Tom George

About Tom George

With a 15+ year track record of satisfying the customer, meeting project deadlines, and thinking outside the box, I am a driven self-starter with the experience to thrive. I provide best in class value in even the most challenging environments. I am a top notch analyst, technical writer, and pattern sleuth; I am the extra set of eyes your problem needs. Though I have a deep passion for shell scripting, job scheduling and tuning, data analysis, SQL, ETL, data modeling, and onshore/offshore collaboration, I\'m always eager to discover new ways to apply my diverse knowledge. I am currently expanding my understanding of Python and object oriented programming as the ETL space begins to shift away from proprietary software and towards open-source scripted solutions. Let\'s work together; you\'ll be pleased to have me on your team!

Experience

1. Vice President Software Engineering

   Angular Developer

   May 2015 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Worked with the No Harm Test coordinator and other peers to facilitate the execution of No Harm Tests, ensuring no harm would be caused to the application\'s ecosystem due to an upstream change. • Provided process improvement insights. Established more efficient ways achieving the expected result where possible and as allowed. • Provided daily \"pass down\" communication to the offshore team, assisting them as needed, to help facilitate round the clock execution of tasks to achieve the end goal. • Interacted with the centralized DBA team to facilitate database refreshes, access requests, and permissions architecture. Improved communications with the DBA team to reduce errors with task execution. • Interacted with centralized Informatica administration group as needed to request various enhancements and changes to the Informatica environment. • Crafted SQL, varying from simple to complex, to check control tables for duplicates and invalid entries, verify environment readiness, roll back backed-out code changes, and to perform data cleanup and validation. • Provided statuses to management, including estimates for when tasks could be expected to be complete. • Performed migration and redeployment of relevant SAS and informatica jobs between DEV, SIT, and UAT environments. • Executed ETL processes in SAS and Informatica to load data for code testing purposes. • Interacted with developers to help troubleshoot processes and scripts which either failed or produced unexpected results. Cleaned up, re-migrated, and restarted the process or script as needed once corrective actions were identified. • Worked with upstream and downstream clients to establish ssh keys and set up access control list entries, which facilitate the receipt or transmission of files via SFTP and Connect:Direct (NDM).

Education

• River Valley Community College

  Computer Science, Programming, networking, and web design

  2004 — 2007