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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Manage team of product managers and user experience designers- Own and define planning strategy- Visionary for What-If technology and the enablement the entire company on this new advanced technology- Own and define platform strategy (ETL, security, and modeling).- Enablement of internal employees and partners

Victoria, Bc, Canada

Consultation services to help companies in the following areas:• Research, prioritize and recommend product strategies for future growth and greenfield opportunities.• Redesign of workflows and user interfaces to enhance the user experience.• Create standards and best practices for user interface elements and interactions.• Provide guidance on color schemes and icons to create a visually pleasant interface.• Evaluate and recommend reporting and analytical tools• Evaluate and recommend OEM components for integration into custom applications

Santa Clara, California

A key contributor in the EPM Product Management group with responsibilities to manage and drive Oracle’s EPM product strategy.• Led in the definition and strategy of Oracle’s next generation of EPM and BI products.• Led and facilitated integration requirements between Oracle and its partners, Microsoft, IBM and Tableau Software• Owned and managed the integration of all Oracle products into the Hyperion Workspace.• Owned and managed Oracles’ EPM portal integration strategy.• Presented Oracle product roadmap at conferences, customer advisory boards, and executive briefings.• Provided training to internal and external field personnel.

Vancouver, Canada Area

A key contributor in the OLAP product group with responsibilities to manage and drive OLAP product strategy, cross team collaboration of integrated Business Intelligence technologies, work with customers, prospects, field personnel and industry analysts to develop a comprehensive understanding of the OLAP market.• Contributed to the definition, analysis and recommendation of an OLAP strategy to the Product Strategy Board.• Managed the integration of OLAP Intelligence during the development cycle for the Business Objects XI release - the most stable and feature rich release in the past 4 years of the products history.• Evangelized OLAP within the company through training and support to the Sales, Pre-sales, Technical Support, Professional Services, and Finance department.• Led recruitment and new hire programs during the integration of Business Objects and Crystal Decisions.• Developed OLAP solution for the Product Group enabling headcount and resource analysis and planning.• Developed enterprise financial OLAP solution that was used by the CFO for analyst briefings and for ad-hoc querying during operational and financial briefings.• Led and facilitated integration discussions with Microsoft.

Greater Chicago Area

Assisting Regional Services Managers in meeting/exceeding services and education revenue targets through customer visits/follow-up, creation of project statements for work (SOW’s) and proposals. Lead and managed implementation teams, monitored key project deliverables, participated in strategic account and prospect discussions. • Managed a team of five to deploy a custom reporting system for 1000 sales representatives at a major insurance company, enabling monthly budgeting and forecasting activities with flexible, user-friendly, timely, self-service reporting system.• Responsible for generating over $500K in additional consulting revenue by successfully demonstrating rapid deployment during the initial four weeks of the assignment.• Implemented reporting and analysis solutions for numerous customers in the retail, financial, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, insurance, and utilities industry. Assisting them in business analysis, architectural design, dimensional data modeling, and OLAP design.

Greater Chicago Area

Managing implementations of Cognos solutions at strategic accounts by assessing customer’s business model to define and develop functional and technical requirements, designing and developing the solution. Responsibilities also covered planning and costs estimates, coordinating resources, and identifying and delivering developer/end-user training.• Deployed secured web based multi-server reporting and analysis environment for a multinational advertising firm to be accessed through a wide area network. Initial pilot project successfully led to the customer expanding the solution, ultimately generating an additional $4M in revenue.• Developed customized intranet web reporting system that interfaces with third party resume tracking software to significantly reduced the need for printed reports and allowed for quick rollout to 1000+ users.• Provide data warehousing expertise for numerous clients in the manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, insurance, and utilities industry. Assisting them in business analysis, architectural design, dimensional data modeling, ETL and OLAP design.

Regina, Saskatchewan

• Supported multiple solutions written in Clipper, Access, and C.• Managed a team of internal and offshore consultants in the development of an accounts receivable and cash management system• Performed DBA activities such as resolution of locking, database creation, and database optimization• Supported Oracle Financials ERP system, modules included General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Cash Management

Regina, Saskatchewan

Provided support and maintenance to the external website that promoted the investment and development of businesses within the Province of Saskatchewan

Certificate Of Computer Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Accounting And Finance