JASON E. RICH
Carrollton,VA
Summary
A Driven Data and Software Engineering Executive with more than 20 years of experience in various data and software engineering leadership roles. Comfortable discussing technical solutions with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and executive partners. Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives according to tight schedules while producing impeccable results. Accomplished at building and influencing data and software engineering teams that thrive within an agile development environment. Adept at partnering with domain experts to create and support business-critical data and software engineering products across all lines of business and enterprise domains.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Chief Engineer, Advana Data Platform
Booz Allen Hamilton
01.2023 - Current
- Managed DoD's central data and AI/ML platform, Advana, providing tactical and strategic leadership for all data engineering, data science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning efforts throughout DoD across all data classifications and sensitivities
- Provided direct client interface, managing strategic milestones across all DoD lines of business
- Created go-to-market strategy for DoD-wide Immuta data access control rollout, Data catalog migration, and Executive level dashboard rewrite, improving governance and reducing data spills costs across the department
- This effort effectuated more secure data access, improving data lineage and data search capabilities while providing DoD executives with enhanced analytics and dashboards to make better, faster, and more reliable defense decisions
- Implemented a strategic overhaul of Jira, providing a transparent view of in-progress and backlog work for executives, clients, and partners throughout the DoD
- Implemented an in-house data quality management tool across DoD lines of business, improving data quality metrics by more than 60% from the initial baseline study
- Designed compliance frameworks for multi-site data warehousing efforts to verify conformity with state and federal data security guidelines
Director of Data and Platform Engineering
Red Ventures
10.2021 - 01.2023
- DATA and PLATFORM ENGINEERING
- Created Red Digital’s Data Operating System, built on top of Snowflake, DataBricks, dbt, Astronomer, Fivetran, and internal deployment and customer data platform tooling
- DataOS enabled Red Digital to launch new partnerships in under one hour, providing new business teams with a dedicated data warehouse, pre-defined data models, pipelines, and network connections configured on deployment
- Implemented tracking, monitoring, and alerting toolset that provided detailed KPIs for engineering teams to track website core web vitals and resource consumption performance constantly
- Developed and implemented Red Digital's multi-cloud architecture strategy across all three major cloud providers, reducing customer paid search, SEM, and display advertising time-to-market from 6 weeks to 11 days
- Directly managed and mentored a team of more than 20 data professionals focusing on broadening their skills, improving their day-to-day effectiveness, and growing their careers in a people-first environment
- Built a high-performance, data-driven team culture, inspiring cross-functional teams to collaborate as a cohesive and highly productive unit, focusing on team progression and meeting business KPIs
- Partnered closely with Red Digital's senior leadership team to grow the client base via a robust and innovative data strategy, including data management best practices and sound functional data governance.
- Devised and implemented reliable data management procedures to enable the usability and security of company data
- Partnered with subject matter experts in the continuous improvement process, upgraded data quality, and recommended innovative information management strategies.
Vice President of Data Insights
A Place For Mom
05.2021 - 10.2021
- Managed a diverse team of onshore and offshore data engineers, analysts, and scientists responsible for modernizing APFM’s data stack
- Communicated data platform migration progress to internal stakeholders to ensure holistic transparency
- Responsible for strategic level engagement and roll-up of all budgeting and forecasting across data acquisition, business intelligence, data engineering, data science, and the enterprise data platform
- Established an integrated data strategy aligned with the corporate goals for all data services throughout APFM, moving from roadmap to actionable tasks to measurable results
- Hired and managed employees to maximize productivity while training staff on best practices and protocols
AVP of Data Engineering
PRA Group, Inc
09.2013 - 04.2021
- Analytics)
- Built the global data teams, consisting of Data Engineering, Data Intelligence, and Data Governance, taking the teams from idea to revenue generating within 12 months
- Architected PRA’s cloud migration strategy, saving PRA over $500,000 per year in wasted ops costs
- Managed multiple data engineering projects across various business stakeholders, providing needed data products for senior executives and business leaders to drive revenue and reduce costs
- Migrated legacy Informatics workflows to batch and micro-batch data pipelines using GCPs Cloud Composer
- Developed a multipurpose reporting application to improve the accuracy of critical reports while optimizing SLA
- Designed and implemented effective database solutions and models to store and retrieve data
Operations Manager
United States Navy
10.1999 - 10.2012
- Developed, organized, and managed the implementation of a complete revision of local standard operating procedures to ease Naval helicopter squadrons in transitioning from shore-based autonomous units to deployed aircraft carrier-ready-based assets, deployable within a 48-hour window
- Created a trend analysis system to track aviation maintenance discrepancies and recommended functional solutions to senior leadership to reduce costs throughout the supply chain and decrease critical safe-for-flight aircraft component “time-to-market” timelines
- Revised squadron offsite resource tracking to reduce redundant spending and improve inventory control of all required spare parts
- Completed four deployments to the Persian Gulf and European Areas of Operation (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005), Haitian Disaster Relief (2010), and multiple workups and Naval Special Warfare detachments.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
College of William And Mary
Williamsburg, VA2025
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk2022
Master of Arts - Economics
Old Dominion University
Norfolk2013
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management (Finance
Virginia Wesleyan University
Virginia Beach, VA2009
Skills
- Databases: Snowflake, BigQuery, Lakehouse, Redshift, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgresql, MySQL
- Programming Languages: C, Python, Go, SQL, R, Scala, Java, HCL
- Cloud (services): AWS (S2, EC2, MSK, Glue, Fargate, Athena, CloudFront, CloudTrail, ELB, ALB, IAM), GCP (GCS, GKE, Pub/Sub, DataProc, Cloud run, Apigee, Cloud Endpoint, Dataflow, IAM)
- Orchestration: dbt, Airflow (Astronomer Certified), Fivetran, Airbyte, Prefect, Spark (EMR, DataBricks)
- Infrastructure: Docker, Terraform, Jira
- Governance: Immuta, Monte Carlo, Collibra, Alation, Marquez (Open Linage)
- Visualization: Tableau, Superset, Looker, PowerBI
- Version Control: GitHub, GitLab
- Frameworks: Data Mesh, RBAC/ABAC, DevSecOps, DevOps, MLOps, DataOps, Agile Project Management
- Non-technical Skills: Empathic leadership, Finance (P/L, budgeting, cost forecasting& run rate), mentoring, collaboration, innovation, break-through thinking
Timeline
Chief Engineer, Advana Data Platform
Booz Allen Hamilton
01.2023 - Current
Director of Data and Platform Engineering
Red Ventures
10.2021 - 01.2023
Vice President of Data Insights
A Place For Mom
05.2021 - 10.2021
AVP of Data Engineering
PRA Group, Inc
09.2013 - 04.2021
Operations Manager
United States Navy
10.1999 - 10.2012
Master of Business Administration -
College of William And Mary
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Master of Arts - Economics
Old Dominion University
Bachelor of Arts - Business Management (Finance
Virginia Wesleyan University
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