MountainStache

Experience

Guide and manage Zonar's data services efforts and cloud technologies
Provide short and long term product roadmaps, assess revenue opportunity, and manage the product backlog throughout the product development lifecycle
Migrate enterprise data infrastructure from on-premise systems to event streaming architecture on cloud platforms
Drive development and implement technologies to enable dependent cross functional product teams while streamlining current technologies
Work with internal and external stakeholders to gather product requirements
Define metrics to inform product planning and prioritization using analysis and optimization tools
Drive optimization and process improvements between product design, architecture, IT, project management, and development teams

Design and develop custom solutions to address customer needs as identified by the sales and professional services teams
Partner with customers to gather and understand product requirements and develop products in collaboration with architecture and development teams
Participate in development of new products, modification of current products, and termination of ineffective products
Coordinate and develop custom integrations between the Zonar Platform and 3rd party software using APIs and cloud platform technology
Collaborate with cross functional teams to identify, research, report, and resolution of product issues

Create and maintain digital maps database for the Northwestern United States
Plan and perform field data collection using several different GPS tools
Coordinate geocoding projects with overseas production offices and serve as a subject matter expert
Develop and maintain relationships with local government and private organizations to acquire and integrate external map source data
Pilot specialty projects on a regional scale to be rolled out globally
Utilize Python and SQL to query and manipulate large spatial databases
Effectively plan and schedule work to meet strict deadlines with strict quality requirements

Create and edit maps to be used as a part of the Google Maps products
Use an aesthetic eye and follow cartographic policies and procedures to create a visually appealing map on the front-end presentation
Develop policy and pilot mapping processes to be used by many operators in several parts of the world
Lead elite team to investigate and debug feature-rendering issues before data is pushed to Maps products
Use SQL to analyze productivity and quality data and metrics
Complete projects independently and cooperatively with teams across the globe

Expertise with product management tools including JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Aha!, Visio, and Smartsheet

Expertise creating business intelligence dashboards using Tableau, Jaspersoft and Splunk

Familiarity with PostgreSQL, PostGIS, BigQuery, Python, HTML and JavaScript

Montana State University
Bachelor's of Science - Earth Science, Snow Geography Option (2011)

Undergraduate Scholars Research Program Grant Recipient (2011)

Certified Scrum Master
Lean Six Sigma White Belt

Cloud Architecture and Event Streaming Infrastructure Migration
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Fuel Transaction Matching Tool
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Custom Data Analytics Platform
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Outdoor Map Feature Data Sourcing and Ingestion
Subject Matter Expert and Project Lead - HERE Maps

Ski Resorts Mapping Project
Subject Matter Expert and Process Developer - Google Maps