Built upon existing customer relationships with Fortune 100 customers to identify short and long term needs around the Business Intelligence automation product. Established plan and delivered capabilities critical to the continued success of customer implementations. Identified technology options and approach to target major portions of the product to enable web-based access to both on-premise and cloud-hosted servers, Business Intelligence and “big data” automation.Designed and implemented key functional technology components, specifically;Rich, AJAX-based web user interfaceBig Data adapters for Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Pig, Spark, Sqoop, Oozie, Flume)

Full responsibility for fulfillment of complete technology portfolio of newly established venture into the highly competitive, complex, high growth specialty pharmaceuticals market. Member of senior leadership establishing strategy, business development and determining near and long term sourcing model for information technology. Pivotal in supplier due diligence and contract negotiations for solutions and services to support connecting patients with chronic illnesses with specialty drugs (large molecule), the drug manufacturer and the payer ecosystem. Specifically included HIPAA-compliant solutions for benefit investigation, patient assistance, therapy adherence, on-boarding, support through function-specific applications, portals and innovative Business Intelligence capabilities to support manufacturer analytics.

Established technology vision toward growing areas of importance for the corporation through development of collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across all sectors of the organization. Progressed the growth agenda by rationalizing the existing information technology portfolio against the rapidly evolving and increasingly complex global expansion business model. Drove the assessment, recommendation, implementation and support of technology around platform, application set and enabling technologies relative to manufacturing, supply chain, financial management, sales and marketing, customer service, legal, audit and regulatory compliance (FDA 21 CFR 11, GxP, DEA, SOX). Established numerous transformational business solutions and developed the business case for change in the areas of cloud computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS), data visualization, Business Intelligence, in-memory big-data software, business process management, mobility, enterprise project and portfolio management and master data management.Financial planning (Cognos Planning & TM1) and consolidation (Cognos Controller & TM1)Business Intelligence suites (Oracle OBIEE, Cognos BI, QlikView, SAP BusinessObjects) Data Warehouse and Data Marts (Oracle RAC, SQL Server, SAP BW, Hadoop, Netezza) Data Integration & Master Data Management (Informatica, Siperian)Global portal and collaboration (Oracle, SharePoint, Liferay, Jive)Global business process automation/management (Oracle, SharePoint) Corporate Web sites and content management (~40) (custom, Ektron, Alfresco) Web application development (Java/J2EE, .Net, Ruby on Rails, Grails, Groovy)SFA/CRM (cloud-based) (Veeva, Salesforce.com, SugarCRM) Instituted Business Intelligence training program and self-service information delivery model empowering non-IT business analysts to develop their own Business Intelligence applications.

Led Business Intelligence and E-Business operations with a team of 10-15 (combined FTE, consultants, contractors) focused on identifying pivotal opportunities to leverage technology to improve business insight, decision-making and operational efficiency.Developed strategy and executed plan to transform operation through the rationalization of technology, people and processes. Mentored teams, restructured, acquired new talent, developed team skill set and operating model. Integrated agile project methodology resulting in highly responsive, collaborative teams with a sharp focus on business value.Evaluated potential technology enablers and developed business cases to introduce new technology and implement strategic solutions.Pharmaceuticals systems & data (JDE ERP, Veeva SFA/CRM, Argus Safety, TrackWise, LIMS)Business Intelligence (Cognos Business Intelligence, Cognos TM1)Big Data (Netezza, Greenplum, Vertica, Hadoop, MongoDB, VoltDB)Business Process Management (Oracle BPM, Savvion, Pega, Appian, Lombardi)Supplier Relationship Management (Bravo Solutions, Ariba)Project & Portfolio Management (Planview, Clarity, Planisware) Developed relationships with Manufacturing leadership and established supply chain analytics program to improve insight and decision-making in inventory and materials management and forensics through Cognos Business Intelligence data marts and data from Oracle JDE and manufacturing machine sensors. Delivered in-memory, Business Intelligence visual analytics solution and underlying line-order detail data marts for Sales and Marketing incorporating IMS (Exponent, DDD, PlanTrak) and SAP ERP (customer, sales, wholesaler) data.Replaced legacy SFA/CRM with FDA 21 CFR11 compliant cloud-based solution (Veeva/salesforce.com) for 500+ sales team and established hybrid FTE/partner support model. Awarded top 5 implementation world-wide by Veeva in 2010.

Consulting Director and integral part of business development process working with prospective clients to provide transformation and technology solutions specific to current and emerging business needs. Directly responsible for securing and delivering solutions for large, long-term contracts involving cross-functional teams (ERP & Business Intelligence). Solutions included ERP assessments and delivery, finance transformation and Business Intellignce and Data Warehouse initiatives. Defined Business Intelligence RFP requirements and prospective solutions (Hyperion, Cognos, MicroStrategy and Business Objects) relative to global ERP selection (Oracle and SAP) supporting AR/AP, HR, GL, projects and treasury functions.Conducted in-depth analysis of newly established enterprise Data Warehouse having major performance and usability issues. Provided detailed findings and resolution strategy covering complete redesign of the data and meta-data model to de-normalize and de-abstract to improve performance and understandability.Developed roadmap for integrated Business Intelligence, Oracle PeopleSoft implementation, Oracle Data Warehouse and financial management dashboards for lending services, risk management, marketing and lending deposits for an online financial institution.Developed roadmap for global financial planning and integrated Business Intelligence framework for a $35 B government and defense conglomerate using SAP BW, NetWeaver and Cognos Business Intelligence. Formalized project methodology and drove process for needs assessment, options identification and analysis and Business Intelligence vendor evaluation and selection process consisting of SAP, Oracle/Hyperion, Cognos and Business Objects. Comprehensive implementation involved team of 50+ over a multi-year period.

Founded and headed startup software company focusing on Business Intelligence process automation and orchestration. Identified business opportunity relative to competitive landscape and built organization to deliver a comprehensive automation product. Led all aspects of technology delivery, support and strategic direction including hands-on development. Established partnerships with key Business Intelligence companies including Cognos, Hyperion, Pilot and numerous consulting organizations. Established product and service offerings, pricing models and go-to-market strategy. Designed and implemented all components of the system including graphical user interface (Visual Studio), multi-threaded process engine, work-flow definition, recovery management, content distribution, SOA-based application program interface, messaging interfaces and Business Intelligence system interfaces (Hyperion Essbase, Cognos PowerPlay, Pilot OLAP).