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Providing enterprise consulting, business technology project management, designing actionable analytics founded on high-quality data architecture to deliver business intelligence solutions which add value to data-driven organizations in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, insurance, retail and manufacturing businesses since 2002. "The Best Vision Is Insight" -- Malcolm Forbes

Helping businesses get the most value from their data warehouses, marts, clouds, streams, lakes and mines since 1998

Working as part of a small team to provide relational database architecture, design and development consulting for a major small box retailer in support of their roll out of mobile business performance management to the field staff. Supporting business intelligence, basic management reporting, data extracts and loads to/from big data platforms using various Microsoft stack components such as SQL Server, Reporting Services, Integration Services, Visual Studio and PowerShell integrated with other enterprise class technologies to be sure the most current actionable facts are in the hands of business leaders each and every day.

Using lean methods to build a world class team of business-centric technologists and data scientists to serve Arbor Health's healthcare cost containment clients, customers and employees obtain the right information at the right time to help them be successful both professionally and financially while giving back to the community and society. Attracting top-performers by building a culture which values, supports and invests in continuous learning, entrepreneurial thinking, and employee empowerment through collaboration, performance incentives, and prudent risk taking to build the most secure, compliant and valuable information-enabled business in healthcare. Blazing a path to the future where consumers, providers and payers operate in a more open, transparent, efficient and fair free-market environment driven by access to current, accurate and timely information. Arbor Health ... be part of the future.

Mentoring a small software development team to define repeatable success through the use of lean methods. Using relentless process improvement, frequent, incremental delivery and transparent sharing of team activity with the business as principles to improve IT - Business line relationships, and add value directly to the business. Combining lean principles with advanced technologies to guide design, development and implementation of common-sense, reliable and high-performing data mining analytics infrastructure which best serves Arbor's data analysts who provide tremendous value to Arbor's clients. Delivering the best possible quality within budget. Performing all around reviews and providing feedback for team members on a quarterly basis.

Combining Microsoft, MicroStrategy technologies with business-centric lean methodologies, off-shore team building and over a decade of healthcare industry experience to deliver solutions which bring great value to the business in it's quest to reduce the cost of Healthcare in the United States.

Providing ETL architecture design, development and implementation. Data analysis of DB2, Oracle and MS-Access. ETL development using DataStage, perl, java; Version control using SubVersion (svn); Sources include flat files, MS-Excel, MS-Access; Destinations include mainframe DB2, Oracle 9i; Complex layered view maintenance and support for Cognos BI tools.

Took requirements, prepared data models, designed ETL process for an operational data store for a web-based company providing continuing education/training for the healthcare industry. Chaos, man, chaos.

Provided telecommute support for SQL Server 2000 production database cluster; Deployed SQL Server production database growth monitoring software and installed SMTP email client to deliver reports to technical managment; Reviewed server hardware/OS configuration and made recommendations for optimizing and performance enhancement of this transactional system.

Provided business analysis of complex legal contracts between drug manufacturers and a Fortune 25 pharmaceutical distributor (client). Also provided extensive data analysis and research to determine relationships of unstructured data to assist data architects and business layer architects with data design and integration for contract compliance dashboards by manufacturer.

Contract software developer

Sr. software developer responsible for maintenance and enhancement of point-of-sale and credit card server systems.