Jonathan Howells Email & Phone Number

Mclean, Virginia, Us

As the Senior Data Solutions Director at Mars Petcare, I am accountable for not only leading the strategy, development, and maintenance of our data and analytics platforms, but also ensuring stringent data governance, compliance, and scalability. Specializing in constructing high-performing global teams, I have been successful in delivering mature, performant, and valuable solutions, tailoring them to accommodate the needs of diverse markets.My leadership is centered around the groundbreaking data mesh approach, unlocking millions of dollars in value through innovative solutions in advanced consumer analytics, data science, business intelligence, reporting, scientific and medical research, and retail and supply chain optimization.Having instigated and implemented the Use Case Governance Process, I am proud of our comprehensive DevOps strategy, our metadata-driven data engineering process, and our robust automated PII handling. All of these underline our unwavering commitment to maintaining stringent data governance while keeping Mars Petcare at the forefront of its market segment.Driven by the belief that the inner sourcing movement allows businesses to operate in an agile manner without compromising strategy or governance, my team and I have fostered a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. This culture has been instrumental in establishing and implementing best practices across all Mars Petcare divisions, not only promoting cost and time savings, but also ensuring a meticulous handle on data and governance.Ultimately, my approach rests on the conviction that effective data governance and business value should and can coexist. By striving to make the right action the easy one, I have led my team to realize hundreds of millions of dollars in earnings while upholding the highest standards of data governance.

London, London, Gb

As Global Head, I was promoted following my success in multiple technical and managerial roles. I took charge of teams in London, Italy, and India and restructured them into high-performing, business line-oriented workstreams on a single platform. Despite significant business approach and cultural differences, I overcame these obstacles and delivered the desired outcome.Through self-evaluation and documentation processes, I ensured the team maintained a skillset and knowledge balance between locations, with adequate global technical coverage for all critical Data Solutions systems and technologies. I generated clarity in ways of working and roles and responsibilities, improving working relationships, eliminating duplicated effort, and increasing delivery throughput within the Data Solutions and Global Product teams.I successfully delivered multiple products from a brand new, fully documented Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) using an automated framework and dev ops methodology during the merger of Yoox Net-A-Porter and the ongoing migration of all websites to a new platform. Throughout this process, there was never any compromise to the continuity of service to the business from the existing platforms.Furthermore, I coordinated the specification and procurement of the infrastructure uplift required to enable the stable delivery of the new EDW.

London, London, Gb

• Highly effective Data Solutions Manager heading up an 11 strong team delivering robust, nimble, future-proof and performant group-wide data insight solutions.• Providing thought leadership and constant exploration in to the latest technologies, in order to push the Data Solutions team into the cutting edge of productionised insight and analytic capabilities.• Proven track record of end to end programme management and delivery of complex data insight systems and applications using an Agile methodology, developing and maintaining close business relationships with end users at all levels of the business.• A hands on Manager with high levels of technical skill in the full Data Insight Stack including T-SQL, SSIS ETL, SSAS Multidimensional and Tabular, Reporting Services and Tableau.

London, England, Gb

• Advanced ETL (specifically SSIS, DTS and T-SQL) leading to the production of highly efficient Kimball-subscribing data warehouses on multi-hundred million row databases.• Production of numerous SSAS Cubes, SSRS Report Models and Business Objects Universes along with their inherent user administration including a custom-structured, multi-faceted security model.• Utilisation of the aforementioned structures to facilitate scheduled report creation for a 50+ internal user base and external clients.• End to end iterative project management and technical development of complex Management Information (MI) systems from a wide range of data sources, based on project initiation documentation, direct end user requirements and more traditional business analysis output.• Advanced TSQL skills including highly complex stored procedures, functions, query/index tuning and optimisation on the aforementioned databases.• Warehousing of Website data extracts from the Omniture Suite for both regular and ad-hoc reporting output.

• Managing the ongoing design, maintenance, performance, system/user administration, data integrity/streamlining and user support of the SQL-Based Fleet Management system.• Running and developing systems to manage over 6,000 employees, £170 million in assets and over £70 million per annum in transactions for whole of SGUK network (over 900 sites)..• Managing the system SQL analysis and reporting; telephony administration; PC support; IT training for the 50+ members of the department and document imaging system administration.• Instrumental in the initial implementation of the Fleet Management system.• Sole technical point of contact for development of all 3rd party data interfaces

• Performed total e-Business QA support for the 700 strong Branch Network.• Supported systems analysis of Business Applications (Bex, COLD).• Ensured continued online commercial applications including that used by British Gas as an integral part of a £70 million per annum account.• Managed Jewson Customer Extranet – Jewson’s Sole UK customer facing e-Business solution.

• Promoted to member of the e-Business Operations team of parent company operation, from Jewson subsidiary.• Key analyst and manager in the e-Buying Supply chain solution.• Set up new e-Buying model between company, customers and suppliers.• Trained suppliers and branches, synchronised data from both sets of product/customer and supplier files and liaised with the supply chain solutions company (WeSupply).• Managed the maintenance, design and system administration of the UK-wide company intranet.• Redesigned the Jewson ‘internet commerce solution’ and the subsequent QA of the system together with design of the product upload process.