Manish Agarwal Email & Phone Number

Manhattan Beach, Ca, Us

Manhattan Beach, California, Us

Estero, Fl, Us

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

• Oversee the planning, implementation, and integration of innovative, disruptive next-generation technologies to drive data and analytics-driven transformative business solutions enterprise-wide. Curate an ambitious portfolio of growth opportunities and products. Collaborate with client/partner organizations to co-launch commercialization projects. Build applications and prototypes in AWS and Azure, and lead deployment of solutions spanning AI, Big Data, analytics, cloud-computing, robotics, Blockchain, etc.⇨ KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Pioneered transformational solutions that harness evolving technologies to enhance data accessibility, reduce operating costs, and deliver streamlined customer experiences. Achievements include the creation of a bi-modal expedited innovation delivery department, definition of MGM IT's overall technology innovation and delivery strategy.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

• As Chief Technology Product Owner, directed design and implementation of innovative data delivery, BI analytics and reporting, and led the DWH & BI group. Galvanized shift toward a truly data-centric culture, elevating data engineering and BI methodology and tactics toward exemplary standards for data analytics/solutions. Managed on- and off-shore teams to deliver best-in-class integrated data, BI, and analytics solutions and provide 24/7/365 development and operations support. Delivered data-driven insights and solutions to C-suite and senior leadership across diverse departments. ⇨ KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Reduced delivery time from 1 month to several days via the launch of a streamlined finance BI ecosystem. Lauded for the leadership of data acquisition/delivery improvements across 140+ systems, as well as an implementation of best-in-class information management (IM) DevOps group to support new enterprise data warehouse (EDW) environment. Reduced query run times from 7–10 days to 12 minutes via creation of Hadoop-based Data Lake. Directed outstandingly successful initiatives to glean deep insights into customer experience, spending, and new revenue opportunities.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Translated business needs into optimized technology roadmaps and cross-industry architectures for Fortune 500 clients, with focus on cloud computing, Big Data evangelization, analytics, and BI. Led client engagement, technology evangelization, business development, enterprise projects, and CIO advisory and management. Directed a multi-pillar team and aligned enterprise IT with business goals. ⇨ KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Led planning and roll-out of major IT roadmaps and transformational initiatives and provided CIO advisory across diverse industries, including oil and gas, biotech, retail, and telecommunications. Managed development of a multi-year IT modernization roadmap based on AWS for a large Canadian biotech company. Developed solutions spanning Big Data, data integration, DWH, BI, analytics, database management, data security, DR/HA enablement and testing, customer operational data storage, maximized data availability, and cloud technologies.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

• Brought in to build data technology department from the ground up, hiring a cross-disciplinary team of top performers and implementing policies and processes. Managed functions spanning BI, Big Data, high-growth DWH, and data integration, analytics, and reporting. Delivered data-driven insights to business development, finance, and advertising teams.⇨ KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Moved a 1.5PB DWH across the coasts with no impact, a task the vendor believed impossible. Built one of the largest analytics systems, enabling daily ingestion of ~7B rows of data (5+ TB), advanced BI reporting, and Big Data mining and analytics. Played an integral role in delivering a true 360-degree view of customers, integrating internal and external data and an Oracle-based self-service ad application. Delivered far-ranging gains via implementation of a state-of-the-art 24x7 Agile DevOps organization.

Worldwide, Oo

• Built and oversaw a department of 30+ across multiple sites in the US and India, driving execution of mission-critical IT projects. Managed a $6M budget and strategically directed development and operations for CorpTax application spanning Oracle/SQL server databases, SaaS, Windows/UNIX platforms, EMC, etc. Re-negotiated and strategically re-aligned workflow of IT teams to reduce onshore operational costs. ⇨ KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Secured a 30% gain in performance via re-architecture and optimization of Deloitte's CorpTax application. Achieved $500K in annual savings via management of backup implementation and 40% reduction in overall spending through server consolidation. Cut outsourcing costs by $750K annually. * The Deloitte & Touché Technologies group was sold and later on known as Corptax.

Canada, Ca

• Provided technical leadership in database management and administration (DBA) of OLTP/OLAP applications, Oracle DWH and partnered with business sponsors on application design and architecture. Delivered and supported the Cognos BI development.⇨ KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Streamlined the release management, automated the database builds, and improved reporting query performance.

Ca

• Managed DBA project teams supporting Oracle databases running under Unix and Windows for internal Ebusiness, Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), and Database Data center projects while serving as technical specialist, and led new technology implementations (Oracle 9i) at the same time; played an integral role as a DBA lead in a large-scale ERP implementation project for Supply Chain Management (SCM) function, including hardware and storage selection, disaster recovery / high availability implementation, data conversion, and multiple application module modifications.⇨ KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Architected and managed a $1M intra-company database as a service (DBaaS) cloud offering to enable faster product delivery before the cloud model was even entrenched, condensing delivery timeline from months to a day.

Certifcate, Data Science: Data To Insights

Certificate, Tackling The Challenges Of Big Data

Masters, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Engineering, Computer Technology

Certificate, Project Management (Pm)