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My name is Mike Pluta. I have been a data geek for nearly 30 years. I excel at channeling data; organizing it, extracting it, analyzing it– doing whatever it takes to coax from it the story that it has to tell. I believe that when given the proper environment and opportunity, data will share with us its’ stories and secrets with which we are then able to learn new and exciting things about our business and our world. We then have the opportunity to make decisions and take action based on what we’ve learned to make both our world and business continually better.

My 30+ years’ experience in business, technology and complex program management across multiple industry domains (incl. Manufacturing, Retail, Financial Services, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Media, Entertainment and Advertising) has given me a deep direct and intuitive understanding of the value of data. I clearly understand where, how and why to apply technology to solve the problems of business and more importantly bring forward opportunities.

I’ve worked with technology and computer systems from the component level having written device driver software to embedded system control software to database operating system software. I built and managed very large database systems ranging from a 200GB database marketing system in the mid 1990’s to a multi-hundred terabyte fraud detection database with one of the first commercial columnar data stores (Sybase IQ) to more recently a petabyte size Amazon Redshift database facilitating supply chain predictive analytics. I have experience with many different database systems ranging from Model 204, PICK and Prime Information to relational technologies such as Sybase, Oracle and PostgreSQL to MPP systems such as Greenplum, Redshift and Hadoop. I am also versed in NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j and HBase.