Matt Schmidt is a Business Intelligence Architecture Manager with over 15 years of experience leading teams and projects of up to 60 people. He has a proven record of devising BI solutions, resolving issues quickly, and delivering positive customer experiences. His skills include Teradata, data analytics, ETL, data warehousing, Hadoop, and problem solving. He previously held roles at PayPal as an Agile Team Developer and ETL Team Lead/Solutions Architect, where he developed feeds for analytics platforms, supported production systems, led CPU reduction initiatives, and enabled full data utilization.

1. MATT SCHMIDT
4863 Jarvis Ave., San Jose, CA 95118 − 408-483-4690 − elgin.schmidt@comcast.net
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE MANAGER
Exceeding expectations in leadership through exceptional team building and training
Innovative data management leader with a record of achievement in leading projects and teams of up to 60 and
collaborating to devise business intelligence solutions for marketing. Analytical problem solver and troubleshooter with a
proven record of resolving issues quickly and delivering positive customer experiences. Core competencies include:
– Teradata – Management – Data Analytics – Business Intelligence
– ETL – Data Warehouse – Web Technologies – Hadoop
– SDLC – Problem Solving – Leadership – Vendor Relations
CERTIFICATIONS
• Hadoop Certified Developer, 2013
• Teradata Master V2R5, 2007
• Teradata Physical Database Tuning, 2007
• Sun Certified Java Developer, 2003
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PAYPAL, San Jose, CA Aug. 2013 – Feb. 2015
AGILE TEAM DEVELOPER, PayPal Data Management–Enterprise Analytics Platform (EAP)
Developed feeds for input into a Java-based analytics platform (Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig) to boost visibility of iOS and
Android phone-based transaction and customer activity on the website. Provided hardware production support to the
Hadoop-based EAP system for connectivity, box-down, space, memory, network, SAN, and security/permission issues.
Resolved software issues with production EAP systems, including troubleshooting configuration, environment,
deployment, code and version problems, bugs, and database record-locking conflicts. Aided infrastructure development,
including migrating hundreds of terabytes of data. Contributed to ensuring data consistency/accuracy between platforms.
Highlights
• Enabled offshore teams to assume all operations support and marketing for the EAP Platform within 6 weeks by
assessing needs and training offshore operations teams, including developing a 93-page online training reference.
• Created an innovative negative numbering scheme to prevent a rebuild of Omniture data when row number counts
exceeded maximum integer values.
PAYPAL, San Jose, CA Jul. 2009 – Aug. 2013
ETL TEAM LEAD/ETL SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, PayPal Data Management–Marketing
Led the PayPal Data Management (DM) Marketing Team both in the US and in India. Identified needs for an external
alternative workforce and liaised with vendors such as Akraya, Infobahn, Armada, Jaypar, and Cognizant. Screened and
recruited candidates. Conducted interviews and recommended candidates. Coached and provided feedback. Orchestrated
resourcing, staffing, and scheduling, and identified dependencies, milestones, and critical paths for major projects. Led
CPU reduction initiatives for all marketing-related database operations.
Highlights
• Achieved a 50% CPU savings by leading Teradata CPU reduction efforts.
• Enabled full utilization of data in Omniture via rebuild to eliminate UTF-8 characters causing data corruption.
PAYPAL, San Jose, CA Nov. 2004 – Jun. 2009
SENIOR ETL DEVELOPER, PayPal Data Management–Marketing
Continued

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Professional Experience, Continued
Delivered all phases of development for large-scale Teradata data marts utilized by the UNICA Campaign Manager tool to
increase targeted marketing campaigns. Managed marketing initiatives to segment customer/merchant activity, volume
trending, and customer/merchant churn to provide insights into customer/merchant transactions and activities for
business analysts. Devised functional specifications for two-way feeds for email service providers such as Yesmail.
Highlights
• Served instrumentally in enabling Unica campaigns for all 110,000,000 PayPal customers.
PAYPAL, San Jose, CA Feb. 2004 – Oct. 2004
SENIOR DEVELOPER, PayPal Financial Systems (FINSYS)
Supported all back-end financial transactions, including those between major banks such as Wells Fargo, Bank of America,
and Federal Reserve banks along with non-bank services such as Netgiro and Digital River.
Highlights
• Prevented loss of revenues and ensured positive customer experiences by monitoring and troubleshooting failed
transaction transfers.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Gateway Computers, Senior Developer: Designed, developed, and introduced cross-platform, real-time, high-volume
interfaces between JDE Software and Siebel CRM software using Java, XML, and XSLT technologies. Developed and
implemented an address validation system using in-house and third-party software to validate correct entry of
shipping addresses during the order entry process.
• Gateway Computers, Developer: Developed and rolled out an automated label-printing system for Gateway
Computers parts warehouses and an automated interactive kit verification system validating the contents of Gateway
Computer accessory boxes.
• United States Air Force – Strategic Air Command/US Central Command, Intelligence Software Developer/Manager:
Launched and managed global intelligence related communications and computer networks for US Central Command
and component commands, including US Special Operations Command. Set up and oversaw operations of intelligence
systems software applications supporting inter-theater operations and national intelligence agencies.
EDUCATION
MASTER OF SCIENCE, ADMINISTRATION
Central Michigan University
GPA: 4.0
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT
Park College
GPA: 4.0
ASSOCIATE’S DEGREE, COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY
Georgia Military College
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
• Software: Informatica, UC4 Job Scheduling System
• BI Software: Tableau, MicroStrategy
• Languages/Scripts: Python, C/C++, ksh/bash Shell Programming, XML, XSLT, Perl, JavaScript, Java, Pig, COBOL
• Frameworks: Spring, Hadoop, Hive
• Database: HBase, Teradata, Oracle, DB2, MySQL

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Professional Experience, Continued
• Operating Systems: Solaris Unix, Red Hat Linux