Robert Gareau Email & Phone Number

Myrtle Beach, Sc, Us

Bath, Maine, United States

Responsible for shaping and implementing a comprehensive and ambitious data and analytics strategy to provide business insight and drive critical decision-making. Key accomplishments include:- Redesigned and implemented Tableau Server infrastructure and access control model to enhance data accessibility and manageability.- Created a comprehensive data practice framework for driving standardization and data quality, resulting in improved accuracy and consistency of data across the organization.- Developed a Business Intelligence strategy to enable business leader decisions, leveraging industry best practices and cutting-edge technologies to provide real-time insights into critical business metrics.- Established BI Center of Excellence service line framework.- Developed an Agile-driven approach and created vertical slicing to construct a streamlined data warehouse, facilitating accessibility to data organization-wide.- Employed a "Data Factory" approach to standardize data ingest, storage, and consumption, reducing errors and increasing efficiency.- Partnered with IT and business users to bridge communications gaps, ensuring alignment of technology solutions with business objectives.

Detroit Metropolitan Area

Drives Analytics revenue in the Consumer Industries and Retail vertical thru Discovery engagements and delivery excellence.• Facilitates presales pursuits and customer funded discovery engagements.• Enables organic and inorganic growth across industry.• Drives Analytics solutions in pursuits for long term support contracts.• Controls cost-to-serve, delivery excellence, and innovation.• Sources technical talent to provide support after the sale.• Leads Delivery team of 30 advanced Analytics engineers and data scientists.• Drives quality, competency, and capability building.

Greater Detroit Area

• Senior level sales engineer with expert understanding of our product and services portfolio• Supporting highly complex accounts• Gains access and manages relationships with executive level technical staff and decision maker• Verifies roles and responsibilities required to support account team• Provides thought leadership to position value of the solutions • Devises new approaches/methods to selling enterprise products and services

Greater Detroit Area

Leads technical solution design and validation activities for multiple pursuits. Presents Cloud based solutions in multiple proposal responses and customer orals.• Create modular ROBO/plant architecture• Consistently achieves over 100% quote attainment• Size refresh architecture for transformation to HANA• Engineered multiple vSphere environments • Designed Cloud Hosting and Hybrid Cloud environments• Participated in over 80 pursuits and RFP responses in FY 17

Greater Detroit Area

Subject Matter Expert for vSphere Architecture running HPE Blade Systems and EMC Storage for General Motors. • Architected the Remote Office Virtualization strategy for General Motors• Participated in global vSphere architecture strategy team• Tailored monitoring and reporting for effective management of vSphere environments• Analyzed utilization trends and developed life cycle management strategy for vSphere environments• Replaced off-site tape storage with Avamar architecture saving $200k per month

Greater Detroit Area

I worked on the Emerging Technology team introducing HP Blade System architecture to a Fortune 5 company. • Evangelized adoption of vSphere on HP Blade Systems globally• Supported early adoption of vSphere on HP Blade systems to ensure a smooth transition

Greater Detroit Area

Lead Global Windows Server Management Team for GM• Implemented a global delivery model including 24 analysts from seven countries• Managed a global server platform by deploying the regional support model globally• Implemented global Windows server security processes with a “zero” server virus impact• Implemented ITIL processes to stabilize and grow the customer environment

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