About Me

Tony Jacobs ~ Data Jedi

Certified and accomplished Multi-Platform Cloud Specialist with an extensive background in Big Data, Datawarehousing, Analytics, Machine Learning, and Resilient Streaming Systems.

My Career

TruGreen - Data Architect/Engineer/Databricks

Spearheaded the migration from a legacy IBM AS/400 system to Azure Synapse, slashing report processing time from 6 hours to 1 hour and enabling company-wide early access to critical metrics—accelerating decision-making by 85%.

Sep. 2021 thru Jul. 2024 (FTE)
Azure Data Architect/Engineer/Databricks

Carestarter - AWS Data Engineer

Generated weekly and monthly Web-App Adoption metrics for management and outside parties. Provided ad-hoc metrics/reporting for the organization as well as assisted with researching various AWS services.

Jan. 2020 thru Jul. 2020 (Contract - 6 months)
AWS Data Engineer

Y&L Consulting - Azure Data Engineer w/ Databricks

Consulted in a variety of roles- data architect, data engineer, and business analyst in support of multiple high-value health-care and banking projects. Heavy use of Azure Databricks and ADF with bias towards serverless architecture & methodologies.

Dec. 2019 thru Jan. 2020 (Contract - 1 Year)
Azure Data Engineer w/ Databricks

Big Data Oil & Gas Consultant at DrillingInfo

Provided big data advice, recommendations, proto-types, and database migration assistance for high-value customer data feeds on the cloud. I'm familiar with various big data architectures, etl methodologies, and various devops practices in support of activities within AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud platforms.

Jun. 2019 (6 Years)
Big Data Cloud Consultant - Oil & Gas

DrillingInfo - Major Accomplishments

Selectively chosen to join the prestigious DI Consulting team and played a pivotal role in delivering high-value client solutions. Most memorable achievement was the opportunity to architect and build DrillingInfo's very first Cloud DB Offering (DIBI) which significantly impacted sales, subscriptions, and cloud interest within the first few months of release.

Aug. 2014
Data Engineer / Architect / Business Intelligence / Data Firefighter

EZCorp - Datawarehouse Engineer

SQL Server Database Architecture and Design (OLTP/OLAP) engineer. Front lines with SQL Server Database Programming and Development to support multiple SSAS cubes primarily within the Microsoft BI Stack (SSIS,SSAS,SSRS,MDS).

Jun. 2013
BI Stack (SSIS,SSAS,SSRS) Datawarehouse Engineer

Amherst Holdings - Data Architect

Architected datawarehouse to aggregate home loan data from CoreLogic to resolve the need to purchase pre-aggregated data from 3rd parties resulting in significant cost savings.

Jan. 2013
Data Architect/Data Analyst

IBM - Consultant

Performed MDM Implementations for high-value clients across the world. Configured Initiate MDM member data models, data standardization algorithms, bucketing, data derivation, weight generation, & bulk cross matching. Instance/Hub/Client Tools creation and deployment.

Jan. 2012
Information Management Specialist (Initiate MDM- Master Data)

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) - BI Consultant

Sr. SSAS Cube developer. Performed requirements gathering, data profiling, data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical) , and SSIS development to support fact and dimensional supply chain data for cube consumption.

Aug. 2011
Business Intelligence Architect (MSFT BI Stack)

Azure Big Data Skills (Over All Score = 85%)

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AWS Big Data Skills (Over All Score = 77%)

GCP Big Data Skills (Over All Score = 85%)

Snowflake Skills (Over All Score = 70%)

dbt Skills (Over All Score = 70%)