Jim Lowe Email & Phone Number

Pleasant Hill, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

- Lead a team of product managers responsible for enterprise data solutions, analytics solutions and enterprise tagging. - Develop, manage and deliver on the strategic data services roadmap. - Ensure standard tagging across the organization. - Ensure self service analytic capabilities to support key business initiatives.- Worked with the engineering team.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Develop and own the policies and practices of the Business Intelligence Competency Center.
• Manage a team to transform business intelligence, analytics and performance management from departmental efforts into collaborative business-driven, cross-organization initiatives.
• Develop and own enterprise data strategy, governance and retention policies.
• Ensure BI initiatives are aligned across various business units.
• Develop a roadmap to ensure business objectives are supported by Business Analytics and Information Technology.
• Act as a liaison between business and technical stakeholders.

Tysons Corner, VA, US

• Lead customer implementations of Alert Loyalty mobile app.
• Built strong relationships with partners to develop strategies to maximize customer loyalty and brand advocacy.
• Managed projects from requirements definitions, through development and testing.
• Managed app submissions to iTunes and Google Play.
• Used retail background to drive product development of Alert analytics platform which provides insights into customer activity, spending, store performance and marketing campaigns.
• Developed a tutorial to demonstrate the analytical features of the Alert platform.

Tysons Corner, VA, US

• MicroStrategy Certified Developer – Platinum Level (MSTR v9.2.1m)
• Provided expertise on Business Intelligence best practices to customers such as Target Stores, Coach and Gucci.
• Designed and lead the development of an IPad application (using Scrum methodology) for store managers at Gucci.
• Provided development input on the mobile Store Operations application debuted at the 2012 National Retail Federation convention.
• Provided initial discovery and recommendations regarding data warehouse schema, logical data model and slowly changing dimensions for Coach, transitioning from Cognos and Essbase to MicroStrategy.
• Acted as Enterprise Architect for Target. Recommending a new IT structure and aiding in the upgrade to MicroStrategy 9.3.

Hong Kong, HK

• Organized and managed User Acceptance Testing for upgrade to MicroStrategy v9.
• Developed and implemented change management strategy to transition DFS from MicroStrategy v8 to MicroStrategy v9.
• Developed new training materials and trained users on MicroStrategy v9.
• Provided MicroStrategy report and object creation expertise.

Hong Kong, HK

• System Owner of MicroStrategy based BI system. Managed the direction of the Enterprise BI system. Led major and minor enhancements of BI system. Developed and documented system standards, conventions, policies and.
• Developed strong relationships with Senior Executives, Finance and Merchandising Teams to determine system requirements and communicated requirements to IT development team.
• Synthesized the vision of senior management, the functional requirements of end users and the technical capabilities of IT developing viable solutions acceptable to all parties.
• Set and directed milestones and objectives of the system support and development teams ensuring business objectives were met, scope was maintained and the teams delivered on commitments.
• Acted as global point of contact.
• Managed geographically dispersed global administration team, maintaining an open line of communication to users worldwide.

M.B.A, Information Systems Business Analysis

B.A., Social Science: International Ecomonics And Development