DANIEL E.

VAUGHAN
www.linkedin.com/in/danielevaughan
Marshfield, MA 02050

781.424.3692
danevaughan@verizon.net

DATA ARCHITECTURE LEADER

Highly skilled and experienced Data Architecture leader with career of delivering results. Innovative and creative
solutions provider to complex business initiatives. Well versed in global strategic and operational planning. Known
for strong organizational leadership and development expertise, and a collaborative and effective team player.
SPECIALTIES
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OLTP/Data Warehousing
Data Architectures
High Availability, Scalability
Information Management (Metadata, Data Modeling, MDM)
Technical Data Roadmaps
Big Data (Hadoop and Data Science)
Extract/Transform/Load (ETL, Data Cleansing, Profiling)
Disaster Recovery (DR) Planning/Implementation

Database Design (Logical/Physical)

Engineering
Data Appliances (Teradata, Exadata)
Reference Architecture
Data Virtualization/Data Federation
Business Intelligence (Data Visualization)
Open Source (Openstack, MariaDB,R)
Security (Data Encryption/ Masking)

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Initiated, architected and implemented the use of Big Data (Enterprise Data Lake) and Data Science into the
corporation thus 'turning data into information', providing benefits in the area of infrastructure/storage cost savings,
enabling data retention compliance, active data archiving, open source technologies and agile BI.

Spearheaded technical leadership and management of multiple strategic projects, annual planning, multimillion dollars budgets, directing on/off shore organizations
Directed strategic and operational business planning which enhanced customer service and cost performance,
vendor contract negotiation and implemented outsourced managed services
Engaged in mergers and acquisitions to integrate necessary systems and company infrastructures
EXPERIENCE

CVS Health, Woonsocket, RI

2001 2016
Sr Manager Enterprise Data Architecture
2005 2016
Lead a team of senior data architects focusing on developing enterprise database architectures, reference
architectures, technology roadmaps, lifecycle management and future strategies. Provided leadership, direction,
planning and oversight of all activities within the area of Data Architecture including: Technology, Enterprise
Information Management (EIM) and Business Intelligence (BI).
Architected the first "Enterprise Data Lake" including new technologies in Big Data and Data Science with
proven benefits in the area of infrastructure/storage cost savings, data retention/compliance, active data
archiving, open source technologies and data discovery.
Lead a Technology Board that introduced innovative thinking and new technologies. The Board deliverables;
business cases, competitive analysis, financial position, scoring proof of concepts (POCs) - results included
Data Masking, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Open Source and Big Data.
Managed a remote operations team accountable for the health/welfare of the Teradata enterprises data
warehouses (EDW) with the following outcomes:
Performance SLAs maintained/balanced
Capacity planning, Change management, software/hardware updates
Developed a business continuity and disaster recovery plan/strategy
Remediate security, PHI, PII and PCI vulnerabilities
Created minimum security baselines (MSB) to provide evidence for internal/external audit

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Manage with comprehensive technical knowledge of infrastructure, database, appliances, architecture and
operations of an IT organization.
Developed and successfully executed disaster recovery (DR) strategies supporting both on/off site
approaches and business continuity planning.
Initiated the technical direction and oversight of emerging technology that provided solutions to critical
business problems.
Directed technology implementation and migration to increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs.
Manager Database Administration
2001 2005
Provided leadership, oversight and managed an operational support team (build/run function) of database
administrators including Oracle, Teradata Sqlserver, Essbase and database technologies.
Provided 24x7 support for production environments, performance monitoring, tuning/optimization guidance,
backup and recovery responsibilities. Maintained and implemented data models.
Developed migration strategies, database upgrades.
Worked with application areas to ensure proper design and change control.
Deep technical knowledge of various databases /releases, operating systems, and storage technologies to
determine optimal configuration.
eCredit.com, Dedham, MA
2000 2001
Director Database Architecture
Directed and managed a full time staff of Oracle DBAs to ensure 'real-time' credit processing was being maintained.
Provided 24x7 support for production environments.
Implemented high availability (HA) techniques using Veritas Cluster, backups using RMAN and EMC's.
Developed data center migration strategy. Provided database upgrades and Oracle Application 11i.
Lead a cross-organizational performance team that ensured optimal performance of the database, disk
subsystem (EMC) and application design.
Oracle Corporation, Waltham, MA
1996 2000
Senior Principal Consultant
Technical leader within the Oracles New England Architecture Services practice that specialized in the core
database advanced technologies including high availability/infrastructure designs such as Oracle Parallel Server
(OPS), Replication (Basic/Advanced), and Standby.
Developed and presented Oracle design strategies that fulfilled the clients requirements.
Created, prototyped and implemented database migration strategies.
Architected and implemented Oracle Parallel Server bundled with the Oracle 8.0.x and Oracle 8.1 (8i) product
set, within a fully distributed, object-oriented environment utilizing a three-tier architecture.
Designed 2,000 user distributed environment utilizing Oracle 7 replication, accessing 2: 8-way IBM SP2 high
node, non-clustered servers.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Private Healthcare Systems, Waltham, MA
Lead Database Administrator
Science Applications International Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Group Health Association, Washington, DC
Systems developer/project leader
EG&G, Crystal City, VA
Lead programmer
Vitro Corporation, Rockville, MD
Programmer/engineer

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EDUCATION / DEVELOPMENT / TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

BS Computer Science
Concentration in Mathematics
Westfield State College, Westfield, MA

Cultural Unfreezing Workshop

Diversity, Inclusion and Breakthrough Performance
Lean Six Sigma
Kemper-Trego (Problem Solving, Incident Resolution)
Team Building & Management
Total Quality Management (TQM)

Hardware
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Teradata Enterprise appliances (2750, 5500-6750)

Oracle Exadata (x4-2)
EMC Symmetrix/VMAX/Isilon
EMC Avamar
EMC Documentum

Aster/Hadoop appliance (6.0/2.1)

IBM platforms (AIX)
EMC Data Domain
EMC VMware
Storage Encryption

Informatica (v5v 9)
Initiate (v7-v10)
Oracle RAC/RAC One
PeopleSoft
SqlServer (v2000 - v2010)
Erwin (v5 -v9)
MariaDB (opensource)
Data Encryption (Protegrity)

Software
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Teradata (v9-v14.1)
MicroStrategy (v5-v9)
Oracle6 Oracle12c
Oracle Applications
SAP
Hyperion/Essbase
Tableau
OpenStack

Clearance:

Previously held a SECRET security clearance

Affiliations:

Northeast Oracle Users Group (NOUG)

Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG)