Seasoned Business Intelligence and Analytics consultant, with 16+ years consulting, ~7 years Big 4 management consulting. Michael’s expertise is driven by years of relevant hands-on experience. His leadership, as well as hands-on experience allow him to wear many hats to keep a project on schedule and within budget. His versatility ranges from projects requiring dedicated assessments, multi-year strategies, architecture and PM skills, to rolling up sleeves to provide technical direction and support to junior team members. Michael has held roles from requirements, driving functional design for applications, and is well known as an all-around problem solver, having planned and executed a wide breath of BI, EPM, Analytics self-service projects (new implementations, upgrades, etc), with a focus on ‘rapid -deployment’. Expert managing and implementing Enterprise BI projects via ASAP, or Agile methodologies (MS Team Foundation Server). Environments on-Prem, Cloud (Virtustream, AWS), IaaS (SAP BW, BPC, Business Objects, Cognos, Tableau), and roles from RFP and assessments, through delivery. Broad consulting experience has been highlighted in presentations at SAP conferences in Europe and North America. • Strategy and Roadmaps - Analytics strategies, rapid deployment solutions for self-service analytics. Developed BEx to BOBJ Analysis migration strategies, tool evaluation• Global Project Management - End to end project/resource planning (Waterfall, Agile), offshore• Hands on Development - BW on HANA, Business Objects 3.x\4.x Web Intelligence on HANA/BW, MS SQL DB, BOBJ Analysis for Excel, Tableau Analytics on HANA/BW, Lumira, Infospaces, Unx/.Unv Universes, CMC tuning), Assess BW-IP/PAK upgrade and implement BPC embedded planning solutions. BI tool selections, HANA upgrades, HANA Live Content, Lumira, Tableau, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
Listed skills include Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Erp, Business Objects, and 30 others.