Solutions Architect at Databricks
New York, New York
Intern @ Air Force Research Laboratory Creation of novel data fusion algorithms for RADAR and RF data for target tracking and data filtering. Researched, designed, implemented and presented a group of tools used to improve high-value target tracking and road network analysis in RF environments using a priori RADAR track databases, novel pattern recognition algorithms and an...
Intern @ Air Force Research Laboratory Creation of novel data fusion algorithms for RADAR and RF data for target tracking and data filtering. Researched, designed, implemented and presented a group of tools used to improve high-value target tracking and road network analysis in RF environments using a priori RADAR track databases, novel pattern recognition algorithms and an improved particle filter tracking method. Core competencies include advanced MATLAB design, GUI creation, mathematical analysis of databases and road networks, code optimization, filtering methods, and metrics of performance. From May 2010 to August 2010 (4 months) Rome, NYIntern @ Black River Systems Company, Inc Design and implementation of several tools designed to create 3-dimensional models of urban environments using a-priori databases of RADAR data. Statistical analysis and simulation of urban environments in an RF environment. Areas of expertise include MATLAB modeling and advanced coding, statistical methods of evaluating algorithm performance, code optimization, and mathematical models of RF propagation. From May 2008 to August 2009 (1 year 4 months) Utica, NYSales Engineer @ Hitachi Vantara Sales Engineer for Pentaho, a leading Data Integration and Business Analytics platform. Directly impacted sales from initial lead contact/generation through qualification via MEDICC, discovery and demonstration, and POC/Workshop delivery. Specializations included highly-tailored demonstrations focused on creating ROI and linking features to customer value, and presenting to both business-facing and technical audiences at all levels. Customers included Northeast Fortune 500 Enterprises, especially in Pharma, Life Sciences, and Healthcare industries, as well as FinTech, Insurance, and Manufacturing clients. Technical areas of focus included advanced dashboarding, Big Data integration and implementation, and rapid prototyping for custom use cases.Led efforts to improve the processes, efficiency, and capabilities of the Pentaho SE team, including the development of dashboard templates, pilot programs for targeted learning areas such as Kerberos, and sharing of speciality knowledge via regular education/learning programs. From November 2017 to September 2018 (11 months) Greater Boston AreaField Sales Engineer @ Zaloni Delivered sales-oriented technical expertise in Zaloni's Data Lake Management Platform for Fortune 500 Healthcare, Tech, Insurance and Financial Services customers. Responsible for driving revenue growth and business development throughout the Northeast region by enabling customer initiatives to adopt and expand cutting edge Big Data technologies such as MapReduce, Spark, Hive, Elasticsearch, and Kafka. Roles include support throughout initial, mid and late-stage sales activities with both "C"-level and technical audiences, use case development and delivery, technical and non-technical demonstrations, rapid deployments and implementations of all relative Hadoop technologies, including current and emerging ecosystem tools, demonstrations, development of blog and marketing materials. From August 2016 to November 2017 (1 year 4 months) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaSenior Consultant @ Apptio Responsible for design, configuration and delivery of SaaS TBM solutions for strategic finance, technology and industrial accounts. Expertise focused in IT Planning and customized solutions for budgeting and forecasting organizational costs, predicting global resource utilization, and efficiently deploying transformational initiatives by running IT as a business.Customer-facing roles include initial development of customer requirements and solution architectures, business practice analysis and benchmarking, proof-of-value and program lifecycle planning, and presentation of results to "C-Level", finance, and technical audiences. Technical roles include configuration and development of solutions based on flagship SaaS TBM platform, IT Planning, report generation, customer training and troubleshooting, and rapid-prototype scripting in order to create highly-tailored, custom solutions aimed at customer success. From January 2014 to August 2016 (2 years 8 months) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaSystems Engineer II @ Harris Corporation RF Communications network & system design for medium to large scale projects. Design and implementation across all phases of sales lifecycle, ranging from presales and proposal design to customer demonstrations to execution, implementation, testing and delivery. Areas of expertise include budget and schedule creation and maintenance, proposals and RFP/RFQ delivery, customer interactions, rapid prototyping of solutions, detailed high and low-level system design and documentation, inter-networking systems, RF design and analysis, and formal presentations to technical and non-technical audiences. From July 2011 to December 2013 (2 years 6 months) Rochester, NYSolutions Architect @ Databricks Databricks makes Big Data easy.The Databricks Unified Analytics Platform leverages a cloud-native Apache Spark infrastructure to transform the largest, most complex businesses in the world by solving their most difficult problems.As a Solutions Architect, I'm responsible for making this transformation happen by leading discovery, qualification, demonstration, and validation within the New York region. This ranges from speaking with clients at both a technical and business level, to giving highly-tailored demonstrations of Databricks on every topic from ML to Streaming to SparkSQL, to leading and managing technical validation and POC workshops. New York, United States
Air Force Research Laboratory
Intern
May 2010 to August 2010
Rome, NY
Black River Systems Company, Inc
Intern
May 2008 to August 2009
Utica, NY
Hitachi Vantara
Sales Engineer
November 2017 to September 2018
Greater Boston Area
Zaloni
Field Sales Engineer
August 2016 to November 2017
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Apptio
Senior Consultant
January 2014 to August 2016
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Harris Corporation
Systems Engineer II
July 2011 to December 2013
Rochester, NY
Databricks
Solutions Architect
New York, United States
Creation of novel data fusion algorithms for RADAR and RF data for target tracking and data filtering. Researched, designed, implemented and presented a group of tools used to improve high-value target tracking and road network analysis in RF environments using a priori RADAR track databases, novel pattern recognition algorithms and an improved particle filter tracking method. Core... Creation of novel data fusion algorithms for RADAR and RF data for target tracking and data filtering. Researched, designed, implemented and presented a group of tools used to improve high-value target tracking and road network analysis in RF environments using a priori RADAR track databases, novel pattern recognition algorithms and an improved particle filter tracking method. Core competencies include advanced MATLAB design, GUI creation, mathematical analysis of databases and road networks, code optimization, filtering methods, and metrics of performance.
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