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Northfield, IL, US

Rosemont, IL, US

• Responsible for creation and implementation of an end-to-end data governance program that bridges the knowledge between technology and business.
• Created enterprise data council to tackle long standing cross functional security & calculation conflict issues. Establish “source of truth” for key data assets.
• Co-lead BI Modernization program to establish business owned metric calculations that led to trusted reporting across the organization using a modern tech stack.
• Spearheaded AI COE (Center of Excellence) group to consolidate, rationalize & oversee AI efforts across the org. Establish AI data acquisition, ownership/IP & ethical use standards.
• Created a scalable data, metric, & report certification program that delivers trust to users, while providing transparent lineage from source to report. This resulted in a 60% drop in time to identify, correct &.
• Stood up “Hub & spoke” data stewardship model across key divisions to bring business led, IT facilitated data ownership.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Established data governance team to ensure secure and compliant use of customer data.
• Created Executive governance council to validate data use-cases for enterprise data
• Lead cross business unit data stewardship team to catalog and standardize data.
• Creating a Keying & Linking solution to connect data silos giving the business a 360 view of clients.
• Establish Data Quality, Master/Relational Data Management (MDM/RDM) systems.
• Partner with Risk/Compliance team to manage PII/CCPA/GDPR data across enterprise.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Led initiative with our Joint Venture teams to enable new data projects while ensuring data was properly secured and used in compliance with contract language.
• Created Data Dictionary across Joint Venture client systems to commonly define attributes.
• Worked with Contracts team to standardize renewal language and remove data sharing restrictions.
• Created Data Usage policy for client data across systems.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

• Developing target state data architecture with automated data ingestion, transformation and content delivery. Key benefits will include Enhanced reporting and analytics capabilities via Tableau to drive business.
• Created Netezza based Architecture to support Tableau client reporting
• Oversee ETL and data cleansing teams to ensure timely and accurate data.
• Setup Kafka streaming as primary data distribution method for Hadoop cluster.

Riverwoods, IL, US

• Leading project related work efforts as part of an Agile team for the general ledger, Hyperion environment, enterprise data governance and other initiatives.
• Establishing a "best in class" structure for financial systems, processes, and controls.
• Key participant in implementing SAP PCM, Enterprise data model, Hyperion Financial Reports, OracleDRM/DRG and other new solutions as the future state of accounting systems develops.
• Creating customer data solutions via Teradata, Tableau, Hadoop & Excel.
• Building relationships across the Finance and Business Technology functions and seeks ways to support their objectives while pursuing the need for standardization, control, innovation and efficiency.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Responsible for Corporate Controller Group’s development of financial systems, processes and controls with 2 direct reports.
• Research and implement solutions for the department in efforts to reduce G&A costs.
• Meet regularly with Executive Management to determine the future state of accounting systems.
• Partner with IT, outside vendors and build relationships across multiple finance departments to design and implement Oracle MBS/Hyperion solution across the McDonald’s global financial footprint for planning and.
• Deployed Oracle Smartview and empowered clients to build ad-hoc reports.
• Created Essbase Cube from scratch to house Oracle 11G data for quicker consolidated information access.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Develop custom solutions using Visual Basic (MS Excel) front ends and Database backends to streamline financial data consolidation from all global markets.
• Research and implement solutions for client “bottlenecks” in workflow.
• Responsible for Global monthly sales close process.
• Created Financial booking tool to reduce analyst’s workload.
• Provide ad-hoc excel support to analysts.
• Create and maintain Entity, Account & Report lines in our consolidating software program.

New York, NY, US

• Developed custom plug-in dlls for STARS Risk Management Software program clients.
• Write programming specs and work with sales to determine project cost/feasibility.
• Rewrote common programming libraries to speed development time for programming team.
• Converted most commonly requested enhancements to true plug and play modules, saving both time and effort.
• Converted VB6 programs to C#/VB.NET dlls for future upgrades.
• Used Visual Source Safe to manage code.

Chicago, IL, US

• Ran tests on new data engine in UNIX environment to ensure compatibility with current programs.
• Wrote test plans and scripts.
• Used Track Record, Exceed & Clear Case to manage defects.
• Wrote VB parser scripts to convert engine output into a useable format.