Ben Sisson Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Florida Area

As Lead Architect and Team Leader of Cru (non-profit gross revenues in excess of $680 million) Business Intelligence solutions I had four strategic goals: (1) Integrate (Data Virtuality / Informatica) diverse and siloed information from various data sources into a single data repository (Oracle, AWS PostgreSQL and Google BigQuery) and design business models (OBIEE) to complement distinct strategies; (2) Mine (Answers, SQL, R) and present (Dashboards and Reports) valuable and strategic information to leadership for making tactical decisions; (3) Leverage the Business Intelligence environment to create new and unique opportunities through the use of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive techniques.; (4) Provide insight to our marketing initiatives through segmentation and post campaign analysis to increase donor engagement and revenue In fulfilling these goals I oversaw the integration of data (information) both internal and external to the organization. Including but not limited to, Enterprise CRM (Siebel and NetSuite), HR (PeopleSoft) and Financial (PeopleSoft and NetSuite) data that spanned both U.S. and Global Operations. In addition, I was responsible for the integration of data from our web and mobile applications as well as purchased third party data used to enhance our insights. I worked closely with all of our service groups to support ongoing initiatives, including Fund Development, Major Donor Caseload Management, Donor and Partner Management, Financial auditing and HR management. Fund Development initiatives included marketing segmentation, post campaign analysis and recommendations. with timely reporting and dashboards. I was also responsible for the security and integrity of the data with an emphasis on data access using a roles based model. We provided strategic analysis of our web and mobile application data to drive decision making processes to prioritize enhancements and improve efficiency and user experience.

Orlando, Florida Area

Fredericksburg, Va

Senior Member of the Technical Staff – Lead developer for Java web based applications and database services integration. My primary responsibility was the development and support of java applications and a data repository (MySQL) used for modeling and simulation. In addition to my development responsibilities, I participated in research activities and wrote white papers that were published by the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO).

Virginia

EDS was 17+ Billion-dollar global company providing a broad range of Information Technology solutions. As an Information Specialist Senior, working for EDS, I had the privilege to work for three of EDS’s divisions, primarily serving in the role of technical lead. I served as the Technical Lead, for EDS’s Business Intelligence (BI) Division, responsible for architecting and developing (Pro C, PL/SQL) EDS’s Oracle data warehouse and reporting (Oracle Discoverer, Microsoft Access) solution for Business Intelligence. EDS BI services were contracted to mid and large size companies and organizations as a CRM and Direct Marketing solution. I served as Team Lead and Programmer (C++), on the EDS RAPIDS Account, for implementing enhancements to a rules-based application, collecting personal and biometric information, which was stored in an Oracle database repository. The system produced the United States military Common Access Cards (CAC) with integrated chip technology used for personnel access and security.I served as Technical Lead, for EDS’s Products Division, where I was responsible for developing a transaction (Visual Basic) and reporting database (Oracle) solution for consumer products. The solution provided consumer call center information as well as product and sales analysis for the largest food company in the world (as of 2014).

Master'S Information Technology, Information Technology

Bachelor Information Systems, Information Systems