Joe Nudi

Joe Nudi

Information Technology Manager

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Chief Data Architect

  • Education

    • Union College

      1999 - 2004
      BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • The University of Texas at San Antonio

      2003 - 2003
  • Experience

    • HelpPRO.com

      Feb 2005 - Aug 2008
      Information Technology Manager

      Completely overhauled this mental health resource website including: initial concept design, planned data mappings and process flows, performed initial and ongoing server configuration and administrationCreated a new data model for the entire site and converted all active pages as well as adding several moreDeveloped VBScript code and incorporated the code into an HTML design template for reusabilityManaged a small team that assisted with large volume work and highly specialized tasksInitiated the process of converting the site from outdated VBScript code to the MS .NET family by way of C# Show less

    • Kaiser Permanente

      Oct 2005 - Nov 2007
      Senior Data Manager

      Involved in multiple national and intra-regional projects throughout all of the phases of the SDLC in addition to test and production runs on the majority of these projects while managing a small team of junior to intermediate developers and reporting on project budget for this groupDeveloped large volume solutions and multiple source to target mappings using Ab Initio and InformaticaProvided ideas and advice during the planning and design phases were selected for use in multi-million dollar projects including the Mid-Atlantic EDW and the National Fraud, Waste, and Abuse projectsInstrumental in creating a connector/listener mechanism for ETL tools to connect to Cache (a hierarchical database) without requiring FTP – a key component that was recently still being used in Kaiser Permanente’s Mid-Atlantic Data Warehouse architecture today Show less

    • CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

      Nov 2007 - Mar 2020

      Provided strategic project engagement and management on more than five large projects at a time, ensuring deliverables met their dates for the scope of work required while directly managing a team of resourcesOversaw approximately 20 team members while communicating daily with executive management while responsible for 30% of the ETL development under the Data Warehouse DirectorCreated a database for the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) to sunset an application that did not meet their needsDelivered a data mart for SIU which was the source for both a SalesForce application built as well as a reporting layer for analytics and vendor extractsStepped up to manage and maintain the SIU SalesForce implementation in the following year as there was no one in the company with any familiarity with the toolset, resulting in developing my understanding of SalesForce to build an in-house application and supported it for over a yearEngaged in investigating Big Data solutions using Hive, Oozie, Sqoop, and other Cloudera tools for HadoopSourced data from urgent care facilities via messaging queues (some batch and some real-time), ingested them into Hadoop, and eventually pushed data to our downstream reporting layers Show less Increased management and strategic involvement, focusing two to four large projects concurrently with smaller efforts on a 10 person team, including contractors, communicating with executive management at least weekly Engaged in higher-level strategy for the entire 200 person team with responsibility for roughly 20% of the ETL development under the Data Warehouse DirectorDeveloped a high quality Risk Calculation prototype in Excel for 3Rs (a major program of the Affordable Care Act) coded in MS Excel VBA, which the business users initially mistook for the finished productDelivered all additional enhancements and reports for 3Rs including presenting to the internal executive management team on a quarterly basisTrained team members on the next submission year as we made improvements and enhancementsDetermined major issues in code and architecture of the Claims EDM Rebuild program and determined clear methods to address these issuesOverhauled the Claims EDM Rebuild application and ended up bringing the nightly runtime for millions of records with non-trivial joins across ~50 tables down to just above 2 hours from 48+ hours on the heaviest of data loads Show less Significant hands-on development efforts with strategic and technical leadership roles throughout the entirety of project lifecycles, focusing on a few large projects concurrently, with any necessary maintenance work on a small team of both associate and contractor resourcesFor the 3Rs Buildout for the Affordable Care Act, Built out a new Data Mart to function as both a reporting layer internally and as a staging layer for data to be sent to the CMS/Federal Edge Servers during submission timeframesSolved a complex issue related to the Life ID system at CareFirst by creating my own system to uniquely identify IDs submitted to the government and persist them over time despite variance in the core systemOur project was considered a major success for the company as we did an excellent job in submissions with one of the lowest error rates in the country and was a large contribution in my being selected as the company Spirit Award winner for the IT division in 2014 out of ~800 other individuals Show less Provided tactical and strategic design input for a small team of both associate and contractor resources, focusing on new projects while also engaging in O&M on previous work, engaging with data, system, and enterprise architecture teams with the business from the requirements phase onward to deliver the desired functionalityDeveloped a Tibco JMSQ for Electronic Billing and Payment messaging service to capture changes to the Facets database for Electronic Billing and PaymentReplaced the Provider Data Store correcting on-going issues with the previous data store due to the heavy usage of User Defined Attributes (UDAs) in the Portico source system due to 5th normal form constraintsBuilt out 50+ tables in our data acquisition layer using Informatica PowerExchange and 20-30 tables in our target Provider ODS with Informatica PowerCenter Show less

      • Data Services Manager

        Oct 2016 - Mar 2020
      • Data Warehouse Supervisor

        Sept 2014 - Oct 2016
      • Data & Informatics Lead Specialist

        Feb 2012 - Sept 2014
      • Data & Informatics Lead Developer

        Nov 2007 - Feb 2012
    • World Resources Institute

      Jul 2009 - Dec 2010
      Technical Consultant

      Created a web application that served as an interface for the Water Risk Index, an application capable of calculating the perceived “water risk” for a given area based upon absolute and trend values for key water indicators. Engaged members from the World Resource Institute, Goldman Sachs, GE, and their technical partners to develop this project from concept design to finished productCrafted business requirements and concepts into logical and technical deliverables such as website design, database modeling and instantiation, and application development Project released to positive reviews during the its unveiling at the World Water Week in Stockholm Show less

    • The National Institutes of Health

      Jan 2011 - Dec 2015
      Technical Consultant

      Worked on-call with the Office of the Director to prepare their annual congressional report Utilized Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) work in Excel to help automate consolidation of multiple sheets to one for analysis and division of single sheets to many for dispersal to the various NIH divisions with additional VB coding of macros and other data profiling, validation, and protection requirementsIncreased efficiency to take a project that had a full time resource for 6-12 weeks a year down to 4-8 hours a year Show less

    • Amida Technology Solutions

      Dec 2020 - Nov 2022
      EDW Architect Engineer
    • Amida Technology Solutions

      Apr 2023 - now
      • Chief Data Architect

        Nov 2022 - now
      • Vice President Service Delivery

        Apr 2023 - now
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jul 2020
    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jul 2020