Brian Daniels

31 Bethal Lane Commack, N.Y. 11725 • Cell: 631-992-1433

Email: slybri123@gmail.com

Professional Profile

             Hands-on technical leader with 15+ years of broad IT experience in design, architecture and implementation. Adept at applying knowledge of architectural principles and practices with a focus on Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Business and Operational Analytics. Proven ability to forge strong relationships with key business stakeholders, collaborating on technical solutions for both strategic and tactical information management and insights delivery. Co-inventor of several patents, ability to think outside-the-box when needed, while delivering enterprise scale solutions aligning to corporate and business goals.

Expertise Highlights

§ Architecture (Enterprise Solutions)

Designed and implemented BI and Analytical platforms from end to end encompassing

o Network components/protocols (LAN/WAN, Layers 1-3, TCPIP, ICMP, SNMP, Firewall/Load Balancing Persistence/Round Robin, Least Sessions, VPN, VPC)

o Hardware components (Dedicated stand-alone, blade chassis, UCS, Virtual V-Sphere, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization)

o Storage Components (Tape, Spindle, Flash/SSD, Fiber Channel, NAS, SAN)

o Data modeling Components (Reverse Engineering, Logical and Physical models)

o Data Governance/ETL/ELT Job components (Data Quality, Data Standards, Data Security, Data Normalization)

o Data Warehousing/Big Data components (RBDMS, NOSQL, MPP, Hadoop)

o Data High Availability (Persistent Transport System , MYSQL replication Master/Slave, Golden Gate)

o Application/Mid-Tier components (J2EE, PHP, Tomcat, SAS Stored Procedure, SAS OLAP)

§ BI/Analytics Expertise

Proven experience with complex and advanced analytical platforms.

o Advanced Analytics

§  SAS Enterprise BI/DI Suite (Enterprise Guide, OLAP, BI Portal, Management Console, Compute Server)

§  WebFocus (Developer Studio, InfoAssist, Reporting Server Management)

§  SPSS (Data aggregation, basic forecasting models)

§  BI/Virtualization clients/Portal solutions (MicroStrategy, Tableau, Qlik Sense)

§  Microsoft 365 Suite (Power Pivot, Power Map, Dashboard Creation)

o Analytical appliances or technology

§  MPP (Netezza) centralized Data Staging, Operational Data store, and Analytical DW.

§  Hadoop (Ambari, Hive, Beeswax, Hbase, HCatalog, Oozie ,Yarn, Storm/Kafka)

§  NOSQL (MongoDB (Key value stores, Documents), Hbase (wide column stores)

§ Business Relations

Spearheaded business relationship management between technology solutions and the business.

o Collaborated with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and blueprints.

o Coordinate with architects and business experts across IS to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable roadmaps and designs.

§ Innovation

Ability to think outside of the box, build custom architectures, proven innovations through several patents and complex technical solutions to address various enterprise business challenges.

Professional Experience

Cablevision Systems Corporation, NY, CT, and NJ

Director Information Management

2012-Feb2015

Progressive experience managing operational support systems, intelligence frameworks, and development/support teams responsible for the integration and collection of business critical data. Continuously leveraged information technology investments to deliver insights and information to the business with focus on data governance, data quality, and data completeness.

·   Developed short and long term vision and strategic plans in alignment with and support for the organizations strategies and goals.

·   Ensure department adherence to company standards and data governance strategies.

·   Oversight of all technical activities, and plans to ensure continuity and succession for all critical management positions within the team.

·   Awarded Patent : System and method for detecting hacked modems

(Patent Pub No: US 2012/0030724)

·   Architected and Deployed enterprise ETL framework with native Big Data and Hadoop integration capabilities.

·   Invested in data modeling software and web portal to provide logical and physical data models that can be shared internally/externally.

·   Centralization of operational data from element management systems, data marts, and flat files

·   Agile approach leveraged to deliver top priority business needs rapidly.

·   Translated business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns, such as adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability.

·   Actively engaged in a defined process to keep senior leadership current on trends, new practices and new solutions such as big data, real-time analytics, data integration efficiencies and service management strategies.

·   Maintained performance of system elements from a cost, budget, scalability and agility perspective in line with existing plan and forecast.

·   Secured and expanded MPP framework to expedite data processing, trend analysis, and support predictive analytics, and operational reporting.

·   Established Data publication hub to distribute data downstream to applications, and engineering and operational teams.

·   Established departmental user, data, and security policies.

·   Assured enterprise application integration by selecting tools, specifying shared data and code resources, defining interfaces and data-flows, and monitoring progress.

·   Developed, enhanced, and maintained reference architectures for various capabilities.

Director System and Metrics

2011- 2012

Managed a team of developers, and analysts focused on improving operational data intelligence. This led to a reduction in outage time, increase in predicting impairments, improved communication channels, and streamlined business processes.

·   Reduced network downtime by continuing to improve monitoring capabilities.

·   Capturing and managing change led to avoiding conflicts and reduced overall “Self-inflicted” customer downtime

·   Preformed Risk Analysis capturing potential reputational and financial impact due to network/device repetitive failures.

·   Originated hacked modem analysis and Fraud detection algorithms driving down theft.

·   Performed design reviews across company and collected enterprise architecture performance metrics to assure continuous improvement.

·   In-depth experience establishing best practices and guidelines for selecting, developing, and implementing information systems within enterprise.

·   Successful background working with stakeholders to develop architecture framework that aligns strategy, processes, and IT assets with business goals.

·   Increased network reliability which continues to provide an overall better customer experience.

·   Initiated and developed Subscriber usage analysis, and Network exception reporting.

·   Implementation of a MPP appliance and migration initiative to enterprise Data Warehouse framework.

·   Consolidation and centralization of NMS, Field and customer related toolsets.

·   Designed and launched executive and operational reporting/dashboards.

·   Analyze business and technology challenges, assess costs, and suggest solutions.

·   Create future vision architecture to expedite delivery of new products and services to market while meeting company’s cost and risk reduction objectives.

·   Work closely with project managers, developers, and focus groups to avoid redundancy, minimize expenditures, and improve overall synergy within organization.

Director Network Operations

1998 - 2010

Progressive experience expanding management teams to continue to support business unit growth initiatives affecting the NOC Operations center, Change Management, and Metrics and Engineering which included application development, and infrastructure support. Managed and developed operational and capital budgets and revised forecasts for each fiscal year.  Project managed, negotiated, and created ROI's to justify costs for expansion, and investment in new technologies.

·   Procured and deployed enterprise Fault Management and Performance Metrics systems

·   Improved Event correlation and escalation/notification processes

·   Enhanced customer experience reducing MTTR by 30%-40%

·   Launched self-service tools and reporting portal

( SAS BI solution)

·   Awarded Patent: Designed and delivered WiFi system to support multi-vendor deployments

(Patent Pub No: US 2010/0322214A1)

·   Creation and Implementation of companywide policies and Procedures

·   Managed developed and deployed change management system.

·   Launched SAS analytical tools suite.

·   Acquired and integrated notification and escalation paging system.

·   Conducted evolution planning for systems and technologies and maintained application life cycle inventory.

·   Acute knowledge of hardware, software, networking, applications, and systems engineering.

·   Centralization, and consolidation of element management systems

·   Increased efficiency of key business processes.

·   Supported and managed initial HPAP emergency preparedness plan for Operations

·   Deployed Return Path Monitoring system to help troubleshoot plant anomalies from central location.

·   Collaboratively developed and deployed Trouble ticketing schemas within remedy framework.

·   Envisioned and managed development of plant/customer inventory system.

·   Managed deployment of OOB Network in 48 facilities to support monitoring and remote access capabilities.

·   Design and execute proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.

Skills Summary

·   Data Modeling (CA Erwin), Data mining, profiling (Reverse Engineering), querying and analyzing data.

·   SAS (9.4 Enterprise Guide/BI Portal, SAS metadata, Scheduling, Data Integration studio.

·   Familiar with WebFocus 8.1, MicroStrategy Portal, Tableau, and Qlik Sense.

·   Office 365 Suite (Very proficient in Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, and have managed formal projects with Microsoft Project, prefer Jira for Scrum related project/task tracking. Leverage One Drive and SharePoint for centralized document sharing and team collaboration.

·   ETL Frameworks (SAS 9.4 Data integration Studio, TalenD (5.6.1), DTS (MYSQL 2000), and familiar with SSIS)

·   Big Data frameworks (Hortonworks Hadoop 2.1, leveraged Hue components (Hive, Catalog, directory) to query and export data.

·   MPP Appliance Netezza (1000-6 ver7.x), accessed via Aginity client 4.3,

·   Leveraged AWS Cloud Services for vendor specific web applications (ARRIS Alarm Central), and familiar with S3, EC2, and redshift offerings.

·   Experience Integrating with (Netcool/Tivoli) NMS/CEP framework.

·   Experience with GIS systems (ESRI, MyWorld) and data Integration methods with SDE.

·   Experience with MYSQL, Oracle (instant and admin client, MSSQL 2005/2008 (SQL server management studio, Aginity (Netezza) client software, MongoDb (MongoVue Client tools)

·   Experience leveraging key aspects of FCAPS model for Network management improvement initiatives.

·   Experience designing and integrating with BMC Remedy framework.

·   Familiar with architectural concepts of Information Technology Infrastructure Library, Open Group Architecture Framework, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

·   Proven understanding of Business/financial metrics (Oracle iProcurement r12).

·   Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills.

Selected Achievements

·   Continually provided motivation, training, mentoring and coaching to a team of 45+ employees that included managers, supervisors, and technical leads.

·   Led the effort in architecting, and deploying a central network operations center for a very large and diverse network supporting 3mil+ customers.

·   Planned, procured, deployed, and supported a NOC dedicated server farm 200+ servers and 400+ Routers/Switches that created an OOB managed network for monitoring purposes only.

·   Architected and Deployed Fault and Performance Management solutions to Monitor, collect and manage process, server, and log file rules, thresholds, and metrics for 2000+ Servers, 3000+ routers/switches/firewalls, and 9mil+ CPE devices

·   Championed the implementation of a centralized ticketing system to track and capture KPI's that drive operational effectiveness, efficiency, and overall customer experience for all product offerings.

·   Procurement and successful deployment of SAS BI intelligence suite to help streamline ETL/data collection, mining, and analytical processing necessary to fulfill operational and executive level reporting needs.

·   Established companywide polices and operational level standard operating procedures that continue to drive down operational costs and reduce overall customer downtime.

·   Development and Implementation of ETL and MPP enterprise frameworks necessary to support operational data warehouse build and Big Data/Hadoop/CEP company initiatives.

Education

•               BS Degree, Computer Science, 5/96

State University of New York, College at Brockport

•               AA Degree, Liberal Arts, 5/94

Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY