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Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Peoria, Il, Us

• Leading a holistic cloud migration initiative covering over 20 product lines, with a primary focus onachieving a smooth and successful transition, all while upholding the integrity of our current onpremisedata warehouse and analytics infrastructure.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Inspire, lead and foster growth: Provide inspirational leadership to multiple teams including Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics and Data Governance, fostering their growth and development.• Strategic Data Leadership: Spearhead the development and execution of the technical roadmap and data strategy for Clearcover’s data platform, enabling seamless data support for stakeholders across various departments, including Product, Claims, Growth, Marketing, Customer Service, HR and Finance.• Optimized Team Structure: Successfully restructured teams, emphasizing quality, execution, and timely delivery by implementing well-defined processes, resulting in more efficient data solution delivery.• Executive Collaboration: Collaborate closely with the executive team to continuously evolve the analytics strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and leveraging modern cloud data stack technologies.• Data Governance Implementation: Established an internal data governance program within a late-stage startup, ensuring compliance with SOX regulations, thereby enhancing data security and integrity.• Self-Service Analytics: Implemented company-wide self-service analytics strategies and best practices, empowering employees to leverage analytics for data-driven decision-making.• Data Engineering Oversight: Provide leadership and oversight to the data engineering team responsible for sourcing and preparing data to support data science and machine learning models, enabling data-driven insights throughout the organization.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Strategic Division Leadership: Led the Analytics, Data Governance and Reporting division, providing client support through the development of dashboards, visualizations, analytics and effective data supply chain management.• Data-Driven Strategies: Developed data strategies closely aligned with business needs and seamlessly integrated these strategies within various business portfolios, ensuring that data efforts were synchronized with overarching goals.• Improved Decision-Making: Elevated data-driven decision-making and enhanced business outcomes by crafting and executing data strategies spanning multiple divisions, driving alignment and synergies across teams.• Portfolio Project Leadership: Successfully managed a diverse portfolio of projects, encompassing multiple workstreams, and collaboratively worked across departments and business areas to drive project success. • Product Owner Role: Took on the role of Product Owner for company-wide data analytics initiatives, overseeing key projects such as data warehouse expansion, data cube implementation, analytics development, and reporting enhancements.• Executive Engagement: Actively participated as a member of various executive committees and presented numerous business proposals to the President and Operating Committee. Played a vital role in the committee responsible for reviewing and prioritizing all proposed company projects.• Enterprise Relationship Building: Established and maintained relationships across the enterprise to ensure the effective and successful utilization of data assets throughout the organization.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Strategic Visionary: Establish and drove the BI and Data product vision and roadmap for the Auto Center of Excellence, aligning data strategies with business objectives.• Enterprise Data Scaling: Spearheaded the implementation of enterprise data solutions, enabling scalable analytics and streamlined business operations through the introduction of self-service tools and dashboards.• Data Warehouse Implementation: Took charge of building and optimizing the enterprise auto data warehouse, meticulously conforming and aggregating metrics to facilitate seamless consumption by business units.• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Demonstrated adeptness in managing relationships with key stakeholders, including the executive team, cross-functional teams, and IT, effectively collaborating to tackle complex challenges and drive business success.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Leads the Analytics, Data Governance and Reporting division, providing client support through BI dashboarding/visualizations, analytics and data supply chain management.• Develops data strategies within the context of business need. Integrates work efforts within respective business portfolios.• Strengthens data-driven decisions and improves business outcomes by defining and executing a data strategy for multiple divisions.• Leads a portfolio of projects (multiple workstreams), working across departments and business areas.• Serves as Product Owner for company-wide data analytics initiatives including data warehouse expansion, data cubes, analytics and reporting.• Serves as a member of various executive committees and presented multiple business proposals to the President and Operating Committee. • Member of committee that reviewed all proposed projects within the company for final approval and prioritization.• Responsible for developing company-wide definitions for metrics and attributes within a business glossary and multiple technical data dictionaries.• Builds and maintains relationships across the enterprise.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Collaborative Data Infrastructure Development: Collaborated closely with IT to successfully build a data warehouse and data cubes, enabling robust data analysis and reporting capabilities to meet the organization’s needs.• High-Performance Team Leadership: Led a high-performing team of report developers and analysts, driving the delivery of data solutions and actionable insights that contributed significantly to the company’s profitability.• Data Issue Resolution: Spearheaded investigation and resolution efforts for high-impact data defects and issues within the data warehouse, ensuring data integrity and reliability.• Transformational Reporting Tools: Implemented and deployed Microsoft Power BI as a new reporting and analysis tool, extending its usage company-wide and empowering teams with advanced data visualization capabilities.• Efficiency and User Satisfaction: Expanded report development and analytics while reducing development time and enhancing end-user satisfaction by leveraging data visualizations for actionable insights. • Data-Driven Culture: Established a data-driven culture within the organization by championing a “one source of the truth” data management platform, ensuring data consistency and reliability across the company. • Recognized Leadership: Selected for participation in the Annual Peer Learning Group training, a program tailored for emerging leaders with demonstrated leadership potential and a dedicated commitment to professional development.

Madison, Wi, Us

• Strategic Data Analyst Leadership: Led as the Business Analyst spearheading a multi-year data strategy initiative, focused on enhancing company-wide analytics, insights, and restoring profitability. Proficiently conducted data analysis and report development employing SAS and SQL.• Accelerated Career Progression: Achieved remarkable performance, resulting in a promotion within the first year of employment.

Baltimore, Md, Us

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

• Interim Application Development Leader for team resourcing, overall management and the day to day operations.• Lead BSA on a $4 million-dollar project to convert existing mobile mapping software for 1,700+ field employees while leading change management initiatives.• Business/IT liaison for data requests, application changes and prioritization. Reduced completion time of requests by 50%.

• Responsible for fully implementing a new geographical information system (GIS) which includes the electric distribution system, water system and fiber communications system using ESRI ArcGIS software and SQL Server.• Key contributor in the development of multiple data solutions.• Project manager and change management agent for all data management initiatives.

Bachelor Of Science, Criminal Justice

Bachelor Of Science, Geography