PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Solutions - focused, self-motivated project management professional with a comprehensive background in leading critical business intelligence (BI) initiatives. Strong leadership and client interaction skills with proven ability to manage top-performing teams in intricate, high-profile projects. Over 17 years of experience implementing BI solutions utilizing SAP business warehouse (BW), HANA, business objects (BO), data services (DS), integrated planning, and Tableau.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

• Business Intelligence Strategy
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Risk Analysis
• Cross - Functional Team Leadership
• Coaching & Mentorship
• Resource Management

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

SAP BW/BI/HANA: BW/4HANA, BW 7.5 on HANA, Business Objects Data Services (BODS), SAP Analysis cloud, Lumira, Design Studio, Tableau, Analysis for Office, Web Intelligence (WebI)

SAP ECC: BI-Integrated Planning (IP), SAP certified in SAP-SEM, Finance and Controlling (FICO), Sales and Distribution (SD), and Materials Management (MM) modules.

Predictive Analytics: Statistica, KNIME, RapidMiner, Python and R Programming

Modeling Tools: Erwin data modeler

Project Management: MS Project, CA Open Workbench, CA Clarity, HPQC (ALM)

Databases: HANA Appliance, SQL Server, Teradata

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed SAP analytics cloud solution for retail clients.
• Created custom models and stories to visualize sales trend by store location, customer group and product category using point-of-sale (POS) data.

Confidential, Mount Vernon, OH

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client finance team to design and implement BI solution using SAP BW/4HANA to identify, track, and reconcile differences between general ledger and profitability analysis.
• Implemented key financial reports and KPIs using SBOP Analysis for MS Office and Web Intelligence.
• Interacted with finance team regularly to establish clear deliverables for the project and ensure project execution is aligned with client expectations.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed $3M+ project budget and 30 on-site / off-shore team members to deliver business intelligence solutions for Juniper service organization.
• Was brought in to mollify client concerns over project delays and quality. Built strong relationships within the team by engaging colleagues to develop and own strategies to deliver project goals. Gained client confidence via regular communications on progress and challenges. Recognized by the client as one of the best-managed business intelligence initiatives.
• Earned client confidence resulting in increased funding for multiple extensions to manage additional BI projects.

Confidential, West Sacramento, CA

IT Director, Business Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• Member of CIO leadership team chartered with developing an overall IT vision for the company. Drafted strategic short-term and long-term plans for business intelligence platform consolidation and migration to SAP BW on HANA.
• Managed $1.5M budget for business intelligence implementation with a team of 11 employees and consultants. Negotiated with vendors to hire consultants in staff augmentation roles. Coached and trained core team members on SAP BW and Business Objects toolset. Hosted power-user and end-user training sessions for Web Intelligence reports.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Specialist Master

Responsibilities:

• Actively participated as business intelligence subject matter expert ( Confidential ) in preparing project proposal in response to customer RFPs ranging from $250k to over $2m project revenue.
• Managed diverse teams and led business intelligence and financial planning projects for major clients in food and beverages, wireless, distribution, defense, and chemical industries.
• Led BW-BPC integration team of 6 colleagues for Integrated Performance Management (BPC-IPM) solution. Managed data services and BW teams for transforming and loading actual and forecast data from legacy Teradata, ECC, and Finance BW systems.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

• Led data migration and reporting teams to design and implement SAP HANA reporting solution for marketing analytics using SAP data services (BODS) and web intelligence (WebI) tools.
• Extracted, transformed, and loaded a large amount of data from Teradata, SQL Server, and Oracle systems into HANA appliance using BO-DS. Designed and implemented HANA models to analyze the effectiveness of inbound and outbound marketing campaigns.

Confidential, Addison, TX

Responsibilities:

• Led onshore and offshore team to implement business intelligence solution for profitability analysis and capital expenditure processes.
• Created roadmap for SAP HANA and BO/BI 4.0 implementation.

Confidential, Greenville, TX

Responsibilities:

• Conducted workshops to gather reporting requirements across multiple sites.
• Performed architectural review of business intelligence tools for short-term (SAP BO with Rapid Marts) and long-term (SAP BO with NetWeaver BI) strategic plan.
• Reviewed SAP BO Rapid Marts for cost center and project modules for fit-gap analysis.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of onshore and offshore professionals for the development of BPS and CRM integration.
• Designed integrated custom solution for CRM-Enrollment, Budgeting, Forecasting and Business Planning utilizing SEM-BPS module. Configured status and tracking system for top-down planning and status tracking.

Confidential, Burbank, CA

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintained full accountability for leading a comprehensive SAP BI project to consolidate divisional BI/BPS instance with corporate BI/BPS system. Coordinated development and testing efforts across multiple concurrent projects.
• Successfully collaborated with over 50 onshore and offshore team members for backend (BI, BPS), front-end (queries, portals), infrastructure, and security redesign efforts.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Counseled a diverse range of high-profile managers on project scope and logistics. Played a key role in supporting the advisory leadership in completing all aspects of gap analysis and feedback for customer RFP.
• Designed, developed and integrated custom info providers for recognized revenue, revenue decision support, revenue compliance monitoring and profitability analysis reporting.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Technology Architect

Responsibilities:

• Strategically prioritized, planned and coordinated projects to ensure on-time, budget-compliant delivery while maintaining high-quality standards. Launched business intelligence solutions for clients in healthcare and high-tech industries.
• Earned the prestigious Confidential Beacon Award and numerous recognitions for work excellence.
• Led a cross-functional team in all aspects of day-to-day activities spanning multiple regional development centers. Created and integrated key guidelines for development and data integration as part of the global BI architecture team.
• Maintained responsibility for leading multi-faceted business intelligence implementations for core ECC and CRM service modules. Conducted workshops and executed gap-fit exercise for service contracts, orders, warranty analysis, cost and revenue analysis, case management, and install base analysis.Configured BI system to provide interfaces between R/3, APO, and legacy systems for Demand Planning (DP) and Sales Network Planning (SNP) processes. Configured APO system for DP and SNP data extraction.