Rick Grantham, Six Sigma Black Belt Email & Phone Number

Singapore, Sg

• EPI-USE is the world's largest independent SAP HR/Payroll firm, specializing in designing, building, and implementing Cloud, hybrid, and on-prem HR/Payroll systems. Helped facilitate a merger with VantagePoint, an SAP Business Technology Platform analytics and data intelligence firm; and acquisition of BI Brainz, a business intelligence and analytics company. Served as Head of client Services for VantagePoint; and Chief Analytics Officer, focused on Dashboard Design Principles and Power BI delivery for BI Brainz.• Founded Analytics Practice, focusing on reporting; data warehousing with SQL Server, SAP BW, and Google Cloud Platform; ETL with Informatica, SAP BW, Google Big Query, SQL Server Integration Services, and Business Objects Data Integrator; data lakes, and business intelligence. Created Business Intelligence strategies for clients, like Los Angeles Unified School District, Gwinnett County (Atlanta), Washoe County (RENO, NV), Koch Business Systems, M.I.T., Boston College, State of Florida, Rowan Companies, Baylor School of Medicine, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Newport Corporation, Abiomed, University of Michigan, and Clark County (Las Vegas, NV). Acted as Chief Strategist for Business Intelligence tools, such as Business Objects, SAP Analytics Cloud, and Power BI; and Data Governance implementations. Provided SAP BW for Data Warehousing for Finance and HR and Business Objects and/or Power BI for reporting, as well as dashboard development. Oversaw the quality management process with statistical analysis and tools through Six Sigma methodologies.

Singapore, Sg

• Ensured all deliverables, interacting with client executive management, and own consultants providing services. Managed tens of thousands of contracts, budgets, and teams of consultants. Provided precise forecasts and internal crowdsourcing plans through SAP Analytics Cloud extended planning and analysis (xP&A). Worked with client finance departments to move SAP BPC projects to SAP Analytics Cloud for Budgeting & Planning. Provided BI add-ons to SAP HANA, Finance, HR, SuccessFactors, or Payroll.• Offered leadership, Product Ownership, and Project Management in Agile with JIRA, migrating from Kanban to Scrum, and Qlik & SQL Server to Power BI & Google Big Query. Used a range of predictive methods and technologies, such as Six Sigma MiniTab Engage for data analysis, statistical and process improvement; Regression Analysis with Excel and Minitab; Angoss Decision Trees to find and/or force splits; CART (Classification and Regression Trees); CHAID (Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detection); JMP for test design analysis; and Monte Carlo Simulation in Excel, building relevant algorithms. Worked with statistical data analysis techniques, such as Multivariate regression, ANOVA, Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA), and Design of Experiments (DOE). Extensive use of Excel’s functions, such as PIVOTS, XNPV, XIRR, and others. Managed vendor relationships with Microsoft’s Power BI and SAP.