Tyler Walters

Nike • (2016 - 2018) Supported retail running and basketball experiences using Microsoft Kinect sensors, cameras, screens and services. Implemented CI/CD to maintain a fleet of on-site servers in US, Europe and China retail locations. Set up operational dashboards, financial reporting and refactored Unity3D-based experience to use configurable assets to align with product launches.

Echo Global Logistics • Integrated an acquired stack of IT services using IaC approaches, Chef, .NET, Hyper-V, Azure, TerraForm and DataDog.

Western Governors University • Designed a Data CI pipeline for defining data as code using Liquibase (Datical), Chef, Vagrant and Jenkins.

Qlik Technologies • Lead architect and initial operations of QlikCloud.com, providing Qlik SaaS. Automated and/or designed the operational processes and transitioned ownership to the new Qlik Cloud department. Delivered a global and elastic system using: MEAN stack for front-end; AWS*, CloudFormation, Puppet for IaC; Consul, New Relic for operations; BlazeMeter, SauceLabs for automated testing; Atlassian suite for PM and CI/CD.

Pepsi • Supported analysis of vending machine metrics by defining Talend, RDS and Tableau servers as code using CloudFormation on AWS.

Law Bulletin • Transformed legal docket management system from on-premise Oracle/Liferay/Solr/Jasper stack to AWS using MySQL on RDS, EC2, ELB, SQS, SES and S3. Led the cloud vendor selection process and demonstrated better consistency, agility and sprint velocity using Puppet and CloudFormation for IaC, and more quality, governance and team coordination by using Atlassian Bamboo for CI/CD, and JIRA for work management.

Walgreens • Architect of a time-sensitive data de-identification process to meet compliance deadlines and avoid disruption of reporting services.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan • First engineer on a new member portal for insurance members to manage accounts and claims. Scaled team to 22 developers and enabled remote delivery by mocking production RedHat/WebSphere/Oracle environments in both AWS and local laptops using EC2, Vagrant and an IaC CI/CD approach to delivery. Used Backbonejs, Java Spring; Liquibase for MySQL/Oracle; CloudFormation and Puppet.

Providence Health & Services • Founded Healthcare Intelligence unit for applying BI principles, tooling and governance to operational and research data marts. Defined roles, processes and delivered analysis support for bundled knee operations and stroke services using MSBI and Tableau.

Standard Insurance • Introduced Microsoft BI stack (MSBI) and converted a set of underwriting reports migrated from Cognos. Defined servers partially as code and documented manual customization processes. Created center of excellence to define security, governance and training plan.

Russell Investments • Created SalesForce app to assess which accounts to invest relationship management in, and a dashboard view for users.

CorVel Software • Created a form generation and workflow application to automate the on-boarding of each of their new clients using C# .NET.

Waste Management • Upgraded, optimized, re-designed and integrated Greenopolis.com site to ThinkGreenRewards.WM.com, and added a portal interface to provide the UI for recycling kiosks. Automated environment cloning of the Drupal LAMP stack using Drush and bash.

Nike • Used an IaC approach to defining a Vendor Management workflow system using SharePoint site templates, custom C# web parts and scripts.

Microsoft • Prepared hands-on data visualization workshop examples and authored 2 Green IT white paper articles for VisioToolbox.com in preparation for a Green IT conference. Mocked out HVAC sensor data generation, harvested in MySQL and bound to Visio to visualize data center temps.

Johnstone Supply • Enhanced data-driven marketing decisions and automated price setting for retail locations. Implemented MSBI stacks and configured daily intake, processing and analysis of retail store sales, costs and inventory CSVs using SSIS, SSAS and SSRS. Developed price setting UI to support region-specific campaigns based on predictive values.

Cascade Corporation • Customized reports and tooling machine code to stamp load bearing data on forklift parts to meet new regulations.

Columbia Sportswear • Updated corporate social responsibility app that enabled inspectors to remote factory locations offline, then automatically synchronize data when they come back online. Used C# .NET and XML-based data storage.

Knowledge Learning Corporation • Created kiosk time-clock software to allow parents and teachers to check children in/out, and administration UI for compliance, performance and financial reporting using Java Struts and Oracle. Developed set of reports to assess marketing campaign effectiveness.

WitMatix Clients (< 2006) • LAMP/Joomla sites for new and small ventures: Symmetry-SSG.com, SunRoseSheep.com, RendezvousPCs.com, RoachWear.biz, GetFlossin.com, HeadTracker.com, BerkshireTownhomes.com, MottoRX.com, ChristianQuarter.com, BuyGoodMusic.com and others.