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New York, Us

As manager of data engineering for the Facebook community products, I supported and helped grow the team responsible for the data infrastructure behind Facebook Groups, and Events, and contributed to the launch of incubator products such as Facebook Dating, Neighborhoods, and Campus, ensuring that product teams had timely visibility into key user engagement, product market fit and growth metrics.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

As a member of the senior leadership team, I helped drive the digital transformation of Mogo from a brick-and-mortar retail consumer lending business into a leading, data-driven digital banking platform for Canadian consumers (available on the web, iOS and Android). This transformation has helped Mogo raise significant funding and go public in June 2015.As the VP of Data, I have built a strong data organization that has helped build a scalable, AWS cloud based data integration pipeline and analytics foundation that fuels all of Mogo's business units (Operations, Credit Risk, Finance, Product, Marketing, etc...).

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

As Director of Analytics, I built a team of data engineers who helped me with applying the power of analytics to create superior financial solutions that provide more people with quick, convenient and more affordable access to money and thus disrupting the traditional domain of banks by obliterating lengthy processes, bureaucracy and fees.

I was a member of the founding team of Bi3 Solutions, Inc., a consulting services firm focusing on collaborative performance management, business intelligence, and data integration solutions. The company was launched with minimal private investment and was free of debt after four months of operation.Focused on building new client relationships and extending existing relationships.Worked as advisor with senior executives of our clients focusing on business justification, organizational and process considerations and best practices for data and analytics investments utilizing cost benefit analysis and ROI models.Lead advisor for a $13.5m M&A deal in the BI space for one of Bi3 Solutions’ clients (Kofax acquisition of Altosoft)Engagement manager and senior advisor for clients including Kofax, San Francisco Int’l Airport, University of California System, Bio-Rad, Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, Leapfrog Enterprises, Legacy Marketing Group, California Glass/Pacific Coast Container, Genesys Labs (Subsidiary of Alcatel), Dey Labs (Subsidiary of Merck), Strongwood Insurance Holding Corporation, Gilead Sciences, Portal Software, PayByTouch, etc…Published articles in leading industry publications, such as DMReview (“Beyond ROI... Justifying a Business Intelligence Initiative. A Guide for Project Sponsors”) and CRMToday (“Best Practices for Business Intelligence Initiatives - A Guide for Financial Executives”).Spoke at conferences on the topic of Corporate Performance Management, including “The Gap Between Business Intelligence & Corporate Strategy” presented at the CFO IT Value Conference, September 2004, and “Strategic Process Excellence” at CFO Magazine’s 6th Annual Technology Conference & Exhibition, September 2005.Designed and developed a cloud based (Amazon AWS), real-time streaming analytics solution for Social Media Analysis (using streaming data feeds of Facebook and Twitter) that included sentiment analysis and deeper textual analysis capabilities.

I led and grew the Business Intelligence and Operational Strategy practices of ONE, Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area. Responsible for business development, hiring and staffing as well as skills development and the definition and development of service offerings based on the latest technologies. National program manager for Business Intelligence solutions for ONE, Inc. on a corporate scale, working directly with the executive management team to provide the overall strategy and direction of the company’s Business Intelligence practice. ONE, Inc. is a privately held, national IT consulting firm with 300 employees and about $70 Million in revenue.Engagement Manager for a Business Intelligence project for an insurance marketing company headquartered in Northern California, managing the client relationship and ensuring the delivery quality for a multi-phased project (> $500,000 in services revenue).Project Manager for a Business Intelligence prototype for a major contract manufacturing company with headquarters in Northern California. The solution was based on Microsoft SQL Server databases and Cognos web-based analytical tools extracting information for sales forecasting from a packaged CRM solution.

I led a project to define the future IT strategy and architecture and integrate the legacy systems of one of the leading shopping portals and direct marketing companies on the web at the time (MyPoints). The project included the definition of a vision for the future IT environment and an iterative strategy and approach to build a solid technology framework to enable this vision.As the Practice Manager, I grew the Business Intelligence Practice of Whittman-Hart (later merged with marchFIRST) in San Francisco consisting of a team of 12 IT professionals. Responsible for business development, hiring and staffing as well as skills development in a fast growing high-tech environment. I defined and developed the service offerings based on the latest technologies and I worked with executive management to provide the overall strategy and direction of the Whittman-Hart/marchFIRST San Francisco branch.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

During my time at the IBM Almaden Research Center, I recruited, led and coached global teams of IT professionals to design, implement and document complex data management and business intelligence reference solutions, which resulted in the following IBM publications:"Managing Multidimensional Data Marts with Visual Warehouse and DB2 OLAP Server" (ISBN: 0-7384-1241-4)"My Mother Thinks I'm a DBA! - Cross Platform, Multi-Vendor, Distributed Relational Data Replication" (ISBN: 0-7384-1357-7)I also worked as a liaison between the IBM DB2 Lab and the IBM Global Services team to develop standardized service delivery guidelines for IBM's data management and business intelligence solutions.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Insurance - Enterprise Class Client/Server Architecture: My role was one of the IT Architects as part of a core team of IBM practitioners and client personnel who designed the architecture and technical infrastructure for a new life insurance application for one of the largest insurance companies in Europe. The solution was based on a three-tier client/server architecture with enterprise data server on IBM DB2 for OS/390, IBM Insurance Application Architecture based data model, CICS middleware, and object oriented front-end applications.Telecom - VLDB (="Very Large Database", a.k.a today as "Big Data") Pilot Implementation:In my role as IT Architect,I led the design and implementation a data warehouse pilot project for a telecom company. The project demonstrated the feasibility of using massive parallel hardware (based on IBM RS/6000 SP) with 40+ compute nodes running IBM DB2 Universal Database with high speed connection to a mainframe to analyze more than 400GB of call detail records. (1997!)Other engagements included:Project lead for an end-to-end data mart implementation for a leading consumer and market research company in Austria. I designed and implemented the data processes to deliver several multi-dimensional models including direct marketing data, credit risk and demographic/consumer profile data.As Business Intelligence Practice Lead, I defined, marketed, and deployed business intelligence services for IBM Austria's customers.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I provided second level support for the Computing Center's IBM DB2 and CICS production environment (mainframes and client/server). Responsibilities included development of programming guidelines and standards, problem troubleshooting and problem resolution, and systems management for the computing center, which was running all production for IBM Austria and Central Europe.I coached the introduction of client/server applications based on DB2 and CICS middleware or DRDA in the IBM Austria IT environment.I supported the data warehouse of IBM Austria and Central Europe, which had over 600 registered users, 500GB of data and was based on DB2 for MVS and canned queries and data processing procedures using IBM QMF (Query Management Facility). Responsibilities included deployment of a decentralized power-user support structure, skills transfer of database, SQL, and QMF skills to the user community, tuning of heavy batch data procedures and queries, as well as systems management and tuning tasks for the DB2 data warehouse database.

Munich, De

I did my Masters thesis in Computer Science in the area of speech recognition for human/computer interfaces in collaboration with Siemens.After graduating from the technical university I transitioned into the role of Software Architect at Siemens, designing and developing software solutions for automated QA and testing in the electronic supplies industry (using the C programming language).