SUMMARY:

• Strategic technology leader with 15 years of progressive experience delivering advanced analytics & business intelligence solutions.
• Broad range of experience leveraging innovative technologies (Data Lake, Big Data, Data Warehouse, Data Science, Data Visualizations) to help businesses gain competitive advantage in the market place. Diverse industry experience including retail, healthcare, telecommunication, insurance and finance industries.
• Business Intelligence (BI) Systems
• Enterprise Data Warehouse
• Data Integration
• Analytics as a Service
• Balance Scorecard Methodology
• Big Data
• Data as a Service
• Data Governance
• Master Data Management
• Business aligned IT Strategy
• Stakeholder Account Management
• Agile/Scrum Methodology
• Omni channel Targeted Marketing
• Portfolio / Program Management
• Outsourcing & Vendor Management
• Created BI & Analytics strategy, developed a solid roadmap and built the next generation BI & Analytics platform for Sears supply chain organization supported by executive management. Built a enterprise data warehouse in MYSQL sourcing data from Hadoop based Data lake, disparate sources using ETL tools and setup visualizations using Tableau, Micro strategy
• Leverage Data Science to gain Insights (Trend Analysis, Geographic spatial analysis, Cohort analysis etc.,) to uncover cost savings for Sears Supply Chain. Projected revenue for freight analysis by vendor is $6 million within this year 2016.
• Direct technology oversight to built the Data lake, Enterprise Data Warehouse and Customer Data Warehouse for Sears Supply Chain and Sears rewards organizations
• Advanced SQL database skills. Experienced in multidimensional data modeling, star schema snowflake schema, slowly changing dimension database modeling. Designed the SYW data warehouse for Sears Rewards data analytics system and SME of the Supply Chain datawarehouse
• Strong program management skills and led a global cross - functional team (onsite/offshore/consultants) for the successful design & development of large complex data warehousing and business intelligence solutions for Sears Supply Chain. Experienced in agile, waterfall, scrum and 4d methodologies
• Architect, designed and implemented Sears rewards data analytics platform for Sears and Kmart rewards members. Led a team that build the member module, call center web application for the rewards platform called Telluride. This in-house system reduced operating cost significantly and made the system scalable improving better service to Sears and Kmart rewards members. WORK STATUS - Authorized to work in US for any employer

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PLATFORMS: Mainframe, Linux, MacOS, Windows

TECHNOLOGIES: Business Intelligence & Analytics, Big Data, Data Modeling, Data Integration, Data warehousing, Change Data Capture CDC, Master Data Management MDM, Meta Data Management, Data Governance

METHODOLOGIES: Agile methodology, Scrum, 4d, Waterfall

DATABASE: Teradata, Oracle, My SQL, SQL Server, No SQL, HBaseDEVELOPMENT TOOLS: Pentaho, Datastage, Informatica, Microstrategy, Tableau, Cognos, Business Objects, Hadoop, MapReduce, Hbase, Hive, Pig, Unica Platform, Interact and Campaign, JavaScript, HTML5, Joomla, Ajax, SharePoint, ASP, JSP, XML, Java, J2EE, EJB, Servlets, WebSphere Application Server, JBoss/Tomcat Application Server, Struts, Spring, web services, SQL, VS COBOL-II, COBOL 370, JCL, C, Perl 5.x, and UNIX shells (sh & ksh), Control M, Autosys, TWS, Sharepoint, Endeavour, CVS, Clearcase, Erwin, Sybase Power Designer, ER studio, MS Office, Visio, Project, Azure SQL Database,, MS Excel Query, Pivot Tables

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Manager, Data & Analytics

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with the senior leaders of Supply Chain to envision and define a BI strategy and data culture. Worked directly with the Vice Presidents of Global Sourcing, Direct Delivery, Distribution Center Operations, International & Domestic Transportation, and Logistics Services to gain alignment, engagement, and to foster adoption.
• Developed a next generation Insights and Analytics platform that provides traditional BI reporting, advanced analytics, and framework for big data. (Pentaho, MYSQL, Teradata, Tableau, Microstrategy, Hadoop). Built a global, high performance, cross-functional team of analysts, data architect, data integration, reporting, software developers and quality assurance testers.
• Enabled end-to-end supply chain visibility from vendor to store (HDFS, Spark, Tableau). Built on top of the platform, this engine tracks merchandise through all legs of the supply chain. Enables operations to react faster to delays, which has improved on time delivery and lowered costs.
• Managed the operational support of legacy business intelligence, BI environment while building out the new analytics platform. Supported various business units with adhoc data requests in addition to standard dashboards & reports from the analytics platform. Supported senior leadership with adhoc tableau dashboards for C - level presentations.
• Managed the supply chain analyticsbudget, operational plan, performance requirements and achieved a 10% budget reduction.
• Collaborated with senior leaders to formulate a comprehensive analytics strategy and roadmap.Partnered with the technology teams to develop marketing analytics data, reporting, and dashboards.This information enabled the marketing group to identify innovative ways to present personalized offers.Using this intelligence, a personalized surprise loyalty points campaign was launched for Sears & Kmart shoppers that generated $13 million in incremental sales in just one quarter.
• Created a self-service environment in Micro strategy for different marketing groups. This enabled the business users from different marketing groups to view various metrics for targeted offer performance across time period, product, location and various other hierarchies.

Confidential

Manager, Business Intelligence & Analytics

Responsibilities:

• Key Leader of the Sears Rewards team that led a global cross-functional team and built the best-in-class “SYW Rewards Data & Analytics Platform” for Sears. (Teradata, Data stage, Micro strategy, Hadoop, Hbase). Managed multiple tracks running in parallel while building out the platform.
• SME & Data Architect for the Sears Rewards data. Managed all member information and rewards information within the Customer Data Warehouse CDW. Provided rewards information via “Data as a Service” model to different business groups inside Sears.

Confidential

Technical Manager, Data Integration & Business Intelligence

Responsibilities:

• Led IT personnel and contractors for the successful design & development of large complex data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. Managed the operational support of all EDW/BI legacy and new generation systems.
• Implemented a massive Enterprise Data Warehouse that contained an Operational Data Store, Enterprise Reporting Model, as well as an Enterprise Data Hub.The new EDW was created using a newly defined standard set of enterprise BI tools (Golden Gate ODS, Oracle EDW, Informatica ETL tool, Cognos reporting)