Dave Knoll Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States

- Responsible for Enterprise Data Architecture- Manage the dba Team- Manage ProAg Business Unit Infrastructure- Manage the Data Team responsible for the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Analytics- Manage Helpdesk and Desktop Services Teams

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

In addition to his management responsibilities, worked with clients in the role of a senior level product owner or program/project manager to identify and implement strategic technology solutions. Client focus on helping organizations achieve their strategic goals by collaborating with management teams to identify key focus areas and develop metrics designed to present the relevant information needed to increase revenues, manage costs, or provide optimal service to customers. The foundation of my technical background stems from roles that have included Scrum Product Owner and Agile Coach, business and systems analyst, architect, developer, project manager, and product owner for many Application Development and Business Intelligence projects. Currently a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), a Certified Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master and have extensive experience leading high performance teams implementing complex systems.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Re-engineered a 7 year-old subscription based analytics/reporting system for smaller regional bus companies creating a shared data-model and programs sourced by multiple source systems to be implemented as a product-based solution for additional customers.Current customers:- Jefferson Lines -- enhancement and support for existing systems - Indian Trails -- new subscription-based product implementation with custom built data-entry to create and derive data required for analytics.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Icario is a health action company that deeply understands people by using behavioral research and data science to move people to take action for better health.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Provide agile coaching services and workshop/boot-camp training sessions for key clients implmenting the Scrum and/or Kanban implementations:10/2017-04/2018 Spok, Inc. MN 8 teams05/2018-06/2018 Hennepin County, MN 1 team07/2018-08/2018 Dollar General, TN 2 teams09/2018-10/2019 Hennepin County, MN 7 teams02/2020-02/2020 IPC, FL 4 teams

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Solutions Architect/Sr. Manager: Mr. Knoll played a key role on the H.B. Fuller Proprietary Systems (PSI) team effectively bridging the business and IT focus areas assisting both in maturing the project processes. As an Agile Coach Mr. Knoll provided leadership and management expertise in developing people and adjusting processes that enabled greater efficiency and increased the quality of systems deployed.Implemented ‘agile’ structure, team, and processes to build application; a new way of building software and represented a significant organizational change for the IT department. Product Owner for development team of six plus Scrum Master to build a pricing application from the ground up; system will have major contribution to profitability of companySolutions Architect and Project Leader - Product Owner for custom Pricing application - SAP-BW/BOBJ initial release including interfaces to Global Data Warehouse/Analytics - Solutions architect for customer profitability analysis leveraging SAP COPA module - Data Integration architect for different ERP/MRP systems into a single data warehouse - Solutions Architect and for eight major Business Intelligence projects

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Providing Solution Architect consulting services to H.B. Fuller (see above) prior to taking on a Sr. Manager /Solutions Architect role at the company.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led and managed the growth of a number of VIP’s successful Commercial Practice areas including Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse, Application Development, Quality Management, and SAP Implementation practices. Held positions of increasing responsibility from Practice Management to Vice President. Responsible for business development activities, including development of practice solutions, marketing collateral, RFI/RFP responses, and pre-sale client presentations. These efforts had a direct impact on VIP’s ability to land large highly visible projects. Responsible for the interview and placement of new consultants and built practice teams of highly respected expert consultants. Effectively managed a staff of up to 250 consultants placed on projects at various client sites. Successfully trained and mentored technology leadership teams.As a management consultant worked closely with business and IT leadership teams on developing strategy, collaborating on architecture options, defining project scope, and estimating schedule and costs for a wide-array of projects. Clients include Pacific Gas & Electric, AGA Medical, American Medical Systems, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management (CRDM) Project Manager/Architect responsible for team leadership, project management, architecture, and implementation of a complete data warehouse solution. Responsible for the alignment of VIP and Medtronic business teams, assembling the project build team, integrating data warehouse methodologies and best practices into Medtronic’s SDLC, defining implementation strategies and architectures, and managing project deliverables.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for leading the “Consolidated Information Supply Chain” project and providing architecture designs. The objective of the project was to re-architect the existing data marts into a single data warehouse solution. Responsible for defining the strategy of each sub-project and identifying how each project would contribute to the overall goal. Data architect of an application designed to support dimensional hierarchies, third-party data, and consolidation of functionality not included within the source systems.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for architecture and implementation of a sales data mart for US Sales Division. Subject areas within the data mart included product, customer, and sales management hierarchy. Initial data mart included the invoice (sales) fact. Initial analysis required an understanding of the sales order, inventory, and invoicing process as the mart was designed as the foundation for a US Sales reporting.Analysis provided management a robust view of the activities of the sales representatives and a greater understanding for tracking the movement of the medical devices.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Led the Business Intelligence (BI) practice by developing solution offerings, providing experienced consultants for clients, and supporting business development efforts required to grow the business from ten consultants to over thirty. Company acquired by Visionary Integration Professionals -- see above.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for leading and implementing organizational, process, and SDLC changes for Thrivent’s Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) department in the role of Program Manager. Implemented a “factory” approach for EIS project delivery and was responsible for leadership and management of a seven-person requirements and analysis team. As Compliance Project Lead provided leadership and project management for regulatory driven project that required the integration of product data from twelve internal source systems. Sourcing data from multiple systems combined with the unique features of each product created a complex environment by which to integrate into a single enterprise environment.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Established company to provide independent IT consulting services to clients in the Twin Cities area.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for implementing the data warehouse components, data mart, and analytics for BestBuy.com. This data warehouse and reporting project was deployed in conjunction with the implementation of the new website and order management systems. A key component to this project was to build the system using off-shore resources, design and development processes. The project was on time, on budget, and met all functional requirements.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for implementing data warehouse for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota a healthcare payer. The data warehouse implementations were managed using a multi-phase methodology approach with the strategy to deliver value frequently over the implementation of the warehouse. The methodology ensured organizational value and system usage as soon as possible while continuous development activities take place on a warehouse that was to take 18-36 months to complete. The implementations focused on healthcare claims data and included finance, utilization, and care management modules as well as leading edge provider profiling functionality. The system architecture included an application service provider (ASP) framework where the system and data resided at an off-site facility specifically designed for high-speed Internet traffic thereby relieving the client of maintenance, security, and disaster recovery functions. The project was developed with a virtual project team having members located in different parts of the world. The on-site project team included members from Florida, California, Illinois, Texas, and Minnesota, while the development team resided in the Czech Republic. The data warehouse successfully utilized IIS, Microstrategy, and NCR Teradata as the operating platforms providing Internet delivery to the client.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for implementing internet application for a large client of database marketing firm. The application was designed to allow sales agents to manage their direct marketing campaigns over the web. Features included: campaign enrollment, geographic selection, name updates, and reporting. Upon completion of initial implementation, the site became a three-party site with the integration of functionality for a third vendor. This object-oriented application was developed in Java accessing an Informix database. Object-oriented concepts were successfully utilized for the database interface and to dynamically create html pages.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Responsible for implementing data warehouse for Sierra Military Health Systems a healthcare payer. The data warehouse implementations were managed using a multi-phase methodology approach with the strategy to deliver value frequently over the implementation of the warehouse. The methodology ensured organizational value and system usage as soon as possible while continuous development activities take place on a warehouse that was to take 18-36 months to complete. The implementations focused on healthcare claims data and included finance, utilization, and care management modules as well as leading edge provider profiling functionality. The system architecture included an application service provider (ASP) framework where the system and data resided at an off-site facility specifically designed for high-speed Internet traffic thereby relieving the client of maintenance, security, and disaster recovery functions. The project was developed with a virtual project team having members located in different parts of the world. The on-site project team included members from Florida, California, Illinois, Texas, and Minnesota, while the development team resided in the Czech Republic. The data warehouse successfully utilized IIS, Microstrategy, and NCR Teradata as the operating platforms providing Internet delivery to the client.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

In the middle of a difficult, complex project, Mr. Knoll was asked to define the interface architecture and provide leadership as Technical Manager for an Internet application to provide the capability for consumers to open a checking account and fund the new account with monies from an existing account or credit/debit card. Mr. Knoll’s specific architecture role was to provide an object-oriented java-based interface for the presentation layer and provide messaging services via dedicated line utilizing router encryption and digital certification to risk-scoring and ACH applications located in separate geographic areas. Mr. Knoll’s responsibilities also included Technical Managerial functions of planning, staffing, and project management.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Project Manager and solution design to replace current system office systems. Responsible for defining the systems implementation strategy that aligned with business strategy and time frames. A multi-phase project plan was derived with the first phase replacing the existing time and billing application. Future phases included customer relationship management via the Internet, and product packaging of the application set for sales to other law firms.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Held the following positions for this catalog retailer:04/1990-11/1993 Financial Analyst12/1993-08/1994 Business Analyst & IT Liaison08/1994-03/1995 IT Programmer/Analyst04/1995-04/1996 Senior IT Programmer/Analyst05/1996-12/1997 IT Manager Automated Test & Configuration Management01/1998-07/1998 IT Manager of Finance ApplicationsIT Project Manager for the following projects01/1997-07/1997 Order Entry Call Center Implementation01/1998-06/1998 Oracle Financials Implementation

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

In conjunction with daily operational duties, documented, developed, and maintained a dBaseIV based system for cycle counting. System interfaces consisted of downloading inventory information stored on IBM Mainframes desktop PC for processing and subsequently loaded into handheld devices for cycle-counters. Once updated on the handhelds, the information was then uploaded into the PC for analysis and reporting.

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