Josh Foretich

Developed PowerBI dashboard reporting 15+ KPIs for Fleet & Retail vehicles in North America & Europe. Led initiative to identify aggregate dealer mark-ups during supply-constrained sales environment, enabling business to make AIML-based price adjustments. Visualized these insights and recommendations in a comprehensive PowerBI pricing dashboard. Presented product to c-suite executive teams in IT, Sales, & Finance Engineered fault-tolerant Kafka data consumer. Designed automated checkpointing, redeployment, and an operations report to monitor data quality vs. other sources. Managed deployments using Kubernetes and Azure DevOps, maintaining 99-100% production up-time Architected & coordinated the merging of RLI files, integrating Salesforce & Dynamics data to create a structured text document utilizing by the marketing team for their monthly Adobe email campaign reaching over 45,000 curated contacts & leads Wrangled, cleaned, and curated millions of data records using SQL & PySpark. Implemented a Salesforce CRM for the new GM Envolve organization including data architecture, platform performance monitoring, and CRM Analytics reporting to provide business direction Fulfilled scrum-master position during 3 month leadership vacancy through the end of project, hitting all deliverable deadlines. Trained other SCRUM masters on deployment processes.

As an Applications Intern, I programmed reports in PL/SQL to analyze the adoption of company applications. Additionally, I utilized JIRA under an agile scrum team to provide QA for both mobile and web application development. Identified system requirements and built data sets to train a machine learning model which provided optical character recognition of commercial offers. This role was critical in honing my data development skills.

My role as a Systems Support Intern included the configuration, deployment, and maintenance of hardware, software, and servers. I provided on-demand troubleshooting from phone, email, or walk up requests for virtual machines, laptops, mobile devices, printers, telecommunication equipment, and information systems. This role provided experience with the administration of a Windows environment. The service desk position also facilitated the on-boarding and off-boarding of employees. These processes were done physically within our headquarters office and remotely while supporting international locations.

While managing Tex's Tacos food truck, I designed and implemented service management strategies which produced identifiable increases in revenue. This included leading and training 30+ staff on cooking and safety procedures while improving company culture and employee retainment. Ultimately, this was an integral factor to winning numerous awards for the company (Atlanta Journal Constitution: Best Food Truck in Atlanta, Best Taco in Atlanta ‘16, ‘17, ‘18).