paul niedbala

Designs solutions to improve how UTC designs, manufactures, monitors, and maintains industrial assets such as jet engines, aviation systems, elevators, HVAC, and other commercial systems Creates coordinates, and executes proposals, pilots, proofs of concept, and projects for large scale data and analytics solutions, working as a liaison between the members of the data science team and other stakeholders including product management and business owners Leads major data and analytics driven initiatives and business transformations around key strategic business drivers Designs (and, working with engineering teams, instantiate) solutions that capture, integrate, organize, centralize, and maintain data

Provided leadership, oversight, best practices, training, and technical expertise for building batch and real-time Big Data solution architectures, Enterprise Data Lakes, and Big Data processing pipelines on a variety of cloud and on-premise hosted settings using the Hadoop ecosystem and NoSQL databases through Applied Intelligence for Digital reinvention. Delivered Hadoop Conceptual Architecture, Platform Architecture, Data Architecture and Metadata Strategy for a 20 PB Hadoop Cluster running 50 TB a day real-time streaming analytics for digital marketing analytics operations Led and managed QA delivery efforts for a 2.5 Petabyte scale Big Data project with an offshore team that integrated all customer and transactions records across the enterprise 6 dimensions (products, stores, etc.), 500+ customer attributes, and 45 Million customer records with over 1 Billion transaction records for 3 years of data

Implemented SimCorp Dimension investment management system for clients that encompassed entire systems development life cycle steps including analysis, design, configuration, conversion, integration, testing and training. Designed investment accounting, reconciliation and reporting for a global bank with over $538 billion in total assets Developed major integration interfaces with Charles River, Bloomberg, SSCNet, and Reuters

Responsible for the overall design, implementation and maintenance of the hardware and software computer systems serving five office locations and more than 500 professionals throughout North America. Transitioned an outdated on-premise e-mail system to a cloud based Google Apps system for over 500 users Implemented a help desk system and created standards to reduce help desk calls by over 50%

* Managed e-mail, database, file storage, help desk, and network connectivity for a fully integrated real estate investment trust with over 120 commercial properties and 1,000 employees. * Implemented a disaster recovery site and developed a comprehensive retrieval management plan * Assessed staff training needs and developed appropriate software training programs