Gregory A. Bethardy

4471 Pembrooke Ct., Stow, OH 44224, Phone: (330) 807-4095

OBJECTIVE/OVERVIEW

To obtain a position doing data science and BigData (Hadoop) architecture/development

Ph.D. in a computational science with demonstrated ability in solving value-driven, business problems by

applying the scientific approach and data analysis

Over 20 years of professional IT experience, including architecture, infrastructure, disaster recovery, statistical

and predictive modeling, and application development. Performed work for fortune 50 companies across all

verticals, on a variety of enterprise solution designs/implementations. Current interests include Big Data and

Advanced Analytics and how to leverage Predictive Analytics with Big Data technology. Worked with several

companies on the use and implementation of Big Data and BA/BI platforms and products to solve customer’s

business problems

  · Hadoop/HUE administration and development

(Cloudera Certified)

  · Hadoop Ecosystem tools including Hive, Pig,

Flume, Sqoop, HBase

  · Other NoSQL technologies including Apache

Cassandra

  · Python, R, Java, Ruby/Rails, etc.

  · Machine Learning, Mahout and others Cloud

platforms including AWS, Rackspace, Azure,

Google

  · Hadoop appliances, IBM BigData Platform,

Oracle Big Data Solution

  · Data analytics and visualization tools including

Tableau, SpotFire, Jaspersoft, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Architect and Solution Strategist for the Business Analytics/Intelligence Practice

Vertex Computer Systems, Inc. March 2014 to Present

  · Development of Business Analytics Practice IP and documentation

  · Authored web blogs on running Hadoop in the Cloud, on appliances, and in-house

  · Lead off-shore Hadoop team training efforts

  · Generated Hadoop/BigData use-cases, ran development of POC’s for manufacture, insurance, and

marketing

  · Presented in the BigData Panel at the NEOSA CIO Symposium 2014

Principal Architect/Consultant, Data Scientist

VOLUNTAS Consulting Services, LLC, July 2010 to Present

  · Hadoop and NoSQL course delivery

  · Data science and exploratory data analysis

  · Modern High-performance/distributed computing and open systems Integration for full life cycle Big

Data/Business Analytics (Cloudera Hadoop certified)

  · High Availability/Disaster Recovery deployments in Enterprise to SMB business environments

  · Virtualization planning and deployments

.

Principal Consultant/Architect

Symantec/Veritas Software Corporation, Inc., Dec 2000 to March 2014

  · Delivered High Availability/Disaster Recovery and Data Protection architectures for business critical

applications. Complex custom implementations (PERL, PHP, javascript, Korn shell) of distributed,

business applications

  · Generated documentation and training materials. Delivered client custom training courses

  · Subject matter expert for the development of the Veritas Certification Tests for HA/DR

  · Managed implementation projects on Linux, UNIX, Windows, and VMware/Other Virtualization

environments, all OS/Storage platforms (EMC, Hitachi, NetApp, etc.)

  · Experience with Fortune 500 companies across all verticals

  · Involved in discussions for the Hadoop initiative for NetBackup (supply chain optimization)

  · Cardinal Health - Netbackup Opscenter Analytics architecture/deployment, developed custom SQL

schema/stored procedures, developed PERL integration into existing business analytic engines, pilot and

deployment for VADP Backups for VMWare Linux and Windows hosts, train Cardinal staff

Senior Consultant - LDA Consulting/Computer Associates, Int., Sept. 1998 to Dec 2000. Enterprise

Management (SNMP, Unicenter TNG), Solaris System Administration, Manage SUN E10k Servers/Storage and

clusters,.

Senior Consultant - Crawford Consulting, Inc., Aug. 1996 to Sept. 1998. Development of client/server

database applications including analysis, design, prototype, specifying and coding, managed staff consultants at

client sites, performed training of application users,.

Research Scientist - Argonne National Laboratory, Chemistry Division, Theoretical Chemistry Group, Sept.

1993 to Aug. 1996. Involved in high performance computing, development, optimization, maintenance, and

porting of software for computer simulations and modeling of molecular dynamics on the Massively Parallel

IBM SP2, development of statistical and classification algorithms for data analysis, AIX System

Administration, UNIX script programming,

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., The University of Akron, Chemical Physics, 1993

B.A., The University of Akron, Chemistry, 1987

PRESENTATIONS: 12, Presented at 2014 NEOSA CIO Symposium on BigData

PUBLICATIONS: 17, for example “Hierarchical structure in the 3v1

band of Propyne)” which used

hierarchical clustering analysis from the machine learning literature for classification of molecular properties

CERTIFICATIONS: Cloudera Hadoop Administration Course/Certification, Symantec Certified Professional

(HA UNIX /Windows), Certified Unicenter Engineer, VMWare VSSP, SUN System Admin, Microsoft MCSE

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: Cleveland Big Data and Hadoop User Group, Akron Hadoop and Big Data,

Pi Mu Epsilon National Honorary Mathematics Society, The Mathematical Association of America