SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a leader who is enthusiastic, energetic and innovative senior level manager with more than 20 years of business and information technology leadership experience.
• He has been described as a visionary, efficient, organized, neat, and systematic and has a strong record of success in working with business leaders to develop, implement, and manage advanced business and information technology teams.
• His focus is to help business partners understand the value and benefits of Information Technology to solve business problems while managing cost and risk.
• Successful management career that includes 10 years of entrepreneurial experience and related business development, strong team leadership, strong relationship alignment with business leaders, planning, team building, and project management skills. Recruit, develop, motivate, and retain staff leading them in solutions that deliver new capabilities, results, and savings. Fully responsible for P&L and multi - million dollar budgets. Proven record of successful execution and profitability.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Practice Director Business Intelligence

• Achieved the successful implementation of Business Intelligence, Data Governance, and Big Data practices, customer business development, and generation of related implementation processes.
• Ensure customer success. Member of Confidential Advisory Services Board and practice lead to oversee large scale data projects for Premiere Confidential customers and Confidential ’s customers for our 65 offices. The original team of 4 board members generated $36 million in project revenue exceeding our original goal of $16 million our second year.
• In partnership with customer leadership, generate roadmaps and related strategies to enable advanced analytics.
• Research new enabling technologies and select technologies that provide disruptive capabilities as well as build related implementation strategies with a focus on advanced analytics and Big Data (AWS & Azure). Established formal relationships with strategic software partners.
• Design and oversee the implementation of data architectures to ensure customer needs are met leveraging Agile methodology.
• Program and project oversite for large Master Data Management strategies, Data Warehouse, and security solution implementations.
• Generated strategic plan to build Big Data and Cloud practices. Generated sales related documents including best practices for transitioning from legacy data architectures to Big Data and Cloud technologies.
• Pre and post-sales support for Business Intelligence, Big Data, and Data Governance projects across 65 Confidential offices.
• Pre and Post-sales support for Finance, Sales, Marketing, Health Care, Retail, Power & Energy, and Education data management and advanced analytics projects. Respond to RFPs and SOWs.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Data Governance Lead Consultant

• Responsible for developing and implementing a Data Governance model for several large healthcare organizations. Develop and build a Data Governance maturity model and related implementation roadmap.
• Governance program lead to transition to ICD-10 codes for a 14 hospital system. Worked with 81 hospital departments to implement a project required that all workflows, applications, reports, and forms that use ICD codes be modified so that both ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes can be used. Metadata captured for all applications and reports.
• Lead a team to successfully design and implement a new data architecture that incorporated a Health Information Exchange (HIE), Operational Data Store (ODS), and Enterprise Data Warehouse in order to support the Epic EHR system.

Confidential, Bellevue, Washington

Director Business Intelligence

• Managed the team to successfully convert the legacy COGNOS data environment to a Microsoft data architecture. Also converted all advanced analytics to the Microsoft reporting stack and MicroStrategy technologies.
• Responsible for selecting and maintaining visualization tools (TABLEAU, MicroStrategy, Microsoft SSRS, Microsoft SQL 2008) while growing the Business Intelligence team to increase its reporting maturity level.
• Sponsored, architected, and managed the mobility reporting strategy for the Enterprise and ensure SOX compliance.
• Primary architect to lead a team to create a corporate operational data store.
• IT Sponsor and manager for an Enterprise Operational Data Store and related divisional Data Marts. Solution was successfully implemented in 1 year.
• Establish business intelligence and data governance strategies and related processes that provide advanced analytics with a focus on improving data quality, perform knowledge capture, and improve business process efficiencies.
• Managed architecture, data modeling, COGNOS Data Manager, and SSIS ETL development teams using the Agile methodology.

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

Director Business Intelligence

• Sponsor and manager for the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Corporate Dashboard strategies with a focus on Finance, Sales, and Marketing lines of business.
• Managed a team to establish business intelligence strategies and related processes that provide advanced analytics to all lines of business and senior management while improving data quality, perform knowledge capture, and improve business process efficiencies.
• Responsible for selecting and maintaining decision support tools (TABLEAU, SAP Business Objects WEBi, Crystal, Xcelsius, Microsoft SSRS, Microsoft SQL, PowerDesigner, and MetaIntegration) while growing the Business Intelligence team to support advanced and mobile analytics using the Agile methodology and ITIL processes.
• Establish and manage a Data Governance organization responsible for Sox & HIPAA compliance, security, metadata, and data controls.
• Lead a 51 person team to design and implement an Enterprise Data Warehouse with corresponding line of business Data Marts.
• Managed the Data Scientist analytics team.
• Designed, implemented, and managed a successful company-wide Data Governance program.
• Selected and implemented a metadata tool that provides impact analysis, data lineage, glossary, and rules repository.
• Sponsor and department manager for the deployment of Microsoft SharePoint.

Confidential, Issaquah, Washington

Senior Data Governance Specialist

• Lead Consultant to implement Data Governance for the Microsoft Operations organization.
• Organized a Data Governance team with Business Stewards and Data Custodians to define and implement data governance processes with the goal to improve data quality, perform knowledge capture, improve business alignment, and drive process efficiencies.

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

VP Data Management Services

• Leadership team member to implement an Enterprise Data Governance program.
• Responsible for all enterprise data services and technologies for Data Warehouse, Database Services, and Message services as they relate to the Finance and Home Loans organizations.
• Vice President Sponsor and manager for the planning and implementation of Informatica 8.0, Teradata, Meta Integration, and Oracle solutions.
• Core team member to redesign business and data services processes as they relate to data and information usage.
• Core team member to review and redesign approximately 40 Finance applications supporting the Washington Mutual Finance organization.

Confidential, Vernon Hills, Illinois

VP Enterprise Data Delivery

• One of 6 leadership team members to build an enterprise Master Data Management strategy and designed and implemented an Enterprise Data Management Strategy for mainframe, distributed, and desktop data environments.
• Managed a team to identify and implement related tools to meet Enterprise Metadata reporting requirements and ensure SOX compliance.
• Responsible for team members of the Enterprise Data Warehouse Integration organization to successfully re-engineer Information Technology architectures and logical data designs to enable advanced analytics and dashboard reporting needs. Teams included project leaders, quality assurance analysts, business analysts, data modelers, systems architects, DBAs, Informatica and Business Objects developer, and testers. Technologies managed include Informatica (ETL/ETI), Business Objects, Oracle, MS SQL, and DB2 in both a Sun/HP Federated Architecture and IBM mainframe environment.
• Lead an architecture team to develop an integration and consolidation strategy for all Washington Mutual Data Warehouses and related DataMarts as they relate to financial information. The initiative required changes processes to include a formal development methodology and related processes.

Confidential, Schaumburg, Illinois

Director

• Lead a global team to implement an asset-tracking system (bDNA) that was responsible for identifying $21 million in savings in the first 5 months. Worked with the manufacturing business groups to develop product evolution strategies based on new technologies entering the market. Also worked closely with the bDNA strategies and development team to evolve the position of the product into a more effective market position since Confidential purchased the company.
• Lead a team to develop wireless device applications that was used in external go-to-market strategies with an objective of generating $200 million dollars in new revenue.
• Researched and reported market intelligence regarding competitive wireless hardware and software products.
• Supported approximately 80 sales people to assist the implementation of various projects within Confidential ’s top 16 customers.
• Worked with Confidential Ventures team to identify IT related technologies to invest in.

Confidential, Schaumburg, Illinois

Director

• Managed a 12 million dollar budget and directed a 41-person world-wide team to develop and implement Finance, Manufacturing, and Training middleware solutions (WebMethods largest implementation), WAP architectures, Global Data Warehouses, and general eBusiness solutions.
• Development and implemented of over 600 integrations in a two-year period that generated 42 million dollars in cost avoidance opportunity.
• Built a team of 41 project leaders, quality assurance analysts, business analysts, data modelers, systems architects, developers, and testers from inception. Technologies included CRM, SAP, Oracle Financials, .NET, Java, VB, C#, Informatica, ASP, Visual C++, PL/SQL, Oracle, J2ME, J2EE, and MS SQL.
• Managed level 5 SEI off-shore employee team in India.

Confidential, Schaumburg, Illinois

Senior Manager

• Lead a global team to re-engineer the business process for three of the Confidential lines of business to increase business revenues by 240% within a one-year time frame.
• Managed two global teams of Business Analysts, developers, Data Base Administrators, and the technical support staff that maintained 200+ applications.
• Consolidated 8 education organizations consisting of over 200 applications and 100 servers into one IT training organization consisting of 41 applications and 34 servers with cost savings in excess of 15 million dollars.
• Designed and implemented MU Process 2000 that the University implemented as a worldwide project saving over $40 million annually. Awarded Presidents award for completion of the project and related savings.