Matthew Bray

Senior Data Engineer

Operating in the corporate legal services sector, Disston Data Services is a Bootstrapped Startup organization.

Responsibilities: Leverage Federal (Department of Treasury) and State (Corporation/Uniform Commercial Code Filings) data for existing and prospective customer insights.

-- Setup and Administer Azure and Azure SQL Database for Clients
-- Manage Source Code for Clients
-- Administered all Azure applications, devOps, and database assets for division
-- Build and Maintain SSIS and Azure Data Factory ETL Pipelines
-- Generate custom customer prospect profiles from state and federal data enrichment

Accomplishments: Spur sales meetings representing a $600K+ annual subscription revenue opportunity.

Tech Stack: Core: Azure, Azure devOps, React, .Net Core, Azure SQL Database, SQL Server on Azure VMs, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket; Domo; Legacy: PHP, MySQL, Django, PostgreSQL, Classic ASP

IT Director, Applications & Development

Operating in the LegalTech sector, Lexitas is a Privately Held organization employing 2,000+ employees globally.

Responsibilities: Led a global team of 20+ IT professionals responsible for all aspects of application development and delivery for the Corporate Legal Services Division.

-- API Integrations with Boomi PaaS, Domo, NetSuite, Avalara, government agencies, ADP, et al.
-- Data migration from Microsoft Navision to NetSuite, including MDM
-- Administered all Azure applications, devOps, and database assets in four environments
-- Provided numerous artifacts and reports required during acquisition of this division
-- Led IT integration efforts for mergers and acquisitions, ensuring seamless technology transitions and database conversions

Accomplishments: Led application development for a division undergoing cloud-first and service-oriented architecture

-- Application, security, and database migrations for 9 acquisitions
-- Elevated security for all business units in support of HIPPA and SOC 2
-- New data warehouse that resulted in a $2m ROI over 18 months
-- Provided numerous artifacts and reports required during acquisition of this divisiong
-- Transition of technical roles from US to Chennai, India

Tech Stack: Core: Azure, Azure devOps, React, .Net Core, Azure SQL Database, SQL Server on Azure VMs, JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket; Domo; Legacy: PHP, MySQL, Django, PostgreSQL, Classic ASP

Principal, Data

Operating in the Corporate Legal Services sector, Legalzoom is a Publicly Traded organization employing 1,000 employees.

Responsibilities: Building data warehouse and design a rules-based API to predict whether a customer proposed company name will be accepted by a state

-- Established and managed relationships with 20+ data vendors
-- Supervised ETL by data engineers
-- Configured and implemented rules for a NodeJS API
-- Managed operational reporting for the Legalinc acquisition

Accomplishments:Mastered the Elastic Stack

-- NoSQL name availability database was adopted as the core of a Snowflake data warehouse for managing customers' address book information and filing compliance

Tech Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Node.js, Tableau, Snowflake

Senior Data Engineer

Operating in the Corporate Legal Services sector, Emerging Technology Advantage was a Bootstrapped Privately Held organization.

Responsibilities: Fulfilled data engineering responsibilities and sold products and services

-- Performed churn analyses and machine learning predictions for customers
-- Built and sold a subscription data warehouse product
-- Enhanced Azure Synapse Analytics aggregations and corresponding Power BI reports
-- Managed Vue.js and Node.js engineers

Accomplishments: Sold twelve $10K -- $12K annual data warehouse subscriptions in five months

-- Became proficient with Azure Data Warehouse
-- Delivered high confidence churn/retention predictions using machine learning algorithms

Tech Stack: SQL Server, Azure Data Warehouse (later folded into Azure Synapse Analytics), Python, scikit learn, Vue.js, Node.js, Power BI

IT Director, SMB Department

Operating in the Corporate Legal Services sector, CT Corporation is a $600m business unit of the Financial & Corporate Compliance division of Wolters Kluwer, a Publicly-traded organization employing 20,000+ employees

Responsibilities: Led application development for the SMB department of CT Corporation

-- Participated in the transition of department's assets to a cloud first, service-oriented divisional platform
-- Spearheaded effort to automate business processes using a low-code foundation
-- Supported sales and marketing efforts with an impactful data warehouse
-- Managed remaining legacy NRAI assets and helped in planning their migration to the CT tech stack

Accomplishments: Led initiative for automating business processes using Pega, an enterprise platform for low code application development and workflow automation

Tech Stack:Core: Oracle, Pega, JIRA, .NET, Angular.js JD Edwards OneWorld; Legacy: SQL Server, Classic ASP

IT Director, Corporate Legal Services

Responsibilities: After moving to CT Corporation as part of their NRAI acquisition, I

-- Managed Agile projects for enhancing existing NRAI resources and for facilitating their migration to the CT Corporation tech stack, including the database migration to Oracle
-- Managed all legacy NRAI assets, including a SaaS application used by top 200 AmLaw law firms and Fortune 2000 companies

Accomplishments: Played a key part in the migration of NRAI accounting and customer-facing applications and databases to JD Edwards OneWorld, Oracle, and .NET

Tech Stack:Core: Oracle, .NET, Angular.js JD Edwards OneWorld; Legacy: SQL Server, Classic ASP

IT Director

Operating in the Corporate Legal Services sector, NRAI was a Privately-held organization with 180 employees

Responsibilities: After serving as a consultant to NRAI at Mind Over Machines, I joined NRAI as an employee

-- Oversaw back office and customer-facing systems, including the Legal Entity Management SaaS solution, Entity Pro(R), used by AmLaw 200 firms and Fortune 2000 companies
-- Security, database, and vendor management
-- Responsible for IT due diligence activities to support the acquisition by CT Corporationr
-- Oversaw a help desk serving 140K customers worldwide
-- Queuing and Streaming between OLAP and OLTP databases

Accomplishments: Managed the NRAI IT Portfolio before and during its acquisition by CT Corporation

-- Led refactoring of a custom Accounts Receivable application that had fewer than 10 reported defects after Beta release and that passed all audits

Tech Stack:Core: SQL Server, .NET, JIRA; Legacy: Classic ASP

IT Director

Operating in the IT Consulting sector, Mind Over Machines is a Privately-Held organization with 50+ employees

Responsibilities: Data architecture, Data Engineering, Database Management, Data Hosting, Vendor Management, Security, Compliance, Application Development

-- Created and managed Data Warehouses for several organizations
-- Oversaw a boutique data center for 70+ clients including the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Realtors
-- Oversaw a help desk serving 120K customers worldwide
-- Wrote proposals in response to RFPs and made sales presentations to prospective and existing clients

Accomplishments: Mind Over Machines was named "Small Business of the Year, Eastern Division" by the US Chamber of Commerce for 2006

-- Built one of the first successful SaaS offerings in the LegalTech market, Entity Pro, a comprehensive entity management application serving AmLaw 200 firms and Fortune 2000 corporations
-- Delivered data warehouse to a major trade association. Reduced time to release financial reports to members from 3 months to 3 days and enabled dynamic searching and reporting, including dynamic data masking to comply with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
-- Contributed to a Gross Margin increase from 25% or 50% and annual revenue from $600K to $6M

Tech Stack:Core: SQL Server, .NET, SSIS, SSAS, Tableau; Legacy: Classic ASP, FoxPro

Software Development Manager

Responsibilities: Managed Software Development, Business Analysis, Project Management, and Quality Assurance personnel

Accomplishments: Developed B2B and back-office applications for NRAI that aided them in becoming a major player in the Corporate Legal Services industry, competing successfully with companies 10x their size and becoming the 3rd largest company in their industry

-- Built a lead-prospecting Data Warehouse that resulted in a 3,000% ROI and $60m in new subscription revenue over four years

Tech Stack:Core: SQL Server, MS Access, Visual Basic 6, Classic ASP, FoxPro

Software Developer

Responsibilities: As 10th employee of Bootstrapped private company, I built and enhaced MS Access and Visual Basic 6 applications

Tech Stack:Core: SQL Server, MS Access, Visual Basic 6, Classic ASP, FoxPro

Data Engineering Manager

Responsibilities: Supervised ETL from 200+ data sources from 60+ vendors to NISC�s proprietary format for 60+ commercial data warehouse products

-- Data Vendor management
-- Managing global team of data engineers
-- Automated generation of GUI for data warehouse reporting

Accomplishments: ROMWright 1.3 was awarded 1996 �Best Non-Multimedia CD Software� by Information Today

-- Zero defects reported by end users during my tenure at NISC (4+-years in production)

Tech Stack:Core: Inverted b-tree database (written in Assembly Language and then C), Custom Data Pipelines in C, Visual Basic 6, Paradox, MS Access

Quality Assurance Lead

Responsibilities: 6th employee of bootstrapped academic and scientific database company, conducting all unit and regression testing for ROMWright, 1.3 database and search software

Accomplishments: ROMWright 1.3 was awarded 1996 �Best Non-Multimedia CD Software� by Information Today

-- Zero defects in ROMWright reported by end users during my tenure at NISC (4+-years in production)

Tech Stack: inverted b-tree database (written in Assembly Language and then C), Custom Data Pipelines in C, Visual Basic 6, Paradox, MS Access