Brian Ferris Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington, NZ

Independent director helping guide and lead the association as it scales in size and professionalism

Sydney 2000, NSW, AU

"As a member of the meetmagic community, I have the privilege of engaging with leading executives from around the world who are at the forefront of market trends and emerging technologies. This invite-only platform provides a unique opportunity to discuss innovative ideas and provide feedback on emerging tech companies, while also making a positive social.

Wellington, NZ

I joined Loyalty as CDAO and a year later picked up the CTO role as well. I am championing a high performing agile culture and reinventing Loyalty D&A and Tech with new platforms and modern technologies. To date we have decommissioned three of the four on-prem legacy solutions (replaced with cloud native solutions) and completed a full migration to the.

Wellington, NZ

I have returned to NZ to focus on consumer analytics, in particular membership and loyalty. Here at Loyalty NZ we are having fun migrating to a state of the art big data platform to set us up for major developments over the coming years, taking membership and loyalty to a new level. We will be super charging our advanced analytics capabilities as we.

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, GB

Co-authoring with Jason Tan, we have documented our decade of experience in implementing and delivering advanced analytics for startups and large enterprises. Our book, titled Transition to Advanced Analytics: Get a Return on Your Analytics Investment, delves into the intricacies of embedding advanced analytics seamlessly into daily business operations.

Beaverton, OR, US

Beaverton, OR, US

Having a lot of fun reinventing the EMEA data and analytics siloes into a single, agile unit to support the Nike Consumer Direct Offense. We are moving off our legacy on-prem solutions and engineering a cutting edge cloud platform. The squads are working in tight partnerships with our business partners to to set up a truly enterprise wide platform in AWS.

Beaverton, OR, US

I have been responsible for building a retail analytics team here in Europe for Nike. We have taken an unreliable set of static reports and turned it into a stable, mission critical, solution that is at the heart of the business decision making process. This has included migrating the solution to the cloud, setting up an analytics team and platform as well.

Amsterdam, NL

At Heineken I was leading a team re-architecting the legacy platforms and implementing global solutions to support the new strategy. My team created a new architecture based on SAP Hana and piloted the new solution.

London, GB

Solutions architect responsible for the global BAT BW solution. This was the key reporting solution used by all regions and world head quarters to run the business.

London, GB

Created the BAT near shore design center in Madrid. This was a multi disciplinary SAP and Siebel near shore design center to provide the link between the business teams in London and the offshore development teams in India and the Philippines. My initial focus was the BW teams but this was later expanded to all the design teams.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, DE

I took over running project, revised the architecture, put in place the standards and helped ramp up the client team. Then successfully coordinated the delivery of the three work streams.

I have worked on projects at the following organisations as an architect or a lead:Auckland Regional CouncilAuckland City CouncilESRDepartment of CorrectionsKordiaFonterra

Walldorf, BW, DE

Delivered training and supported pre-sales activities on a contract basis

Worldwide, OO

Manager in the SAP practice, projects:Project manager SAP upgrade 4.6C to ECC5.0Account manager - Auckland AccountsBW Lead - BPS implementationProject manager - SAP DMS implementationProject manager - SAP BW implementationBW Lead - SAP BW implementationStream Lead - CorVu implementation (over JDE)