Kevin Loo Resume

Visionary, results-oriented senior IT professional with success directing a broad range of corporate IT initiatives, participate in planning, analysis, and implementation of solutions in support of business objectives. Experienced technology leader able to coordinate and direct all phases of software development lifecycle SDLC based efforts with core competencies in: Enterprise Resource Planning ERP , Data Management DM , Business Intelligence BI , Enterprise Application Integration EAI , Enterprise Architecture EA and Application Development.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Sr. Technical Manager SVP , Data Management and Architecture, Finance Technology

Key Responsibilities

• Define and develop technology data strategy and roadmap through implementation of SAP Solutions.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of data architecture in support of project development team and aligning them to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Works closely with solution architects in designing and developing the design of the system.
• Provide feedback, technical input and participate in review of the overall architecture.
• Design and lead evaluation and selection process for data integration tools/components, metadata, master data management, reporting and analytics solutions.
• Translate strategic requirements into information architecture to guide solution development.
• Provide data and recommendations for business decisions at the senior executive level.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Manager SVP , Corporate Technology Solutions

Key Responsibilities

• Manage business partnership with financial planning and analysis on key corporate finance initiatives such as Fund Transfer Pricing, Economic Capital, Budget Planning and Forecasting.
• Lead development and implementation of related elements of the business intelligence program, including financial data warehouse, data marts, analytics, and reporting solutions.
• Have direct responsibility for execution of data management and business intelligence through implementation of PeopleSoft EPM, DataStage, Business Object, and Oracle database to support data management and business intelligence.
• Work closely with business leaders, subject matter experts, and functional users to translate key business processes and effectively develop and maintain information model, data flow, and architecture artifacts.
• Lead technology development teams and accountable for the solution architecture of analytics and reporting components, assessment, business requirements gathering, data architecture and modeling, data model design and delivery, infrastructure design and implementation, and reporting and data access.
• Manage staff involved with data management and business intelligence complemented with onshore and offshore resources, contractors, and consultants.

Confidential

Technical Manager VP , Basel II Project

Key Responsibilities

• Spearheaded design, engineering, and application development of a credit risk data warehouse and analytics. Responsible for setting the direction and leading IT technical teams for implementing technology solutions to integrate internal and external data relevant for Basel II requirements.
• Implemented programs to effectively improve data quality
• Developed data integration for 200 source systems interfaces across North America, Europe, and Asia and a web based scheduler for real time data sourcing.
• Developed data marts for credit risk measurement and economic capital calculation.
• Review corporate data sources for new business information and better sources of data feeds.
• Partner with 3rd party technology and reporting vendors and manage the execution of the testing and implementation of additional Basel II calculations and reporting functionality.
• Manage technical project team complemented with onshore and offshore resources, contractors, and consultants.

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Architect, Finance Technology

Led the implementation of finance data warehouse providing a close up view of instrument level profitability. Delivered technology solution for analysis of product and customer profit and loss metrics, RAROC/RAPM risk adjusted return on capital / risk adjusted performance measurement gross contribution, return on assets as well as the classical gross to net margin to show how each customer and product is generating revenue and profit.

Key Responsibilities

• Led the implementation of finance data warehouse utilizing Oracle's PeopleSoft EPM to enable funds transfer pricing, product profitability and customer relationship profitability to process financial and statistical metrics applied to all instrument level data.
• Developed the overall data strategy and data architecture for a multidimensional profitability data mart implemented an integrated data solution optimized for movement and aggregation of very large data volumes.
• Provided effective oversight for system implementation, managed development, and provided project cost and time estimates.

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer Team Lead , EPM Application Development

Key Responsibilities

• Successfully designed and developed EPM application tools for releases 7.5, 8.0, 8.3 and 8.8 in areas of enterprise data warehouse, tools, data models, ETL, and metadata.
• Managed full life cycle software development responsibilities included requirement analysis, functional and technical design, product development, testing.
• Responsible for leading the EPM enterprise data warehouse development team
• Applied for US Patent on new data transformation design

Confidential

Database Engineer Contract , Database Operations

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibilities included database systems management, performance, tuning, security administration, data replication, database backup and recovery.
• Identified and performed troubleshooting of complex SQL programs and problems related to Microsoft SQL Server and Windows operating systems.
• Developed plans for handling issues related to software upgrades, application deployment and software testing.

Confidential

IT Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Installed WAN between 11 branch offices centralizing communications and providing Internet access.
• Standardized a suite of desktop software products allowing greater ease in document sharing, as well as the ability to upgrade software remotely and to troubleshoot more efficiently.
• Developed operational procedures, established technology standards and directions, managed products selections and vendor relations.

Technical Proficiencies

• Platforms: AIX, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Linux
• Database: Oracle 9i/10g, Oracle OLAP, DB2, MSSQL, Essbase, Sybase
• Language: SQL, XML, Java, PeopleCode, C
• Applications: Oracle PeopleSoft Financial, HR, CRM, EPM , Hyperion, Informatica, DataStage, SAP ECC, Netweaver , Business Objects