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Fort Worth Texas

Leading the team responsible for the System Architecture, Implementation, Maintenance and 24/7 Support of BI Solutions for 59.000+ users and nearly 1.5 million objects incl. Analytics and access to HANA, BW, ECC, Teradata, DB2, Oracle, Essbase/Hyperion and Hadoop Big Data.Evaluation of Business BI needs (use case scenarios) with all LOBs and translating them into technologies and best practices.Providing key-solution and approaches in conjunction of Executive Business Leader, BI… Show more Leading the team responsible for the System Architecture, Implementation, Maintenance and 24/7 Support of BI Solutions for 59.000+ users and nearly 1.5 million objects incl. Analytics and access to HANA, BW, ECC, Teradata, DB2, Oracle, Essbase/Hyperion and Hadoop Big Data.Evaluation of Business BI needs (use case scenarios) with all LOBs and translating them into technologies and best practices.Providing key-solution and approaches in conjunction of Executive Business Leader, BI Development groups including self-service reporting to utilize new functions and integration features.Consulting and coordination incl. Project Management Support with stake holders on availability of solutions and to obtain funding for business cases for Predictive Analytics , Artificial Intelligence and ASE in-memory data access and replications similar to HANA.Development of budgetary recommendation for current and future utilization of various BI Technologies including report development cost, licensing and return of investment & cost savings. Show less

SAP Business Objects Competency Center (SBOCC)Responsible for the Architecture and implementation of large high-availability BI/BW Solutions.Consulting high profile clients on SAP’s and Industrial Best Practices including Life Cycle Processes.Planning and supporting Ramp-up implementation for BI 4.x, HANA and BW 7.3Project, Architecture and lifecycle management support for critical deployments and high=profile customers.

Leading the Corporate Enterprise SAP/Business Objects Reporting Infrastructure > 60.000 Users

Responsible for the Architecture, implementation and management of large high-availability Business Intelligence Reporting Solutions. (Business Objects XIR2 & 3.1 Clusters) across multiple data centers for 35,000+ users spanning multiple application and supporting approx. 70 LOBs.Successful lead multiple high visibility BI projects such as the Countrywide PeopleSoft to Business Objects and Mortgage & Insurance (MIRD) to Bank of America. Full Scale Disaster Recovery under Sigma 6 and… Show more Responsible for the Architecture, implementation and management of large high-availability Business Intelligence Reporting Solutions. (Business Objects XIR2 & 3.1 Clusters) across multiple data centers for 35,000+ users spanning multiple application and supporting approx. 70 LOBs.Successful lead multiple high visibility BI projects such as the Countrywide PeopleSoft to Business Objects and Mortgage & Insurance (MIRD) to Bank of America. Full Scale Disaster Recovery under Sigma 6 and ESLA <4 hrs.Extended Sarbanes-Oxley Audit, Predictive Analysis and Report Instant Archiving under Gramm-Leach Bliley. Subject matter expert for the migrations of PeopleSoft into SAP/R3 and ongoing (BW) Data Warehouse projects. Show less

Implementation of Business Objects Solutions into Business Intelligence Systems such as SAP, IBM Data warehouse, Oracle. Certified Business Objects Migration Specialist (5/6/XI) and Business Objects XI R1/2 Professional.Integrations of 3rd party products such as Quorum, APOS and SAP.Development of Crystal Reports, WEBI, Desktop Intelligence, Universes and Scripts.Contracted for the Federal Government

Senior Manager with networking and engineering background, and more than eighteen years of experience in the international technology marketplace (USA & Europe). Expertise focused on extensive LAN/WAN & WinAD implementations, Acquisition Management, Network Security, International Enterprise Solutions, Helpdesk Management, System Integration and Project Management.

Implementation of a large distributed Business Intelligence System (Business Objects XIR2 Clusters) including Performance Manager & Dashboard, Data Integrator over multiple data centers and multiple system platforms such as Windows 2003 and Unix for 30,000 users in a high security environment. Assistance in development of a fully redundant Data warehouse structure with access to external encrypted financial data sources (500 TB) as well. Conversion of widespread existing reporting solutions… Show more Implementation of a large distributed Business Intelligence System (Business Objects XIR2 Clusters) including Performance Manager & Dashboard, Data Integrator over multiple data centers and multiple system platforms such as Windows 2003 and Unix for 30,000 users in a high security environment. Assistance in development of a fully redundant Data warehouse structure with access to external encrypted financial data sources (500 TB) as well. Conversion of widespread existing reporting solutions into Business Objects and adaptations of different security models such as Mainframe and Oracle DB systems. Show less

Management of research and development department for new energy saving devices and technology.Responsible for the Company's overall technological advancements by providing expertise and knowledge of new technological trends and their relationship to the company's goals and futureInsure the capabilities of new technology and its possible connections to company goals or needsDevelopment of new areas of service and refine processes to increase productivityDeveloping of decision… Show more Management of research and development department for new energy saving devices and technology.Responsible for the Company's overall technological advancements by providing expertise and knowledge of new technological trends and their relationship to the company's goals and futureInsure the capabilities of new technology and its possible connections to company goals or needsDevelopment of new areas of service and refine processes to increase productivityDeveloping of decision making presentations, proposals and contractsCollaborate with Executive Management Team for new ventures and expansionInterface with customers such as Trinity River Authority, Texas Instruments, Perot Systems and I2 on executive levelDirect involvement in customer decisions on Network Security, SCADA (Software Controlled Automation and Data Acquisition) & other automation and industrial communication technologies Show less

Expansion of the Sterling Software Sales Automation and Forecasting into a Mobile Sales force solution with Crystal Enterprise and Business Objects 6. Created a on-demand reporting and OLAP (Cubes) solution with Crystal Enterprise connecting to a real-time Enterprise Resource Systems including Inventory and Warehouse & Supply Chain management and x-link to HR and Legal applications) Responsible for infrastructure design and implementations of ERP and Business Intelligence… Show more Expansion of the Sterling Software Sales Automation and Forecasting into a Mobile Sales force solution with Crystal Enterprise and Business Objects 6. Created a on-demand reporting and OLAP (Cubes) solution with Crystal Enterprise connecting to a real-time Enterprise Resource Systems including Inventory and Warehouse & Supply Chain management and x-link to HR and Legal applications) Responsible for infrastructure design and implementations of ERP and Business Intelligence infrastructures and migration of databases incl. Corporate HR, Legal & Inventory management systems.Implementation of Crystal Enterprise into CA's Service Ticket Systems with reporting of SLA,manpower utilization & requirements, Customer satisfaction rating & incident statistics.Leader of the IT acquisition team for many Sterling acquisitions (Texas Instrument Application group, Synon Inc and Cayenne Inc) with 23 direct reports. Show less

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Bs Equivalents, Computer Science; Computer Science And Telecommunications Through