Jack Laing

Experience

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  Pro Tech Power Inc

  May 2006 - Aug 2008

  Electrical Apprentice

  Note: This was three consecutive breaks while in College.The work1.) piping electrical for an office building in a Corporate Park2.) Electrical wiring for a hair salon under renovation.3.) Installation of propane and natural gas powered generated systems (Important in Florida where hurricanes and tropical storms are frequent occurrences.) Learned the Electrical trade in both a commercial situation and residential situation. Both were valuable experiences, that I have carried with me in later university study and in my professional career. One was working in cross functional teams. I was on a team of Electricians, but we would also have to work in coordination with Plumbers, HVAC, Carpenters, and GC. If we didn't do our work, they could not do theirs. Contracts have extremely tight windows. If one particularly contract goes poorly, everybody will still be paid out, but could be black balled from future contracts, thus pressure could be high. Another was dealing intimately with clients who could be quite prodding. While working with electrical wiring, clients may come up behind with many questions and inquiries. Finally there was the importance of showing up. During commercial jobs, we had to be on site at 7:30 AM. 10 minute break at 10:00 AM. 30 minute lunch at noon. 10 minute break at 2:00 PM. 4:30 PM work ended for the day. First day late, go home without pay. Second day late; you're fired. Show less

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  University of Florida (BEBR: Bureau of Economic and Business Research)

  Apr 2009 - Dec 2009

  Research Assistant

  Research assistant for the Director of CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research). Gathered research data for comparing the academic and research merits of Florida’s top universities both amongst themselves and nationally for the 2010-2014 CIBER grant proposal. UF won the grant

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  National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology

  Apr 2010 - Aug 2010

  Tutor

  While I studied Mandarin Chinese in the Traditional writing form I worked as a tutor in two capacities:1.) English for one Freshman class and one Sophomore class2.) Two way translation English and Mandarin for one Law School student.

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  CEPI (Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement)

  Aug 2011 - Jun 2012

  Data Collector

  This was a paid contract position with the Center for Evaluation for Program Improvement in Nashville, TN for Health Research. I was referred by my Statistics Professor. Specifically the position dealt with traveling to Army bases for data collection which would be analyzed with SAS to ascertain the effectiveness of the U.S. Army's PDHRA program. This program was the final step for American soldiers before they are honorably discharged and allowed to rejoin their families and pursue civilian careers.The concerns of "effectiveness" of the program stem from geographic variation and variation in health care professional who may be conducting the PDHRA (Post Deployment Health Reassessment) for the soldier. The U.S. Army bases included Fort Campbell, Fort Stuart, and Fort Carson. Show less

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  Vanderbilt University

  Aug 2011 - Jun 2012

  Teaching Assistant

  1.) Two 50 person undergraduate courses, but for the same topic under the same professor. Latin American Economic Development. Course was grounded in Economic theory in the sense that mathematics for tests and homework were done by hand. I was the grader for homework and exams, as well as conducted review sessions for the students. 2.) One 20 person Econometrics course. Secondary TA utilized for tutoring help and statistical programming help.

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  IgnitionOne

  Dec 2012 - Apr 2016

  BI Engineer

  During my 3.5 years at IgnitionOne, I was promoted four times, ending on on BI Engineer in 2015. I was on a team of seven brilliant, hardworking, folks that I learned invaluable skills from every day. The two main components of the workload were data warehouse improvement and report automation. Those environments include Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Amazon Web Services, and Hadoop. I was global support for North and South America, Europe, and East Asia working in an Agile Environment with two week sprints answering tickets via JIRA queue and documenting in Confluence. Prior, I had been essentially working on two tasks 1.) Reporting 2.) Statistical Modeling for one topic, Marketing Attribution. Marketing data is at User level. Include web request data from tracking pixels on in house products, event logs, and impression logs via API. I also worked on query optimization and algorithm design including reducing run time of legacy SQL queries from hours to minutes or seconds. Also, I participated in client interaction with presentations in ATL, NYC, and Boston. Lastly, I had a direct report (an intern) for 3 months. Cross Channel Statistical Modeling is still very much in my life, but is definitely extra mile work at the moment. I am working on two research papers concerning the topic with a Professor and a Post Doc at the University of Toronto. They visit ATL, and are kind enough to fly me to Toronto while we work on the papers. Show less

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  Big Squid, Inc.

  Apr 2016 - Sept 2016

  Data Scientist

  Two main components. 1. Technical Consulting: Data Architecture. Set up AWS services, EC2, S3, and Redshift for client(s) for data ingestion from Adobe Site Catalyst and connection to a BI Server - Domo. 2. Predictive Modeling: R programmer.

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  GE

  Oct 2016 - Feb 2022

  Sr. Lead Software Engineer

  I started off as a software engineer in the area of Infrastructure-as-code. Was promoted to Senior level after 18 months. I performed not only duties of a Software Engineer, but also SysAdmin, and Solution Architect for centralized cloud team for all of GE on two cloud platforms (AWS & Azure). Year 3, I became lead of corporate's cloud education program that was open to *all* GE employees. AWS Technical Community Member 2018, 2019, 2020, & 2021. Member of the month, multiple times. Presentations: AWS re:Invent 2018 ARC201, 2019 Chalk Talk. AWS Innovate 2018. A Cloud Guru webinar.1. Account/Subscription (and VPC/VNET) provisioning and deletion.2. GE Public Cloud data - Asset and Cost data3. Root Access management4. Merger & Acquisition The tools I use are: 1. Python/Boto3, SQL, Shell (and PowerShell), Golang, and R. 2. Cloud Platform native resources (Amazon S3, Redshift, CloudFormation, etc. Cloud Shell and DBs on Azure side).3. Open source tooling (Jenkins, Docker for example). GE State of GA Ambassador program member. Show less

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  JPMorgan Chase & Co.

  Feb 2022 - now

  Vice President, Software Engineer

  Doing all I can to help migrate workloads for our Lines of Business to the public cloud. AWS focused. Terraform Enterprise and Python/Boto3 are main tools. Would like to get GoLang blueprints released. Help with Solution Architecture too.