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Texas, United States

Greater Houston

Virginia, United States

• Led Corporate Business Intelligence team with expanded role leading Corporate Finance Reporting team responsible for Oracle EPM and OBIEE reporting and corporate-wide Qlik environments.
• Re-architected the IBM Cognos student reporting system in Peru replicating data with Alooma into a 36 TB AWS Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse serving 500+ consumers eliminating time to insight from 4 hours to near real.
• Controlled a $3.7M budget leading a geographically dispersed team of 24 responsible for global corporate finance & university operational reporting in the US, Europe & Peru serving 700+ consumers.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Guided the Business Intelligence team on a transformative journey to the SAFe Agile framework; and, matured capacity planning by creating accurate resource forecasts resulting in budget targets being met.
• Implemented a visualization center of excellence within the business intelligence team, while building out a community of practice throughout the organization accounting for 250+ developers, supporting 3,000+ consumers.
• Provisioned external data sets in Hadoop, consisting of 300M+ customer profiles, allowing for enhanced data science models to increase the quality of leads and improve student retention.
• Assumed role of Product Manager for BI during the transition to Agile, ensuring business goals were met in a timely and iterative manner, providing a quicker time to market.
• Evaluated Snowflake, Azure & Redshift cloud data warehouses, deciding on Snowflake as the superior tool.

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Designed and directed the integration of various reporting solutions to support student success in Laureate's network of worldwide institutions.
• Created IBM Cognos reporting solutions using a custom-built SQL Server Enterprise Data Warehouse for student life cycle management, academic integrity tracking and dissertation progress reporting.
• Transitioned into leadership role, managing $5M Global Business Intelligence team budget, resource capacity planning of 30+, and determining the next generation technology for Business Intelligence consisting of Hadoop.

Greater Boston

• Established a development factory consisting of 10 onshore and ~50 offshore resources reducing development costs and improving the quality of deliverables, saving the client millions of dollars annually.
• Strengthened the client's processes that defined the development factory interactions leading to increased factory efficiency and faster delivery to end users.
• Directed all Business Intelligence development work on the client’s SQL Server and IBM Cognos platforms, validated requirements, provided work effort estimates, reported performance and ensured the factory delivered.

Greater Boston Area

• Oversaw 2 key engagements, both recognized for exceeding expectations.
• Sales Reporting Enhancement Project - Enhanced the client’s US-based sales force IBM Cognos reporting solution, providing ongoing visibility to all open orders on mobile devices, providing run rate metrics, and.
• Sales Reporting Uplift Project - Managed a virtual team of 7 resources to upgrade the client's SQL Server hardware & software, as well as implementing performance enhancements to the application; reduced daily.

Greater Boston Area

• Chosen to design the consolidation of two SQL Server data warehousing solutions when our client merged with a competitor. Led the team of 5 onshore and 11 offshore resources managing the development and implementation.
• Managed the defect queue and prioritized and assigned work items to the team. Provided solution design guidance, led the triage and closure effort for all issues during the stabilization period, and successfully closed.

Greater Boston Area

Original member of an IS change control board created to gain control of all changes to the client's IS based systems. Managed a team of 4 onshore and 2 offshore resources. Assisted with development, review and execution of technical designs and test plans, analyzing for thoroughness in scope with acceptable outcomes.

Greater Boston Area

Redesigned a solution to leverage the client’s existing reporting tools, consisting of building a new IBM Cognos Impromptu catalog with canned Impromptu reports. Provided 24x7 support for sales and marketing solutions.

Eloy, AZ

• Developed coaching techniques in a competition setting such as effective goal setting, developing proper training plans, team building exercises, overcoming obstacles and executing to achieve a desired goal.
• World Champion, 2004.
• United States National Champion, 2003-2005 and 2007-2009.

Greater Boston Area

Collaborated with key stakeholders to clarify business requirements and propose systems modifications and enhancements. Implemented technical solutions using industry standard software development life cycle techniques. Provided primary on-call support to meet all defined service levels.