Blessen Jacob
KA
Summary
Visionary leader in an ever-evolving technology landscape with a track record of inspiring excellence, creating team culture based on performance and innovation. A dynamic strategist who is highly adaptable to the current trends of disruptive technologies. Dedicated to creating a smarter workforce by encouraging and supporting non-status quo thinking, therefore improving sustainability in this ever-changing domain. An enthusiast who possess a commitment for defining practical but powerful strategies for long term success of the organization.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Director, Big Data Engineering - Data & Analytics
Lewis Pr
05.2015 - Current
- Responsible for unified platform delivery for Big Data, enabling data analytics that save lives, generate revenue, optimizes assets, increases productivity, etc. Committed to the success of the business owners and product owners by partnering with them in finding sustainable solutions.
- Built unified Big Data infrastructure that provides platform solutions for HCA and its affiliates a shared / multi-tenant infrastructure that leverages economies of scale.
- Committed to enable data science community by providing resilient infrastructure that cater to their elastic demands.
- Supported streaming, optical character recognition, natural language processing, machine learning and other cutting edge technologies.
- Assembled the Big Data organization with talent that could support distributed computing 360.
- Built customer loyalty and goodwill by performing strategic duties with focus on high quality and reliability.
- Building a strong foundation for a self service Big Data use case support model.
Director of Data Management
HCA Healthcare
07.2013 - 05.2015
- Responsible for corporate data infrastructure, providing high quality development service and operational support for hundreds of applications serving clinical, financial, and operational business functions. Accountable for budget planning, staffing, vendor selection, etc.
- Highly committed to a management style that embraces continuous improvement and continuous learning.
- Used the Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument to understand the thinking preferences of the team members and placed them in the right roles while challenging them to perform at a level above their norm.
- Transformed operational support teams into teams that are innovation centric. Hired college graduates and have turned them into high performers in various roles.
- Technology agnostic; architected complex systems. Designed infrastructure for high performance, cost optimization and rapid delivery.
- Embraced newer methodologies such as DevOps and Agile Operations that yield faster and higher-quality results.
- Created a multiplier effect that enabled each member of the team to understand the tasks conceptually, perform smarter work, and be a leader within their job functions.
- Result: 94% reduction in problem tickets within a year in the SQL Server domain; also completed 6 Simplify IT projects that are cost centric and performance centric.
Manager - Data Managment
HCA Healthcare
12.2005 - 06.2013
- Managed a team of Database Administrators, both onsite and offshore.
- Responsible for project planning, budgeting, software acquisition, resource planning for projects.
- Analyzed, defined, recommended and implemented various cost saving initiatives.
- Oversaw all aspects of routine database administration tasks such as production support, migration, backups, restores, disaster recovery and replication.
- Oversaw technology improvement initiatives within the DB2 Data Management group.
Consulting Database Administrator
HCA Healthcare
08.2002 - 12.2005
-
Responsible for developing software roadmaps, evaluating
and recommending software and utilities like Recovery Expert and Performance
Expert, replication server, etc.
Lead Systems Analyst - Tennessee Child Support Enforcement System
Symphony Corporation
05.1998 - 08.2002
- Lead the development effort for Case Management module of the TCSES system.
- Responsibilities include interacting with the project management, state personnel, and application personnel; establishing business entities, designing and developing an Entity-Relationship Model, etc.
EDP Manager, Systems Analyst, Programmer Analyst
Associated Autotex Ancillaries P. Ltd.
02.1993 - 05.1998
- Analyzed, designed, and developed various applications like Payroll Generation, Inventory Management System, Financial Accounting etc.
Education
MBA - Executive
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TennesseeBachelor of Science - Computer Science
Suguna Polytechnic College
Coimbatore, IndiaSkills
- Trusted member of senior executive team, influencing focus on core data management competencies Honors a ‘Customer First’ attitude towards every initiative
- Capitalized entrepreneurial background for software, hardware, vendor, product and service negotiations, saved around 11 Million in yearly operating costs and few millions in cost avoidance during the career at HCA
- Established enterprise-wide Big Data infrastructure at HCA, resilient, secured, encrypted and fire-walled, an exemplary model infrastructure that Cloudera uses for client references
- Proposed new methods and transformed existing methods to achieve operational excellence
- Advocated many modern methods based on the industry adoption standards and facilitated standardizing the same in order to reduce the time to market any product
- Renowned leader, created many high performance teams that promotes disruptive thinking and awards the innovative minds with challenges to boost the success of the individual, the team and the organization
- Promoted into roles of increasing complexity, that requires continuous improvement, and ongoing automation
- Demonstrated ‘doing things right the first time’ throughout the career
Certification
- [Area of certification] Training - [Timeframe]
Timeline
Senior Director, Big Data Engineering - Data & Analytics
Lewis Pr
05.2015 - Current
Director of Data Management
HCA Healthcare
07.2013 - 05.2015
Manager - Data Managment
HCA Healthcare
12.2005 - 06.2013
Consulting Database Administrator
HCA Healthcare
08.2002 - 12.2005
Lead Systems Analyst - Tennessee Child Support Enforcement System
Symphony Corporation
05.1998 - 08.2002
EDP Manager, Systems Analyst, Programmer Analyst
Associated Autotex Ancillaries P. Ltd.
02.1993 - 05.1998
MBA - Executive
Vanderbilt University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Suguna Polytechnic College
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