Frank La Vigne

Red Hat

Principal AI Product Marketing Manager

Global AI GTM Lead

Disruptive Technologists® Inc.

Chairman of the Board

Data Driven Podcast

Data Driven is the podcast where we explore the emerging field of Data Science.  We bring the best minds in Data, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence right to you. In a world where Data is the new Oil, Data Science the new Refineries, consider this Car Talk for the Data Age.

Every week we bring the best minds in this emerging field straight to you. Our goal is to educate and inspire our listeners so that they can be prepared to thrive in a Data Driven world.

Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/data-driven/id1241441038

Co Host

FranksWorld.com

Write a monthly column for MSDN Magazine on Data Science, AI, and UWP development.

Produce web series on DC area technology startups, Node.JS and more with high production values.

Blogger

Koverse, Inc., An SAIC Company

Systems Engineer

ElectrifAi

Senior Principal Solutions Architect

Microsoft

Data & AI Technology Architect

AI Senior Cloud Solution Architect

Wintellect

 Data and Analytics Practice Lead

DataLeader

Build out a technology evangelism consulting practice.

Chief Data Evangelist

Demonstrate Microsoft’s technology in a compelling way that addresses key scenarios for political and civic leaders.
Create dynamic and engaging demonstrations of Microsoft technology focusing on Open Data and civic innovation.

Technology and Civic Engagement Evangelist

Connect the best minds in the education and citizenship startup companies with the best technology to achieve their goals.

Developer Evangelist

At Red Hat, my role as the Data Cloud Services Global GTM Leader focuses on empowering customers through innovative cloud solutions. My proficiency in cloud development and C# has been pivotal in driving growth and enabling transformative business outcomes. With a background as a co-host of the Data Driven podcast, I've honed a distinctive expertise in AI and machine learning, which informs my strategic approach at Red Hat.

The art of communication is critical in sharing complex data concepts, a skill I've cultivated by engaging audiences on my podcast and blog. Our team's success is reflected in the deployment of cutting-edge data services that meet the evolving needs of our clients. This journey is fueled by a commitment to continuous learning and a passion for pioneering data science advancements within the cloud ecosystem.

Data Cloud Services Global GTM Leader

Rightworks

I create the platforms and processes to turn data into metrics, and metrics into insights.

Senior Data Engineer

TEKsystems

Successful on-time delivery of a risk-reduction solution which automatically detects sensitive data and tags objects in S3 buckets.  Technologies used were Macie, EventBridge, IAM, and Lambda Functions with Terraform for IaC.

Cloud Consultant

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• Managed Google and Twitter ads campaigns
• Collaborated with multinational product leads for website copy and marketing messages
• Developed performance reports in both BigQuery and PowerBI
• Migrated UA to GA4
• Implemented new Google Tags on websites

Chief Evangelist

The Bloomery Florist

Located in Butler, PA, The Bloomery was one of the leading wedding and event florists in the greater Pittsburgh area.  We were known in our area for stylish, quality design work and our friendly attitude.

We were recognized in the floral industry for our technological leadership, being one of the first florists to have a website with online ordering capabilities (in 2001), then adding a second weddings-only site (2005).  We were also known for incorporating blogs and other social media as part of our brand awareness.

Co-owner

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•	Initiated business capabilities map and service inventories
•	Collaborated with data team for data models 
•	Began future-state data mesh API layer and data integration architecture
•	Partnered with InfoSec and data office for governance and compliance
•	Led procurement and architecture team of Confluent Kafka

Enterprise Architect

Rocket Central

•	Co-architected a data lake based on AWS Modern Data Architecture; implemented storage and reporting services
•	Mentored new cloud developers to process a widely shared dataset using S3, Python and Pandas
•	Contributed Terraform templates to central repository
•	Developed ETL of AWS billing data for analytics to support AWS Well Architected Cost Optimization Pillar

System Architect

• Performed maturity assessments for Rocket Companies
• Developed reference data architectures
• Identified commonly used datasets for centralization
• Initiated and led centralization of AVS across FOC

Enterprise Data Architect

Quicken Loans

•	Designed data and integration architecture for Salesforce migration
•	Participated in MDM vendor POCs and selection (Reltio)
•	Architected integration and data governance for Reltio
•	Vendor POCs, selection data architecture for Hadoop data lake
•	Supported data governance implementing Collibra
•	Participated in industry standards: MISMO, FinDEx

• Lead developer on new client and loan MDM systems
• Performed data profiling, data quality and similarity matching of leads and clients
• Technical lead for Billion Dollar Bracket, responsible for lead ingestion, data quality, duplicate detection (fuzzy matching using similarity metrics)
• Led development of TCPA/CCPA/CAN-SPAM compliance system, providing client satisfaction and successful defense of class-action lawsuits
• Built back-end databases and APIs using DynamoDB and EC2 for Rocket Mortgage, fully harmonized with on-prem systems
• Used dotMemory and dotTrace for performance profiling and live debugging when necessary
• Collaboration across other applications and with downstream data consumers (BI/DW, ML/DS)
• Utilized Splunk as our observability platform
• "Control Room" core team for both Billion Dollar Bracket tipoff and Rocket Mortgage Super Bowl commercial
• Participated in replacement of my DIY MDM with Pitney-Bowes Spectrum when we started to write our own rules engine

Senior Software Engineer

ComponentOne

As part of the Marketing team, I presented over 100 technical sessions at over 70 events, from user groups to VS Live to MSDN Webinars.  This meant keeping abreast of the latest features in our diverse product line, but also keeping abreast of advances in the target technologies (WinForms, ASP.NET, jQuery, angular.js, etc.) and conceptualizing engaging stories to demonstrate both the target technology and our products.

Technical Evangelist

Armada Supply Chain Solutions

In this role, I was the development lead for our internal LOB and BI applications, and led most systems integration.

Armada is a progressive logistics organization; during my time here we were awarded a McDonald's Innovation Award, a McDonald's Supplier of the Year award and were ranked #32 in Information Week's "250 Most Innovative" list in 2010.

Senior Application Developer

Spang & Co,

In this role, I maintained 5 websites, three of which were e-commerce.  All sites were VBScript/ASP based.  I was also responsible for upgrading the EDI infrastructure from a manual to a fully automated process, integrating EDI with IFS ERP system using Mercator as middleware.

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