Thomas M.

Thomas M. has over 27 years of work experience in the IT industry. Thomas began their career in 1994 at Oracle as a Solution Architect, Data Modeler and Developer, as well as a Sales Engineer, where they presented at technology conferences and interfaced with CEOs and CTOs. In 2000, they moved to Glencore as a Consultant, Solution Architect and Team Lead, where they architected technology solutions for core financial systems. In 2004, they joined Dell EMC as a Consulting Solution Architect for Tiered Storage Solutions, consulting to various U.S. federal agencies. From 2007 to 2009, Thomas M. worked at Morgan Stanley as a Financial Analyst and took a career break, during which they did some part-time IT consulting and worked as an Adjunct Professor of Finance at George Mason University. From 2011 to 2015, they worked at Salient CRGT as a Consultant to the FDIC and PBGC, where they created logical and physical data models for new data warehouses, and architected back-end data extraction, movement and loading to pull data from DB2, MSSQL, Oracle and other systems. Thomas M. currently works at T-REX as a Data Engineering Lead.

Thomas M. has an education history that includes an MSc in Finance from The George Washington University School of Business (2005-2007), a BSc in Physics from Auburn University (1985-1990), and a course in die Deutsche Sprache from Goethe Institut (1996-1998). In addition, Thomas M. has obtained several certifications, including an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in August 2020, as well as certifications from Coursera and Dataquest.io in Data Engineering, Data Scientist in Python, Building Batch Data Pipelines, Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems, Data Engineer, Google Cloud Platform Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals, Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses, and Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on GCP.