Laura Crouse Email & Phone Number

Chicago, US

I am excited about the opportunity to help develop the new data warehouse at Duo Health, enabling them to access data quickly and efficiently to enable better decisions and data tracking.

South Jordan, Utah, US

• In my current role I work with a team to create data warehousing standards and maintain consistent rules across all environments. This includes:
• Understanding business requirements.
• Developing data modeling standards.
• Implementing data integration and transformation guidelines.
• Implementing data quality management:
• Documenting standards and processes.Over the last year, in collaboration with this work, I have led the effort to create standardized reporting for government regulations for a client company. This included:

South Jordan, Utah, US

As an Analytic Engineer at Health Catalyst, I was entrusted with the following responsibilities:Optimizing Health Catalyst architecture to cater to unique client requirements.Developing new ETL strategies, database architecture, and data solutions to meet client data needs and address issues.Designing and delivering Snowflake training for Health Catalyst.

South Jordan, Utah, US

• While a consultant Analytics Engineer, over the last few years I was responsible for:
• Optimizing Health Catalyst architecture to meet custom client needs.
• Generating new ETL strategies, database architecture, and data solutions to support client data requirements and resolve issues.
• Creating Snowflake training for Health Catalyst ASO.
• Optimizing query performance and query redesign to meet ETL timeframes.
• Training internal and client teams on Health Catalyst tools and architecture.Some key achievements in this role included:

South Jordan, Utah, US

• As a technical director for Health Catalyst clients some my responsibilities included:
• Collaborating with the client to ensure they understand and follow best practices of using DOS, its tools;
• Identify ways on how they can best use DOS to their advantage.
• Developing and implementing client solutions to help them meet deadlines.
• Directing, and providing training of client staff on the Health Catalyst platform tools and methodologies. In this role I was able to
• Design/build a real-time subject area mart to display current ETL metrics and standings that help the ETL support team monitor and fix daily batch jobs.

Houston, Texas, US

• While at Universal I was responsible for leading a team of 3 people to:
• Plan and execute the company wide implementation of Master Data Management, an Operational Data Store, Data Governance process and Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Work with business partners and other IT personnel to ensure a valuable system implementation that meets business needs.
• Ensure day-to-day availability of legacy implementation.During this time, I have:
• Completed a Master Data Management tool assessment with recommendations made to the board.
• Created a complete MDM model for the Airport Entity including Airport codes, Geography, Contacts, Government Agencies, Fuel, Currency, and Runways.

Galveston, Texas, US

• During my 3 years at UTMB I:
• Data Architected a new Enterprise Data Warehouse environment with consistent processing, naming standards, and data governance; resulting in a final Kimball© structured environment.
• Worked directly with Health Catalyst to create and implement new processes and procedures to allow for dependency based ETL processes within their cloud environment.
• Implemented a new standard toolset including: GECS (an enterprise scheduling tool), GIT (a code source management system), and ERwin (data modeling software), to enhance the teams’ ability to produce consistent and.
• Aided in the creation of data governance processes and procedures to enable consistent metrics and usage across the enterprise.
• Created and implemented an automated, data driven, database security process; utilizing active directory groups and approvals via a standardized approval interface to ensuring tracking of approvals and implementation.

Houston, Texas, US

• Directed project managers and a technical team to enable them to effectively deliver almost 40 complex projects over the last year at HP.
• Successfully managed a Business Intelligence (BI) team of 14+ people working in HP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse and delivered almost 40 projects within a year.
• Turned around a major project within months of becoming manager from a dismal failure to a positive go-forward, game changing project with a new budget of $5 Million.
• Worked with business and IT partners to ensure accurate delivery of Business Intelligence solutions that answered current and future business needs and adapted to any Go-Forward IT initiatives.
• Achieved a shortened project life-cycle for key projects by building relationships with strategic partners; thus allowing my team to get prioritized authorization to move through approval processes more efficiently.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led a project to update HP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse Accounting area with a new system of SAP General ledgers – redesigning the way the data is represented to the customer and within the reporting domain.
• Designed, developed and orchestrated the creation of a massive reporting project to provide HP’s Government Services Administration with pricing reporting for designated products and customers, accomplishing what some.
• Proposed and implemented a process to decrease ticket generation for reporting process jobs when the cause was a data base outage. This process immediately pinpointed the key issues, facilitating quicker resolution and.
• Utilized many technical skills as Development Lead for the multiple HR Data Warehouse reporting projects including: Data Architecture/Modeling, ETL, PL/SQL, Job Scheduling, and Source Control.
• Delivered and presented BI proofs of concept to prospective customers
• Completed BI requirements analysis and solution architecture design

Houston, Texas, US

• Participated in the selection process for choosing a new Enterprise Learning Management System (ELMS), including cost benefit/needs analysis and technology package/platform evaluations
• Gathered user requirements and assisted in writing the business requirements for reporting requirements for all 3 Learning Management Systems.
• Implemented Business Objects Web Interface (BO WEBI) reporting for o ELMS in a Data Warehouse environment based on user requirementso Internal expense management system against the source system based on user.
• Created custom reports for the pre-merger CPQ Training System
• Supported and maintained the Captura© Expense system and provided help as a member of the main development team for an upgrade of Captura©
• Spearheaded and completed the retirement project for Digital PeopleSoft HR Module, including creating alternate reporting database and interface for HR Data Center use, creating backup files, and sending retirement.

Houston, Texas, US

• Acted as project/development lead for five reporting projects that resided inside the Human Resources Data Warehouse: 1) Enterprise Learning Management System (ELMS) upgrade (SABA) BI Solution; 2) HR Data Warehouse.
• Gathered and documented business requirements
• Acted as the Meta Data Manager and Data Modeler for Data Warehouse/Data Mart designs
• Designed and coded ETL solutions
• Created and assisted in the designing of Business Objects XI Universes and WEBI reports
• Ensured dependent reporting solutions worked after core redesign implementation, where applicable

• Assigned and guided team members to ensure that each project was properly documenting and training materials created
• Created and enforced guidelines and standards for documentation and training, ensuring a common look and feel
• Documented and created online/classroom training materials for new/modified HR systems
• Delivered end-user training materials and documentation for all projects on or ahead of time; all documentation/training materials followed the standards and guidelines
• Received compliments from end users regarding the quality and availability of training/documentation
• Wrote the end-user documentation for various internal and external HR systems; created training packages for systems and trained end users referencing this training

US

• Designed and created online training for SAP sales/contracts systems
• Managed project timelines, plans, billing, and invoicing
• Wrote end-user documentation for various internal and external HR systems; built training packages for the systems and trained end users referencing the training
• Generated and provided online and classroom training for SAP sales systems
• Created and delivered classroom training for Compaq-specific reporting system
• Prepared the HR detail documentation around Compaq-specific implementation of the SAP HR Succession Management module

Masters Of Education, Instructional Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Education, Science, Spanish, Language Arts