SUMMARY

• Reporting and Analytics | Dashboards and Visualizations | Strategy and Road Maps | Client Engagement | Project Management | Conceptual and Technical Architecture Design| Capacity and Scalability Planning| Optimization and Performance Tuning | Coaching and Mentoring |Data Warehousing Result oriented BI manager with 20+ years of experience in information technology, with extensive experience engaging business stakeholders to deliver industry standard business intelligence and analytics solutions.
• Established professional responsible for road maps, strategy, and vision, with focus on leveraging analytics to drive efficiencies and improve ROI. Avid advocate for fact - based decisions based on analytics and process changes that drive analytics adoption within the enterprise.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Stack

SQL: SQL, No SQL

Data Warehousing: Bill Inmon/Ralph Kimball Methodologies, Star vs Snowflake Schemas, OLAP, ROLAP,HOLAP

Business Intelligence Products: IBM Cognos, Tableau, QlikView, MS Power BI

Data Modeling: Erwin

ETL: Ab Initio, Apache NIFI

Telemetry: Splunk

DB: Oracle,SQLServer,Teradata,PostGres, DB2,Hadoop,MarkLogic

OS: SUSE Linux, AIX, Windows Server

Middleware: WebLogic 11G, IIS

Automation: Chef, AutoSys

Cloud-Based Technologies: Docker Containers, Microservices

Others: MS TFS, JIRA, Confluence, SAML SSO

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Independent Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Project Delivery - Oversee the sizing, capacity planning, licensing, architecture and build out of the platform and solutions to support analytics. Over design sessions to rationalize legacy reporting solutions migrating to Tableau, and prototype solutions to showcase Tableau capabilities. Responsible for managing sprint backlog and setting work direction of the team, to ensure on-time delivery of solutions that align with industry best practices. Tasked with defining the upgrade timelines and the product road map to align with Tableau product releases
• IT Governance - Responsible for establishing change management and governance around deployed analytics solutions, to ensure they align with established standards and federal guidelines . This includes defining standards for data and content security on the platform, deploying certified data source extracts to support self-service reporting, and custom security models around content access.
• Relationship Management - . Leading efforts with Stakeholders to leverage analytics solutions to drive decision making within the organization. Continuously working with internal teams to prototype solutions that showcase Tableau capabilities and drive user adoption.

Confidential, Roswell, GA

Technical Manager/Senior Analytics Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project Delivery - Oversaw application upgrades and Infrastructure build outs across multiple releases of IBM Cognos 10 and Cognos Analytics V11, that maintained platform at n/n-1 versions. Consolidated disparate satellite Cognos implementations into a centralized infrastructure, to reduce the total cost of ownership. Streamline the project deliverables, projects and assigned resources to ensure on time and budget delivery of projects . Led triage efforts with Ops to support incident resolution and implement repeatable solutions to address incidents and problems. Average Platform availability metrics of over 99%.
• Innovation Management - Accountable for hardware and software planning, multiyear road maps, strategy and e valuation of new BI tools and capabilities for adoption to the Enterprise. Part of transformation effort to migrate BI models from operational to self- service analytics, including Tableau, MS PowerBI and Cognos Analytics self service capabilities.
• IT Leadership and Supervising - Recruit, hire and mentor employees according to approved staffing plan. Matured team members in their career development resulting in knowledge growth and quality support on the platform.
• IT Governance - Established governance, standards, best practices for development/deployment processes across the platform. Worked with Release management to ensure standards are being enforced, resulting in 30% incident reduction.
• Relationship Management - Continuously engaging with stakeholders to review roadmaps and deployed capabilities to ensure positive ROI on the platform.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior BI Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Project Delivery - Designed and led development teams to build r obust solutions around credit risk metrics and KPI’s using Cognos10 reports, dashboards, and visualizations. Worked with business analysts, data modelers and DBA to ensure business requirements were translated into the most efficient database structure for reporting. Troubleshoot performance issues and made recommendations for database tuning and structural report changes to improve query run times and report performance.
• Relationship Management - Engaged the business leaders and teams to identify new opportunities to leverage BI. Created POC and mock up solutions to illustrate new BI solutions, and iteratively worked with business to refine solutions and move to production.
• IT Governance - Part of the team that established the Cognos business intelligence competency center (COE), that established standards and best practices around content development in the environments.
• Leadership and Supervising - Managed and provided advisory services to offshore and local resources. Mentored the production support team around platform support resulting in fewer incidents and platform uptime of over 98%.

Confidential, Duluth, GA

Senior BI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primarily functioned as a Cognos Administrator and Developer for the Igenity project, an online Cognos application for analyzing and benchmarking phenotypic and genotypic results of selected animal segments.
• Developed a scalable solution comprising over 40 reports utilizing Framework Manager, Report Studio, Powerplay Cubes, Dashboards, and Portals.
• Developed a plug in to integrate a WSDL service into Cognos reports using Composite Information Services and Composite Studio.
• Designed a data model to pull data from an OLTP database into a data mart using SQLSERVER stored procedures and DTS packages and using Powerplay Cubes and drill through Reportnet reports.

Confidential, Roswell, GA

Independent BI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architected the Cognos solution to migrate legacy fraud and abuse detection applications from business objects/Power builder to IBM Cognos.
• Implemented performance tuning algorithms to improve environment availability.
• Designed and deployed robust, scalable and dynamic Enterprise-Wide Framework Manager Meta data models and reports.
• Implemented performance tuning algorithms to improve environment availability and report run times.
• Evaluated new Cognos modules against customer needs, and made recommendations for implementation and adoption.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Independent BI Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with a team of Cognos consultants to install and configure a distributed ReportNet environment.
• Maintained and administered Access Manager User Class security, Upfront NewsBoxes, NewsItems, and Cognos Connection Security.
• Developed Framework Manager Packages and Customized reports using Report Studio for analyzing the roll out dates and status of new products implemented per state and region for a Rate Revision project.
• Developed Cognos Cubes to analyze monthly Income and Expense Balances along Products, States and Income statement rollups for finance. Created DTS packages for ETL of data.