Paul Vonder Haar

About Paul Vonder Haar

I am data developer who has experience with every step in the data pipeline, all the way from data gathering, to data vault 2.0, to data visualization. I have experience touching and exploiting the value of data at every step of the process. In my career I have used Python scripts to move project timelines up by two months in one day of work. I\'ve doubled the productivity of high level analysts by implementing Business Intelligence Software and Smart Data solutions. I\'ve constructed data warehouses, pipelines, and lake houses. I\'ve Scrapped, Cleaned, and Presented Key data to Analysts, going from nothing to a full and useful data set. I want to make data work quickly and painlessly for you.My education has taught me to enjoy fulfilling, challenging and intellectually stimulating work, I believe I can create more value by working in an organization that is evolving rapidly and developing technology solutions that have an immediate real-world impact. I honed my analytic thought process, mathematical mastery, and work ethic during the long hard days of PHD Study. I\'ve been taught me how to quickly learn, communicate, and implement new information and techniques, and how to innovate to find new solutions to difficult problems.Although my technically directed work has left me with a large selection of technical skills, I believe my strongest skills are my interpersonal skills. I have been a leader of teams of up to 8 people, setting goals, dividing work, and setting deadlines. Being part of a motivated, intelligent, and well driven team is one of my biggest career goals, as a member and a leader.

Experience

1. Data Architect

   Sage Advisory

   Mar 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Primary responsibility is the construction of a data warehouse in Snowflake, centralizing about a dozen different disparate data sources, and putting them all under one roof. This new Data Warehouse has led to enormous transformations for the business, including-Allowed for the creation of an account automation creation system, helping the firm scale in the creation of new financial accounts. This was part of what led to a 3 billion dollar increase in assets under management, a 10% year over year growth for the firm-The empowerment of an entire quantitative analysis role, allowing for the creation of new models improving fund returns, which was previously impossible due to data fragmentation-Built in house, saving a year compared to a previously proposed solution called data vault- The creation of trade reconciliation system, displacing parts of our previous system Electra. This streamlined an unreliable data stream, put it under our control, and led to Hundreds of thousands of Dollars in Savings- Allowed for the importation of new, previously untapped data sources, expanding technical capabilities of trading desk- Fueled the automation of the creation of marketing materials through tableau. Allowed for the creation of Hundreds of document templates, previously made by hand, saving hundreds of hours.Gave presentations educating non technical users about the use cases, risks, and constraints of AI in relation to their jobs, leading to widespread adoption of Microsoft Copilot at the firm. Built several agentic Ai solutions, including -a chatbot trained on specific, special documentation for niche product to help users troubleshoot a niche technology-The creation of an automated remit report summarizing agent. Essentially it would read a series of remit reports, and once a month would summarize the trends it noticed in that particular business, including month over month changes and general macro trends affecting particular business.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Bachelor’s Degree, Physics

  2013 — 2017