Todd Norris Email & Phone Number

Durham, NC, US

Overland Park, Kansas, US

Helping Healthcare and Life Science leaders navigate their way to business value through rich data and analytics capabilities.

I was recently laid off as a strategic data and platform platform consultant and thought leader at Blue Cross of NC, and am seeking my next opportunity to modernize the data and analytics capability.where it has true business impact.

Durham, NC, US

• Appointed by CTO to create a new department focused on effective implementation and adoption of new platforms critical to the corporate strategy. Built a new team of four managers and staff conducting complex.
• Consolidated 2 data lake platforms onto a single newly deployed Snowflake AWS Public Cloud instance, reducing platform and operating costs by over 50% and deploying a consumption-based scalable cloud solution for.
• Developed and deployed new custom data ingestion platform reducing first access to a new data source from over 90 days to just 5 days dramatically accelerating time to new analytic insights.
• enabled $200 million annual medical cost reduction deploying a new FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource) platform to reduce friction in data exchange with providers supporting a critical CMS Data Rules.
• Reduced third party data ingestion time and cost by 50% by deploying new API-based data sharing in public cloud. Removing #1 barrier to new large group customers.

Durham, NC, US

• Led the creation of a multi-year strategy to transform the data and analytics capability for the enterprise. Led data architecture and modeling for the enterprise.
• Identified $7 million analytic and information investment to enable over $150 million dollars in cost avoidance and business improvements
• Introduced Tableau Data Visualization to support executive dashboard initiative, giving executives interactive online access to key performance indicators.
• Created 4 year cloud-first strategy and roadmap defining phases for advancing improvements and cost reductions in data engineering, analytics and data quality and stewardship.
• Replaced on premises master data management platform with cloud-based Reltio platform improving data quality processes

Durham, NC, US

• Directed a core enterprise analytics and reporting team to create effective reporting and analytic solutions to key business problems
• Gained executive buy-in for a $17 million investment to add key strategic data sources into one consolidated central data warehouse refreshed daily. Accelerating the corporate analytic capability to gain measurable.
• Saved $2 million and increased enterprise effectiveness by establishing a central analytics services organization in place of a de-centralized analytics approach.
• Key thought leader in driving change from reporting to prescriptive analytics with impactful outcomes.
• Managed a complex corporate balancing initiative reducing the effort to balance data warehouse to financial sources from 20 days to <5 days, satisfying high level corporate risk and increasing data warehouse trust and.

Mooresville, NC, US

• Pioneered an effort to move this fortune 200 retailer from an IT developed decision support reporting capability to true self-service reporting giving over 2000 corporate business leaders, district managers and key.
• Managed over 23 new subject area projects including Sales, Inventory, Actual Cost, Inventory Control, Purchasing, Loss Prevention, CRM, Market Basket Analysis
• Pioneered Data Visualization Center of Excellence in Analytics as a key capability.
• Transitioned corporate executives from paper-based report packages to an interactive financial performance solution in MicroStrategy providing real time interactive key performance indicators to inform business.
• Implemented MicroStrategy and Teradata warehouse supporting 2,500 internal and extranet users; supported 120,000 reports weekly.
• Pioneered implementation of market basket and customer analytic programs.

- Developed custom SQL generation tool using metadata to access a DB2 Information Warehouse, completed in 6 months with one other developer- Designed and developed first Executive Information System - Developed training documentation and conducted training on Decision Support tools- Trained new developers as team grew from 2 to 8 over 3 years- Implemented.