Brian Lindner Email & Phone Number

United States

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

* Data Architecture and Data Management strategy.* Coaching & mentoring client leadership/staff on approach, best practices; architecture, MDM, data gov., utilization, DataOps.* Solution design* Data Quality / Governance - Enhancement to client Data Quality assessment, increase usability, standardization, and value.* Aligning client project scope to delivery actions, issue mitigation, program leadership.* Customer Engagement

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Expanding & enhancing Highmark Health's data ingestion, integration, and delivery platforms: Payer, Provider, IDN/IDFS. Strategy, Design and Deliver of the Enterprise Data Hub enabling analytic consumption and delivery.Technologies such as: Hadoop, Hortonworks, Spark, SAS, Informatica, PowerBI * Integrating analytic data & capability needs variety of corporate customers* Overseeing data engineering, requirement analysis, testing, and analytic application integration• Enterprise data hub platform (Hortonworks / Cloudera) incorporating data from operational systems and external vendors such as Health Information Exchanges (HIE), reference data sources, and customer demographic sources. (Table, JSON, CSV, HL7, ADT, FHIR, EPIC)* Delivery of analytic data sets to support data science, ad-hoc analysis and integration.* Metadata Data Catalog creation in conjunction with Enterprise Data Governance area* R&D on new technologies and approaches to enable data delivery for BI and analytics* Cross-linking Security, Privacy, Infrastructure to Business needs to analytic enablement* Support services & consulting recommendations

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Leads Highmark Health's integrated analytics initiatives around; Consumer, Clinical, Market and integrated Advanced Analytics. Focus on analytics enablement of strategic efforts driving Highmark Health's future IDFS, CIN buildout, marketing optimization and customer experience. Coordinating with executive management on alignment of business needs, platform and technology utilization enablement to delivery exceptional customer value by using integration of payer/provider data to inform business decisions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Defined the strategy and roadmap around the next generation enterprise data platform aligning desperate business area needs with IT capabilities including the data warehouse and big data platforms. Mentoring and evangelizing best practices for data usage, reusability and performance across various data platforms. Coordinating with senior/exec management on the alignment of future business needs into the data platform offerings of both internal staff and platform services customers. Architecture and process/methodology guidance for buildout of analytic data layer and integrated delivery of enterprise analytics. Analytic & data architecture vision planning across the companies of Highmark (Highmark Health, Highmark Insurance, HM Health Solutions, Allegheny Health Network)• Data Architecture for enterprise Analytic Data Layer; Star Schema, BI Tools, Semantic Layer, ETL loads.( Teradata, Oracle, Wherescape, SQL, Cognos, Tableau, data virtualization )

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Enterprise systems & architecture consultant across project domains for Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). • Leadership of matrix-managed teams on data best practices, project implementation and issue resolution.• Advising teams on sustainable data utilization practices and improved estimating of projects.• Dimensional architect and agile process consultant to integrated analytic data delivery sprint team.• Liaison to system and business areas working on opportunities to expand data efficiency.• Coordination of data architecture improvements, data security alignment with business strategy needs.• Liaison with internal staff areas on best practices for modeling and implementing data initiatives.• Increased report response time by educating teams on partition & aggregate join index strategies.• Guided BI teams on efficient delivery of data architecture, reporting tools, sematic layer frameworks.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Successfully created architecture design and lead project teams on the formation of dimensionally modeled data-mart platform allowing for end users created reports. Consultant between finance, EDW, IT and BA teams guiding system design and development process on projects from both a technical and business impact. Establish data and process governance with system team leads.* Design of financial Dimensional Data Mart platform* Implementation of various BI & Data solutions (IBM Cognos, Oracle, Teradata)* Cognos Metadata Modeller* System Design / Analysis for various core corporate systems• Educated staff on BI best practices; model, package, determinants (Cognos FM/RS/QS/AS, Excel, other)Managed team overseeing BI Design and Delivery efforts, intake request prioritization process for all system enhancements (BI and Core System), consulted with management on improvement efforts across systems and optimizations of BI delivery* Enhanced Metric Dashboards of core system KPIs* Improved request intake process efficiency increasing turnaround time and business customer satisfaction* Expanded self-service BI reporting utilization to reduce costs and improve speed to market delivery

Lead client engagement meetings with business and technical teams to gather and translate business needs into functional and detail design documents. Performed system design, development, data cleansing and validation, QA testing and documentation. Worked with senior management on the creation of system scope requirements and estimates. (Java, PL/SQL, Web, PHP, Oracle, MySQL)

Sunrise, Florida, Us

Lead design and development teams analyzing client business needs and translated functional specifications in to detail designs. Facilitated end user meetings and acted as Technical Team Lead (TTL) on various projects. (Java, Powerbuilder, PL/SQL, Oracle, HTML/CSS, GIS, Web, Data Warehouse, Client-Server)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

General software development and support duties. Designed, developed and implemented inventory tracking systems, dept time entry system and other day to day activities. Resolved server and network issues, support requests and customer engagement.

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Data Strategy