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Alexander K. Whipp

AWS Cloud Solution Architect | Health Analytics Market

Data Analytics & Financial Engineering M.S.

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Career in a Nutshell


Goal: To be technologically savvy as well as competent in business to serve as a valuable asset between the desires of management and a development team's capabilities. My professional and academic career are evidence of my multifaceted interests and skill-sets.

My Experience.

November 2022 - Present

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Senior Lead Technologist

Department of Defense Contractor
Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office

Technical Lead for the Data Operations Portfolio supporting the development and deployment of the Advana big data platform. Team of 10 and actively growing.

2022

January 2020 - October 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Senior Lead Technologist

NIH/NCI Contractor: Lead Cloud Architect (team of 30) at NCI's Cancer for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology (CBIIT) overseeing the architectural implementation of the Clinical Trials Reporting Program (CTRP) and SeroHub.

2021

CDC Contractor: AWS Data Architect at the CDC's Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS). Focused on setting up data pipelines for the COVID-19 response.

FDA Contractor: Technical and product lead (team of 50) at the FDA's Center for Drug Research and Evaluation (CDER). Managed client technical requirements and expectations. Assisted and lead in provisioning product deployments against tiered environments (develop, pre-production, and production).

2020

November 2018 - December 2019

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Lead Technologist

Technical lead for a team of 5 in a strategic investment with Georgetown University surrounding the development of a genomic data commons and analytic pipeline tool.

August 2019 - Present

Financial Engineering in Data Analytics

M.S. at George Mason Univerity

A degree which meets the crossroads of my passion (finance) and my career (big data).

2019

October 2016 - November 2018

Zoomdata, Inc.

Solutions Architect

I am a multifaceted developer focused on client facing development and integration projects. My primary focus has been in rapid development and delivery of proof-of-concept projects. I work heavily in service engagements that focus on customer solutions that usually revolve around database development and analytical technologies in the BI industry. As is expected, I also have hands-on experience with implementating of large-scale global data warehousing and analytics projects.

May 2016 - November 2018

Venture Focused Consulting

Owner & Developer

In college I found myself with free time and so I began to help local startups spin up and build their online presence. As a result this became quite the lucritive side-hustle and business.

Currently I am primarily responsible for client outreach, dissemination of work, and taking on web development projects. The firm specializes in web development, e-commerce, application development, database implementation & management, and various cloud solutions.

Proudly partnered with Paypal, Shopify, Cloudflare, AWS, Ecwid and Squarespace.

2017

July 2015 - November 2016

Booz Allen Hamilton

Senior Consultant

I was the developer & the customer success lead on the Sailfish product suite, a strategic investment account within the NextGen Analytics.

I was the point of contact for the public facing instance of Sailfish, and handled incoming inquiries, comments, and concerns regarding the platform. I was also a developer on Sailfish Explore, one of the two products in the suite. It is a J2EE Tomcat Application built on top of Apache Spark. Explore's team consisted of a 4-5 person scrum, using Agile methods for production and deployments.

2016

August 2011 - May 2015

Computer Science, B.S.

Psychology, B.S.

Business Analytics, Minor

University of Maryland, College Park

December 2014 - July 2015

CircleIn, inc.

Lead Web & Mobile Developer
2015

August 2014 - February 2015

Curiosity Media

Google Glass Developer

Summer 2014

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Intern

2014

Winter 2013

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Intern

Critical Feedback & Testimonials

“Alexander is a talented professional who offers great insight and recommendations, and then follows through with delivering high quality work on time and on schedule. As an extension of our marketing team, Alexander is a pleasure to work with, he’s fast, reliable, ethical and very talented. Alexander understands our business and unique requirements better than any freelancer has in the past, and he is a true partner in creating success. Great work all around!!”

Peter H. CMO, Intellect.com

“Fast, knowledgeable, and responsive - Alex is as professional as they come. My company Javazen uses his services for all of our web development needs, and have been blown away by the results.”

EJ W. Business Analyst, Javazen

“Fast, efficient, patient and delivered on time! Alex provided exactly what I needed and more! He expedited the process, didn’t take advantage and I’ll definitely be going to him for any future needs I have! Highly recommended.”

Danielle L. Owner, Danilieberman.com

“Excellent experience with Alexander - Got the work done promptly and professionally, communicated well, and understood exactly what was being asked of him! Courteous and easy.”

Oren S. Owner, OrenSoffer.com

“We had some web development issues on our company website. Alexander took care of our issues promptly and effectively. He was upfront in his assessment of how much time he needed and worked efficiently in that time. It took him very little time to figure out what was going on, which meant more time dedicated to working on fixes to our projects. Additionally, he was extremely prompt in his email responses. We can’t recommend him enough.”

Laura W. Analyst, GiStrat.com

“Fast, efficient, patient and delivered on time! Alex provided exactly what I needed and more! He expedited the process, didn’t take advantage and I’ll definitely be going to him for any future needs I have! Highly recommended.”

Danielle Danilieberman.com

“Very informed, quick to respond and deep knowledge of the business. My project was delivered on time and I look forward to my next project! Alex is a pleasure to work with and I highly recommend him.”

Robin B. Founder, robinb.style

“Alexander worked with has worked with me for several months now and I would highly recommend him. He is experienced in web development and coding are exceptional and in working with him I’ve learned that’s just the start. He is also extremely well versed in design, strategy, and best marketing practices. Beyond his technical skills he is also very prompt, always professional, and great with communication. He works very well on a team and have keen insights into strategy and collaboration. I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again in the future. ”

Travis. CEO, BrandedTravis.com

“Extremely organized, professional, fast and fair. We have worked with Alexander for multiple web design projects and have always been pleased. He is always able to work within our deadlines and make recommendations to save costs and time. I suppose this makes sense based on his business name, Venture Focused. Some developers seek to charge as much as possible, while Alex seems to do what is best for the client instead.”

Eric G. CEO, Javazen

“Alex, you have been great to work with. You have helped both the Data Strategy team and me immensely. Your technical skills, understanding of the project, and communication skills are a great asset to the team. I am impressed with your work ethic and your dedication. Please keep up your excellent work!”

Robert H.

“Alex has been the most level-headed Technical Lead I have worked with on this complicated of a project. He knows the things that he knows well, and does not try to do work that is not his to do. That is often a challenge for someone on a project with so many pieces. He federates decision-making extremely well, which enables team leads like me to have real ownership over my set of responsibilities.
He also worked to ensure that any roadblocks are out of the way at the program level, and effectively communicates issues and expectations to those around him (both above and below). He has worked hard to build the trust of the customer, which was no small feat given where the contract started. I know that I can trust him when he provides direction or guidance.”

Evan W.

“Alex's knowledge of the subject matter and the codebase helped me to onboard quickly. It motivated me to really be passionate about this project and to feel like I could be comfortable taking ownership of what I promised to deliver. Even while being fully remote. Integrating our code together worked seamless. Communicating about changes within the system were very clear and concise.
Alex always presented his ideas and direction in a way that made sense and would make it obvious that he wanted the best for the initiative. His organization through Trello when tracking work made it easy to follow what needed to be done. I could tell that the clients really relied and respected Alex. It was clear that he established a relationship that exemplified all things that Booz Allen stands for when it comes to providing excellent service to a client. I look forward to the day that I get to work with Alex again, and wish him continued success.”

Robert F.

A Development Journey

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Just a journey of my side-projects and where they lay.

Shopify Themekit UI

As a developer I find myself frequently working across multiple friend and client sites where they implement Shopify. Shopify has a wonderful themekit CLI which allows you to jump between versions of themes rapidly, but there is a problem with it...

Input Store - A jQuery Plugin

I found a need for a plugin for a lot of my single page applications. The need was for client-side saving of form elements on-the-fly. So I quickly put together a jQuery plugin which would apply this logic to any of the common form modules.

EVETrade.space is live

I am happy to announce that as of writing this I have worked to stablize this hacky project as it now reaches more than 30,000 people per month and pulls in over $75/mo in ad revenue.

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Projects Completed

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Cups of Coffee

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Happy Clients