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• Product Engineering position involving defining and detailing business and technical requirements for a major new reporting platform.
• Acting as lead technical business analyst for Business Intelligence (reporting) area.
• Working with product leadership and technical architects in an Agile development environment to help refine requirements for the Business Intelligence and Core platform areas.
• Working with QA team to review test cases and ensure proper testing of the platform in the QA environment.
• Defining acceptance criteria for each platform requirement.
• Providing subject matter expertise in technical areas where applicable as well as requirements continuity throughout the entire software delivery life cycle (SDLC).

• Developed product launch tracking application (with dynamic charts and tables and a user friendly interface) for a high level global client using Excel VBA, SQL, and a custom made relational db format. Devised the.
• Developed supporting backend applications to allow an easy method for off shore support to be able to process the necessary data to feed the application. This new launch tracking “system” could then be deployed for use.
• Developed a custom fully automated matrix report for another large global client.
• Contributed and helped to meet revenue target of over $1m.
• Worked with off shore resources to create reports in Answers Desktop. This required directing the off shore resources on specific technical aspects of the development and communicating the report design team’s.
• Managed the Nielsen International Solutions Answers Web roadmap portfolio of web reports as well as all development within it. The portfolio contained a standard offering of web reports in addition to several client.

Greater Chicago Area

• Setup Single-Sign-On (SSO) access using web services from the Nielsen Answers Portal to the department’s custom web reporting platform.
• Managed the porting of reports from a desktop based system to the company’s new standard web based system. This required coordinating efforts with an off-shore development team in Malaysia as well as working with.
• Applied technical aptitude to find workarounds to bugs in new web system.
• Liaised with US technical personnel to workout best practices and workarounds for issues.
• Recognized by the VP of Web Technologies for delivering a complete and functional web portfolio ready for client deployment on time.
• Worked with off-shore teams to build standardized and client customized reports for web portfolio roadmap deliverables.

Greater Chicago Area

• Developed custom web based reports in ASP.NET. The backend was switched from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle by the time of deployment. Setup both the SQL Server and the Oracle environment internally and developed.
• This custom web application also provided exports to standard Office applications. It did so by converting the web tables and chart views to XML and streaming it as a file via the web.
• Developed an application in Excel using VBA and SQL to automate the creation of Excel based snapshot report decks. These reports offer standardized table and charting views for clients. It also creates an automated.
• Upgraded several internal tools to aid with generating relational data output for custom web reporting system.
• Created an easy to use utility for operations that used Oracle API programming to refresh, create, or delete new data sets into remote oracle server without the need of a dedicated DB analyst to do the data refreshes.
• Used VB.NET to completely re-create an updated version of an application that can be used to manipulate and change standard databases. This tool also uses XML to store internal parameters. This db application is still.

Schaumburg, IL

• Used Microsoft Visual Basic to develop a database manipulation application. This was used initially used to help retrieve small cuts of data from local country contacts. The data could be remapped, relabeled, custom.
• Wrote detailed user documentation as well as technical manuals for the applications that were created.
• Provided technical support for standard company software and department specific offerings.
• Developed applications in Microsoft Access for global clients.
• Provided support for major department technical initiatives.
• Traveled to and participated in meetings with global clients.