Billy Rogers
Technical Trainer, Curriculum Development
Salary / Daily rate
Goochland, VA 23063, USA
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Data Scientist & AI Engineer with 15+ years in data engineering and technical training at IBM, Cisco, and Simplilearn. Expert in building scalable ETL platforms, machine learning solutions, and delivering enterprise-level training programs. Specialized in Python, AWS, Spark, and transforming complex data into actionable business intelligence.
Work experience
Technical Trainer
Simplilearn
Nov 2020 - Present
6 years
Owner
Design Property Services
Jan 2016 - Present
10 years 10 months
Austin, TX, USA
Turnkey design and build residential remodeling and renovations
Data Scientist, Curriculum Developer, Technical Trainer
IBM
Sep 2021 - Dec 2024
3 years 4 months
Virginia, MN, USA
Architect
OnPrem Solution Partners
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
1 year 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
• Designed and built reusable ETL platform template (Java in Camel context) • Built DSL routes: restful API, Kafka Streaming over ActiveMQ • Performed data analytics, validation, cleanup on disparate systems before merging • Developed AWS Hadoop cluster template using YARN to implement Spark Java & Scala
Technical Trainer
Consulting Solutions.Net
Jan 2011 - Jan 2015
4 years 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
Create and deliver stand-up curriculum for: • Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer • Oracle Certified SQL Expert
Senior Data Engineer
21 CT
Jan 2013 - Jan 2014
1 year 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
• Provided government agencies with actionable intelligence to prosecute Medicare Fraud • Coalesced disparate HIPAA data from 30 state agencies • Processed through fault tolerant ELT (python) • Automated ELT, tests, and reconciliation • Transformed canonical data into graph model for proprietary data visualization • Displayed both real time and state in time data to perform analytics
Cisco
Jan 2004 - Jan 2013
9 years 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
Data Engineer
Jan 2011 - Jan 2013
2 years 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
• Led the design and building of business intelligence applications for 450 staff • Built and maintained normalized data model using SCD Type 2 structure • Created and led rollout: 48 ROS team sites using Cisco’s social platform
Software Engineer (Architect)
Jan 2009 - Jan 2011
2 years 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
• Designed and wrote knowledge management system for 600M contract • Normalized intellectual content components from different sources/formats • Tracked content life cycle: elements, completed units, workflow, governance, owners, attributes, delivery version/dates
Software Engineer
Jan 2007 - Jan 2009
2 years 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
• Wrote data applications to visualize transactional business KPIs • Tracked OLAs and SLAs, contracts-network monitoring systems, devices, ITIL tickets, finance • Designed/ wrote normalized defect tracking system for 80+ software engineers: 3 teams, working in 5 different systems
Senior Test Engineer
Jan 2004 - Jan 2007
3 years 1 month
Senior Test Engineer Cisco Systems Austin, TX 2004-2007 • Led testing team for 52 software engineers; 12 development tracks • Wrote all test plans: master through regression; exit criteria, risks, traceability matrix • Wrote and oversaw build and deploy plans from test to integration to production • Built new BA, Development, and QA processes/policies resulting in first ISO 9000 Compliance
QA Test Engineer
Dell/PEC/Dell Conractor
Jan 2001 - Jan 2004
3 years 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
• Software testing for 4 Dell go-live events • Software testing for electric utility system • Hardware testing for Dell EMC servers
Software Developer Trainer
@hand Corporation
Jan 2000 - Jan 2001
1 year 1 month
Austin, TX, USA
• Wrote and delivered curriculum for enterprise software development platform • Delivered to mobile software developers • Included into patent application
Adjunt Professor
University of Hawaii / Hawaii Pacific University
Jan 1993 - Jan 2000
7 years 1 month
Honolulu, HI, USA
• Taught undergraduate computer science courses • Structured programming, OOP, data structures, database design, intro: computer science • Sat on curriculum committee
Education
University of Hawaii at Manoa
1900 - Present
126 years 10 months
The University of Texas at Austin – Center for Professional Education (CPE)
Certificate
2017 - 2017
1 month