Mark Williams Email & Phone Number

Englewood, Co, Us

Dtc, Greenwood Village, Co

• Working with businesses and government agencies by applying new and innovative methods to large-scale data integration, migration, product development, and governance challenges. • Problem-solving using complex data integration.• Consultant to the largest law enforcement data system provider: Developed data integration strategies, methods, and processes to migrate large law enforcement agencies off older systems and onto new systems consistent with FBI CJIS guidelines, while preserving online access to historical data to meet ongoing data needs for prosecutions and appeals.

Denver, Co, Us

• Organized and managed a multi-disciplinary product development team to implement a new strategic web-based data product for providers.• Worked with internal and external stakeholders at all levels to design and develop data integration / analytics reporting system for physicians and service providers in 5 months - a project that had previously stymied six other teams in the previous 5 years. • Created use cases, functional requirements and test cases; assessed data requirements and data sources (including accessibility and quality); put HIPPA-compliant processes and agreements in place; developed technical requirements; created product roadmap, project plan, budget, staffing plan (including outsourcing). • Hired staff and contractors; oversaw development efforts; co-designed and supervised 20+ focus groups; collaborated with product marketing and sales; identified beta customers and created implementation plans.• Utilized cross functional skills to collaborate with teams from legal, security, compliance, strategy, policy, research, and IT infrastructure to create clarity and drive focus for a complex and dynamic group of internal and external development teams and researchers.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Led a solution group working across eight industry verticals, including delivering a solid blend of business consulting and deep technology focused strategically on data warehousing, targeted visualization, big data, predictive analytics, data strategy, and governance programs within West Monroe clients.• Facilitated client deliveries, practice development (i.e. frameworks, methodologies, processes, collateral material), and business development, as well as driving team building / training.• Successfully brought in new Fortune 250 clients and coordinated multi-year BI strategy assessments.• Collaborated with WMP's team of architects, data modelers, ETL specialists, and database administrators.• Led a focus on new standard methodologies for data integration / data warehouse development and testing.• Created new enterprise-level data governance program framework.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Steered analytics and BI strategy across multiple industries• Architected, implemented, and managed data integration/warehouse projects• Scoped, designed, and delivered business intelligence and analytics projects.• Developed current practice from scratch, including methodologies, service offerings, market messaging, engagement documents, data warehouse, and ETL design reference models which were instrumental in attaining core objectives.• Conducted face-to-face business needs assessments with C-levels, senior executives, and business decision-makers to develop clear and succinct problem and project definitions for dynamic strategies and solutions.• Led large-scale DW / BI implementations in Telecom, Logistics, Manufacturing, CPG, and Online Lending.• Developed business case presentations for executives to sell to CEO / Board, and led BI strategy training sessions.

• Utilized broad industry knowledge to lead the start-up and successful operations of a technology-based consultancy for public education systems that included cloud-based, ready-made data warehouses.• Designed, built, and delivered cloud-based educational data warehouse and analytics, developed statistical methods to correlate disparate assessments, predict educational outcomes, and sold packages to school districts nationwide.• Developed Advancement Quotient™ for measuring teacher and student performance.• Created a predictive model for special education student outcomes.• Developed the first-ever cost-per-seat accounting system for school districts.

• Start-up of a successful business intelligence consulting firm specializing in complex pattern-finding, predictive analysis, hosted data warehouse design• Served clients in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia across key industries, including telecom, CPG, oil and gas, education, healthcare, retail, transportation, food distribution, and publishing.• Commenced cloud-based analytics-as-a-service and data warehouse-as-a-service in 2003.• Developed unseeded pattern finding algorithms on tokenized database.• Designed and managed development of web-based interactive reporting services for 20,000+ daily users.• Conceptualized and developed automated tools to implement remote data collection and ETL.• Successfully grew team to 35 developers / consultants prior to the company’s sale at the end of 2008.

*Additional Role Held: Product Manager – Wireless Data Development (1993 – 1995)• Led international product development team of telecom engineers producing “smartphone” technology.• Negotiated with peripheral device manufacturers in China and SEA.• Taught comprehensive wireless packet data theory and architecture in Seoul and Beijing.• Designed and managed the development of an artificially intelligent billing system for wireless data.• Generated $1+ billion in sales to carriers, governments, and military (NA, SA, Eur, ME, Asia).• Mediated feature and function negotiations with the world’s largest carriers and governments.

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Accounting

Graduate-Level Studies In Tax Law

Professional Studies

Certificate, Agile Project Management / Scrum Master Training