Christopher Spahn Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Manage and provide architectural oversight of a global team of Solution Architects. Partner with business leaders to establish roadmap along with evangelizing the services and capabilities offered by the DBI team.
• Chair a bi-weekly DBI Architecture Council meeting to review BI solution architectures and discuss new architecture topics and practices.
• Built a high performing team of architects, growing team from 4 to 13 architects.
• Leading architecture team transition from traditional Business Intelligence architectures to Big Data architectures (Hadoop).
• Led team to define DBI architecture principles, establish standards and guidelines and provided architectural oversight to ensure consistency across projects.
• Acted as lead architect on high visibility Cargill projects like JDE GL and Subledger Marts, Balance Sheet Recon, Maestro, etc., along with providing oversight on many others.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed regionally based Data and Business Intelligence (DBI) development teams
• Responsible for strategy and full lifecycle development of non-SAP BI solutions for Cargill.
• Delivered architecture and solution oversight for DBI non-SAP projects
• Managed a team responsible for sustain of Cargill’s Business Objects reporting implementations
• Responsible for delivering annual performance assessment reviews for 5 direct reports
• Led the execution and successful delivery of the LATAM BI Assessment and Roadmap

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led data and integration architecture design for Global Spend Visibility project
• Designed data/integration architecture sourcing data from over 30 different data sources
• Created and maintained the data model for the Spend Visibility solution
• Created and delivered sustain documentation and transition process
• Overall project was delivered approximately $3M under budget and 7 months early
• Sustainment of the project was completed approximately $65K under budget and on time

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led a large national consulting Business Intelligence practice with the following responsibilities:
• 60% billable on client project work as a BI Architect.
• Executed and delivered BI Roadmap efforts for customers to help drive strategic decisions.
• Data, ETL and analytics architecture for assigned client projects.
• Created and maintained the data model along with source to target data mapping.
• Led BI project teams of 2 to 5 team members.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led a large local Business Intelligence practice with the following responsibilities:
• 98% to 100% billable on client project work as a BI Architect.
• Responsible for data, ETL and analytics architecture for assigned client projects.
• Created and maintained the data model along with source to target data mapping.
• Led BI project teams of 2 to 5 team members.
• Local Sales Team Support (sales calls, proposal writing, sales strategy).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed a large local consulting Business Intelligence practice. Responsibilities included technical sales assistance, consulting and staff management and project assignment.
• 98% to 100% billable on client project work as a BI Architect.
• Responsible for data, ETL and analytics architecture for assigned client projects.
• Created and maintained the data model along with source to target data mapping.
• Led BI project teams of 2 to 5 team members.
• Local Sales Team Support (sales calls, proposal writing, sales strategy).