Ed Edgar Bernier

About Ed Edgar Bernier

With over 25 years of experience in massively parallel databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytical appliance technology, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of analytics to drive business value and societal progress. I am passionate about the belief that many of our greatest challenges—as organizations and as a society—can be addressed through thoughtful data analysis.Throughout my career, I’ve seen how analyzing clinical, claims, and behavioral data can revolutionize healthcare, keeping us healthier and better informed. Leveraging data from web browsing, social media, telecommunications, and law enforcement can enhance public safety, reduce crime, and prevent acts of terrorism. For businesses, integrating internal and external data sources unlocks a deeper understanding of customers, suppliers, and processes—empowering organizations to compete more effectively, optimize operations, and drive innovation. Instrumenting applications and devices across the enterprise enables real-time anomaly detection, dramatically reducing cycle times and elevating the customer experience.As a Solution Architect at Databricks specializing in the Financial Services (FINS) industry, I help organizations unlock the full potential of their data with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Databricks is a unified, open analytics platform built for scalable data engineering, analytics, and AI. Its Lakehouse architecture seamlessly unifies data lakes and data warehouses, enabling real-time fraud detection, predictive analytics, and advanced risk management—while ensuring regulatory compliance and robust data governance.By partnering with Databricks, financial institutions and enterprises can modernize their data estate, accelerate innovation, and turn data into a strategic asset for growth, resilience, and positive societal impact.

Experience

1. Sr Solutions Architect

   Databricks

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Databricks is the lakehouse company. Pioneers of the lakehouse category, Databricks combines the best of data warehouses and data lakes to offer an open and unified platform for data, analytics and AI. A lakehouse architecture is the ideal data architecture for data-driven organizations. It combines the best qualities of data warehouses and data lakes to provide a single solution for all major data workloads and supports use cases from streaming analytics to BI, data science, and AI.

Education

• University of Hartford

  BS, Computer Science, Math

  1985 — 1996

• University of Hartford

  AAS, Electronics

  1977 — 1979

Skills

• Sales Presentations
• Databases
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Database Administration
• Hadoop
• Netezza
• Product Management
• Consulting
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Interviewing
• Etl
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Unix Databases
• Cloud Computing
• Start-Ups
• Database Analysis
• Shell Scripting
• Pre-Sales
• Customer Presentations
• Business Alliances
• Unix Networking
• Business Intelligence
• Data Warehouse Appliances
• Relational Databases
• Data Warehousing
• Sales Operations
• Professional Services
• Technical Presentations
• Software Industry
• Sales Support
• Big Data
• Management
• Saas
• Integration
• Unix Administration