Inform and present strategies to decision-makers of client enabling informed decision making. Direct the activities of the IT team ensuring solutions are delivered on-schedule and under budget. Collaborate with client architects to develop high-level business process documentation, defining DW/BI project priorities and iterations. Utilize Agile principles to create epics, stories, and tasks.

Cooperate with management and business leaders to align data warehousing strategy with organizational goals. Inform and present strategies to decision-makers enabling informed decision making. Delegate tasks to team to balance workloads. Draft budgets and schedules for approval. Educate end-users on DW/BI applications and capabilities. Direct the activities of the data team ensuring solutions are delivered on-schedule and under budget. Collaborate with architects to develop high-level business process documentation, defining DW/BI project priorities and iterations. Utilize Agile principles to create epics, stories, and tasks within three-week sprints.

Created BI/DW conceptual architecture. Acted as program manager and DW architect. Performed data warehouse assessments. Designed strategies for data warehouse ecosystems to align with client’s objectives. Oversaw project budget and schedule. Delegated tasks to team members. Recruited and trained new talent. Coached team members to ensure project deliverables were on-schedule. Liaised with business stakeholders to identify business requirements and define strategic plans.● Created a Data Warehouse for the State of NE Department of Labor.● Created a process to Predict fraudulent claims utilizing Business Object’s Predictive Analytics software, saving the Department of Labor approximately 200K each year

Coordinated between cross-functional teams and clients to communicate business and technical values of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence products. Engaged sales teams to enhance communication with enterprise and mid-market technical and business decision-makers. Liaised with clients and end-users to address inquiries and enhance value propositions of solutions. Coached sales team in effective collaborative and consultative sales techniques to expand opportunities. Developed scenarios and strategies to customize solutions for the client’s objectives and market landscape. Educated decision-makers and end-users in the value of Microsoft solutions

Provided Strategic direction to the executive committee in the design and planning of BI solutions by applying a consistent set of architectural guidelines in the creation of new solutions using standardized documents including technical specifications, business use cases, and Governance Policies. Acted as the Program Manager working directly with the IT and Business departments, implementing the project that allowed for the creation of a BI and Data warehousing foundation and giving the employees the skills and tools for future growth and acceptance from the clients branches.

Responsible for working with and informing top management of the usage and impact of data warehousing within the organization, identifying and proposing projects which utilized data warehousing and business intelligence to provide support for corporate goals, defined and gained approval for budgets and schedules, and educating users on DW/BI applications and capabilities. Coordinated the activities of team leads, analysts and developers as they performed the duties required to maintain and update the EDW and dependent data marts. Worked with the Data Architects to develop high-level business process documentation, which was used to define DW/BI project priorities and iterations. Provided the vision and direction, and worked with senior management and end users to ensure that the team's efforts would provide the desired results.

The responsibilities of this position included: gather, document, and coordinate business requirements for data movement, storage and business intelligence needs. Work with end users to determine requirements for data, reports, analyses, metadata, training, service levels, data quality, and performance. Work with architects, data modelers, and ETL developers to translate requirements into technical specifications. Direct the work of systems developers, ETL developers and BI architects; and oversaw the development of logical and physical data models, ETL scripts, metadata definitions and models, reports, schedules, work processes, and maintenance procedures. Worked with application managers and their teams on the strategic planning of data warehouse development and architecture standards and acted as the main liaison between the business users and the data warehousing project teams.

Responsibility for the Business Intelligence portal (BI) and Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) including strategy, and budget. The position oversaw program and project managers, architects, specialists, and developers involved in the development, delivery, maintenance, and management of BI and EDW. Developed a communications strategy for the BI/EDW environment that was geared towards executives and end users

Responsible for the creation and maintenance of real-time and batch application in a supply chain Eco-System. The responsibilities of this role included: Order management, inventory, purchasing, planning and EDI tools utilizing RPG/ILE in an AS/400 environment