Blake Murray

Experience

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  SMART Public Safety Software

  Oct 2000 - Mar 2005

  Software Engineer
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  University of Northern Iowa

  Apr 2005 - May 2012

  Information Systems Specialist
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  Veridian Credit Union

  May 2012 - Sept 2017

  Senior Database Administrator
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  RSM US LLP

  Sept 2017 - Nov 2022

  Promoted three times for outstanding performance in IT Data Infrastructure, Solution Engineering, and Database Administration for this leader in tax/audit/consulting for the middle market. I directed a team of five remote data engineers focused on delivering scalable data solutions, serving as subject matter experts for all cloud data technologies and on-premise platforms. In this leadership role, I led development of POCs for new applications and automation initiatives.Organizational Data Transformation 📌Ensured maximum application availability and performance by leading the development of technical standards, procedures, and techniques for various Data and Storage Technologies across many platforms. Show less Designed a new position and promoted to lead company efforts to transition to the Cloud space.Organizational Data Transformation 📌Instrumental in building the Enterprise Data Platform that the company continues to use today as the SME on cloud data resources. Engaged with other engineering teams to improve the lifecycle of services on our platform.Cost Savings Champion📌Implemented recommendations on cloud data resourcing, contributing to a cross-functional team’s cloud data cost-to-utilization analysis. Show less Promoted to develop a pattern for company data and its use and access. I served as the subject matter expert for database resources, data security, and data integrations.Notable Accomplishments📌Reduced the risk of data breaches by developing an automated data obfuscation process for production data that would cleanse it of personally identifiable information so that no identifiable client information was inserted into non-production environments.📌Advanced the performance of the overall database architecture through best practices design, installation, configuration, technical support, and maintenance of the MS SQL Enterprise databases in a Storage Area Network.📌Mentored and trained junior Database staff, leading to promotions to more senior roles. Show less

  • Manager of Data Engineering

    Jun 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Data Technology Lead- IT Infrastructure Platform

    Aug 2021 - Jun 2022

  • SQL Database Solutions Engineer - Sr, Senior Database Administrator

    Sept 2017 - Aug 2021
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  Donaldson

  Nov 2022 - now

  Senior Principal Enterprise Architect - Data

  Recruited for 20+ years of experience with Data across multiple engineering, administration, and database positions for this $3.4B global leader in the filtration industry with locations in over 40 countries and over 2,800 active US and international patents.Organizational Data Transformation 📌Developed and is currently implementing a three-year roadmap for data strategy, highly endorsed across the enterprise.📌Architected, designed, developed, and implemented capabilities and data models for enterprise-level applications and systems, spearheading the expanded use of data as a strategic enabler of corporate goals and objectives. 📌Built the company’s data governance program from the ground up to support future company revenue growth. Gained leadership and stakeholder interest in a current POC around Data Catalog, lineage, and Quality.📌Envisioned a data marketplace towards the end of our three-year data roadmap that enables a self-service model for improved business decision-making and becomes available once robust data governance is in place.📌Facilitated the development of the best solutions for business use cases and set the blueprint for how data flows through the enterprise by applying different data architectures, models, patterns, and integrations. Championed using technologies and tools that support Cloud, AI, ML, IoT, and Data as a Service. Reduction of Technical Debt 📌Led cross functional team from proof of concept to implementation a solution archival program to reduce technical debt from past acquisitions by eliminating hardware, licensing, and internal support 📌Collaborated with an archival service provider to build a custom solution for archival. Show less