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HR Data Warehouse environment owner, who managed on-shore and offshore staff of 13 system architects, system operations support personnel, and project management personnel. Business technology group SME over hardware selection (virtual, physical), server configuration, and storage selection/allocation to lead design process and build teams for new projects.

Manage shared Oracle BI and Hyperion hosting and service offerings for the enterprise. I Meet with prospective bank customers across the enterprise, work on projects involving new technologies, prototype new vendor products, attend new business meetings demonstrating proposed solutions for customers’ business needs (followed by cost/scope estimates), review new purchase opportunities/actions on existing contracts with Oracle sales rep and bank supply chain, and sit as voting member on BI Architecture Review Board.

As lead architect for shared infrastructure build out and consultant to customers from Finance, HR, Internal Control, Marketing, Global Wealth and Investment Management, provided consulting services and deliverables based on SOW’s of both fixed duration and set deliverables, directed projects for application deliverables in addition to build-outs of hosting environments, and shared BI enterprise infrastructure.Diverse duties included iteratively collaborating with tech partners regarding requirements, design, and development reviews of deliverables of both database development and application development; making status calls/presentations to management/business partners as milestones hit or roadblocks encountered; reviewing/prototyping new technology releases from vendors; participating in Beta programs; and working closely with tech reps within Oracle Hyperion.

As consultant to customers for Brio Business Intelligence Solutions, maintained responsibility for providing consulting services/deliverables based on SOW’s of fixed duration and also for set deliverables. Developed reporting and analytics solutions inside the Brio development tools, and built out BI Portals to disseminate reports.Also made status calls and presentations to management and business partners as milestones hit or roadblocks encountered, reviewed/prototyped new technology releases from vendors to maintain services’ vitality/currency, led onsite customer consulting sessions to leverage new BI tools to meet customer-specific reporting and analytic needs, and taught customers to integrate BI solutions with existing environment.