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...
Sea Walls: haud responsalis sed peccator
Recently I saw a call for more people in enterprise IT to start blogging. Following that call, I’ll offer some reflections. The foundation of a healthy IT culture in the enterprise starts with IT leadership and, especially, front-line IT management focusing on building a great working environment for developers. If developers are overextended, overworked, are not able to innovate, and are not given the dedicated time needed to solve problems, there is no hope for the transformation of corporate IT. Read more...
Collect for a Server Migration
Almighty Father who is the source of all life, give thy servants an extra measure of thy grace that we, directing the intellect and energy thou hast gifted mankind, might so order our minds as to successfully configure and migrate the systems we steward to the service of thy Holy Catholic Church and to the glory thy Son, Jesus Christ, who with thee and the Holy Spirit reign as one God, now and forever. Read more...
