Clent Stracner Email & Phone Number

Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States

• Manage and lead globally distributed team of data architects and data engineers supporting the data and analytics needs across ArcBest.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project objectives, prioritize project portfolio, and ensure implemented solutions provide value.
• Partner with subject matter experts and business stakeholders to identify, scope, and oversee implementation of efficient high-quality data pipelines and models.
• Develop tactical and strategic plans and project roadmaps to facilitate short-term and long-term objectives of analytical initiatives.
• Promote and champion modern data infrastructure and the impact of streamlined data flows that reduce costs and improve consistency, timeliness, and usefulness of data.
• Prepare, organize, and conduct training classes for employees.

Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States

• Manage and lead software development teams supporting Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Treasury, Accounting, Tax, and Internal Audit.
• Serve as a trusted advisor for functional leadership when solving problems and implementing technology solutions.
• Develop tactical and strategic plans and project roadmaps to facilitate short-term and long-term objectives of the functional teams.
• Manage project priorities and allocate internal and external resources.
• Facilitate project presentations, status updates, business cases, and ROI analysis as needed.
• Implement and drive adoption of SCRUM development methodology.

Fort Smith, Arkansas Area

• Lead architect/developer for rollout and standardization of Microsoft Power BI for the enterprise with a focus on empowering citizen analysts.
• Maintained existing legacy BI platforms while considering long term Enterprise BI strategy.
• Led and managed multiple, simultaneous projects often involving functional areas, technical areas, internal team members, and/or external onshore/offshore contractors.
• Presented demos, enablement sessions, and training to functional and technical audiences to drive adoption of BI platforms.
• Determined requirements for data, reporting, analysis, metadata, training, data quality, and performance for the enterprise.
• Promoted best practices for data visualization, reporting, and use of BI platforms.

Fort Smith, Arkansas Area

• Software Engineer and Business Analyst for an in-house, enterprise-wide business intelligence platform/framework.
• Worked closely with functional areas and leadership to understand business problems and requirements. Analyze the requirements and develop custom solutions to meet those challenges.
• Provided support for ABTech areas and software developers who utilized and developed for the internal BI framework.
• Maintained security model to control access to company sensitive data.
• Led and mentored intern team to design and develop a.Net application from the ground up in Summer of 2015.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Analytics

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: SIFE (Student’s in Free Enterprise), Sigma Alpha Pi