Summary

• Results oriented project manager with a solid track record of successfully managing, enterprise level, end to end IT solutions from a cost and IT delivery perspective. Strong experience managing departmental budgets, project budgets, cost tracking, forecasts, IT operational expenses, chargeback analysis, and capital appropriation. Works hand in hand with PMO, IT Finance, technical, and functional groups while assuming full accountability for systems delivery.
• Extensive experience delivering IT, BI, DW, and reporting solutions in over 5 companies using a wide variety of Business intelligence, reporting, data management, and data warehousing tools. Very strong interpersonal, communications, team building, leadership and problem solving skills. Extensive functional and architectural knowledge of most BI and ETL tools Business Objects, Oracle, QlikView, Cognos, Microstrategy, DataStage, Oracle OBIEE and MDM/RDM tools
• Extensive experience in architecting, developing, and implementing end - to-end business intelligence BI, data management, and data warehousing solutions. Strong systems lifecycle with multiple SLDC's, cross functional team leadership, management reporting, EIS, hardware/software evaluations, demand, request, and vendor management. Extensive hands on experience managing onshore and offshore technical staff.
• MBA Finance, BBA Accounting. Industry experience includes Financial, Insurance Health, Life, Commercial, Consumer Electronics, Publishing, Paper/Forest Products Travel/Airline/Hospitality. Functional experience includes: management reporting BI/DW/EIS/DSS, financial/accounting, asset management systems, and IT project and cost analysis.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Project Management Project planning / scope definition / costs estimates / Statements of Work SOWs, risk analysis, problem remediation, testing and project status reporting.
• Team Building - Staff Resource Management internal staff onshore/offshore consulting
• Department Management, budget management, cost tracking, reporting, forecasts, SLA development
• Liaison between business groups, stakeholders, users, and development teams.
• Strong experience managing multiple small-medium-large projects concurrently
• Business Intelligence BI /Data Warehouse: Management / Development / Architecture / Strategy
• 15 years experience using Business Objects, Web Focus and other BI/reporting tools.
• Data Analysis/ Modeling, DB Design Relational/Dimensional, ETL
• System integration / conversions Legacy ERP Data Warehouse Reporting
• Requirements / Business Analysis / Functional-Technical Specs
• Confidential Project Manager Consultant Enterprise Data Warehouse Feb 2014 present
• Project manager for the university's enterprise data warehouse and BI initiatives.
• Analyze and document the current as is BI/DW environment.
• Create project plan, resource plan, risk assessment
• Meet with senior leadership to define enterprise wide business intelligence reporting requirements
• Created RFP for BI Software
• Presented BI Strategy to Executive Committee.

Confidential

Business Intelligence Project Manager

• Responsible for analyzing and documenting the current as is Business Intelligence Reporting systems
• Identifying the US requirements for the new global BI system being developed in the UK
• Serving as a primary liaison between the US business users and the UK development team.
• Technology SAP BI, Business Objects, SQL server
• Project Manager - ongoing BI projects

Confidential

VP Data Management Services

• Responsible for data delivery to the Corporate Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence Reporting systems
• Initiated the corporate Business Intelligence Center of Excellence COE
• Responsible for the day to day support of existing corporate reporting systems ETL, data validation, reports
• Provided strategic direction for enterprise wide BI reporting technology Business Objects QlikView Oracle BI OBIEE and Microsoft BI
• Assisted in various project involving SOX, Audit, Compliance, and Risk management
• Conducted an assessment of existing BI tools, BI usage, and internal BI system functionality. Coordinated a team of IT and Business users to do an assessment and evaluation of Business Intelligence software tools from the major BI tool vendors including Oracle OBIEE, SAP/Business Objects, QlikView, Microsoft, IBM/Cognos. Confidential Director Information Management
• Responsible for managing enterprise data warehousing, reporting, business intelligence, and information management functions
• Responsible for forecasting and managing a 3 million dollar departmental budget and a 12 million dollar data warehouse project budget. Managed staff of 35.
• Responsible for all BI/DW/Reporting hardware software and consulting resource cost forecasts and acquisition.
• Reorganized multiple DW/BI and reporting teams to align with business groups.
• Managed numerous company wide reporting and data extraction projects for medical regulatory reporting.
• Developed road map and implementation plans to consolidate and enhance existing DW/BI systems and build an enterprise wide DW/BI environment
• Managed the development of an enterprise wide Operational Data Store ODS that serves as the central data repository for integrating all systems Claims, Providers, Members, Brokers, Pharmacy etc,
• Responsible for developing the data layer for the company's customer service web site Siebel and CRM system
• Confidential Director Data Warehousing BI Team Lead -Established strategy and blueprint for the development of the Corporate Financial Data Warehouse and consolidated financial reporting environment. This included strategic objectives, cost estimates, business requirements, resource requirements, source system analysis, BI Tool evaluation recommendation, HW/SW recommendations, data acquisition strategy, project plan, and data model.
• Implemented and tested Business Objects / Crystal reporting against SAP BW and SAP ECC.
• Responsible for developing prototypes financial reports with SAP BW
• Evaluated DW/BI technologies such as SAP BI, Cognos, Business Objects, Kalido
• Evaluated company wide financial reporting consolidation requirements
• Member of the Global Design Requirements Gathering team partnering with Accenture
• Business Intelligence Manager Adjoined Consulting Project Manager Confidential
• Conducted business intelligence requirements discovery sessions with senior management, executives, and IT staff.
• Prepared BI Roadmap / Strategy proposal for the Business Intelligence project which included strategic objectives, business requirements, source system analysis, BI Tool evaluation recommendation, HW/SW recommendations, data acquisition strategy, data cleansing, resource requirements, project plan, and data model.
• Designed and implemented the BI and data warehouse architecture which consisted of Business Objects XI rel 2 Webi, Crystal Reports, Dashboard, Data Integrator ETL Tool, and First Logic Data Cleansing in a MS SQL Server 2005 environment.
• This project extracted data from 5 different source systems running on Oracle and SQL Server. It provided a single view of the customer across all business groups through an internal customer cleansing process, and integration with external 3rd party data to obtain enhanced corporate hierarchy and customer demographic information.

Confidential

Manager Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing /Financial Reporting

• Business Objects Crystal Reports Oracle Discoverer- Oracle Warehouse Builder OWB - Oracle 9i
• Established the company's first BI/DW and reporting department and environment consisting of Business Objects and Crystal Enterprise. Hired BI/DW team, made decisions on DW architecture, hardware, software
• Designed, developed and implemented the company's first BIDW system which allows management to measure and analyze current and historical profitability and performance Bookings, Airline Reservations, Hotel this system was developed in Crystal Enterprise, Business Objects, and Oracle Warehouse Builder. Data was extracted from Oracle ERP and various Legacy systems.
• Conducted in-depth evaluations of major BI/Reporting software Oracle, Cognos Report Net/Power Play, Business Objects, IBI WebFocus, Microstrategy, and others.
• Managed the development and deployment of Discoverer reporting for Oracle Financial applications Oracle. HR, Payroll, PA, Incentive Comp

Confidential

Senior Manager

• Responsible for the implementation of corporate wide data warehousing and business intelligence strategies and best practices . Identified key business group requirements, implemented technologies and architecture, and managed the technical development team.
• BI Architecture - Designed implemented and supported the Business Intelligence and reporting architecture and environment consisting of Business Objects, WebFocus, and SAP BW making Sony one of the first large companies to implement these tools.
• IT Management: Participated in the creation and implementation of the IT department's project management, chargeback, IT P L, change control, request management, and vendor management processes.
• Developed Sony's first enterprise wide, global, data warehouse that provides web based operational and financial data to 3,000 users worldwide. This Oracle based system, utilizes web and client server technology, includes EIS Decision Support modules, ad hoc reporting, and automated daily email reports. Received an Achievement Award for the success of the project from a major business unit. Nominated for a 1998 ComputerWorld/Smithsonian Award Business Related Services Category for this effort. Reference: 4.asp
• Managed the development of the ASSET Management System, a corporate wide, Balanced Scorecard that measures key metrics for top US customers. This system measures KPI's such as On-Time Product Delivery, Forecast vs. systems Legacy, SAP, Oracle, forecasting, and supply chain systems, integrating order, forecast and shipment data. It was developed in Oracle and WebFocus . It gives sales management a tool to optimize order fulfillment, product allocation, and inventory management .
• Technical lead - ETL tool evaluation. Developed and presented ROI analysis and cost justification models to senior management. Lead extensive software evaluation of major ETL tools for the extraction of data and metadata from mainframe legacy systems, SAP/R3, SAP/BW, Oracle, and Oracle Financials. Coordinated an in-house hands on proof of concept, with Informatica and DataStage
• Outsourcing Management: Managed the outsourcing of data warehouse production support from internal resources to local and offshore consulting vendors IBM Satyam . Identified resource requirements, systems to be transitioned, supervised actual transition and documentation turnover. Participated in the development of onshore and offshore contracts.
• User Requirements Analysis: responsible for meeting with user groups, identifying and documenting requirements, preparing preliminary and detailed development estimates, and statements of work approvals.
• Supervised the initial implementation of SAP's Business Warehouse BW with the rollout of the sales reporting cubes for a major business group. Infocube design data extraction, transformation, loading
• Manager - Emerging Technologies / Information Delivery Systems
• Introduced and supported key client server technology into the IS organization including UNIX, Sybase, Powerbuilder, Business Objects, Pilot Command Center .
• Identified reporting and KPI requirements for senior executives and managed the EIS development team.
• Project Manager - Financial Systems / End User Computing
• Introduced and supported 4GL computing technology into the company Information Builder's FOCUS, which revolutionized the process of report development, ad hoc reporting, and data extraction throughout the company.
• Established a highly successful corporate wide end user computing support function.