Al Kassam Email & Phone Number

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Director of Product Strategy for Sales and CS Systems & Go-To-Market Data

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A prominent leader in the Salesforce Advisory and Technical Consulting Group, Al has co-led efforts that have propelled both Salesforce Professional Service and his clients in increasing business value and elevating productivity of their organizations.• Co-led and structured a Salesforce Reimplementation to uncover $100 Million+ of Business Value • Positioned & executed a Governance Model resulting in a 1500% Average Case Response Time improvement• Manage and maintain trusted relationships with Client Business & IT Leaders• Led New Leader Enablement Material supporting 500+ people leaders in AMER Professional Services• Championed AMER Professional Services Certification Enablement Program supporting 1000+ SF Architects• Led Internal Executive Communication & Difficult Conversation training sessions• Co-Lead for TCG Canada fostering a sense of community & mentorship• Hosted Canadian TCG Monthly All-Hands, People Leader & Equality Office Hours recurring presenter

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Markham, On, Canada

Principal IT Consultant that has been engaged on a variety of cross-functional Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Analytics and Conversion implementations across clients and industries. Al continuously strives to help his customers create scale-able and supportable solutions while meeting project timelines and budgets.

Toronto, Canada Area

Led TCS project consultants in cross-functional team initiative to deliver nine Micro Strategy Dashboard, spanning 15 subject areas, and over 4000 metrics & attributes. In a short time span, Al was able to organize the project team, strengthen cross-functional team cohesiveness and re-baseline the project plan in order to bring the project from Red to Yellow status. Al was brought onto the project to assist while original PM was on an emergency leave.

Oakville, On

Led initiative to upgrade the SAP Acquisition Conversion tool created in May 2016 for Shred-IT. Upgraded BODS 4.2 jobs to include updated automated rules, new Data Quality and conversion reports generated, Language Character Fix, and automation of LSMW input file.Key Results: Increased conversion efficiencies by 20% Extended solution for Master Data Team to optimize their processes

Halifax, Canada Area

Led requirements gathering, architecture, and SAP BODS ETL development of additional KPIs required by the Maintenance business. Key Results: Identified and corrected incorrect KPI calculations that were being displayed on the executive dashboards and reports Designed and developed new ETL loads for net new KPIs, reference tables, fact tables, and dimension tables Proactively advised on Environment Management, Code Management, BODS ETL Development, and Data Warehousing best practices and strategies in order to ensure IT Audit Compliance

Oakville, On, Canada

Led initiative to streamline and automate Shred-IT acquisition conversion process in order to invoke efficiency, leverage team strengths and support corporate direction. The new SAP Acquisition Conversion tool was developed utilizing BODS 4.2 ETL middle ware technology 33 % of original resources required per acquisition conversion (All business resources) 66 % reduction in conversion timeline required per acquisition 1800 % efficiency improvement attained per acquisition Go-Live  Advised on Environment Management and Code Management best practices and strategies

Toronto, Canada Area

Originally deployed by SAP to demonstrate the capabilities of the SAP BODS 4.2 ETL tool to the Investment Management Group, Al successfully proposed a customized Data Quality solution that leveraged SAP BODS, Qlikview and HTML 5. Lead the design and development of the SAP BODS ETL Framework, the supporting MS SQL database tables, and training of 8 business users to utilize the SAP BODS ETL tool.Key Results: Upgraded HOOPP to Enterprise Licensing of SAP BODS 500% increase in information provided for Data Quality anomalies Environment Management, Code Management, & BODS ETL Development best practices & strategies

Brampton, Ontario

Led Adastra Consulting team in the analytics and data warehousing initiative that tracks and reconcile settlement data for one of Rogers Communication’s incentive product offerings.

Toronto, Canada Area

Managed a $20 Million Enterprise Information Management portfolio that comprised of analytic projects across the Supply Chain, Digital & Merchandising, and Finance departments. Responsibilities extended to strengthen relationships with various stakeholders across IT. Additionally, Al was the direct functional manager of 20 resources comprising of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Data Architects.

Toronto, Canada Area

Led conversion activities and Salesforce customization initiatives in order to migrate client over from their legacy ACT CRM system into their new Salesforce CRM

Toronto, Canada Area

Project managed and acted as the technical lead for the President Choice Financial Loyalty program integration initiative. Key collaborator on the design and development of the BODS ETL Framework 4.0 for Loblaw Company Limited. Additionally, supported various initiatives and developed numerous BODS ETL Interfaces ensuring project timelines and budgets were met. migration processes.

Developed and implemented the Clarity 7 Performance Management solution at Polar Air. Solution consisted of generating an OLAP Cube, MS SQL Database, MS SSIS Interfaces, five OLAP reports, three OLAP templates and two relational reports .

Led numerous initiatives as a Project Manager, Integration Architect, Technical Lead, Functional Designer, and ETL Developer across various clients and projects within the analytics, data warehousing, systems integration, and conversion realm