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Texas, United States

Plano, Texas

• Leading a data transformation office partnering with C-suite executives to improve data analytics, governance and management reporting for operational and financial excellence.• Responsible for the oversight and direction of enterprise performance management systems for forecast and planning models, close consolidations, customer and product line master data management. • Automated financial SEC reporting through business intelligence applications to show profitability for product margins, operating expenses, customer margins, cash forecast for board of directors and C-suite.• Oversaw the integration of multiple mergers and acquisitions for ERP and financial close systems.• Implemented master data management across all primary data domains authoring data stewardships, data governance workflows and integration of Oracle EDM into operational and analytical systems.Environments: Oracle EPM, SFDC, Workday, Planful, Oracle EDM, Oracle EBS, OBIEE

Fort Worth, Tx

• Responsible for the administration of Essbase databases across development, QA and production environments. Primary Essbase duties included managing security requirements, database performance analysis, enforcing Sarbanes compliance, configuration management, database recovery and scalability analysis. • Installed and configured 9.3.1 and 11.1.2.1 Hyperion Essbase Server, Hyperion Reporting & Analysis and Hyperion Planning for development, test and production environments.• Managed the budget workflow process for approximately 150 departmental employees.• Implemented and performed successful backup and recovery procedures for Hyperion Essbase, Planning and Reporting & analysis. • Created documentation material for backup and restore, training material, turnover procedures and technical support.• Developed and evaluated Esscmd and MaxL scripts for used for automatic cube builds and data loads.Environments: Hyperion Essbase 11.1.2.1, Hyperion Reporting & Analysis 11.1.2.1, Hyperion Planning 11.1.2.1, Hyperion Data Relationship Management 11.1.2.1, Hyperion Smart View, Oracle Data Integrator 10.2, AIX 6.1, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Oracle Database Server 11g.

Framingham, Ma

• Responsible for the complete migration and upgrade of all Essbase applications, data and objects to a new server environment.• Installed and configured Hyperion Analytic Server, Hyperion Analytic Provider Services, Hyperion Administration Services, and Hyperion Shared Services.• Setup, externalized and migrated all user accounts from Essbase 6 native directory to a Shared Services directory.• Performed dynamic dimension building and data loading tasks via rules files.• Stress tested to optimize application performance in order to decrease processing time and increase user availability.• Performed data analysis comparisons in order to validate accurate migration of data.Environments: Hyperion Essbase 6.1.4 & 9.3.1. Hyperion System 9 Analytic Administration, Hyperion Smart View, Hyperion Shared Services, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Linux Red Hat 5.4, Windows NT 2003.

Atlanta, Ga

• Performed the installation & configuration of Hyperion products including Hyperion Essbase Server, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Interactive Reporting, Hyperion Financial Reporting.• Analysis of infrastructure and performance related to the installation and configuration of Hyperion products.• Created technical documentation on automated processes related to the installation and configuration of all Hyperion products.• Implemented automation processes to regulate stability and security of Hyperion services within both Unix and Windows environments.• Optimized database configurations, including cache tuning and ASO/BSO combinations to improve performance and stability. Environment: Hyperion Essbase 6.x/7.x, Hyperion Planning, Hyperion Interactive Reports, Hyperion Financial Reports , Essbase Spreadsheet Add-In, Hyperion Smartview, Hyperion Interactive Reports, Hyperion Financial Reports, Microsoft Windows 2000/NT.