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• Directed a consulting practice specializing in SAP BI/BW and data warehousing, delivering expert professional services to ensure seamless project implementations, including SAP BW 7.0 upgrades, for corporate clients with combined annual revenues exceeding $65B.• Led strategic discussions with executive-level leaders to identify data quality and analytics challenges, crafting tailored solutions to effectively address and resolve these issues.• Acted as the key liaison between business users and IT, translating business needs into actionable technical requirements and overseeing the successful implementation of multiple BI projects, managing timelines, budgets, and resources.• Developed and implemented a business reporting strategy that drove a 300% increase in BI tool usage within six months. This initiative included training business users to efficiently perform both periodic and ad-hoc reporting analyses.

New York, New York, Us

• Directed digital strategy and design for supply chain planning and analytics solutions supporting Pfizer Global Supply, aligning data analytics strategies with cross-functional business goals. Collaborated with leadership to drive innovation and roadmap new capabilities.• Spearheaded a complex $1.76M project, developing a customer data platform on Snowflake by integrating 30 disparate data sources. Delivered actionable insights that optimized inventory and sales execution, significantly enhancing patient service performance.• Managed a $1.6M Tableau PGS budget and established governance processes for 5K users, including self-service content and user license management. Implemented cost-saving initiatives that reduced Tableau user license expenses by $140K annually.• Led a large cross-functional team to successfully complete impact testing on 25 downstream applications as part of a high-profile $80M supply planning initiative.• Recognized as a thought leader and mentor within the Pfizer analytics community, utilizing data management principles and Collibra to catalog data attributes and lineage, promoting best practices in data governance and analytics.• Oversaw multi-year budget planning and closely monitored expenditures for a diverse portfolio of projects and applications, ensuring fiscal responsibility and alignment with strategic priorities.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Directed the implementation of a comprehensive enterprise data governance framework, establishing processes, standards, and controls that optimized end-to-end business processes for over 3,000 material SKUs, along with customer and vendor data across global applications.• Created and executed a master data governance roadmap, driving future-focused initiatives including data quality KPIs/metrics, process automation, AI integration, and continuous improvement strategies.• Developed and implemented a rigorous audit methodology and control plan, achieving a data accuracy rate of over 97% and laying the foundation for advanced automation capabilities.• Led and motivated a high-performing team of five, fostering accountability and demonstrating the value of data governance to cross-functional stakeholders, including supply chain, sales, marketing, IT, and auditors (e.g. GDPR, GTC, etc.)• Utilized Celonis process mining application to identify data quality issues linked to process inefficiencies, resulting in the creation of corrective action plans that improved operational outcomes.• Mentored team members in SAP ECC applications and processes, resulting in national recognition in SAP Insider for successfully implementing robotic process automation (RPA) solutions to ensure accurate, timely master data management.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Designed and implemented advanced data analytics solutions, including machine learning and predictive analytics, to drive actionable insights across supply chain operations, enhancing visibility in areas such as order fulfillment, forecasting, inventory management, and production reporting.• Developed a high-performance supply chain reporting solution, optimizing data engineering processes to reduce "time-to-information" from 1 hour to 1 minute. The solution served over 1,000 users and became one of the most utilized applications, significantly improving decision-making speed.• Spearheaded the implementation of key supply chain performance metrics (SCOR), including forecast accuracy, inventory days on-hand, on-time delivery, and schedule adherence, resulting in improved operational efficiency and enhanced customer experience.• Facilitated data-driven decision-making by ensuring stakeholders had clear, contextual understanding of KPIs and report data through the creation of an accessible online data catalog, complete with metadata and data lineage.• Championed a data-driven culture within the supply chain and across internal teams by delivering learning sessions, producing how-to documentation, and developing online learning materials to empower data literacy and utilization.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Led the data warehouse project teams in the end-to-end design, development, and implementation of data warehouse solutions, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals.• Directed a cross-functional team of five developers, both onsite and offshore, to migrate over 50 dataflows to SAP BW 7.3, significantly enhancing data availability and quality.• Collaborated with business and leadership teams to craft and execute comprehensive enterprise-wide data warehouse strategies, optimizing business processes and advancing business intelligence capabilities.• Resolved complex technical issues through effective collaboration, facilitating knowledge transfer and skill development among team members.• Established and enforced data governance standards, policies, and procedures across the full suite of business intelligence tools and systems, ensuring consistency and reliability.• Conducted research on emerging technologies (SAP BW 7.3, Business Objects (BOBJ), SAP HANA) and developed compelling business cases to advocate for enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions.

Walldorf, Bw, De

• Responsible for successful implementation of SAP applications, providing technical/functional expertise, guidance, and knowledge transfer/training on SAP products to clients, while also serving as a liaison for troubleshooting and investigating software problems• Participated in more than ten (10) full life-cycle implementations of SAP applications for primarily Fortune 500 corporate clients.• Analyzed and mapped clients' business requirements, processes, and objectives; developed necessary product modifications to satisfy clients' needs• Selected to exclusive team to perform solution reviews for existing SAP implementations, with the goal of highlighting deficiencies within configuration or processes, thereafter, providing best-in-class recommendations to improve or eliminate the issues.• Conducted presentations of SAP applications and processes for audiences at user conferences (SAPPHIRE), trade shows, SAP colleagues and partners.

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B.B.A, Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Management Information Systems, General