Caden Picard

Leads AI/IT strategy and transformation initiatives, overseeing large-scale AI enablement, financial portfolios, and operational efficiencies for Brightspeed.

• Spearheaded AI enablement across 8+ business units, developing comprehensive governance and ROI frameworks for use case intake and prioritization.
• Managed a $2M+ AI/automation investment portfolio and oversaw a $200M IT budget, delivering $700K/year in cloud savings through autoscaling and spend governance policies.
• Led design of a unified LookML semantic layer, enabling governed self-service analytics and reducing manual report cycles by 60%.
• Championed development of an MLOps framework with GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Datafold, increasing model deployment velocity by 80%.
• Developed LLM-based prototypes using Vertex AI/Gemini for critical telecom agent assist and network triage applications.

Directed cross-functional software and data engineering teams to deliver mission-critical platforms, driving significant improvements in data science workflows and financial reporting.

• Orchestrated and mentored cross-functional software & data engineering teams, delivering two mission-critical platforms within eight months.
• Developed a SaaS solution automating end-to-end data science workflows (model generation, validation, and scoring pipelines), slashing deployment time from weeks to hours.
• Built a Snowflake-based DaaS layer, consolidating four subsidiary datasets into a unified, role-based financial reporting system for secure, portfolio-wide visibility.
• Championed CI/CD modernization and Kubernetes adoption, boosting team efficiency by 30%.
• Designed and executed an identity-resolution program, enabling granular customer segmentation and improving targeting accuracy by 25%.

Architected and executed cloud migration strategies, enhancing data platforms for multi-million-dollar operations and improving forecasting accuracy and reporting efficiency.

• Architected cloud migration strategy, transitioning on-premises data platforms to Azure, enabling multi-million-dollar scale operations and 99.9% availability.
• Partnered with Finance and Operations to design ML-ready data repositories, improving forecasting accuracy by 20%.
• Streamlined governance processes and standardized ETL/ELT pipelines (PowerBI, Azure Data Factory), reducing reporting variance by 30%.
• Oversaw a comprehensive portfolio of technical initiatives, delivering end-to-end BI modernization and advanced analytics capabilities.

Developed and optimized data migration frameworks and ETL processes, ensuring data quality and compliance for legal and financial data.

• Developed and governed a data migration framework, normalizing legal and financial data across Court Alert, Foundation, and Elite 3E platforms.
• Optimized ETL performance, reducing data-processing time from 5 days to 4 hours through automation and parallelization.
• Implemented robust data-quality pipelines, automating cleansing, deduplication, and business-rule enforcement to ensure compliance.

Built and led a Business Intelligence team, driving significant improvements in report generation and analytics adoption for a global CPG portfolio.

• Built and led a BI team (SQL, data engineering, SharePoint) for a global CPG portfolio.
• Migrated legacy reports to Power BI, cutting report generation time by 50%.
• Designed integrated data warehouses (POS, HR, manufacturing, retail), enhancing cross-department insights.
• Unified siloed data verticals, driving a 15% increase in analytics adoption.