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Palo Alto, CA, US

• Lead Denodo data virtualization platform services engagements for enterprise customers
• Empower organizations to unlock the value of their data through secure, governed, unified views across multiple data sources, for consumption by any tool, on any cloud and application, and for any authorized persona

Irvine, California, US

• Technical quarterback for Amazon, Whole Foods, and Google accounts, driving ~$3M in revenue in FY22 through POCs and platform evangelism for 1,400+ users on AWS & GCP, achieving 20% YoY license growth.
• Speaker at Alteryx’s Inspire conference, educating 300+ users in new Alteryx skills, accomplishing a 94% attendee approval rating.

Seattle, WA, US

• Invented a novel solution for Tableau's largest customer to connect Tableau and Slack; engineered comprehensive metadata analytics to identify true feature experts from a pool of 26,000 Tableau creators and 40,000+.
• Technical leader for critical projects with $250k-$1M+ in Tableau professional services. Recovered a $1M at-risk project by implementing new architecture and project team guidance.

Seattle, WA, US

• Migrated 1,000 on-prem Tableau users to Tableau Online (SaaS) cloud analytics platform 2 weeks ahead of schedule, resulting in customer cost savings and accelerated adoption of new Tableau features.
• Planned and executed services and architecture to deliver Tableau analytics for up to 30,000+ Salesforce users at a single customer site.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led ten Tableau consultants, managing all aspects of hiring, delivery, escalations, and forecasting for a $3M professional services hub, resulting in +15% revenue and +10% headcount growth.
• Speaker at two Tableau Conferences, focusing on Tableau Blueprint methodology and TabJolt, up-skilling hundreds of enterprise customers in best practices and large-scale architecture performance optimization.

Seattle, WA, US

• Specialist in tuning and optimizing all aspects of Tableau Server performance, enabling multiple enterprise customers to accelerate dashboard load times to 5 seconds or less for large 10+ node clusters with over 25,000.
• Authored comprehensive wiki and Tableau Community articles tackling topics such as TabJolt load testing and migrating authentication technologies, empowering Tableau customers to maximize the benefits of obscure and.
• Impeccable execution of complex Tableau Server upgrades (Windows and Linux), resulting in $1M in license growth and recovery of sensitive deployments at risk of migrating to a competing platform.

Mountain View, California, US

• Drove proofs-of-concept (POCs) and custom demos using in-memory search-driven BI platform, including use case discovery, platform installation, modeling/cleansing data, and ETL, up-skilling 50+ users and recovering a.
• Designed proof-of-value workshops and hands-on custom training for stakeholders working in conjunction with Account Executives, strengthening prospect and customer relationships.

San Francisco, California, US

• Closed $275k renewal and platform expansion resulting in a doubling of revenue from a major telecom.
• Cleansed and shaped Omniture data for analysis and created visualizations on 1PB of data, enabling a leading image search engine to streamline the analysis of purchase statistics on hundreds of millions of images.
• Architected POCs with Datameer, Hadoop, and related technologies such as Spark and PMML.
• Installed and optimized Datameer, crafted custom product demos on customer data, and led platform evangelism at trade shows.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Delivered advanced people analytics using new VoloMetrix technology (aka Microsoft Office 365 Delve Analytics) and successfully onboarded five new customers in AWS and Azure.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Architected BI solution for €65m ERP project for India’s largest company, resulting in improved operational analytics for thousands of employees.
• Worldwide BI technical leader and mentor for Australia, New Zealand, and Asia-Pacific regions in charge of training SAP employees in new platform versions and promoting SAP BusinessObjects in the industry.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Globally recognized expert in SAP product integration for BusinessObjects Enterprise, as well as Single Sign On via Active Directory and Kerberos
• Experienced in Windows, Linux, and AIX -based BusinessObjects deployments and a wide range of Web application servers, including: Tomcat; JBoss; WebSphere; WebLogic
• Achieved successful resolution of high-profile technical escalations in the US, France, and UK; worked in France for six months to embed Business Objects products inside HP’s platforms

Tacoma, Washington, US

• Led a team of six in establishing a BI Center of Excellence, and developed the strategic vision, including: policies, best practices, content promotion, training, product upgrade projects
• Architected a 7-environment, 45-server enterprise BI reporting infrastructure for 3,500 users
• Devised comprehensive security model to protect data and 4,000 reports for 35 departments

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, US

• Drove consulting engagements at 35% margin in Washington, Oregon, BC, Bay Area
• Enhanced customer relationships, consistently closed difficult business opportunities, and exceeded FY2005 consulting bookings quota by $1.4 million (100% over-achievement)
• Led BI Vision Workshops; created and designed sophisticated BI solutions for Fortune 500
• Architected enterprise BI reporting solutions for BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Release 2
• Guided customers in implementing the right Business Objects Enterprise XI reporting tools and semantic layers to solve BI reporting and dashboard needs
• Architected richly interactive and scalable reporting applications for Boeing, Bank of America, Network Associates, and many other corporations

Vancouver, CA

• Co-architected richly interactive reporting application (.NET, COM) for analyzing and comparing 35 KPIs for 7,000 telephone agents plus 1,000 executives
• Co-architected reporting UI for analyzing regulatory compliance of Boeing suppliers
• Collaborated with marketing agency to design stunning reports that were embedded in Network Associates’ Sniffer Watch Reporter application
• Built flexible reporting tool for 2,000 Microsoft resellers to generate price lists from 20M SKUs

• Founded sales force automation consulting company; eventually brokered its acquisition by conglomerate Supply Chain Technologies (SCT)

New York, US

• Architected and deployed Web-based Seagate Info enterprise reporting solution
• Authored: multidimensional OLAP reports; 50 RDBMS reports; technical and training docs
• Orchestrated feasibility study for telemarketing CRM system

Winter Park, Florida, US

• Customized Solomon IV accounting system, GoldMine contact management DB for 120 users resulting in smoother ad sales and booking processes
• Developed Solomon IV accounting reports, Oracle apps using Crystal Reports, R&R Reports resulting in greater business insight and agility for executives
• Used Visual Basic to customize accounting system, developed data import control scripts resulting in greater financial accuracy and labor savings
• Maintained database synchronization between Orlando, Manhattan, and 8 remote locations
• Authored software training manuals, conducted training

• Designed 43 revenue reports for Walt Disney Attractions to evaluate $500 million in travel sales
• Designed a GoldMine database Disney used to issue 31,000 complimentary tickets annually
• Performed requirements analysis, database and report design, technical support for GoldMine
• Traveled throughout the U.S. implementing systems and conducting training

Burbank, CA, US

• Provided software and hardware support for 67 North American and 28 international users
• Enhanced GoldMine to track travel sales, contracts, and revenue
• Improved worldwide CRM data synchronization between Orlando and 22 regional Disney offices, including the London headquarters

• Operated rides in ToonTown and Fantasyland. (I have some stories to tell about the Happiest Place On Earth!)

• Sole proprietorship; mail-order software resales; advertising in California's MicroTimes newspaper

• Built and repaired PCs and organized the warehouse for one of Salt Lake City's busiest consumer electronics repair shops