OBJECTIVE
Seeking a senior management position in Business Intelligence (BI)/ Data Warehousing (DW)/ where I can utilize several years of my relevant experience.

• Strong Data warehousing skills including ETL and end-user access issues.
• End-to-end data warehousing experience across full SDLC from inception to deployment.
• Experienced in both strategy and tactical of BI projects.
• Knowledgeable about the development and operations side of BI.
• Managed a BI team from operational perspective meeting internal & external SLAs.
• Experienced in managing large centralized EDWs as well as subject oriented data marts.
• Involved in BI tool and vendor selection.
• Experienced in multiple software development methodologies like iterative approach.
• Managed projects to ensure that deliverables are met within schedule, budget, & quality.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between IT, Business Users, & Senior Management
• Ability to develop & maintain effective relationships with stakeholders & business partners.
• Experienced in developing BI strategy and roadmaps, and setting up BI Competency Centers.
• Broad understanding of the Kimball, Inmon, and hybrid methodologies.
• Broad experience in BI as Director, Project Manager, and Engagement Manager.
• Ability to effectively lead, build, deliver, and execute complex global BI initiatives.
• Experienced in leading Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives.
• Effectively managed globally dispersed teams of up-to 20 members.

Confidential, BI Consultant, Bensenville, IL March 2010 to date
Currently working on the Analysis phase of a BI project. Responsibilities include creating project plan, resource estimates, and budgeting for this phase and developing high-level plans & estimates for the rest of the project.

Confidential, Director BI, Chicago, IL June 2008 to January 2010
Responsibilities/ Accomplishments include:

• Developed the BI Strategy and a 3 year BI roadmap in alignment with the corporate goals.
• Led the tool standardization exercise to minimize the BI tools used in the organization.
• Currently leading and managing an enterprise-wide effort of identifying the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across all the domains of the organization. These KPIs will be used to develop a corporate dashboard to facilitate fact based decision making.
• As part of requirements gathering capturing and managing business definitions/ metadata.
• Leading/Facilitating joint design sessions with business users and reporting staff.
• Conducting data profiling to identify & analyze data quality issues.
• Building and maintaining relationships with the business partners to keep their active engagement in the BI projects.
• Have launched several data quality improvement initiatives in the organization like establishing the Data Governance and Data Stewardship structure and documenting the end-to-end data flow from the source systems to the data warehouse.
• Meeting the SLAs to deliver the reports to the business users.
• Managing a group of 6 employees.

Technology: SQL Server, Sybase, Business Objects, Xcelsius, Power Designer. Tools Used:
MS Project, Daptiv, Visio, MS Office Suite. Methodology Used: Phased Iterative Approach

Confidential, BI Project Manager, Houston, TX May 2007 to June 2008
As part of Enterprise Wide Data Warehouse (EDW) program, worked in the largest Business Intelligence (BI) initiative within HP. Part of my role was to lead the on-boarding of large number of data sources in EDW needed to retire several regional legacy BI assets.

• Led a geographically dispersed team of 20 employees including off-shore resources.
• Established and maintained engagements with the business partners regarding on-boarding of the data ensuring the integrity of the data.
• Defined the scope, the approach, and the Critical Success Factors (CSFs).
• Created cross-functional collaboration.
• Established and enforced a standard format for the delivery of the data to the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
• Established and utilized a robust QA methodology to ensure that optimal verification and validation is performed at each stage of the ETL process.
• Capturing and managing source to target mappings.
• Facilitated discussions with data owners and business partners to get conformance around reference data and hierarchies.
• Used the Joint Application Development (JAD) in a war room environment to ensure that the aggressive timelines are met.
• Conducted presentations for the senior leadership to communicate the status and escalate any issues requiring their intervention.

Technology: SAP R/3, SAP B/W, User Maintained Spreadsheets, Dial (ETL), Yotta
(Front-end app), Neo View (DW Platform) Tools Used: Mercury Project and Quality suite, Visio, MS Office Suite. Methodology Used: Phased Iterative Approach, JAD

• Led the brainstorming sessions with senior management to gather requirements and to identify gaps and major pain points.
• Led and managed the RFI and RFP process, evaluated the responses and selected the vendor and the tools.
• Managed the day to day engagement with the vendor in defining and establishing BICC.
• Managed the on-site and offshore resources.
• Led the team in defining and delivering BICC deliverables like Data Quality, Metadata Strategy, Data Stewardship, Master Data Management (MDM), Communications, Best Practices, Standards, Policies, and Training.
• Established policies for both Operational and Strategic reporting.
• Created a cross-functional governance structure to help enforce the BICC standards, policies, and best practices on the incoming BI projects.
• Performed the traditional project management tasks like facilitating the status meetings, updating the status reports, and managing the team on a day to day basis. Managed the Scope and the Change Requests. Tracked and managed the Issues and Risks.
• Managed a group of 4 employees.

Technology: Multiple. Tools Used: Project Web Server, Visio, MS Office Suite. Methodology Used: Iterative Phased Approach.

• Led the requirements gathering effort, analyzed the requirements, and created the scope.
• Worked with the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to obtain buy-in on the common definitions.
• Planned the entire Data Warehousing initiative from requirements gathering, analysis, design, identifying and analyzing the source systems, to data quality, to ETL, and to the end user data access.
• Utilized the iterative phased approach to create data marts.
• Conducted risk workshop to identify, plan, and mitigate those risks.
• Provided strong technical leadership to the project team.
• Developed the ramp up and the deployment strategy.
• Analyzed the training needs, developed the course contents.
• Managed a team of 8 members.

Technology: Informatica, Cognos, DB2. Tools Used: Project Server, Visio, MS Office Suite. Methodology Used: Iterative Phased Approach

• Responsibilities included all activities for define, design, development, implementation, and user training
• Managed project to ensure that the schedule and budget deadlines are met.
• Prepared and presented project progress and issues to senior management.
• Facilitated the source data analysis.
• Participated in the Go/No Go decisions.

Technology: SAP BW. Tools Used: MS Project, Visio, MS Office Suite, Rational Rose and Rational Clear Quest. Methodology Used: BP’s own methodology utilizing iterative approach.

Confidential, Engagement Manager, Des Plaines, IL Feb. 1994 to Feb. 2000

• As a member of the Professional Services organization, I worked on client implementations of OLTP and OLAP (DSS) projects over the full project life cycle, from requirements gathering to deployment.
• The responsibilities included day-to-day direction of the project team, resource scheduling, guidance/direction and problem solving; motivating team.
• Worked with user community to identify the user's need; delivered quality systems solutions to business problems. Developed and evaluated staffing plans.
• Made client presentations during pre-sales and build effective relationships for more consulting opportunities while on-site.

Technology: SAP R/3, Rational Suite. Tools Used: MS Project, Visio, MS Office Suite. Methodology Used: Waterfall, Iterative, JAD

• Led several application development projects.
• Provided status reports to senior managers regarding the progress and the issues.
• Established and maintained resource allocations.
• Maintained effective cross-functional working relationships.

Tools Used: MS Project, Visio, MS Office Suite Methodology Used: Waterfall

Project Management Professional, PMP, Project Management Institute
Master of Business Administration, Information Systems/ Marketing
Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Planning & Project Management of DW Projects
Software Quality Control Course
Attended several BI seminars and conferences
Attended several BI seminars and conferences

TECHNICAL SKILLS

ERP: SAP R/3
BI/DW: SAP BW, Cognos 8, Business Objects, MicroStrategy 8, SQL Server 2005, Informatica
Languages: ABAP/4, UML
Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows XP, UNIX
Database: Oracle, DB2, Sybase
Office Tools: MS Word, Excel, MS Visio, and Power Point
Methodologies: PMBOK, RUP, Waterfall, Iterative, and JAD
Project Management: Project Server, MS Project, Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearQuest, HP Test Director, HP Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Mercury, Daptiv

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Project Management Institute, PMI
The Data Warehouse Institute, TDWI

REFERENCES

Available on request