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4/2013 - 4/2016

Functional Lead/Business-Data Analyst (Contract)

Responsible for the functional aspects of the project. With a strong technical background on analytical/ business intelligence subjects.Selected Achievements• Integration of internal SAP BW sales data into the Operational Data Store• Integration of the Marketo cloud application into the Operational Data Store using cloudHub technologies• Creation of the Sales Managers Data Mart and Dashboard using Tableau data visualization and SQL Server 2012 • Financial and Product Reporting for the Workspace Cloud product lineResponsibilities: • Responsible for the interaction with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts. In support of the functional aspects of the project• Creation and maintenance of Business Requirements, Use Cases, User Acceptance Testing documents and methodology per enterprise Standards• Provide mentorship and support on Scrum processes and best practices• Lead and support of the Quality Assurance activities of the project• Creating/Documenting Stories using Jira. QA issues/defects in HPQC• Data Analysis as related to the data requirements of analytics projects• Meta-data creation and data profiling• Requirements gathering and documentation• Support of the development activities as needed including Data Analytics and Tableau reporting

3/2012 - 3/2013

Industry: Banking

Data Steward

Responsible for implementing the Data Governance Standards and Processes within the Treasury Department. Member of the Basel II Data Governance group supporting Data Governance activities within the Basel II Program.

Data Stewardship and Governance subject matter expertProvide Data Governance tasks and estimates during project planningResponsible for the creation of the Data Governance artifacts to support Treasury projects within the Basel II ProgramSupport Treasury implementation of new reporting and analytical artifactsWork within the Enterprise Data Governance group in the creation and implementation of Data Governance Standards that meet latest compliance requirementsReport to Data Executive on the status of Data Governance for Treasury and Basel Ii Program. Gather requirements and design reporting activities in support of the Treasury systems

1/2011 - 11/2011

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Business Intelligence Program Manager

Responsible for managing and supporting BI initiatives with an emphasis on client interactions and strategic implementation.

Implementation of the Business Intelligence Competency CenterCreated Strategic Roadmap for global roll out of Business Intelligence initiatives.Managed the implementation of over 80 reporting packages for internal and external clients.Worked in conjunction with local markets in presenting and implementing BI solutions for clients in the US, Latin America and EMEA (Spain, Sweden and South Africa)Lead a Global Team of 3 Business Analysts (SE), 1 Architect (US) and 3 offshore developers (India).Serve as subject matter expert for the Global Business Intelligence strategy project. Working with CIO, COO and VP executives to develop and present plan to CFO (BI Owner)

7/2009 - 1/2011

Industry: Telecommunications Services

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Senior Business Analyst with an emphasis on Client interaction and BI as a strategic offering in Latin America

Create Reports using QlikView BI reporting software.Manage QlikView environments.Engage both Internal and external customers to understand, document and identify BI opportunities and initiatives. Provided expertise and direction to executives as part of the Global Strategic Plan as it related to Business Intelligence in the organization. Strategy, Measures and Tactics

10/2006 - 3/2009

Industry: Manufacturing - Other

Business Intelligence Business Analyst - Contractor

• Working with the business to ensure the correct understanding and execution of the business requirements.• Interacting with ETL (Data) and EIM (Reporting) teams to facilitate the understanding of the business needs as well as to ensure communication between the two areas of development.• Providing input to the project manager on the requirements gathering, design and testing phases of a project during the creation of the project plan.• Managing requirements and testing phases of projects, including timelines and business resources.• Providing support to users on the daily activities of the BI team• Creating Business Requirements documents as well as Functional Design, project White Papers and Testing Plan documents.• Coordinating testing activities with internal team and also business owners.• Creating reports using Microstrategy web reporting tools to support testing.• Supporting Microstrategy Administrator when the need arises.• Responsible for maintenance and development of web components of the BI web portal• Peer review and mentoring for testing and requirements gathering.

9/2005 - 10/2006

Industry: Manufacturing - Other

Business Analyst - Contractor

• Investigating discrepancies between data reported in the finance systems and the procurement reports as they relate to purchase price variance.• Build relationships with the Procurement, IT and Financial controllers of the different manufacturing sites. In order to help create a monthly reporting culture within the global procurement organization.• Interview end-users to determine requirements for data,reports, analysis, training, service levels, data quality and performance.• Web applications design, development and testing (Java, C#, .NET, MS ACCESS, SQL SERVER, MS EXCEL) – to support Purchase Price Variance Reporting, Preferred Supplier Management, Contract Management, Available Market Price Variance and to create a web enabled global procurement community within TSP Global Procurement.• Create and perform unit and integration testing.• Reporting and data gathering in support of the procurement organization management.• Training users on the new applications and business process.• Investigating the local sites financial system’s integrations and journal entry procedures to facilitate the automated reporting of the monthly procurement data.• Aid in developing project plan and strategic vision of procurement organization.

7/2004 - 2/2005

Industry: Management Consulting Services

Business Analyst - Contractor

Manage development lifecycle and interaction with external consultants and developers for the Social Networks of Interaction project for the European Commission's framework program. Data Analyst and Applications developer. Responsible for the data manipulation, Data mining and analysis. Manage development lifecycle and interaction with external consultants and developers. Working with application vendors and providers. Evaluation of RFPs and RFQs IT administration and Java applications design, development and testing.

10/1997 - 8/2002

Industry: Management Consulting Services

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:- Technical Proposal Creation. ( Technical RFI/RFP)- Application technical support. - Gap analysis, “As is” assessment.- Development of B2B and B2C internet applications.- Design and development of Front End applications. (ASP, JSP)- Design and development of back end connectivity. Middleware assessment for ERP and CRM systems. (SAP, BAAN, ClickCommerce)- Testing, migration and change management of new application/processes.- Team and project management.Tasks performed during the time with Accenture:- Developer – Coding of applications (Visual Basic, C++ and Java)- Tester – Responsible for creating testing conditions and testing scripts as well as performing tests according to the company’s testing framework.- Development team lead – Coaching of development team.- Migration lead/ manager – Responsible for the migration of applications to the different environments (build/test/system test/live)- Trainer – Providing training to new employees in using company’s best practices. - Pre Sales Technical consultant – Involved in providing application and implementation expertise/experience to the sales team. (CRM application)- Technical Architect – Responsible for the technical design of business flows for applications- Technical project lead – Responsible for coaching and management of technical group of consultants and client personnel.- Technical project management – Daily management of all the aspects of the technical side of the project. Including project planning, customer relations and coordination with Business Process project managerParticipated in projects in the following industry segments:Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Automotive and Retail

EDUCATION:

9/2003 - 12/2004

Some College Coursework Completed

Post graduate studies in the Sociology, history and philosophy of science and scientific knowledge creation

8/1992 - 6/1997

Bachelor's Degree

Graduated with honors

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INTERESTS & HOBBIES:

Fitness

Duathlon

Open source technologies

Web 2.0

Business Analysis

Scuba Diving

music playing

AFFILIATIONS:

WEES

member

International Institute of Business Analysis

Scrum Alliance

Internet Center of Excellency

member