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Cleveland, OH, US

Katy, TX, US

Bannockburn, IL, US

• Established a Continuous Development/Continuous Integration (CI/CD) process that involved Azure Data Factory, SQL Server, and GitHub to reduce time moving artifacts from one environment to another
• Created a process using an Azure Resource Management (ARM) template (JSON) with Azure Data Factory metadata that identifies best practice issues based on severity
• Solved complex data analytics issues using Generative AI
• Implemented a Power BI report to provide a client with key business metrics about Microsoft Teams adoption and reduce time collecting and cleansing data
• Migrated Power BI environments from one tenant to another
• Designed and built an Azure Analysis Services database to solve performance issues from a fact table containing over 40 million records

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• External Client Projects
• Worked with Power BI Manager to establish Power BI governance best practices
• Coached developers on Power BI Desktop and Service
• Provided best practices on data management
• Enhanced the out-of-the-box Power Platform Center of Excellence Power BI report that describes the governance, monitoring, and adoption of the Power Platform environment
• Enabled executives to see daily Exchange upgrade statistics by creating a Power BI report using device data

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

Worked as a contract programmer supporting applications for the Risk Management Group.

Reading, Berkshire, GB

• Technical Account Manager for MCS LLC Teneo
• Managed all new sales and renewals for Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky territory
• Identified solutions for customers in the areas of Security, Network Performance Management (NPM), Application Performance Management (APM), Storage and Data Analytics
• Coordinated activities between manufacturers and customers – demonstrations, prototypes, proof of concept projects

Fairlawn, Ohio, US

• Led group of 5 employees, 1 contractor and 1 college intern who provided data warehousing services and reporting and analytics solutions to all areas of the business
• Championed the use of Tableau, leading to an initial contract for 60 Tableau Online user licenses
• Developed dashboards to support the International business
• Developed a prototype dashboard that takes an all-product view of OEM, dealer and repair shop activity

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Vice President – IT Manager (3/2007 – 10/2014)C&IB Commercial Lending / Architecture & Engineering
• Led group of 9 employees and 3 contractors who provided IT solutions to the Corporate & Institutional Banking (C&IB) line of business
• Started building a Data Governance program (steering committee meetings, business definition catalog)
• Delivered presentations on BI strategy and architecture, including live tool demonstrations
• Coordinated training activities for BI tools Enterprise Business IntelligenceLed group of 25+ employees and local/global contractors who created BI and reporting applications using Oracle BI, Hyperion, Microsoft BI.
• Recognized $3 million in cost avoidance for 2008 (20 new applications)

Provided IT management services, BI leadership and project-based programming assistance as an independent contractor. Educated management on OLAP technology and implemented cubes to analyze billing data.

US

Provided IT services including database design & programming for firm processes and worked with clients on accounting package implementations, reporting, etc.

US

First position after undergraduate degree. Held several different positions in Accounting, Credit and Loan Review departments.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Management Information Systems, General

Mba, Finance