“Alec helped us with a challenging transition of a large data set. We had been using a pretty open-ended approach to tracking deals and customers both sides of our marketplace platform. We had generated hundreds of thousands of records, each containing dozens of semi-structured fields. Alec transferred this data for us into our own propriety system. He wrote scripts to automate the data conversion so that our new system could ingest the data, and he communicated clearly throughout to ensure we didn't lose any valuable information in the conversion process. He had good ideas for how to handle difficult decisions about data standardization, and the new system is running smoothly with the ingested data from his efforts. He also developed a way for our team to begin using the new system while the data transfer project was still in progress. Thanks to those efforts, we were able to continue business as usual while making the transition. I recommend Alec's services highly. Even while I was away from work, Alec helped hold down the fort, making sure our engineers were on track and our sales team was interfacing with our new system successfully.”
Alec Walker
Mountain View, California, United States
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Dedicated to the pursuit of socially and environmentally beneficial innovation.
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US-based investors continue to devote increasing attention to Japan-based startups for varied and interesting reasons spanning growing cultural…
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Last week, the El Paso ISD Board of Trustees unanimously passed an ambitious Resolution on Sustainability & Energy Efficiency, as proposed by Trustee…
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I grew up in El Paso. The border isn't an abstraction or a line on a map to me. It's my home and it's fundamentally shaped how I think about the…
I grew up in El Paso. The border isn't an abstraction or a line on a map to me. It's my home and it's fundamentally shaped how I think about the…
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Board Member, Digital Transformation
Society of Petroleum Engineers
- 3 years 1 month
Science and Technology
Drove adoption of best-practice software development and data handling for the oil and gas industry, emphasizing efficiency and safety in operations.
Organized training sessions and conferences. Researched and published regular reports. Organized technical review committees to evaluate comparative startup performance against identified industry challenges.
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English
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Chinese (Mandarin)
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Mongolian
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Japanese
Elementary proficiency
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