement scenarios.conducted research that led to hiring of 3 investment firms for a $200m investment deal.performed normality testing, time series correlation, and regression testing of return streams.created internal var model for retirement & pension plan, including garch implementation.ceo and founder, 08/2008tocurrentconcinnous solutions–city,state,architecting, implementing, and integrating, enterprise search and pci dss data security implementations into production environments. security implementations were to meet pci dss compliance. built and managed an offshore development team.responsibilities included:managed p&lsales, account management, technical architect, managed offshore team execution and training, and production delivery with critical go-live support.some of the clients and environments include: costco wholesale (seattle), helzberg diamonds (kansas city), 1800flowers.com (new york), and presbyterian health services (albuquerque).selected accomplishments:re-architected american medical association’s search implementation. a renowned solution and implementation that was referenced at the rsa conference and written about in news articles.built and mentored an offshore team to produce results required for today's pace of business.overall, facilitated modernizing systems, policies, and procedures to meet operational and security compliance.professional services consultant - search & discovery, 03/2007to 08/2008hp-autonomy–city,state,road warrior implementation consultant for autonomy products.responsibilities includedidentified needs, architect solutions, implemented solutions for clients in need of data management in production environments. this position was constantlyinvolved in technology integration and qa processes for production environments. i alsofrequently prepared documentation and lead training exercises. morgan chase, time warner cable, and countrywide-bank of america, and many more …selected accomplishmentsplayed major role in facilitating post-acquisition integration of company technology for production environments.performance optimization of production environments.performed extensive implementations in a wide variety of production environments.developed integration/implementation procedures and authored best practices.worked with technology partners and vendors at client sites to resolve client issues.learned and broke apart new technology and environments very quickly in very fast paced and high valued consulting engagements.information technology specialist, 05/2006to 07/2006federal aviation administration (intern)–city,state,selected accomplishmentsimproved efficiency by evaluating and implementing new technologies, including vmware.installed servers and served as department’s internal webmaster.facilitated preparations for capability maturity model (cmmi) certification audit.software architect, 02/2005to2007united parcel service–city,state,architect and developed first of its kind treasury technologies envisioned by the director of treasury for ups. its still used around the world among ups managers today.responsibilities included:designed, developed, and supported an entire web infrastructure that served to automate ups’s internal financial treasury process. this functional and analytical web infrastructure did not exist when i was hired and i built it from scratch. worked closely with executives including the directory of treasury of ups and translated business financial processes and needs to technical application objectives. it quickly became a technology used worldwide among ups. helped build and technically lead a team of 4 individuals including interns. this solution solved a major manual process business problem and the solution is still in use today around the world among ups employees.selected accomplishmentsgain organization wide efficiencies saving costs and reducing lead time of internal treasury processes facilitating smarter investment decisions.conducted system training and served as system knowledge expert for financial management users worldwide.created system recognized nationally as showcase as part of the internal treasury process.designed and developed the entire web infrastructure which required being multiple roles including business analyst, technical project manager, financial application developer, database administrator, and support engineer.system still in use around the world at ups today.artificial intelligence research (meta learning),2005to 04/2005georgia institute of technology–city,state,data mining through case based reasoning, decision trees, and info gain attribute evaluation. this was premised research to test the feasibility of developing a new architecture of ai called asynchronous reasoning and learning. used java’s weka library, matlab, and proprietary software named sentinel from the enkia corporation. skills language experience octave/matlab (modeling for machine learning), python, java, angularjs, nodejs, dotnet, c++, ruby, lisp/scheme, html5, php, asp, vbscript, actionscript, xml, perl.frameworks and toolsoctave/matlab, play framework, twitter bootstrap, apache mahout, sci-kit learn, google app engine, hibernate, springmvc, jboss ejbs, weka, gate and lingpipe, webspinx web crawler, and more .storage/searchsolr, elasticsearch, lucene, autonomy idol, cassandra, mongodb, hadoop ecosystem, and traditional relational databases, and more .