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I am a seasoned IT professional with 25 years of experience, specializing in data engineering, data warehousing, ETL/ELT, and database development. Over the past 7 years I have deepened my expertise with Microsoft Azure, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Delta Lake, and Data Lake, building robust ingestion and integration pipelines across diverse sources.
I have led teams for more than 7 years and delivered enterprise data warehouses using Kimball, Data Vault, and Inmon approaches, including medallion architectures and SCD. My experience spans MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Snowflake, and across on-premise and cloud environments, with a focus on data modeling, data quality, and enabling insightful reporting with Power BI.
Skills
Language
English
Fluent
Work Experience
Senior Data Engineer at RockPoint gas storage
April 1, 2025 - November 7, 2025Created robust data ingestion and integration Azure Fabric pipelines and PySpark Notebooks to deliver data from multiple sources such as Azure SQL, OneLake, MS SQL Server, and Delta Lake. Built Medallion architecture for Enterprise Data Warehouse and performed MS SQL Server hardening.
Senior Data Engineer at Silver Creek Software
March 31, 2025 - March 31, 2025Delivered pipelines and EDW solutions for the Government of Alberta. Created ETL/ELT Azure Data Factory pipelines to ingest data from JSON payloads, Azure SQL, Oracle, Delta Lake, Synapse Analytics and Synapse serverless. Implemented Logic Apps and Azure Functions to process JSON payloads and Service Bus. Created resource groups, environments, Key Vaults, Linked Services, Data Frames; established Pipelines Orchestration Framework; built medallion DW with SCD and data modeling.
Database Developer (contract) at H&R Block (hrblock.ca)
May 31, 2021 - May 31, 2021Created data model in Snowflake cloud; integrated Snowflake with SSIS, Python and Azure Data Factory to load the model.
Data Integration Specialist (contract) at Grid Group (Cal frac Wells Services)
November 30, 2019 - November 30, 2019Designed integration architecture to load data from multiple internal applications; ETL development to populate models; replaced SSIS with ADF; data modeling.
Senior BI and ETL Developer (contract) at Copperstone Connect (Mawer Investment Management)
October 31, 2018 - October 31, 2018Led a team of developers; Built Medallion architecture for Enterprise Data Warehouse (ODS, Kimball, SCD); SSIS projects; Created ETL orchestration framework; Created Data Quality framework; Data modeling.
Sr Database Developer at Propak Systems Ltd.
November 30, 2013 - November 30, 2013Led team of report developers; SSIS packages design and development; Data modeling.
Database Administrator / Developer at Call Genie
February 28, 2011 - February 28, 2011Administering MySQL and MS SQL Server 2005; backups and recovery, implementation, tuning, monitoring, capacity planning, query performance tuning, security, database maintenance, code reviews, data architecture and analysis.
Reports and Database Developer at Unison (joint venture with 1st Calgary Savings)
June 30, 2007 - June 30, 2007Reports and Database development; DBA duties including backup, recovery, security, performance tuning; documented environment and user manuals.
Database Administrator at RC
June 30, 2005 - June 30, 2005Executed database backups and recovery, implementation, tuning, monitoring, capacity planning; provided technical and network troubleshooting and performance tuning; created internal tracking system.
Data Analyst at Epicor Corp
December 31, 2000 - December 31, 2000Solving problems in administering SQL Server 2000 as backup and recovery database, maintenance tasks, configuration, monitoring, performance tuning; provided technical support of Platinum SQL ERP system.
Data Integration Specialist (contract) at Grid Group (CalFrac Wells Services)
November 30, 2019 - November 30, 2019Created Integration Architecture to load multiple internal applications. ETL development to populate models with data from multiple sources. Replaced SSIS with ADF.
ETL / Database Engineer at Call Genie
February 28, 2011 - February 28, 2011Administering MySQL and MS SQL Server 2005: backups and recovery, implementation, tuning, monitoring, capacity planning, query performance tuning, security, database maintenance, code reviews, data architecture and analysis. Documentation of environment and recommendations for development team.
DBA / Developer at RC (RRC)
June 30, 2005 - June 30, 2005Executed database backups and recovery, implementation, tuning, monitoring, capacity planning. Created internal tracking system.
Epicor Data Specialist / Developer at Epicor Corp
December 31, 2000 - December 31, 2000Solving problems in administering SQL Server 2000 as backup and recovery database, maintenance tasks, tuning, monitoring; supporting Platinum SQL ERP system.
Data Migration Specialist at Hitachi (Ideaca)
August 31, 2007 - August 31, 2007Data migrating from JD Edwards to MS Dynamics Axapta (Oracle and MS SQL Server 2005).
Web / Database Developer at Unison / 1st Calgary Savings joint venture
June 30, 2007 - June 30, 2007Reports and Database development; DBA tasks including backups, tuning, security; documentation and process improvements.
Education
Bachelor's Degree at Moscow State Industrial University (MSIU)
January 1, 1991 - December 31, 1996Diploma at Moscow Accounting College
January 1, 1987 - December 31, 1990Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Moscow State Industrial University (MSIU)
January 1, 1991 - December 31, 1996Accounting College at Moscow Accounting College
January 1, 1987 - December 31, 1990Qualifications
Industry Experience
Government, Financial Services, Professional Services, Energy & Utilities, Software & Internet
Skills
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