Christopher Chen Email & Phone Number

Oak Brook, IL

Greater Chicago Area

Chicago, IL

• Project Manager and Senior Developer for data-focused consulting company.
• Analysis: Gathered business requirements and translated into technical specifications for client signoff.
• Data Modeling: Designed and built application model in Cognos TM1 system.
• Project Management: Developed project plan based on requirements and specifications, managed project budget and hours worked, tracked project tasks and progress.
• ETL: Designed and authored Microsoft SSIS and Cognos TM1 jobs to populate the application model.
• Research: Significant coursework and internal proof-of-concept projects for Microsoft Azure cloud, involving data modeling and lift-and-shift of virtual machines from on premise to the cloud. Tested and provided.

Chicago, IL

• Supported finance, accounting, marketing and operations departments.
• Data Modeling: Designed MicroStrategy data model used for reporting metrics in PostgreSQL-based proprietary loan web app.
• QlikView Dashboards: Designed, developed and supported QlikView dashboards that combined data from web app with data from Lawson, Responsys, Genesys, Jira and Acunote.
• ETL: Supported and maintained Microsoft SSIS jobs which exchanged customer data with Responsys, an external email marketing vendor.
• Ad-hoc SQL: Wrote custom SQL queries for analysts in finance, accounting, marketing and operations departments.

Skokie, IL

• Engagement Manager, Project Manager and Senior Developer at technology consulting group.
• Management: Managed client expectations and provided regular updates to project stakeholders. Delivered and negotiated cost and delivery dates for project change orders. Monitored project teams and managed scope.
• Analysis: Interviewed project stakeholders to develop business and technical requirements, documented requirements and created project vision. Designed data warehouses and data marts design using Kimball dimensional.
• ETL: Design, coded and implementation of ETL processes and jobs to populate data warehouse / data mart, SAP BusinessObjects software installation.
• Sales Engineering: Demonstrated solutions to prospective clients, developed and documented proof-of-concept technical solutions, wrote client proposals, responded to RFPs, and authored statements of work.
• Mentoring: Oversaw career progress of junior consultants, tracked certifications and training opportunities, wrote and delivered consultant evaluations quarterly and annually, recommended compensation increases and/or.

Chicago

Business, data and QA analyst for retirement and health benefits administration system.

Evanston

Project manager and data analyst for 403(b) plans of US conferences of the United Methodist Church.

Chicago

Project manager for installation and customization of Net-Funds, the company’s web and IVR retirement fund product.