Steve Larrison

About Steve Larrison

28 years of applications development experience in Information Technology. 20 years of Data Warehouse design, development, and implementation. Comfortable with Kimball and Inmon methodologies.20 years of experience in Unix and Linux environments including shell scripting20 years of relational database experience in Oracle, DB2, Teradata, Netezza and Greenplum environments.Experience with distributed databases and databases in Service Oriented Architectures.Experience with Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Informix, and Teradata.Extensive experience in Shop Floor Control, Manufacturing Execution Systems, and Statistical Process Control in manufacturing environments.Extensive experience in Aerospace and Defense environments.Experience in technical and managerial capacities.Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, Masters in Business Administration.Specialties: Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, VLDB, Big Data, SAS, Statistics, Master Data Management, Meta data Management, ERwin, SQL, PL/SQL, SPL, Transact-SQL, Oracle, Exadata, Netezza, Greenplum, Teradata, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Unix, Project Management, DoDAF, Zachman Framework

Experience

1. Software Engineering Manager - Analytics

   Reveal - Ipro

   Aug 2017 — Present

   Built a team of engineers and data scientists to develop applications utilizing text analytics to serve the legal tech industryEvaluation of languages, libraries, and frameworks within the Natural Language Processing (NLP) space to select tools for development of advanced analytics applications. Settled on Python as the primary programming language, Gensim, Spacy, Dask, Scikit Learn, Numpy, and Pandas as primary open source libraries of choice, and Keras and Tensorflow plus FastAI and PyTorch frame works for deep learningHands on development while leading team in development of distributed Topic Modeling Engine using unsupervised machine learning algorithms Lead team in implementation of active learning platform for document classificationLead team in development of conceptual search algorithms utilizing Jaccard similarity and Cosine similarityDevelopment of prototype search engine featuring search term expansion via word vectors / word embeddings ( word2vec, doc2vec, and lda2vec )Development of prototype Neural Machine Translation application using PyTorch

Education

• Keller Graduate School of Management

  Masters Degree, Business Administration; Finance:

  1991 — 1993

• DeVry Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems

  1982 — 1986

Skills

• Elt
• Software Project Management
• Databases
• Oracle Golden Gate
• Sql
• Linux
• Requirements Gathering
• Inmon Methodology
• Unix
• Data Modeling
• Teradata
• Informatica
• Program Management
• Unix Shell Scripting
• System Architecture
• Perl
• Business Objects
• Database Administration
• Uml
• Hadoop
• Netezza
• Systems Analysis
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Sdlc
• Soa
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Etl
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Engineering
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Data Architecture
• Architecture
• Db2
• T-Sql
• Obiee
• Business Intelligence
• Data Warehousing
• Greenplum