Bradley Garrett

Experience

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  NGA

  Dec 1988 - Jan 1995

  Database Administrator

  Responsible for development, data integrity, and system maintenance utilizing Model 204 DBMS, JCL, TSO, ISPF, REXX and FORTRAN on large-scale IBM mainframe systems. Performed system maintenance tasks including file reorganizations, file and system modifications and recovery procedures. Responsible for system data integrity investigation, resolution of discrepancy reports and comparisons of data stored off-site. Held Top Secret - SBI clearance.

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  Texas Health Resources

  Jan 1995 - Feb 2000

  Managed and delivered technical work on or below budget and consistently met Customer delivery expectations. Established, monitored, documented and reported schedule milestones and checkpoints for significant software development projects. Conceived and presented IS solutions and recommendations to Key Clients. Assisted with development of department technology strategy and direction. Coordinated overall system analysis, design, documentation and testing. Recruited and hired technical staff to support established goals for the department. Show less Technical leader for large-scale new development projects in an IBM mainframe environment using Model 204 DBMS, JCL, and SAS. Gathered user specifications to create detailed design and specification documentation. Designed, coded and unit tested software during project development phase. Assisted staff with quality assurance testing and monitored delivered systems after production implementation. Provided technical support and mentoring to programmers. Interviewed prospective Information Technology personnel. Show less

  • Project Manager

    Nov 1997 - Feb 2000

  • Programmer/Analyst

    Jan 1995 - Nov 1997
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  Allied Riser Communications

  Jun 2000 - May 2001

  Product Manager

  Responsible for all aspects of managed firewall and VPN products including definition, pricing, back office deployment, vendor relationships, marketing collateral, employee training, and product launch. Constructed business cases, collected competitive information to reposition product. Directed Project Managers in development of project plans, specifying goals, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources. Worked with Engineering, Operations, and Sales to provide technical training and resolve problems. Show less

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  Citi Assurance Services, Inc.

  May 2001 - Jan 2013

  Recruited and managed staff of database administrators / programmers, data architects, and developers. Managed multi-terabyte SQL server data warehouse accessed using business objects reporting system. Managed enterprise content management systems, including document capture, indexing, storage, and workflow.• Installed and customized vendor-developed data warehouse solution, providing immediate access to information previously only available via COBOL programs on mainframe, resulting in users utilizing system for analytics and operational reporting.• Established business objects enterprise server for standard and ad hoc reporting for finance, actuarial, marketing and operations departments, allowing IT to focus on operational systems and less on report development, leading to faster project turn-around times.• Installed Microsoft SharePoint team services and set up sites and procedures for business collaboration, improving communications between team members and departments while facilitating sharing of critical documents with auditors and regulators.• Redesigned electronic content management applications, streamlining access to documents and workflow.• Evaluated hardware and software system, recommending new applications and meeting business requirements. Show less Recruit and manage a staff of Project Managers, Business Systems Analysts and Quality Assurance Analysts. Establish, document, and monitor Systems Development Life Cycle and Quality Assurance policy and procedures. Report status of systems requests to senior management and business owners. Coordinate and track development resource assignments to ensure optimal utilization.• Built a PMO department and documented policies and procedures that conformed to Citigroup audit standards• Hired Project Managers and Quality Assurance testers, worked with the business to provide visibility to IT requests and deliveries and ensured traceability for production changes• IT Department passed all internal and external audits with minimal findings Show less

  • Senior Manager, Distributed Systems & Data Warehousing

    Dec 2002 - Jan 2013

  • Senior Manager, PMO

    May 2001 - Dec 2002
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  OneMain

  Jan 2013 - Jul 2016

  Senior Manager, Data Management and Imaging

  Provided vision and strategy and standards for all enterprise data management activities. Negotiated with vendors on multi-million dollar contracts for hardware / software. Partnered with business leaders to improve data acquisition, quality, and access to support marketing, risk and financial information requirements.• Developed and implemented enterprise data management and enterprise document management strategies and roadmaps resulting in consistent analytics, demonstrated data lineage to regulators and ability to react quickly to change.• Negotiated multi-million-dollar contract with vendor, implementing data warehousing solution, providing immediate access to required business information, while reducing number of data repositories from 8 to 1.• Enabled electronic document capture capabilities through vendor negotiation, installing 2.5K multi-function printers and 1.3K check printers in 1.1K branches across US and Canada, reducing printing and maintenance fees $1MM. Show less

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  T. Rowe Price

  Feb 2017 - Jul 2018

  Technical Solutions Manager

  Responsible for the planning, design and implementation of multiple, highly complex and large technical data solutions. Manages a diverse technical team’s activities and is accountable for the end to end solutions delivery, including promotion to the production environment, handover to Enterprise Support Services teams, and support during the burn-in period. Responsible for partnering with the Project Manager/Program, Business Leaders and other technical to ensure alignment with organizational and project objectives. Manages multiple, enterprise-wide technical data solutions.Currently working on migrating on-premise large-scale operational and analytic data stores from mainframe DB2 to AWS-based service (S3, Snowflake, Aurora Postgres). Includes migrating ETL code from Informatica PowerCenter to Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. Show less

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  The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

  Jul 2018 - now

  Data Services Manager

  Responsible for the Data Access Service area, which include Data Virtualization (Denodo), Business Analytics (PowerBI, SSRS, Tableau, Custom Apps), and Information Catalog (Metadata Management, Data Library). Work with multiple business partners to find and expose data sources and make them easily available to managers and analysts across the Lab.