Ask Me About
Cloud Data Platforms, Data Warehousing, Cloud Cost Management, Data Visualization and the Well-Architected Framework
Work Experience
I got my MBA in 2003 and upon re-entering the workforce I found myself gravitating to data tools to answer the questions I was being asked. After two stints in the Financial Services space, I joined Centric in 2012.
My consistent approach to data analytics since the beginning has been to create repeatable frameworks that can be used to focus on generating actionable insights both for something being worked on now as well as in the future. Leveraging the Well-Architected Framework and industry best practices, we consistently design our solutions to load and transform efficiently, and organize and store data flexibly and in an extensible way.
I’ve led numerous full stack Cloud Data Solution implementations of Centric’s Insurance Analytics Platform on Azure as well as implementing various types of solutions on AWS, Qlik and Kafka and have taken that experience to develop a standard assessment, tools, and customizable alerting around Cloud Cost Management.
Get to Know Me
I live north of Boston with my wife, my son, 2 dogs and 2 cats. In the free time that I manage to find, I love to get outside to play golf, fish, and hike. I’m almost done climbing the 48 4000 foot peaks in New Hampshire, and I look forward to extending that to the 100 highest in New England.
Once I’ve earned my calories, I love making (and eating) sausage, cooking some great barbeque on my smoker and traveling to explore the local breweries, coffee roasters, farmers markets and Barbeque restaurants wherever I go.
I also find myself messing around with different technologies outside just what I do for work to feed my need learn and do things better. For Centric’s last two CampIO conferences, I developed a mobile app that allowed me to monitor the food temp and adjust the cooking temp in my Smoker, and then built a mobile app that could allow a camera on a tripod to follow the ball and record the soccer game for my son’s games.
What’s the best trip you’ve ever taken and why?
In 2019, my wife and I celebrated our anniversary by doing a 5 day trek to Machu Picchu in Peru. We got to see some world class scenery, eat some amazing food and make some great friends from all over the world.
What’s your favorite book & why?
I have read Travels by Michael Crichton probably 5 or 6 times. I find it a fascinating autobiographical reflection of his amazing experiences as well as how he thinks about the world, people and himself. I’ve taken so many lessons from what he wrote and an unending curiosity about the world as a whole.
