Kleber Gallardo is a consultant working with the Massachusetts Office of the State Auditor developing its data mining and data analytics capacity. In 2009, he founded Alivia Technology, an IT service company that focuses on big data projects that delivers high performance, high quality, and scalable systems across a variety of platforms and industries. Over the last 20 years, Gallardo has honed his craft, gained invaluable insight and knowledge, as well as practical experience by building high performance trading and back office analytic systems and approaches for many major financial institutions across multiple currencies and languages. In his prior position,