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Street Address / PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE / EMAIL AVAILABLELINKEDIN LINK AVAILABLEKeywords: WebFOCUS, integration, design, metadata, optimization, visualization, security, KPIs, portals.Technical Focus: Data architect, business analysis, application design, data management and optimization, data visualization, predictive analytics and geospatial analysis, attrition/retention modeling, performance monitoring and tuning, installation, patching, configuration and optimization, interactive dashboards, portals and KPI scorecards, security and data-level authorization automation.Industry Focus: Inventory Optimization, Payments Processing, Distribution, Transportation, Logistics, Sales Analysis, Finance, ERP, CRM, Demand Forecasting.Career Focus: Director of Business Intelligence, BI Architect, Data Engineer, BI Manager, Consultant.Summary: My career role has been in the leadership and design of exceptional enterprise Business Intelligence environments for a wide spectrum of industries and corporate cultures. Highly articulate, I am quite comfortable working with clients and managing work groups at all organizational levels. My technical experience in business intelligence consulting emphasizes all aspects of data management. Work has focused primarily on designing, building, implementing, and managing financial databases and datamarts, decision-support and business intelligence systems throughout the development process. Data integration has also meant working extensively against Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Teradata and Netezza databases, and reporting from JD Edwards, Salesforce data, and RESTful services.I have presented at several regional conferences and many of my technical papers have been published in Information Builders and other industry journals. An educator at heart, I have trained hundreds of users across the USA in non-procedural programming techniques.Work Experience:Europa Sports Partners Senior BI and Analytics Manager (8/2019-4/2024: WebFOCUS 9.2)Managed a highly responsive BI department, plus worked with offshore development resources.Designed and built data marts, standard reporting, advanced visualizations, and comprehensive portals for Sales, Purchasing, Warehousing, and Inventory Optimization. Finding and integrating diverse data into targeted high-speed reporting marts, and then highlighting the identified root drivers of success and problems with novel perspectives and parameterized visualizations, allowed the company to focus on the areas that demanded the greatest impact.Refactored existing WebFOCUS and Crystal reports against JDE source tables into reporting from high-speed XFOCUS data marts for an average 95% performance improvement in hundreds of pushed and self-service reports while simultaneously relieving the host transactional systems from duplicate retrieval overhead.Designed and deployed extensive usage monitoring and reporting. This custom-built operational tracking allowed the team to clearly understand which users were doing what, how, and when providing real-time insights into resource utilization and subject matter of greatest interest.Built comprehensive ReportCaster log tracking, plus created scheduling Gantt charts and searchable auditing to tune system loading and ETL performance characteristics.Designed and built finished goods inventory optimization and re-ordering model. Emphasis was placed on laying out historical data to make demand patterns more readily understood. The FOCUS database machine was used for entering policy parameters and demand forecasts that required simultaneous update capability. Extensive visualization highlighted reordering impacts.Built extensive sales performance and profitability portal with self-service reporting tools.Created automatic coupling of application authentication and DBA data authorization controls.Proviniti Lead BI Architect (8/2018-7/2019: WebFOCUS 8.2)Consulting and design in the electronic payments industry.Implemented in the cloud (AWS) - PCI security compliant (DSS 3.2 with MFA).Designed repository-based system documentation.Atos/Syntel Technical Architect at FedEx (10/2016-7/2018: WebFOCUS 8.1)Built business Intelligence architecture optimization and performance monitoring.Participated in AGILE development methodology and collaboration with offshore resources.Built POCs establishing viability of large high-speed XFOCUS data marts (250GB+).Created WF8 consolidated repository and code-based change log reporting portal.Built system health tracking BI portal to monitor thousands-of-schedules-per-day ReportCaster activity, WF Server agents alerting, and virtualized CPU utilization.First Data USA - Director of Sales Business Intelligence (3/2006-5/2016: WebFOCUS 7.7)Technical leader of the BI group for finance, sales effectiveness, and field sales organizations in the merchant processing business - supporting C-level decision making, senior FDC sales and finance management, plus the FDC banking alliance partners, PNC, and Bank of America sales forces throughout North America. Supervision of a BI development team with members spread across multiple states and office locations.Responsible for BI architecture and database design, metadata creation, data quality and security administration, usage tracking, audit and analysis, plus all server administration and installations. Managed the WebFOCUS 8 migration.Created a comprehensive usage monitoring and governing application that also included user authorization and metadata-level control of all data sources.Pioneered the use of WebFOCUS and high-speed multi-dimensional databases. Designed and managed the environment to deliver over 250,000 self-service extensively parameterized reports per month to 2,000 users with a 1.3 second average report response time, plus thousands of pushed reports.Instrumental in creating fraud and FBI crime tracking applications, churning analyses, attrition modeling, data mining, integrated geocoding and mapping, and advanced visualizations.Designed and built dashboard, scorecard and interactive modeling tools and applications for user communities at all levels throughout the extended organization and including FDC global and large accounts such as WalMart.Built the first extraordinarily successful large-scale data marts for banking alliance profitability reporting. The system was still used 15 years later as a core data source for the latest Internet-based customer product offerings.Additional Accomplishments:First Data Center Stage Award.Director of the Arkansas branch of the International Tai Chi Society (until relocating in 2019).Richard W Oliver Award for innovative thought in the ASU technology masters degree programs.Laureate in the international ComputerWorld/Smithsonian A Search for New Heroes program for the application of advanced BI technology in improving the quality of life in our communities.Education:PhD Business Research/Management (2014 - Monarch Business School Switzerland great distinction).MS Information Systems (2009 - American Sentinel/Post University - summa cum laude).Advanced Microsoft Access and DB2 Internals certification at J B Hunt training facility.Web Application Development Certification (Information Builders/BrainBench). |
