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Bazine, KS, US

Chicago, IL, US

Leading a team of people excited about giving our customers the ability to make business decisions with easy access to relevant data

Chicago, IL, US

Championing data-driven decision-making in the commercial real estate investment industry. Democratizing access to business data, accelerating time to delivery, and dismantling barriers to collaboration.

Chicago, IL, US

• Joined a multi-discipline team of people dedicated to transforming LaSalle from working with siloed information and manual processes to a single point of truth with regularly-updated predictable results. Grew from a.
• Managing expectations through the development process from stakeholders through engineers
• Subject matter expert in modeling and technical solutions to meet project requirements
• Project scoping and work estimating
• Mentoring junior engineers in technical and team skills

Provided web hosting services to run intranet sites for church congregations. Designed, built, and hosted small business web sites. Operate a custom-made family photo-sharing site using SQL, Classic ASP, and image processing scripts. Operate my own server out of the home, even running my own instance of Exchange for a period of time until spam management.

New York, NY, US

• Partnering with Zift's solutions group to augment their in-house reporting solution with advanced BI tools. Once we decided on Looker's offering, I built the LookML data model to match and then extend the existing data.
• Subject matter expert in mining the DataMart to meet customer goals
• Creatively leverage LookML to provide user-friendly solutions that benefit all our customers in a large multi-tenant environment
• Project scoping and work estimating
• Optimizing SQL for best possible performance in Amazon Redshift

London, GB

• Senior member of a team that continues to be recognized as the best BI solution in a very large organization, filling several roles through the years. Starting in the SQL layer, standardized SSIS ETL procedures.
• Key SQL development core to the Cognos BI farm, encompassing business logic in stored procedures, both by improving existing code and building new solutions
• Proficient in writing web services interfaces for modern interactive web sites, workflows, and providing data for external use
• Modernized ETL with SSIS packages with interfaces to a wide variety of corporate and external data sources
• Maintained and upgraded Cognos portal and web parts integration with SharePoint.
• Led review sessions with stakeholders, valued as a skilled communicator.

Responsible for music ministry, including service planning, congregational singing, choir, and vocal and instrumental specials.

Greenville, South Carolina, US

• Created from scratch an integrated web-based BI intranet solution for an engineering consulting firm, introducing them to the power of synchronized web-based reporting.
• SQL development provided the common basis for a wide set of parameterized Crystal Reports reporting, giving all users a trusted single source for business decisions
• Customized Primavera projects to fit the business needs