Bio

A data leader with a focus on driving business transformations as organizations modernize their real-time AI strategy for edge, on-premise and cloud environments. Expertise in aligning data and analytics/AI efforts across data-in-motion, database and analytical platforms. Industry experience in leading data modernization initiatives in real-time AI, real-time data ingestion, data governance, operational data stores, analytics, cloud, data warehouse, lake house and databases. Internationally recognized speaker and published author. A data and AI advocate at CDO/CIO conferences and events. An active advocate for real-time AI, data governance and analytics. SKILLS: - CLOUD: Google Cloud Services, Big Query, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Cloud Storage, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Native Culture - DATA: Governance, Data Catalogs, Architecture, Business Glossaries, Metadata Management, Security - DATA INGESTION: Pulsar, Kafka, Splunk, Storm, Spark Streaming, Oracle Golden Gate, Oracle EDQ - BIG DATA: Cassandra, Solr, Lucene, DSE Search, DSE Graph, Hadoop, Presto, Spark, Atlas, HBase, Phoenix, Knox, Ranger, HDFS, YARN - DEVELOPMENT: Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, Microservices, Jenkins, GitHub, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering, Anaconda, Atom, Machine Learning, PyCharm, RStudio - LANGUAGES: Python, R, Java, J2EE, C++, C, SQL, PL/SQL - DATABASES: Cassandra, Big Query, DSE Search/Graph, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, HBase - ORACLE: Cloud Infrastructure, Data Management Strategy, Autonomous Database, Maximum Availability Architecture, Maximum Security Architecture, Oracle Machine Learning, Data Visualization Desktop, Oracle R Enterprise, NoSQL, Big Data Services, BI/DW, RAC, Streams, Data Guard, MySQL, App. Servers, PL/SQL, APEX - ELEARNING: Articulate, Captivate, Camtasia, Audacity, Markdown, FocusSky, VideoScribe INDUSTRY RECOGNITIONS: Google Analytics Council, VMware vExpert, Oracle Double ACE, Sun Ambassador for Sun Microsystems, VMware Certified Instructor, MySQL's Socrates Award and MySQL Certified DBA. User Community leadership: Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) Board of Directors, President of IOUG Cloud SIG, Oracle Fusion Council, Oracle Beta Leadership Council, Elected to International Oracle User Group's ''Oracles of Oracle''​ circle and Master Oracle Presenter.