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Rosemont, Il

Wauconda, Il

Greater Chicago Area

• Maintained close relationship with key business decision makers to ensure that delivered solutions meet their expectations and to provide recommendations for new project architecture• Participated in design and delivery of the Regional and Global data warehouses allowing for significant improvement in data acquisition and subsequent delivery of global analytical services (SSDT, SSIS)• Facilitated systems integration among key DB2, Oracle and SQL Server administrators in order to deliver comprehensive data models (SSIS)• Developed new productivity initiatives to increase sales and improve cost efficiency (VB.NET, SSIS, SSRS)

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed and maintained internal staff performance measurement metrics (SSIS, T-SQL, SSRS)• Enabled key personnel efficiency by providing real-time birds-eye view of sales performance data allowing to easily identify operational “bottle-necks” and deploy additional resources to correct the situation (T_SQL, SSRS)• Developed Web and Windows data-driven tools for process optimization and automation. Annualized savings exceeding $500,000 (VB.NET, ASP.NET)

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for supporting various business units with appropriate analytical tools (Reporting, OLAP, AD-HOC, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Excel)• Implemented all phases of SDLC with respect to process automation and a wide variety of operational enhancements (T-SQL, VB.NET)• Ensured timely execution of ETL data loads by improving speed and reliability of underlying processes (T_SQL, SSIS)• Provided guidance to end-users on industry standards and best practices with relation to efficient data acquisition and analysis. Conducted multiple training sessions on T-SQL and SSIS skill improvement. • Multiple “High Performance Awards” winner for individual and team achievements

Northbrook, Il

• Designed, developed, implemented and maintained Expense Management Information System for Claims Technologies Services department of Allstate Insurance• Led reporting tool development process, tasked with analysis of human resources allocation and utilization which allowed building a predictive data model and greatly improving planning process.• Created uniform processes to standardize, prioritize and analyze expense data. As a result a team of 7 expense managers was reduced to 3 and was still able to accomplish a greater level of detail and accuracy. • Created standardized reporting as well as provided ad-hoc support for the management team• Participated in various analytical and business process optimization projects across multiple departments

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for full system development life cycle of the Back Office accounting system• Performed Y2K compliance and upgrade procedures for existing legacy systems • Trained non-technical users on various standard and proprietary applications• Assisted in design and administration of the local network • Performed help-desk duties covering tasks related to new workstation setup and issue resolution