About me

I am a data engineer, specializing in data analytics and business intelligence, with more than 8+ years of experience and a wide range of skills in the industry.

I have a passion for leveraging technology to help businesses meet their needs and better serve their customers. I bring a deep understanding of business analysis, data architecture, and data modeling with a focus in developing reporting solutions to drive business insights and actions.

I believe continuous learning is critical to remaining relevant in technology and have completed degrees in both Finance and Business Information Systems. I have also completed  certifications in AWS and Snowflake.

Born and raised in Oregon and currently living in Taiwan, I enjoy any opportunity to explore the outdoors and am passionate about travel and exploring the world.


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Past Engagements
Personal Abilities

Hard work and honesty forms my beliefs

Critical Thinker

Deep experience in business analysis, data architecture, and data modeling

Problem Solver

Developed dashboards using Tableau and PowerBI

Logical Visioner

Developed data pipelines using Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, and Snowflake

Work Ethic

Migrated Nike Digital Global Ops BI to Snowflake

Loyalty and Persistence

Experience streaming and transforming application data in Kafka and Snowflake

Persuasive Leader

Led analysis and development of KPIs in both healthcare and Nike digital

Education & Credentials

I believe that personal education never ends

Bachelor of Science in
Business Information Systems

2009- 2013
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Bachelor of Science
in Finance

2009- 2013
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Mandarin Chinese

In-Progress
Chinese Language Center
Tunghi University
Taichung, Taiwan

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

SnowPro Care Certification

Amazon Web Services
Technical
Proficiencies

Platform: Amazon Web Services, Snowflake, Databricks

Databases: RedShift, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Teradata, DynamoDB

Data Tools: Airflow, Spark, Hive, Hadoop, SSIS, Tableau, Jupyter Notebook

Software: Git, Lucid Charts, Visio, MockFlow, Splunk, Confluence, JIRA

Languages: SQL, Python (Pandas, Numby, SQL, Alchemy, PySpark,Matplotlib), C#

AWS Services: EMR, Athena, Aurora, Lambda, Glue, CloudFormation, IAM, S3, EC2

Credentials

Data & Business Intelligence Engineer

Data Engineering | Business Intelligence | Requirements Analysis

Data-driven, analytical leader with expertise in all facets of data visualization, business analysis, and data warehousing and architecture.

Adept at bridging the divide between business and engineering functions to unlock the full potential of data while driving rapid business growth.

Skilled in aligning business goals with data solutions that drive process improvements. Proven track record of success with numerous systems.

Knowledgeable professional, continually focused on delivering successful, large-scale projects, implementing cloud-based data solutions at scale.

Accomplished communicator skilled in building and strengthening relationships across functions to drive cohesive, strategic operations.

Skills

Data Analysis

Change Management

Data Modeling

Reporting & Analytics

Technical Documentation

Database Development

Data Architecture

Continuous Improvement

Stakeholder Communication

Project Management

Portfolio
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Experience

Years of experience proves my qualifications

Senior Data Engineer, Global Digital Operations

Nike | Portland, OR, USA | 2021 - Present

Communicated with business stakeholders to define reporting requirements and data needs to ensure project success.

Developed Python and Spark tool set to streamline development of data pipelines and Snowflake data ingestion, enhancing code standardization and reduced time to delivery of data products from days to hours.

Successfully integrated ETL to process relational and semi-structured data in data pipelines using AWS EMR, PySpark, Airflow, and Snowflake.

Pioneered the creation and deployment of team Github and CI/CD pipelines to enable faster, repeatable deployment.

Leveraged Apache Kafka to stream product data to Snowflake to enable seasonal planning for Nike by You.

Created and implemented automated reporting process to eliminate manual reporting for global business partners to drive efficiency, allowing reporting to scale from 1x per week to 3x per day.

Instrumental in assisting the Data Architect with the development of new data model and governance structure to support reporting integration across 7 enterprise platforms.

Data Engineer | Analyst

Dan Storms Consulting & Analytics, LLC | Portland, OR, USA (Remote) | 2019 - Present

Delivered high-quality consulting and freelance data engineering and business intelligence services to a wide range of customers, overseeing and executing projects in alignment with customer needs.

Coordinated with a local physical therapy company to build and integrate a chatbot using AWS Lex and Lambda to gather potential new client information and assist with scheduling.

Constructed Tableau dashboards for a variety of clients across healthcare and digital commerce industries.

Business Intelligence Developer/Business System Analyst, Nike, Global Digital Operations (Consultant)

Biztek People Inc. | Portland, OR, USA | Beaverton 2019 - 2020

Pioneered and fostered the development of new Snowflake environment, unlocking historical analysis and launched Key Performance Indicator (KPI) program.

Lead development on COVID response, leading to an additional $50M in revenue for North America by pivoting non-digitally planned products to digital platforms.

Developed operational reporting to facilitate seasonal planning, allowing Nike Digital to release over 15K products each season.

Coordinated with stakeholders to understand business processes and define reporting requirements.

Architected and developed Snowflake based reporting solutions for Nike Direct Global Digital Operations.

Successfully migrated existing reporting from MySQL to new Snowflake environment and created documentation describing report purpose and functionality for non-technical users.

Key role in constructing Tableau dashboards to visualize operations and marketing data for 1,500+ users.

Associate Business Analyst

Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) | Portland, OR, USA | 2017 - 2019

Utilized analysis tools and techniques to successfully implement educational software in agile environment.

Collaborated with a diverse audience of business, technical, and educational stakeholders to gather, document, and validate business and technical requirements; ensured solutions aligned with customer needs.

Key member of cross-functional team, developing requirements for reporting solutions using AWS and APIs.

Supported implementation of big data reporting solution designed to reduce transfer times and cost by leveraging AWS Lambda, AWS Kinesis, AWS EMR, AWS Redshift, and Hive.

Documented architecture and requirements for big data reporting solutions to reduce transfer time and cost in new student testing system.

Data Analyst, Tableau Developer

Providence Health & Services | Portland, OR, USA | 2015 - 2017

Developed Tableau dashboards leveraging filters, parameters, calculations, groups, data blending, and sets.

Designed SQL database to store and structure data using tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and triggers; implemented automated reporting processes utilizing SQL Server database and ETL in SSIS.

Reviewed program performance and identified improvements by analyzing quantitative and qualitative data.

Promoted from Associate Product Manager to Data Analyst in 2016; served as product expert and supported training, implementation, and operation of telehealth programs and products.

Reference

Dan is a brilliant guy who's an absolute pleasure to work with. I always appreciated his thoughtful and enthusiastic approach to the way he could help us use data to make more disciplined decisions. One of his major successes for our team was getting Snowflake approved and set up, which enabled some critical KPI reporting and drove our COVID rapid response. To top it all off, he's just a really nice guy.

~ Kevin Ertell VP, Global Retail Operations at Nike
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"I worked with Mr. Storms, at NWEA. I was immediately impressed by his enthusiasm for data. Dan is determined and has solid focus to drill into problems, software, or data. On top of this, he is very easy to work with and is a co worker I miss spending time with, exploring the many uses of data."

~ Sean Kidby, Senior Cloud Engineer at NWEA
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"Dan was a member of my analysis team during 2017 - 2019. During that time, Dan worked on a variety of projects in our reporting space to gather requirements, write user stories and update specs. One of Dan’s strengths is his ability to manage multiple priorities, whilst remaining cool, calm and collected. Dan was always happy to take on additional work, being uniquely capable of juggling multiple tasks. He would be an asset to any company looking for a person who drives for results: Dan takes great satisfaction from being busy and productive and achieving great results."

~ Trisha Paxton, Senior Manager at NWEA
Contact me

Let's Get in Touch

Portland, OR - USA | danstorms1@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/danstorms1

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