Brendon Wood

Sr. Data Engineer

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Brendon.A.Wood@gmail.com

(815) - 919-0214

Objective

Leverage years of operations and engineering experience into meaningful work that challenges me, and benefits future generations.

Skills

Pipeline Development      

Create novel methods for ingestion and transformation with a focus on reliability and simplicity.

Analytics Development      

Utilization of dashboard development skills for external client data analytics and internal processes optimization.

Technical Communication

Consistently refining presentation skills in both high-technical and high-business-accumen cases.

Client Management      

Producing solutions to client requests through Agile stakeholder management with a focus on technical implementation.

Experience

E15 Group

Sr. Data Engineer

Jan 2023 - Present

 
Technical Ownership

• Lead technical product development for E15 Group's data engineering team. Including: service design, technical implementation, and risk mitigation.

Stakeholder Management

• Supported clients to ensure that technical solutions met business needs, while maintaining realistic product delivery deadlines. • Documentation and presentation of these technical solutions to provide product life-cycle transparency and accountability.

Advanced SQL modeling

• By preforming deep dives into client data, I have developed a deep understanding of the data structures and relationships that exist within. Allowing for a more knowledgeable approach to business questions and feesable solutions. • Rapid prototyping of sophisticated SQL queries to provide clients with a proof of concept for their business needs. With a focus on scalibility and delegation of work for further project development.

E15 Group

Data Engineer

March 2020 - Dec 2022

 
Analytics Engineering

• Designed and developed multi-platform ETL pipelines for Analytics and Data Science use with python and SQL

Cloud Architecture

• Maintained legacy AWS infrastructure while developing scalable infrastructure-as-code cloud deployments using a modern data lake approach with DBT and Snowflake • Documentation and presentation of architecture and software to executive committees for financing and security

Scalable Dashboarding

• Lead data governance implementation for external FAANG clients • Developed scalable Business Intelligence dashboards utilizing Tableau and PowerBI

Sustainability

• Product owner for intra-compay 24hr hackathon to target industry sustanibility problems • competed against 5 US and 3 International teams • Won the US and presented project proposal to global business leader summit on hour 28

E15 Group

Partner Strategy Analyst @ United Center

Feb 2019 - March 2020

• Financial reporting and analysis • Optimizing workplace inefficiencies • Utilizing Python, JS, SQL, and c++ for automation • Logistics consulting and long term planning/ forecasting • Introducing technology initiatives (Led the deployment of the first Amazon GO 3rd party installation @ United Center)

Levy Restaurants

Senior Concessions Manager @ United Center

May 2013 - Feb 2019

• Management of 2 concessions managers, 8 supervisors and 500+ hourly team members • Direct report for 15 food locations and 8 bars • Labor and food preparation forecasting • Created purchasing automation tools for culinary team • Created shrinkage tracking automation

Concessions Manager @ Ravinia

• Management of 4 supervisors and 45 team members • Direct report for 12 bars and 4 food locations • Labor scheduling and forecasting • Managing product inventory and orders

Traveling Operations Supervisor

• Wrigley Field • Notre Dame University • University of Purdue • Ravinia • Churchill Downs • 2013-14-15-16-17 PGA Championship

Technical

  • Python
  • Spark
  • SQL
  • DBT
  • AWS
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Data Analytics
  • Bash
  • Linux
  • JavaScript
  • Agile/ Scrum

Education

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY - Lexington, KY

Completed coursework towards B.S. Computer Engineering (May 2018) — 3.1 GPA

 

• Awards & Honors: Provost Scholarship for Academics

• Extracurricular Activities: Computer Sciences Club, CatHacks national college hackathon

Brendon Wood — Brendon.A.Wood@gmail.com — (815) - 919-0214