Michael Bowen

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Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data and Analytics @ M&T Bank
Rochester, NY, US
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Rochester, New York, United States, United States
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About Michael Bowen

I help organizations achieve better insights and faster cycle times to those insights through data standardization, automation, and process changes with well-governed data and powerful analytics tools. I am an accomplished business and IT leader with a history of bringing people and technology together to achieve visionary transformational results through innovation and partnerships. I have strong experience in managing C-suite relationships, budgets, global strategy, and delivery teams, and I am recognized for achieving sustainable results and flexible solutions tied to business goals and processes. I believe in digital transformations and that any organization, large or small, can reinvent itself and win! I've helped multiple organizations achieve accelerated transformational change through a proven playbook of key capabilities, personnel development, and process change. I'm passionate about leveraging emerging technologies and cloud native tools in data analytics to drive digital transformation and data democratization. I encourage organizations to experiment with "skunkworks" in data, analytics prototyping, and mobile solutions."Our best talent is always grown!" I'm a champion of university relations, outreach, and partnerships that bring new ideas and talent to organizations. I am a strong advocate and executive sponsor for D&I initiatives and building deep talent pipelines. I believe in developing leaders and teams by providing challenging assignments and encouraging experimentation.CORE COMPETENCIESBusiness and Technology Leadership, Digital Strategy and Transformation, Data and Analytics, Innovation via Emerging Technologies and Cloud Native Tools, Transformation Change Agent, Governance and Master Data, IT Planning, University Relations, Talent Recruitment, Mentoring and Team Building, Process Re-engineering, Data Strategy, Mentoring and Team Building, Change Management, Process Automation, RPA, Business Case, Business Intelligence, Agile Methodology, Product Development, Managed Services, Executive Consulting, Public Speaking

Michael Bowen's Current Company Details
M&T Bank

M&T Bank

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Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data and Analytics
Rochester, NY, US
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mtb.com
Employees:
30082
Michael Bowen Work Experience Details
  • M&T Bank
    Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data And Analytics
    M&T Bank
    Rochester, Ny, Us
  • M&T Bank
    Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data & Analytics
    M&T Bank Aug 2023 - Present
    Buffalo, New York, Us
    Responsible for overseeing operations and strategic initiatives within the Enterprise Data & Analytics division of M&T Bank.
  • Constellation Brands
    Director, Analytics
    Constellation Brands Jun 2021 - Mar 2023
    Rochester, New York, Us
    Leadership role driving acceleration of business agility and innovation through data democratization, leveraging cloud-based technologies at scale to deliver tangible business impacts via automation of existing manual analytics.• Conducted “listening tour” with 42 executives, identifying 88 analytics use cases across 15 business units.• Led a team of 8 technical support professionals providing business analytics for a 10,000-employee company.• Established “Analytics Hub” mission, vision, scope, benefits, and a roadmap with 81 initiatives.• Led establishment of a new managed self-service cloud analytics platform for business data democratization that successfully automates daily data captures from SAP Hana, Anaplan and Oracle into Snowflake via MuleSoft and AWS Glue for access by business teams leveraging Power BI Tenants and Tableau Cloud.• The new platform was adopted by FP&A to standardize metrics and reduce manual Excel efforts by 50%, and by Digital Business Acceleration to support a corporate-wide effort to drive digital approaches deep into organizational processes.• Power BI usage grew 87% in business from 286 active users in Oct 2021 to 535 users by Sep 2022! • Tableau usage grew in business from 15 active users in Oct 2021 to 73 users by Sep 2022!• Actively managed 12,800 reports in MicroStrategy supporting 1,200 unique employees, averaging 2,700 reports accessed 46,000 times per week.• Launched MicroStrategy External Library for 1,100 resellers/distributors to automate external reporting.• Leveraged OKRs for achieving adoption of agile processes, successfully converting 100% of roadmap into Aha! and Jira while achieving 2-week agile delivery cycles.• Executive Council Panelist at October 2022 Snowflake Data Cloud World Tour.
  • L3Harris Technologies
    Acting Director, Business Intelligence And Analytics
    L3Harris Technologies Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
    Melbourne, Florida, Us
    Led analytics modernization for Communication Services (CS), a $4B business, leveraging newly implemented Azure/Snowflake cloud technology and Blue Prism Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to achieve multi-year roadmap goals. • Established and led executive steering team for analytics to align and prioritize analytics roadmaps across CS.• Established and led new ITAR/CAS compliant Analytics practice with 7 senior data scientists and analysts.• Partnered with IT to establish key Oracle and SAP business data within new Azure/Snowflake data lake.• Drove adoption and common standards and practices for analytics tools - R, Python, Tableau, Excel.• Champion for adoption of RPA and “cognitive RPA” within CS, leveraging L3Harris Blue Prism.• Established college recruiting program to find top analytics talent at local colleges through summer internships, practicum and capstone support, mentoring, and relationships with faculty.• Established Jira ticketing and Tableau dashboards to facilitate governance and project management of backlogged requests, work in progress, and completed activity.
  • L3Harris Technologies
    Data Analytics Consultancy
    L3Harris Technologies Apr 2019 - Jul 2020
    Melbourne, Florida, Us
    Developed strategy to transform and modernize analytics and reporting practices for Communications Services Tactical Communications, a $2B business sector. Worked with business leaders to identify pain points and develop approaches to leverage centralized data, automation, and advanced analytics to reduce extensive multi-siloed spreadsheet reporting environment.• Worked with leadership and line management to document and align analytics needs.• Partnered with multiple business functions to develop multi-year Sector strategy roadmap.• Collaborated with IT to implement proof of concept technological solution leveraging Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, and Tableau to demonstrate automation of select Finance analytics.• Guided development of standard practices for using R, Python, and Tableau.• Facilitated standardized training, growing skilled Tableau analysts from 6 in April 2019 to 30 in July 2020.• Owned Tableau Site, administration, and strategy, facilitating highly successful reset of user experience.• Tableau usage grew from 192 users and 716 page views in April 2019 to 450 users and 5,750 page views.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Director, Analytics And Automation
    Xerox Corporation Mar 2016 - Mar 2019
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Accountable for establishing advanced analytics and data automation within Internal Audit, Internal Controls, and other Finance functions, supported by industry-standard data practices and analytics tools.• Established audit analytics team and new audit processes that leveraged Tableau to produce analytics insights from a standardized Oracle data model that was automatically updated nightly.• Results: automated analytics and process changes substantially transformed 8 audit areas via outlier analysis and rules-based risk scoring of individual transactions for travel and entertainment, treasury cash disbursements, revenue recognition, assets and billing, accounts payable, machine connectivity, supplies ordering, and general financial reviews.• Frequency of audits improved from once every two years to quarterly (4x/year), completing 32 audits annually.• Cycle time to perform audits was reduced from 3 months to 2 weeks.• The number of auditors required per audit was reduced from 2 or more to only 1.• The scope of transactions audited grew from a few manual samples per audit to 100% of period transactions.• Insights were communicated via formal quarterly audit reports to executive management and the Board of Directors Audit Committee.• Collaboration with the business allowed automated analytics to be used for business/operational needs.• In support of Xerox Corporate split into Xerox and Conduent in 2016, developed and executed strategy for implementing Internal Audit analytics practice for Conduent, Inc. Established offshore team in Manila, Philippines with new processes and revised templates that leveraged offshore analytics talent.• Established recruiting pipeline through University at Buffalo, achieving “2017 New Recruiter of the Year” award.• Co-presented highly rated “Data Analytics at Xerox: A Journey from Idea to Reality” with Xerox Chief Audit Executive at the 2017 Governance and Risk Management ISACA and IIA national conference.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Senior Mgr, Business Intelligence & Analytics
    Xerox Corporation Jan 2014 - Feb 2016
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Senior manager with oversight for Business Intelligence, applications development, and IT systems consolidation for Global Customer Services Delivery, a multi-billion-dollar service organization for the U.S., Europe, and Canada.• Transformed business-IT relationship to support “Forrester-recommended approach” to analytics where IT manages the data and tools, and business teams build analytics as required.• Cost and cycle time per report generated reduced from $100K and six months to a few days.• Established new governance and prioritization processes aligned with industry Business Intelligence Competency Center practices. Performed annual IT strategy and funding reviews for business operations.• Consolidated multiple reporting operations performed across U.S., Canada, and Europe, significantly reducing the number of reports while increasing accuracy and standardization.• Reduced the portfolio of reporting applications supported from 150 to 25, leveraging Microsoft BI, SharePoint, and Tableau to drive consolidations and efficiencies. Championed Tableau as the Xerox standard for analytics.• Established Tableau as the standard for go forward analytics & reporting, supported by an Oracle data warehouse that automatically pre-rendered data into standard metrics for use by the Xerox Services business.• Created analytics consulting service where analysts would temporarily join business teams to provide insights.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Senior Manager, Technical Services Reporting
    Xerox Corporation Mar 2010 - Jan 2014
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Responsible for managing reporting and data analytics operations within United States Technical Services – a $2B organization.• Developed multi-year strategic roadmap for BI based on Gartner Group and Forrester best practices.• Transformed operations, reducing IT costs by $2.7M annually over three years by consolidating applications, eliminating non-value-add processes and activities, and revamping projects to reduce overlap across deliveries.• Deployed new analytics and prototyping consultancy whose mission is to help business teams tie their business processes to data generated by their results. Solutions leveraged Oracle, Excel, SharePoint, and Esri mapping.• Managed $15M annual IT applications budget, restructuring BI and non-BI solutions, and maintaining costs from 2010 to 2013 while retaining existing capabilities.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
    Xerox Corporation Jan 2008 - Mar 2010
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Led multiple Lean Six Sigma DMAIC/DMEDI projects that achieved significant process improvements in overtime management, knowledge base usage, post-sale remote support, Business Intelligence, and technology adoption. Managed LSS Project Portfolio, providing oversight and guidance to 100+ Black Belt projects. Mentored new Black Belt candidates and Six Sigma Green Belts. Achieved LSS Black Belt certification – January 2009.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Senior Manager, Remote Services
    Xerox Corporation Apr 2003 - Jan 2008
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Established Remote Services back office capabilities, leveraging Xerox proprietary Device-Centric Services™ to connect Xerox networked products to service and engineering teams for diagnostic, e-service, and level 3 support solutions. Led global delivery and integration of solutions, working with teams in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia at all levels of the corporation. Successfully fostered cooperative working relationships among groups with conflicting interests and negotiated annual investment value propositions for all operations, aligning investments to specific business objectives and financial cases. Accountable for end-to-end IT technology strategy and delivery, managing annual multi-million-dollar budgets. Remote Services evolved into a critical corporate strategic platform that touched every part of the company, leveraging terabytes of data across multiple applications, from service to sales to engineering. • Overcame significant past challenges to successfully converge multiple redundant and "legacy" remote services technologies into single solution based on Xerox Device-Centric Services™.• Implemented successful agile-iterative and global cross-organizational project management processes.• Oversaw implementation of new remote services-based solutions that blended machine data with established back-office systems and processes.• Remote Services solutions included sever interface to Xerox products (BEI WebLogic), machine data warehouse (Oracle) for structured data, a multi-terabyte storage for unstructured data, and anew “Command Center” application to blend back-office service call data, customer survey data, and machine data to provide a 360-degree view of a machine’s status. For the first time, service and engineering used the same tools to manage customer issues.• Directly negotiated vendor contracts for technologies that supported remote services as well as offshore support contracts.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Xerox.Com Ebusiness Program Manager
    Xerox Corporation Jun 2001 - Apr 2003
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    End-to-end accountability for eBusiness landing pages, including strategic development of value propositions, project management, deployment, and business case achievement. Managed search engine, including strategy, keyword management, and web page design. Managed customer services (“eCare”) initiatives for FSMA, Automatic Meter Reads, and Order Status web experiences. • Successfully led cross-organizational effort to reduce canceled service contracts by delivering a web-based solution that intercepted FSMA cancel requests and re-routed them to sales. Achieved a 15%reduction in FSMA cancels, yielding ~$5.5M of annual P&L savings.• Leveraged Rapid Application Development and iterative methodologies within projects delivered, and sponsored templatization effort to establish as a standard organizational practice.• Restructured customer meter reads site in 60 days, using rapid application development techniques, resulting in on-time deployment, zero critical issues, and a substantially lower development cost than other dot.com projects at the time.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Product Delivery/Engagement Manager
    Xerox Corporation Jan 1999 - May 2001
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Engagement manager for a portfolio of e-business projects, within a fast-paced CMM Level III-certified software development organization. Projects conformed to CMM Level III standards, Xerox Time-to-Market processes, and zero-based budgeting requirements. Portfolio included Office of the General Counsel Patent and Litigation Management, Project Applications Portfolio, Customer Satisfaction Survey Administration Tool, Corporate Risk Management and Insurance Reference applications.• Delivered web-based patent management tool which allowed Office of General Counsel to effectively track and manage patent applications from start to finish.• Delivered new Customer Satisfaction Survey tool which allowed employees to build, administer, and report surveys completely on the web for the first time.• Key leader in branding the organization as “SMART Solutions” – an internal competency that centralized and standardized development of internal web solutions for Xerox based on zero-based-budget principles, adherence to core Xerox design and coherence standards, and strong business case support.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Project Control Manager
    Xerox Corporation Jun 1997 - Jan 1999
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    First line manager, responsible for managing schedule, processes, and communications for major global systems project intended to retire several large and complex legacy service systems. Coordinated schedules and communications between multiple IT and service teams in U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and South America. Introduced project management software with critical path, Pert charts, and Monte Carlo risk analysis. Also responsible for driving CMM Level 3 and Xerox Time-to-Market processes.
  • Xerox Corporation
    Business Analyst - Office Of The Cio
    Xerox Corporation May 1994 - Jun 1997
    Norwalk, Connecticut, Us
    Responsibilities included annual strategic planning, financial analysis and reporting, and implementation of projects for United States Customer Operations Information Management. • Owned and managed adoption of CMM and Time-to-Market project processes, including measures, toll gate management, value proposition assessments, and communications. • Developed an analytics solutions ecosystem that pulled data from multiple source systems into centralized Hyperion, Oracle, and MS Access databases, and applied automation logic to create standardized metrics that were consumed in MS Excel dashboards.

Michael Bowen Skills

Program Management Business Intelligence Business Analysis Sdlc It Business Strategy Six Sigma Financial Analysis Business Case Modelling Agile Project Management Remote Services Cross Functional Team Leadership Process Improvement Agile Methodologies Vendor Management It Strategy Project Portfolio Management Requirements Analysis Project Management Software Development Software Project Management Business Process Improvement Integration Business Process Data Warehousing Management Software Development Life Cycle Analytics Sharepoint Cloud Computing Analysis Enterprise Software Leadership Strategy Consulting Outsourcing

Michael Bowen Education Details

  • University At Buffalo School Of Management, The State University Of New York
    University At Buffalo School Of Management, The State University Of New York
    Finance
  • University At Buffalo School Of Management, The State University Of New York
    University At Buffalo School Of Management, The State University Of New York
    Information Management

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