Responsible for all IT build operations for AI, Data Science and the Financial Planning and Analysis application. My team provides thought leadership, sets best practices, develops solutions, and governs the work of partners in Python, SAS, and Anaplan. We support key business units such as Sales, Marketing, E-commerce, Forecasting and Demand Planning, Supply Chain, and Global Finance. Our team is dedicated to delivering high-quality products and services that drive business success and innovation.In addition to our core responsibilities, my team has successfully delivered a variety of products, including forecasting for a large Canadian retailer, innovation product forecasting, distribution gap closure recommendations, and survey analytics. We have also driven strategy around generative AI, built a product team, and implemented various proofs of concept, including chatbots and an e-commerce product description generator. Our work has significantly contributed to the company's digital transformation and enhanced customer engagement.

Accountable for all analytics components of the MillerCoors Business Transformation, a multi-year endeavor to recast business processes and systems for agility and competitive advantage. Led the design, development, deployment and anchoring of foundational analytics tools for Finance, Manufacturing, Order to Cash, Warehouse Management, Freight Management, Forecasting, Production Planning, Supply Planning and Master Data. The solutions exploited SAP Analytics technologies like HANA, BW, BOBJ, BODS and SLT to create both real-time and traditional batch-based reporting on data from the SAP business suite as well as several 3rd party applications. Additionally, governed significant improvements to the SAS Forecasting application and its integration into the new Business Transformation landscape.Was responsible for establishing new IT processes and standards under the program. Supervised the creation of a reporting tool decision tree to simplify the technology landscape and expand capabilities like dashboarding and visualization. Established development principles for the new HANA Analytics platform and a development methodology that optimized agile techniques in a BI context. Finally, helped craft the infrastructure investment plan that laid the foundation for a stable project and production tiered environment.

Provided vision, management and direction to the team that developed and supported MillerCoors’ Analytics and Business Intelligence systems. Scope of responsibility included design, development and investment plans. Aligned with architecture teams and data administrators/modelers to develop and execute an enterprise-wide metadata strategy, managed processes and resources for ongoing user support, owned quality assurance for analytics and reporting scope of projects, and commanded high vendor performance levels. Led the technical implementation of a Forecasting and Demand Planning application. The solution is used to predict the weekly sales for several 100 thousand SKU-Distributor pairs, achieving forecast accuracy that is considered best in class in the CPG industry. Multiple SAS components were assembled to create the solution. SAS Forecast Studio/Server is used to produce raw statistical forecasts using causal models like ARIMAX. SAS Financial Management is the platform for collaboration between Sales and the Demand Planning team. Finally, SAS Data Integration Studio and custom SAS Macros are used to interface data with the Teradata Data Warehouse and cleanse and prepare data for forecasting.Oversaw all Business Intelligence applications using SAP Business Objects and Salient Margin Minder. The BO portal was the 2nd most heavily used web-based application in the organization during his tenure. The most notable achievement was the rollout of a Sales and Distribution application allowing identification of non-buy opportunities and market segmentation by over 100 customer and outlet attributes. The application was deemed "game changing" by the VP of Sales. Strong people leadership credentials as his team had among the highest employment engagement scores in the division.

Coordinated the work of multiple Data Architects across a $70M portfolio of over 25 projects. Developed or approved data architectures in foundational projects across almost all functional areas, including HR, Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing. Established and led the Data Integration Group of the IT Integration Program Office, tasked with coordinating project interdependencies across a complex portfolio. This group managed scope and timing of data related dependencies between highly integrated projects.Architected then governed the design and development of a Causal Forecasting application using SAS Forecast Server. The application was a key component of a multi-million dollar demand driven supply chain optimization program for the company.Led the prototyping of Teradata/BO application that implemented a statistical model to predict daily stock outs for over 800 beer SKUs at a regional grocery chain.Established the company's foundation for Predictive Analytics as an IT discipline. Instituted SAS design and coding standards, and created a large set of job aids for developers and administrators of the system.Founded the MillerCoors Analytics Leadership Team, a special interest group, consisting of around 20 analysts, managers and directors from across the company, focused on collaboration and promoting analytics. Implemented an "agile analytics" environment in Teradata and Business Objects, allowing users to load their own data into near-production environment and analyze it in real time, integrated with production enterprise data.Developed competency in statistical modeling through elective course work in MBA. Learned theoretical underpinnings of forecasting and multi-variate analysis and grounded it with extensive project work in SAS, Minitab and SPSS.

Championed a next generation, in-memory, OLAP tool, Margin Minder. Led technical team to deliver pilot, in less than 3 months, which was deemed "game changing" by client sponsors, eventually leading to full implementation a year later.Led technical team on first major implementation of Cognos BI, which delivered greatly enhanced performance on key Sales and Marketing metrics like Point of Sale Distribution. Architected both causal forecasting and promotion event analysis pilot systems, working closely 
with statisticians and business clients to structure and prepare data for modeling. Achieved deep understanding of the models and provided
 statistical mentoring to the business team.Acted as Data Integration Lead on a program to enhance a commercial planning system. His team fulfilled an executive mandate to harmonize data throughout the entire planning lifecycle. The system earned best in class designation from distributor surveys.Developed the Business Intelligence Roadmap for the IS Division. Combined thorough analysis of technical and business architectures, and mapped them to a suite of Cognos tools. Laid out investments required over a 3-year period to complete the vision of a best of breed BI portfolio. Managed the performance and capacity of the data warehouse; developed capacity planning and performance service level agreement frameworks and planned, monitored and reported on key performance indicators. Coordinated tuning and optimization activities.Drove research and analysis into re-platforming the data warehouse for improved performance and cost reduction. Designed and executed an innovative proof of concept that effectively determined the impact of the platform change on the current environment.Developed foundational components of the organization's first enterprise BI tool, Eureka Strategy, servicing over a thousand distributed users across multiple business units running hundreds of thousands of queries per month.

Acted as chief technical resource for all Sales and Marketing Business Intelligence applications at major US brewing company. Developed and maintained both cube-based and relational-based reporting applications used by 100's of users across the country. Oversaw major upgrades, spearheaded tuning efforts, and developed standards and processes in multiple environments. Recognized as industry technology expert, having presented papers on large database design to the International Oracle Users Group.

Acted as chief technical resource for all Sales and Marketing Business Intelligence applications at major US brewing company. Developed and maintained both cube-based and relational-based reporting applicaitons used by 100's of users across the country. Oversaw major upgrades, spearheaded tuning efforts, and developed standards and processes in multiple environments.

Taught Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science courses. Directed independent research projects by seniors. Lead team of student researchers in Summer Applied Mathematics program.

Taught Mathematics courses, conducted research in Topology. Acted as Director of Emerging Scholars Minority Retention Program. Taught Calculus to gifted grade school and high school students in The University of Minnesota Talented Youth Program. Acknowledged by University Scholars student organization with the Faculty Appreciation Award.