Aron "Josha" Russell Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Hillsboro, Oregon, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

• Leading the higher education vertical development team to deliver phase 1 of strategic data and forecasting planning platform.• Managing team of 4 local and 4 offshore software engineers and QA analysts.• Acting Scrum Master, facilitating all Agile scrum processes & methodologies.• Built and actively managing Power BI dashboard to analyze defect volume and engineering productivity to forecast staffing projections.

Portland, Or, Us

• Designed, developed and supported multiple instances of complex data management solutions using Axiom EPM BI for healthcare and higher education verticals.• Designed and architected multiple data models to provide an efficient schema for data load and retrieval.• Supported and troubleshot to resolve complex data issues between sandbox and production environments for consultants.• Led a cross-functional team in transitioning from Waterfall to Agile development, improving methodologies to align with team needs.

Portland, Oregon, Us

• Created in-depth, interactive dashboards based on SQL queries and OLAP cubes, joining data sets to assist management in strategic decision making. • Supported the Finance team in contract negotiation, presenting relevant market intelligence, historical data, and real-time data monitoring. • Coordinated and educated stakeholders and end-users as to how to gather business requirements, query data and use dashboards. • Defined an ETL process to connect medical records system to data warehouse using Microsoft SQL Server BI Suite to cleanse and normalize data into a star schema for more efficient querying.• Created ETLs to support semantic & presentation layers to align with reporting needs.

Renton, Wa, Us

• Regularly generated intelligence reports focused on the US and Oregon to aid in identifying patterns and opportunities relating to the healthcare climates. • Extensively used tools such as Tableau, Access, VBA, Maptitude, PowerPoint & Excel to create live dashboards, visualizations, and client-facing reports. • Collected, analyzed, and presented out data from a variety of sources to the executive team, providing tactical recommendations and strategic opportunities based on emergent trends.

Portland, Oregon, Us

• Created automated scripts to extract, transform and load data from external systems to internal proprietary configuration software.• Member of the Data Policy & Team Synergy group focused on standardization of reporting inventory, content, and process improvement. • Acted as the Content Liaison on behalf of General Motors, working in cross- functional teams, especially with GM's Marketing team in order to implement specifications into dealership facing procurement platforms.

• Monitored troubleshooting and repairs on behalf of IT team.• Worked collaboratively with other specialist to establish best known methods for providing timely and positive customer service based on most frequently reported issues.• Acknowledged for providing enthusiastic support to staff and positive personality.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Aggregated supplier data using Microsoft Access to create asystematic to redistribution of responsibilities for quality assurance reviews.• Analyzed supplier-to-quality assurance representative ratio and proposed a cost sensitive solution to provide more frequent and cost prohibitive account oversight.• Created an Excel Macro using Visual Basic to create a tool that measured key performance metrics and trainings in order to monitor quarterly objectives.• Prepared PowerPoint presentations for upper management to accurately report findings and positively influence decision making.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Accounting And Finance