Experience

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  Groeger special tooling

  Jan 1976 - Jan 1985

  General manager

  Head of administration and shop foreman for tool and die business. Led team for daily operational floor production, and led operational efficiencies design. Increased production and improved safety through continuous improvement and sustainability model. Improved annual revenue by cost efficient process improvements, lean shop floor design improvements, and supply chain cost reductions through negotiations and regular monitoring of suppliers.

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  Midlands technical college

  Jan 1985 - Jan 1986

  Assembler lanquage tutor
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  University of south carolina

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1987

  Mainframe programmer - cobol, assembler, cics
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  Policy management systems, inc.

  Jan 1987 - Jan 1989

  System engineer - supervisor
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  Integrated business systems & services

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1991

  Vice president / co-founder
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  Bank of america

  Jan 1991 - Jan 1995

  Database administrator
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  Ingram book company

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1997

  Senior database administrator - team lead
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  Aig

  Dec 1997 - May 2020

  Director data management

  My experience with AIG was in the area of Data Management solutions. I led domestic and offshore resources to deliver Data Lake and Data Warehouse hybrid cloud solutions by leveraging Talend Big Data Integration for ETL, SnowFlake for Data Warehousing, and Cassandra for API delivery. The data was extracted from multiple disparate legacy data sources and loaded into the murky data lake "un-touched". The data was then curated against code standardization for reference data management and then provisioned to the clear data lake where data was aligned with business requirements. The data was then loaded into the SnowFlake cloud for Data Warehousing for both data analysis and provisioning to the Cassandra NoSQL database for API consumption.In addition, I was the Head Administrator for the Chief Data Office, leading and managing all budgets and forecast against actuals for both OpEx and CapEx forecasts. I managed all contractor SOWs , and I negotiated and managed all vendor contracts for software procurement and renewals for the Data Management Solutions team. Show less

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  Caterpillar financial services corporation

  Dec 2020 - Dec 2023

  Data strategy manager

  At Cat Financial, I orchestrated the development and implementation of the Data Strategy, Data Management, and Data Governance programs as a pivotal strategic enterprise initiative in 2021. In this capacity, I guided my team in establishing a robust Data Governance framework for Data Management solutions, emphasizing the leveraging of data as an asset through Data Quality and Data Stewardship programs to provision data as a product. As part of this work, I crafted a multi-year roadmap and staff model, ensuring operational continuity by the end of 2023. Show less

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  White cap

  Sept 2024 - Jun 2025

  Manager, data management

  As Manager of Data Management at White Cap, I lead a dedicated team responsible for consolidating and analyzing diverse data sources to maintain data quality and streamline processes for integration into our master data management system.

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  Cocanougher asset management

  Jun 2025 - now

  Director of technology