DATA • ENGINEERING • ANALYTICS • AUTOMATION

Building the systems
behind better decisions.

Director-level data and technology leader turning complex operations into scalable data products, automation workflows, and decision-support systems.

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Good decision-making
takes good data.

I bridge business strategy and technical execution — leading teams, architecting data platforms, and automating the work that keeps organizations focused.

More than a decade across financial services, consumer businesses, business intelligence, quantitative analytics, and process automation. The common thread: take something complex, clean it up, make it accessible... then make it scale.

STEPHEN C JENSENDIRECTOR OF DATA
10+YEARS EXPERIENCE IN DATA
8+YEARS MANAGING TECHNICAL TEAMS
10+PERSON TEAM MANAGED
2MANAGERS MANAGED
120+DATA PIPELINES
2K+PYTHON SCRIPTS
2 Trillion+RECORDS INGESTED
2msAVERAGE QUERY PROCESSING TIME

The stack
behind the strategy.

Technical depth matters when you're accountable for outcomes. These are the disciplines I operate across.

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Data Architecture

Enterprise warehousing, dimensional modeling, medallion architecture, governance, replication, and analytical data platforms.

2

Engineering & Automation

Python, SQL, ETL/ELT, APIs, WebSockets, dbt, Airflow, RPA, and workflow automation.

3

BI & Decision Systems

Tableau, Power BI, dashboards, executive reporting, operational analytics, and self-service BI enablement.

4

Technical Leadership

True/Genuine team career development, stakeholder management, architecture direction, developer coaching, and translating strategy into execution.

Python pandas scikit-learnrequestsbeautifulsoupfastapicustom classescustom packages SQLCTEssubqueriesquery optimizationindicies left, inner, outer, cross joins Two tables walk into a bar. One asks the other, "Mind if I JOIN you?" temp tablesStored ProceduresMaterialized Views DatabricksSnowflakeBigQueryQuestDBPostgreSQLSSMSMariaDBMySQL dbt - Data Build ToolAirflowDeclarative Asset Bundlesmetadataauditing TableauPower BIMS Excel/Google SheetsVS CodeWindows and LinuxDockerProxmox / Hypervisors / High AvailabilityVMS and ContainersCLI - Command Line Interface LLMs An AI walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve your kind here." The AI responds, "That's okay, I'm here to update your software. You're about to become very accommodating." RAGChunkingEmbeddingsVector DatabasesContext InjectionMarkdown GitAzureDevOpsOneDevforgejoclonecommitpushpull requests NetworkingUplink, Trunk, Access PortsSwitch StackingLACP BondsVLANsFirewall RulesVPNsSANNASNVMEoFiSCSISMBNFS

Selected
experience.

Leadership across data, automation, BI, and quantitative technology.

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MAR 2021 — PRESENTAUTOALGO

Director of Data | Quantitative Trading Systems Administration and Development

Own technical direction for an analytics and quantitative-trading environment spanning Quest To seek the Holy Grail! DB and PostgreSQL administration, architecture, engineering, replication, automation infrastructure, and network segmentation.

Designed and implemented a medallion architecture with a Kimball-style dimensional data warehouse and Python/SQL ETL/ELT pipelines, integrating API and WebSocket ingestion, dbt YAML, models, and macros, analytical views, dashboards, historical analysis, backtesting, and live automated trading applications.

QuestDBPostgreSQLPythonSQLdbtWebSocketsProxmox
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NOV 2016 — AUG 2020MORGAN STANLEYContract → Direct Hire

Director of Strategy | Data Analytics, Operations, & Reporting Automation

Managed the Wealth Management RPA development and Reporting teams, leading up to 6 data developers with dotted-line responsibility for 6 additional developers.

Oversaw 400+ process improvements and 120+ RPA solutions, saving more than 100,000 labor hours over 38 months and approximately $2.5M in documented savings.

Supported 200+ stakeholders across 8 departments, led developer interviewing and training, stakeholder management, senior-management reporting, and oversight of 30+ dashboards.

RPABIAutomationLeadershipDashboards
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JAN 2021 — OCT 2021BEAUTY INDUSTRY GROUP

Senior Manager, Business Intelligence | Data Architecture, Engineering, Governance, Reporting

Built an enterprise data warehouse using Fivetran, BigQuery and SSMS, scheduled ELT, stored procedures, and LookML as the data-governance layer for a variety of KPIs.

Integrated data from Shopify, Google Analytics/GTM (Google Tag Manager), Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Magento, email campaigns, and other sources.

Trained 20 creator-license users and enabled BI across Marketing, Strategy, Customer Service, Growth, Finance, and Operations/Supply Chain.

BigQueryFivetranLookMLELTBI Enablement

Academic
foundation.

Advanced degrees in law and business administration combined with foundational management and science studies.

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JURIS DOCTORTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYSchool of Law • Lubbock, TX

Juris Doctor (JD – Law What is the difference between a good and bad lawyer? A bad lawyer might drag your case on for years. A good lawyer WILL drag your case on for years. ) | Corporate & Health Law

Only student of 225 to graduate with dual degree in 2.5 years

1 of only 10 students to graduate early

Interesting Tidbit: In early 2015, I wrote a Global Biosecurity paper suggesting that prophylactic research on dangerous/weaponized diseases (the exceptions provided by the Geneva Convention for bioweapons) posed a significant risk to the human population, and that greater international oversight/data sharing on research was necessary to prevent serious adverse events like outbreaks or epidemics.

Corporate LawHealth LawDual Degree
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MASTER OF BUSINESSTEXAS TECH UNIVERSITYRawls College of Business • Lubbock, TX

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Graduate degree in business administration focused on strategic management and organizational leadership.

Interesting Tidbit: In 2014, I presented to my Informations Systems class about a proposed "computer program trained on interrelated words in the English dictionary to derive context" that could understand legal claims based on the language someone presented, guide them in what they needed to do, and forward them to a practicing attorney if the law was too complex.

Business AdministrationManagementStrategy
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BACHELOR OF SCIENCEUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYOrem, UT

Bachelor of Science | Business Management / Administration

Undergraduate degree in Business Management / Administration with a minor in Chemistry.

Interesting Tidbit: I took Physical Chemistry (among others) and calculated the difference in temperature from the top of a waterfall and the bottom of waterfall by using heat capacity of water and kinetic/potential energy conservation.

Business ManagementAdministrationChemistry Minor