Mark Kerzner

Hands-on Software Architect, Writer, Trainer, Data Scientist

Skills & Technologies

AI Webinar: For over two years, Mark has been running a webinar, “Advances in AI.” The webinar is for developers and surveys the latest technologies hands-on. The webinar is popular; you can sign up here or watch earlier issues.

Skills: AI, NLP, Machine Learning, Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure), IoT, AWS certified, GCP certified, Hadoop certified, Spark, TensorFlow, Kafka, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, HBase, Cassandra, Blockchain, Agile, distributed and cloud computing, high-performance applications, mathematical optimization.

CyberSecurity: Long-standing interest in security, designed and taught security for implementers and programmers.

IoT: Formulated IoT training direction with Cisco and prepared Taiwan IoT training.

Tools and languages: Java, Scala, Python, R, Go, IntelliJ, Eclipse, AJAX, C++, Search (Solr/Lucene/ElasticSearch), JavaScript, Swing, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, Messaging (Kafka, JMS, Tibco), Apigee, Web Services, JBoss, Weblogic, .NET, C#, VB.NET, Visual C++

Environment: Linux, Windows, Mac, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle. AWS, Azure, GCP.

Business domains: eDiscovery, Legal, Energy, Healthcare, Finance.

Performed Spark/Hadoop/Cloud consulting projects for Deloitte, Cognizant, Intel, Cerner, Sutter, T-Mobile, GHX healthcare, and several startups. The total number of Hadoop clusters set up so far: 500+.

Creator of an eDiscovery/Enterprise Search solution, FreeEed (Hadoop, Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch, HBase, EC2, S3, text analytics, document classification).

Co-author, trainer for ElephantScale

Co-author, Springer, “Guide to Big Data Applications”, 2017

Co-author, HBase Design Patterns, 2015

Co-author, Hadoop Illuminated, 2012

Organizer, presenter, and hands-on trainer at Houston Meetup  “AI + Big Data.”

Big Data books reviewer for Manning and Packt

Certified Google Professional Cloud Architect

Certified Google Trainer

Certified Cloudera Hadoop Administrator

Certified AWS Architect

Professional Experience

07/12-present

Elephant Scale, Houston/San Jose,

Managing partner, trainer, and software architect. Involved in several projects: AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Blockchain, Spark, TensorFlow, search applications, marketing, and training. Following Agile programming methodology on all projects.

Clients included JPMC, the US Navy, Cisco, Bank of America, the US Federal Bank, the USPTO, DARPA (Memex), Intuit, Deloitte, Cerner, Cognizant, and Intel.

Some of the accomplishments were:

• Prepared and delivered multiple AI courses for the enterprise, developer, execs, etc.
• Advising and implementing customer data collection with Scala/Python/Spark/Hadoop analytics
• Project for quantitative trading: architect Scala/PythonSpark/Hadoop/HBase infrastructure, assist with data analysis, such as similarity set, dimensionality reduction (PCA), grouping and clustering (K-means), ranking, regressions, and correlations.
• For legal and compliance, large-scale document processing with Kafka, Elastic, NoSQL, and Machine Learning.
• Smart meters processing for Texas utilities, using Big Data technologies, S3/Hadoop/Spark/Hive/Sqoop/Cascading, Tableau visualization of results.
• Large healthcare project, architecture overview, project contributions for Kafka, HBase, Hadoop, ZooKeeper/Curator/Exhibitor, Chef, Storm, Java, Python, Clojure.
• Wrote an open-source project in Scala, website scraping, automated emailing and.
• Created Cassandra Advanced Data Modeling course for DataStax with Patrick McFadin.
• Created several AI, Machine Learning, Spark, Hadoop, and Big Data training courses.
• Created Big Data training for Intel Hadoop Distribution. Technologies used on these projects: Scala, Python, Java, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, HBase, R, Sqoop, Flume, Maven, Git, ZooKeeper/Exhibitor/Curator, YARN, Storm.

Prior to this

Over twenty years of experience consulting and advising in software development, architecture, and implementation.

Education

MapR training with Zaloni, Chicago, IL, 2012

Hadoop boot camp, Redwood City, CA, by ScaleUnlimited, 2009

Novus University School of Law

JD, 2007

St. Petersburg University, Russia.

MS in Math, 1978.

St. Petersburg Electrical Engineering Institute.

MS in Computer Science, 1978.  

St. Petersburg 239 Liceum

Certifications

Google Professional Cloud Architect

Google Certified Trainer

Cloudera Certified Hadoop Administrator.

Blockchain Training Alliance Certification Test Advisor

Java Programmer Certification, SUN.

MSCD (C++, VB path) Certification (Microsoft).

Publications & Misc

Co-author, Springer, “Guide to Big Data Applications”, 2017

Co-author, HBase Design Patterns, 2015

Co-author, Hadoop Illuminated, 2012

Reviewer for "Practical Data Analysis, Second Edition," 2016, Packt.

Reviewer for "Hadoop Operations and Cluster Management Cookbook," 2013, Packt.

Reviewer for "Big Data Analytics with R and Hadoop," 2013, Packt.

Reviewer for "Securing Hadoop," 2014, Packt.

Reviewer for "Practical Data Analysis," 2013, Packt.

Reviewer for "Learning Cassandra for Administrator," 2014, Packt.

Reviewer for "Cassandra Design Patterns," 2013, Packt.

Co-author, "Professional Java E-Commerce," WROX, 2002.

Author: "Image Processing in Well Log Analysis," Prentice Press, 1985, reprint 2014.

Three US Patents for computer software for well log analysis.

Mensa Member since 1983, No. 1069107

IEEE Member since 1980