Rakuten MarketingSoftware Engineering Manager & Big Data Enterprise Architect
Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2017Greater Salt Lake City AreaOversaw operations for $250M business unit; 25-person staff. Responsible for strategic planning, organizational development, process improvement, product development, project management, customer relations, business intelligence, product marketing, micro-service engineering, recruitment, talent development. Driven to learn about Big Data and design an enterprise team from the ground up. Prior to being acquired by Rakuten, we operated in much of a startup mode and had to be extremely hands on. I worked very closely with C-level (CEO, CFO, CTO), architects and other teams to develop strategies to start. I started was the first to be hired alongside a junior BI developer (data engineering) to start streaming data into Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, enhance performance, increase scalability and reduce complexity by introducing new environments, a/b & performance testing, new technologies, architecture and DevOps & agile methodologies.