McGill University

CEGEP - John Abbott College

Lasalle Catholic Comprehensive High School

NTT DATA Services

Director, Data Architecture & Integration

Hashmap

Director Consulting Services (NTT Data)

Senior Delivery Manager

o	Founding architect in the End-to-end implementation of Hadoop landscape at CN 
o	Produced RFP to vendors and was one of key decision makers in selection of Hadoop vendors
o	Engagement with professional services for implementation of training and development methodology
o	Infrastructure requirements and capacity planning
o	Building development teams and team organization.
o	Define Solution scope & plan architecture and development activities required to deliver it with emphasis on the information value to CN Operations.
o	Risk Management , issue escalation to upper management
o	Technology & culture change agent

	The Hadoop landscape was built to be the data lake solution for varying use cases at CN from traditional structured data to unstructured data to a more modern datawarehouse concept.
o	Positive Train Control (PTC) introduced a complex interconnected series of technologies to the CN technology ecosystem.  Understanding of many differing data sources, varying streaming and transport mechanisms was imperative to understanding of this complex environment was key to architecting the ingestion of the Data lake.  
o	Engineering test data:  track geometry inspection data for all of CN’s 22k miles of track used to attain physical defects and make the railroad safer
	Provided direction and lead specialized architects in the delivery of the OT Information architecture to Big Data Development team & I&T Integrators.
	Created and maintained product roadmap for OT product management group  
	Collaborated with Hortonworks Engagement management 
	Led Azure use to supplement On-premise Hadoop platform

Participated in many analytics use cases:
o	Image recognition with machine learning / neural networks using Tensorflow
o	Telemetry (GeoSpatial) measurements alignments using R
o	LIDAR data ingestion (3D point cloud Geologic surveys)
	Drove adoption of modern developer tools (Confluence, JIRA, Slack, PowerBI, Elasticsearch) into a complex technology landscape at CN.

Mgr Information Architecture - Operational Technology Group

•	Created new information management team covering all IT solution architectures that required data management focus
•	Defined strategies to deliver solutions that enable the collection, processing and management of information from sources, and the subsequent delivery of information to audiences in support of key business processes.
•	Managed and signed off on Information Architecture on all projects with emphasis on data quality and efficient flow of information.
•	Governed the implementation of the information architecture during Delivery.
•	Managed multiple concurrent initiatives.
•	Was accountable for the care management and talent development of information architects.
•	Architected solutions and processes for managing enterprise-wide data throughout the data lifecycle from capture to processing to usage across all layers of the application architecture.
•	Overall Data driven leadership in new project initiatives

Mgr Information  Architecture & Modelling, Architecture Group

•	Managed a new group of Business Intelligence Architects and Data Modelers to increase the collaboration and knowledge sharing of data knowledge at CN across projects
•	Created a Business Intelligence Strategy roadmap for the BI landscape at CN.
•       Established BI design principals to raise Data quality and governance importance to CN it as a whole.
•	Resource Management of the internal development staff and contractors to build BI project teams.
•	Enforced information metadata gathering into the Enterprise datawarehouse using Erwin.  Also established an enterprise data model store (Erwin) to allow for multi-project use and inheritance of dimensional data models.
•	Created an physical enterprise view of all CN business entities
•	Collaborated with external consulting partners for development staff for ETL programmers, Data modelers and data analysts.  Established a trusted partnership with many Montreal consulting companies to provide quality resources.
•	Redefined the Business Intelligence development process.
•	Evaluated and recommended a desktop/server ETL prototyping tool for rapid requirements gathering of Business Intelligence projects (Wherescape).
•	Was one of a group of 4 key contributors to create a new project evaluation, estimation & development methodology for the CN IT department. Goal of Idea to Project (I2P) was to increase the understanding of the business value of new ideas and evaluate early in the cycle if the project would be developed or not.
•	Trained as a container crane operator to fill in for train yard operations workers during a threatened strike in 2015.

Lead Data Modeling & Data Architecture, BI

•	Practice services, development, sales support, and delivery support within the Global Services - Data Services group as detailed below.  It was both an internal and client facing role that requires organizational and communication skills as well as a deep technical knowledge of relevant Data Services technologies.
•	Provided key leadership role to manage a group of very high caliber technical Practice Architects with extensive technical knowledge and experience within multiple Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing stacks and methodologies.
•	Worked closely with TEKsystems Sales, Clients and internal TEKsystems solutions executives to carefully scope and craft solutions and prepare the required contracts and pricing.
•	Worked closely with the Delivery organization to strategize and assist in the acquisition, retention and expansion of business through the use of Data Services (ETL, BI and Data Warehousing).
•	Oversee and report on the Data Services components of engagements assigned to the practice.
•	Facilitates product & service education and general communication both inside and outside of the practice group.
•	Recruitment and retention of the Data Practice staff of developers and Practice Architects.
•	Personal and Professional development of the developers and Practice Architects.
•	Manages partnership agreements with TEKsystems and the Software vendors (Informatica, IBM etc..).
•	Attained level 1 security clearance with the Federal Government of Canada
•	Attained an L1A managerial Work Visa in 2013 with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

TEKsystems

Practice Manager - Data Services

Practice Architect - Data Services

Integration Competency Center Management ("COE")

ICC Manager - Data Management Practice

Data Management Practice / Project Management

Software Development Manager and Production Support Manager responsible for the development of Informatica and Oracle programming projects.  Technologies:  Informatica, Oracle, Unix Scripting, Cognos.

Hands on technical manager who developed, managed and productionized systems, also managed a multi-disciplined team in the Montreal Solution center to accomplish projects and tasks in a timely fashion.  The Team was responsible for development, and enhancement of data movement systems for various client side applications and data stores.  Customer controlled development costs over the lifespan of this project and project productivity goals were exceeded.

Responsibilities included: Architecture Design, Project Planning, Resource Allocation, Resource / Project Management, Change Management, Knowledge transfer to internal support staff, Software upgrades and conversions, SOX Compliance compliancy. 

Types of products/projects which were accomplished:  Data warehouse implementations, Technology conversions, Technology migrations

Production Support Manager / Project Manager (ARCH Insurance, NYC, NY) - Formally ComputerHorizons

IMS Health (now known as IQVIA) provides marketing research information services to the pharmaceutical community.

Manager of the Software Architecture group responsible for the development of .NET, ETL data movement and Business Intelligence (Microstrategy and Microsoft OLAP).  Initially a developer, analyst and team leader performing analysis, design and development for in-house client-server, web and decision support applications for the pharmaceutical sales force information systems and in house data entry systems and data warehouses.

As Manager of Software Architecture and Development, managed a team of over 20 developers and consultants.  The team was using an Object Oriented design approach to create a web based and standalone .NET products to manage pharmaceutical sales information.

Responsibilities included:   Product Conceptualization and Design, Architecture Design, Project Planning, Resource Allocation, Technology Selection, Logical Database Design / Object Modeling, Resource/project management, Programmer source code reviews and standards enforcement, Testing scenarios, Hardware Deployment and Change Management, Knowledge transfer to internal support staff, Implementation and support during warranty period of software,  Product delivery and deployment to clients

IMS Health

Software Development Manager

I was employed for three and a half years as a consultant on various types of analysis and development projects.  During this time I developed strong programming-analysis skills using state of the art Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) and 4GL products on the IBM PC, Macintosh and Hewlett Packard computers in Client Server environments.  

Clients included (Nortel, IMS Health Canada, Department of Public Works – Government of Canada (Ottawa), EnRoute Credit Card & Gerber Alley (Atlanta GA))

Kevin Tracey