Darren Parks

About Darren Parks

Senior Executive and Trusted Advisor to IT and Business Leadership with significant experience in developing enterprise information management solutions, reference architectures / blueprints, architectural data road-maps and building /developing high performing teams. Expert knowledge and demonstrated ability to lead large, multi-million dollar data architecture programs and BI Departments. Well versed in all Data domains including (Analytics, BI, Big Data, EDW, ODS, DQ, MDM, ESB and DG). Well respected thought leadership able to define common data architecture strategies to support business and IT goals.Hands-on technical expertise in Big Data and Data Warehouse technologies.Expertise in designing and developing distributed data processing platforms using Big Data technologies. Ability to collaborate with product managers, data scientists, business users and other engineers to define requirements,design solutions and best practices. Experience in developing distributed data processing platforms with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Oozie, Map Reduce, Spark, Shark, Kafka, Flume, etc. Experience with commercial ETL, DQ, MDM, BI and DB/Appliance Software Experience working with, processing and managing large data sets (multi TB scale). Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Experience

1. Principal Enterprise Data Architect

   Talentek Solutions

   Jan 2011 — Present

   Providing directional leadership & data architectural expertise to host of clients across various verticals.Responsible for assessing client requirements and developing appropriate technology solutions via leveraging existing technologies and selecting cost-effective technological solutions.Acting as a thought leadership to assist clients in developing strategic direction for data warehousing, business intelligence & big data initiatives. Tasks/Responsibilities included - Advising and mentoring business and IT executives and leaders up to CxO level- Evaluating & assessing existing legacy data assets w/ an eye on modernization & simplification- Building and articulating architecture and delivery roadmaps - current to future state- Conducting architecture governance and peer reviews - Effectively communicate with various stakeholders across business and IT- Creating design patterns & best practices for data & the integration of data through the enterprise- Developing innovative solutions to complex data problems via Big Data solutions - Developing and implement best practices for Big Data solutions and services - Providing hands on experience with Big Data platforms and software like Hadoop, Apache Spark, HBase, HDFS, Map-Reduce, Pig, Hive, MongoDB etc- Providing hands on experience with Hadoop frameworks such as Hortonworks and Cloudera - Providing expertise in building Big Data platforms on cloud infrastructure like AWS and Azure- Statistical and predictive modeling Client engagements include:MerckJohnson & JohnsonPfizerCharles SchwabLevi StraussAccentureGapDeutsche BankMetlifeChaseHeinzNBC

Education

• Vanderbilt University

  Bachelors of Science Computer Science

• Carnegie Mellon University

  IRM (Information Resource Management) - Joint Graduate Program with Columbia University

Skills

• Etl
• Data Quality
• Enterprise Architecture
• Sql
• Software Project Management
• Extract, Transform, Load (Etl)
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• IT Strategy
• Strategy
• Business Analysis
• Master Data Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Big Data
• Business Intelligence
• Integration
• Data Warehousing
• Management
• Leadership
• Data Modeling
• Requirements Analysis
• Data Governance