Work
Projects and architecture
Enterprise data and AI programs I have architected and led: Microsoft Fabric platforms, cloud migrations, BI modernization and agentic AI, often several multi-million-dollar programs at the same time.
Case studies
Selected engagements
Consulting clients are described by industry to respect confidentiality. Roles I held directly are named.
T-Mobile · Telecom · 2021
Teradata to Azure for consumer-market analytics
Led the Teradata-to-Azure migration and architected a centralized Azure data ecosystem, unifying Teradata, SQL Server, API and flat-file sources into one platform, with a data repository for ML and experimentation.
$20M a year in projected savings · 10,000+ retail and distribution users
Enterprise clients · Microsoft Fabric
Greenfield Fabric platforms
Built new Fabric platforms from scratch since its 2023 launch: medallion architectures (bronze, silver, gold) on Lakehouse, Warehouse and OneLake, from business case through adoption.
Terabytes of data across 20+ business domains
Enterprise clients · Cloud migration
Migrations to Azure and Fabric
Owned the target architecture, migration strategy and validation for moves from DB2, SAP, SQL Server, Salesforce and API sources.
Multi-million-dollar programs led from design through go-live
Enterprise clients · BI modernization
500+ reports to Power BI and Fabric
Migrated SSRS reports and Tableau dashboards to Power BI and Fabric, with Data Factory, Fabric and Databricks pipelines tuned for speed and cost.
50% higher ETL throughput · 30% lower cloud spend
Agentic AI · Azure AI Foundry
AI agents for legacy ETL and BI
Pioneered agentic workflows that automate legacy ETL modernization (Ab Initio, Informatica and Talend to Fabric) and convert SSRS reports into Power BI.
Faster migration timelines with less manual engineering effort
Enterprise clients · Governance
Data governance and security
Purview and Key Vault governance, security and compliance designed into the platform rather than bolted on.
40% lower compliance risk
Advisory · Assessment to delivery
From assessments to $1M and $2M programs
Assessed the current state, designed the future-state architecture, wrote the execution SOW with scope, staffing and estimates, then led delivery.
One assessment grew into a $1M program, the next into $2M
Verizon Business · Telecom · 2018–2020
Campaign, churn and revenue analytics
Designed the ETL architectures behind campaign, churn and revenue analytics, and built attribution and churn models that exposed revenue leakage across the customer lifecycle.
Analytics for millions of customers
Experience
15 years with large enterprises
Fortune 100 roles in telecom and banking. Through TEKsystems, enterprise clients in banking, wealth management, energy, manufacturing, retail, entertainment and professional services.
2021 – today
TEKsystems Global Services · Cloud & Data Architecture Lead
Fabric and Azure platforms, migrations and agentic AI for enterprise clients; trusted advisor to VPs and CIOs.
2021
T-Mobile · Principal Architect & Engineering Lead, Cloud & Data
Teradata-to-Azure migration and a centralized Azure data ecosystem for consumer-market analytics.
2018 – 2020
Verizon Business · Data Engineering Leader
ETL architectures for campaign, churn and revenue analytics.
2017 – 2018
Charter Communications · Business Intelligence Lead
Modernized marketing and BI platforms; built self-service datasets.
2012 – 2017
JPMorgan Chase & Co. · Senior Database Engineer
Tuning, capacity planning and recovery for Teradata warehouses.
Platforms
Deep on Microsoft, fluent across clouds
Microsoft Fabric
OneLake
Lakehouse
Warehouse
Power BI
Azure Data Factory
Synapse Analytics
Azure SQL
Microsoft Purview
Key Vault
Azure AI Foundry
Databricks
Snowflake
AWS
Google Cloud
Teradata
SAP
DB2
SQL Server
Salesforce
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