Peter Olson Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

As part of the Consumer Business Group's Analytics Center of Excellence, I work to integrate machine learning and data science into everyday business critical processes from supply chain optimization to marketing optimization. This involves:• In-depth data processing and analytics• Applying and operationalizing state-of-the-art machine learning and statistical methods• Development of proprietary decision support tools and approaches• Integration with day-to-day business operations to directly contribute to organizational success

Consultant with Worldwide Fortune 500 Company March 2017 – July 2017• Develop ETL process to collect and cleanse two years of worldwide operational data amounting to roughly 900,000,000 rows of raw data.• Establish framework and strategy for short-term reporting needs that will also support long-term analytics.Consultant with Non-Profit February 2017 – July 2017• Lead efforts to analyze and cleanse existing Dynamics CRM system in preparation for eventual upgrade.• Analyze data integrations (or lack thereof) between operational systems to help define overall data strategy, identify opportunities for automated integration, and enable optimization of business processes.Consultant with Logistics Company February 2017 – June 2017• Examine query plans on slow-running SSRS report queries to identify performance-improving indexes and other changes.• Advisement on longer-term strategies and approaches for data architecture and reporting.

Provide leadership for architecture and operation of RBA internal systems to ensure alignment with business strategy and enable company growth. Develop a unified view of information storage and data flow among diverse systems to help achieve business goals. Responsibilities include:• Improved and enhanced Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processes enabling more effective insights into company performance.• Owner of internal Data Warehouse facilitating clear understanding of business operations and performance.• Quickly learned and took ownership of multiple business and data systems becoming the go-to resource for user and technical issues.• Assessed and managed all technical aspects of financial system upgrade enabling a smooth transition with minimal cross-system impact.• Developed a customized, mobile-friendly web application for consultant time entry leading to a vastly improved user experience.

Consultant with Worldwide Fortune 500 CompanyJuly 2014 - July 2015• Completed development and executed thorough testing for a replacement worker data import system resulting in a far more reliable and maintainable service.• Provided requirements analysis, design specifications, and effort estimates for multiple projects enabling the procurement of funding and successful project execution.Consultant with Logistics CompanyFebruary 2013 - June 2014• Provided technical leadership for the onboarding of new team members helping them to rapidly make meaningful contributions.• Led and mentored the development team in WPF enabling a successful and efficient adoption of a new technology.• Rapidly gained understanding of a highly complex business and became a key contributor to the design, development, and deployment of a next generation order entry system.Consultant with Worldwide Fortune 500 CompanyAugust 2011 - January 2013• Added valuable screens and enhancements to highly dynamic WPF-based UI providing end users with much needed functionality.• Implemented numerous enhancements and bug fixes in Backend and Database improving product value and reliability.• Provided top-notch support for multi-site production deployment; consistently and rapidly finding solutions for business-impacting situations.• Researched requirements and options for using NFC-enabled Smartphones for business processes producing a high quality proposal for the initial proof-of-concept phase.• Led development efforts to on existing system add support for an additional hardware vendor.• Collaborated with client, vendors, and peers to successfully solve various software and hardware issues.Consultant with Medical Device CompanyMay 2011 - July 2011• Enhanced and evolved product pricing analysis tool providing major contributions to a successful second release.

• Architected a multi-tiered, distributed dashboard solution to collect and display key metrics for multiple Sophos products. • Interfaced with four international Sophos teams, successfully defining integration points and data protocols.• Conducted daily stand-up meetings for nine-person virtual team enabling collaboration and coordination of activities.• Delivered installation program ahead of schedule using cutting-edge technologies as leader of a three-person team.• Pioneered technique to automate Windows Installer MSI testing using web-based open source tools.• Produced design for IT Governance project that became the go-to resource for understanding the business problem and defining a clear solution.• Executed a successful Agile development trial as leader of a five-person project team which set the stage for subsequent Agile development projects.• Enhanced and evolved a complex installer program that provided an effective solution to a difficult problem.• Mentored team members on the use of design patterns resulting in higher quality designs and expanded skill sets.

• Enhanced and supported a challenging third-party web-based component for displaying and editing EDI healthcare transactions.• Designed and implemented an innovate alternative, ultimately supplanting the third-party component with a solution that is more flexible, easier to maintain, and produces better results.• Contributed to database redesign using data warehousing, greatly improving web page performance.• Devised strategy for month-long data migration on customer site which resulted in a successful transition to new database schema and vastly improved query performance.

• Collaborated with two development leads on a redesign of core policy model that proved crucial to the future success of the company.• Designed and developed key component for detecting compliance state that is fundamentally unchanged after more than six years and actively used on hundreds of thousands of endpoint computers.

• Initiated design and development of “Device Libraries” allowing SmartPipes to cost-effectively support network devices from multiple vendors.

Master’S Of Science Degree (Partial Coursework), Predictive Analytics

http://sps.northwestern.edu/program-areas/graduate/predictive-analytics/index.php

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering