Résumé for Michael Wayne Arnold
Technical Projects 🖥 GitHub Profile 🤓 Tech Writings Contact Information 📧 michael@rnold.info 🐘 @marmanold@micro.blog Education Master of Divinity (M.Div.) Vanderbilt University (May 2019) Concentration: Chaplaincy Bachelor of Science in Business Administration The University of Alabama (December 2006) Majors: Management Information Systems & German Minor: Computer Science Experience (Software Development) Director, Engineering, XOi Technologies, Nashville, TN, USA July 2021 - Present Led a data engineering team in modeling data from the source application into a Postgres database to support analytics, BI, and data science Built microservices in Python 3 using the Serverless framework deployed to AWS Lambda to ingest data from a source application using AWS DynamoDB via DynamoDB Stream and from 3rd parties via API integrations Tuned the database to support a BI workload and monitor for continuous performance improvements using pgMustard and pgAnalyze Led data modelling and ETL pipeline architecture Led the migration of Postgres, AWS DynamoDB, and other diverse data sources to a Snowflake data warehouse to support analytics, BI, and data science workflows Designed an event-driven data ingestion pipeline that processed thousands of transactions per minute and scales to meet demand Worked closely with the business to build product roadmaps Managed multiple project roadmaps cutting across several teams; reporting on status, monitoring progress, removing roadblocks, and ensuring quality releases tied to business deadlines Senior Data Engineer, AVP, Citizens Bank, Franklin, TN, USA November 2018 - June 2021 Read more...
God Calls Me
I am called to preach the Gospel and faithfully administer the sacraments under the apostolic authority of a bishop of Christ’s Holy Church because God saved a Mormon boy from the pits of despair and freed him from the chains of the law. This God, in securely calling me his own, redirected my heart to serve his one, holy, Catholic Church and to share the truly Good News of unmerited free grace to others lost in darkness. Read more...
Automated Weekly Sermon Podcast
Each Sunday at Church of the Epiphany we record our sermon using someone’s mobile phone. We started doing this back in September and, for the last three months, editing and uploading these sermons to our website has been a fairly manual process. Starting this month, however, with a combination of JustCast, Dropbox, Hazel, Squarespace, and Auphonic I’ve been able to mosty automate the process. 1. Download & Rename Each week shortly after worship, Fr. Read more...
Plene Esse, the Holy Spirit, & Intercommunion
This is part three of a four part project. The final project is here. “For a long time the Conference on Faith and Order shied away from and avoided directly addressing this problem [ecumenical Eucharist]. It was the type of issue so loaded with emotional dynamite, that we feared it might with the first little thrust set off a spark that would explode our entire movement into pieces.” Dr. Leonard Hodgson. Read more...
Humanity & the Church
Introduction Humanity and the Church or, to cast them in more theological terms, theological anthropology and ecclesiology, are highly related doctrines that often get overlooked in the Christian theological community. First providing a brief history to setup a framework for theological discourse, I seek to better understand what humanity is in the eyes of and relationship to God and to define what the Church is and is called to be in the world. Read more...
The Christology and Ecclesiological Vision of Paul in Philippians and Colossians with a Practical Application for the Modern Church
Introduction Both the epistles to the Philippians and Colossians pivot on hymns seeped in Paul’s Christology. The hymn in Phil 2:6-11 focuses on the unexpected nature of the Messiah who fulfills the prophesies of the prophets while the hymn in Col 1:15-23 focuses on the divinity of Christ and his preeminent status before all things in heaven and earth. Surrounding the two hymns, Paul’s exhortations for new patterns of life and he and his fellow servants’ Christ-template narratives call the “faithful brothers and sisters in Christ”1 in both Philippi and Colossae to a new way life. Read more...
