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...
Mark 6:30-52 and the Unanswered Question; Who is this?
On October 8, I was invited to preach at McKendree Village where I did my field education last year. It was a blessing to be back with so many friends and to see the healing God had brought to many of the people I had visited in the rehabilitation center. Since I’m taking A.J. Levine’s course on Mark this semester, I decided to preach on the miracles of the feeding of the 5000 and Jesus walking on water in Mark 6:30-52. Read more...
Setting & Meaning of Luke 4:21-30
This chapter starts with a newly baptized Jesus being lead by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil for forty days. After being tempted by the devil and successfully overcoming him, Jesus returns to his ministry in Galilee teaching and healing as he goes. After an undisclosed amount of time, Jesus finds himself in his home village of Nazareth where he takes his customary place in the synagogue on the sabbath to read from Hebrew scripture. Read more...
Sanctification, The Outcome of Our Faith
Good morning holy, healthy, and happy people of God! If you are visiting today, I welcome you and apologize at the same time. Please do not judge McKendree by today’s sermon. I am but the humble seminary student here. Pastor Stephen will be back preaching as normal next week and I strongly encourage you to come back then. Today marks the third time I’ve preached from this pulpit. People told me this would get easier over time, and I must say the writing part does get easier with each attempt. Read more...