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CAREER SUMMARY
Business Intelligence leader with over 20 years of experience across the banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, internet service provider and third-party logistics industries. Experienced in developing strategy, roadmaps and project planning pertaining to enterprise information management including data integration, business intelligence, master data management and data warehousing. A proven record of success managing, designing, and deploying reporting, analytical, data warehouse and data integration solutions. Managed both local and geographically diverse teams.
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration
Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, May 1996 http://www.bakeru.edu/
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, Finance and French (triple major)
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, May 1991 http://www.bsu.edu
Honors: Outstanding Graduating Senior, Department of Economics
Diplôme de Langue
Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 1990 http://www.univ.u-3mrs.fr
Honors: Mention Bien
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Principal Business Intelligence Architect, Brightpoint, Inc., February 2009 to Present
- Conceptualize immediate and long-range needs of business organizations globally, with respect to business data strategy, enterprise data warehousing, reporting, and analytics. Ensure that the business objectives tie directly to the Business Intelligence program project goals. Ensure broad strategies are translated into specific objectives, metrics, and action plans.
- Principal Architect for the Business Intelligence Competency Center which governs all business intelligence teams globally. Responsible for the Global Business Intelligence and Data Integration strategy and architectures.
- Translate needs into a comprehensive project deliverables to translate into successful project completion. Ensure business strategies plans consider future needs and developments. Identify and evaluate strategic project priorities and investment requirements utilizing appropriate financial analysis and acumen.
- Technical Lead, Global Business Intelligence Strategy project team.
- Primary consultant for development and administrative teams with performance enhancements and process improvements pertaining to data integration and business intelligence operations.
- Committee member, Global Enterprise Architecture and Global Data Governance boards.
- Negotiate program objectives and direction with senior management, key stakeholders, and managers of various departments.
- Oversee/sponsor technology initiatives to simplify or improve systems and processes in ways that add value. Focus project efforts on continuously improving work processes in a way that creates value and sustains competitive advantages.
- Direct assigned staff in various departments and divisions to ensure the completion of high quality work in a timely and efficient manner.
- Consult and negotiate with external vendors and organizations such as consulting firms and technology partners.
Business Intelligence Manager, Tempur-Pedic International, August 2007 to February 2009
- Global Business Intelligence team leader.
- Created and gained executive approval for enterprise Master Mata Management strategy.
- Led the technology selection for global business intelligence platform.
- Completed the first deployment project of the BI program going into production in just under three months and 12% under budget.
- Provided enterprise reporting and analytics across two ERP systems and various silo applications.
- Led development of integration and reporting capabilities between the SalesForce.com and the data warehouse.
Business Intelligence Solution Manager Level 3 Communications, June 1999 to August 2007
- Managed business intelligence team and acted as liaison with business leaders in the design and deployment of business intelligence solutions including data warehouse, multidimensional data model design and end user reporting under the RUP methodology to provide management key decision information across systems and business organizations.
- Led company M & A synergy team with $3.8 million in reoccurring costs savings realized from 2006 through 2007 including consolidating legacy order entry, leased vendor services, outside plant, reporting, integration and billing systems with a resulting integration to the enterprise data warehouse.
- Led the Enterprise Architecture Team. Refined and documented the enterprise architecture to maintain database, application and infrastructure standards.
- Designed and developed middleware solutions to enable business process and enterprise information to flow seamlessly across systems and domains.
- Conceptualized, defined and implemented system solutions from senior management’s vision, strategy and review of business process.
- Led business teams through process documentation, project definition and functional design.
Senior Market Planner, GTE Wireless, 1998–1999
- Designed predictive analytic models using custom algorithms to forecast customer adoption by mining data from multiple internal and external billing systems combine with competitive intelligence data that provided financial and network capacity analytical outcomes used to create pricing plans and launch new products.
- Developed excellent project management skills derived from large-scale projects spanning multiple business units; received employee excellence award and multiple employee initiative awards.
Assistant Internal Auditor, First Federal Bank of Kansas City, 1993–1996
- Created analytical tools for branch location research using consumer geospatial data and also to target high probability customers for equity loan marketing.
Branch Manager, Banc One Financial, 1991–1993
- Pioneered a successful new business market in the Kansas City area.
- Exceeded production goals every quarter and set company record for the lowest branch delinquency.
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