Brian Johnston Email & Phone Number

Lead and develop a highly analytical staff that provides decision support for business areas across the enterprise. Serve as a strategic partner to the business by applying mathematical and statistical techniques and/or innovative /quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and make 'insight to action' recommendations to answer business.

• Serve as Tableau Subject Matter Expert by leading Tableau and Data Visualization User Group, assisting analysts/developers in finding ways to “push the tool to its limits”, while constantly focusing on a visually.
• Provide expertise in the development of Business Intelligence \ Data Analytics information systems matched to business requirements. Lead and manage business requirements gathering, systems development, testing.
• Provide decision support for business segments by constructing analytical capabilities and data repositories.
• Extract and mine data from existing data stores and perform ad-hoc queries to arrive at specific and crucial information for the organization using large and complex databases containing millions to over 5 billion.
• Identify and implement process, data, and reporting improvements for the organization which resulted in improved operational efficiencies and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with business owners to develop strategies for business intelligence \ data analytics solutions

Greenville, North Carolina Area

- Responsible for the data integrity, compliance and analysis for medium size fire rescue department.- Through the development and implementation of administrative controls, organizational policies, and end user training improved incident address verification from 67% to 99.3%- Through the development and implementation of administrative controls.

Greenville, North Carolina Area

- Act in role of firefighter for a medium size fire rescue department.- Develop and lead training of new and current members in both fire and EMS topics.- Act as charge Paramedic and driver for ambulance.

• Reviewed, validated, analyzed, and discovered/investigated issues for highly utilized health improvement measurement tool.
• Developed ad hoc queries and subsequent analysis to enhance client's understanding of employee health, utilization, and engagement based on questions developed during face to face client meetings.
• Gathered requirements for incorporating and integrating future enhancements from new data sources as well as new applications as an effort to enhance current reporting capabilities.
• Wrote business/technical specifications and requirements as well as acted as a liaison between business and IT for numerous issues and miscommunications as well developed numerous formalized processes between business.
• Utilizing COGNOS tools; developed a book of business benefit analysis cube that is allowing unparalleled insight into current benefit factors by a number of industry and regional variables.

- Developed, streamlined, secured, and automated corporate financial reporting applications resulting in broad user adoption and extensive cost savings through reduction in legacy applications and reports.- Systems Lead for Dental Sales and Membership Six Sigma project that involved data mart creation and integration with multiple transactional systems.

Graduate Certificate, Finance

Mba, Business Administration

Education record

Bachelor Of Science, Health Services Administration