Summary: An innovative thought leader with vast business acumen and a passion to solve technical challenges by pioneering strategic framework driven solutions. An experienced hands-on leader in software engineering, architecture and data management with expertise in Web Computing for Consumer, Customer and Back-office business areas. A proven catalyst of culture and business transformation, current on data architecture trends, modernization techniques and delivery of thoughtfully applied leading-edge technology.

 

Director of Business Intelligence (Analytics)       Feb 14 to Jan 15

Paylocity – Arlington Heights, IL

·               [Leadership] Reported to the CTO. Brought in to establish Business Intelligence from the ground up and to define a customer facing BI/Analytics product, driven off CRM (MS Dynamics), several internal OLTP databases and external data sources.  Executed the strategy to encompass a unified data platform using modern visualization tools and built near real time customer facing secured workforce analytics.

·               [Resource Management] Established a new agile analytics team of 9 members to execute the BI strategy as a start-up organization, managing 100% remote resources located in USA. Served as the product owner, scrum master, QA and developer until those roles were filled. Request pending to build separate platform team.

·               [Enterprise Architecture] Negotiated and acquired BI visualization tool (Birst OEM) after a thorough POC while laying the foundation for an innovative BI platform to present a 360 degree view of customer data.

·               [Creative Leadership] Drove initiatives to fill competitive gaps by integrating insights within the Paylocity product lines. Modernized existing SSRS solution with customer facing prescriptive and advanced dashboards.

·               [Innovation] Introduced and implemented site analytics tools for product owners and management to make informed investment decisions for their product lines. Acquired MixPanel and Google Analytics Premium.

·               [Innovation] Defined the data strategy to unify many complex multi/single tenant databases into a simplified enterprise data model that will serve as the base for all Paylocity offerings. Encapsulated MDM, data governance and API driven data access into the revised approach.

·               [Communication] Presented the analytics product, strategy and future state architecture in several conferences like sales conference (300 people), customer conference (800 people), several breakout sessions, focus groups and company meetings. Ensured presentations and message delivered per type of attendee.

 

Independent Consultant   Oct 13 to Jan 14

Coyote Logistics – Chicago, IL(3 month engagement for Technology Strategy Assessment)

·               [Leadership] Worked with C-level executives to define strategy and build roadmap for scalable modern tech platforms to support the growth of this rapidly progressing, $2bn 3PL tech company, including CRM, Analytics and Automation tools, architecture, skills and process assessment. Efforts commended by CIO, CTO and CSO.

·               [Technology Transformation] Recommended a revision of the Salesforce CRM implementation to maximize investment by defining an automated sales funnel that is tied to all marketing campaigns, including build-out of custom modules for customer compliant management, billing and reporting. Eliminated hours of manual effort while recommending sunset of disparate legacy systems, spreadsheets and manual efforts.

·               [Enterprise Architecture] Evaluated, negotiated and acquired BI visualization tool (Tableau) and successfully executed a BI self-service strategy. Evaluated products from Gartner Magic Quadrant and other sources. Built integration of Tableau with Salesforce CRM, Ultipro Payroll, Logistics .net systems and external data sources. Modernized analytics while reducing the need for maintaining over 7000 SSRS reports.

·               [Technology Transformation] Successfully implemented a solution using Hadoop in AWS to resolve complex pricing model calculations. Reduced processing time from 12 hours to under 30 minutes. Architected innovative parameterized approach to allow several pricing models to be run in parallel. AWS EC2 instance brought up only during processing and killed after, minimizing costs of EC2 clusters. Worked with an off-shore team to conduct POC and deliver this solution into production.

 

Director of Business Intelligence & Data Management, Principal Architect     Jun 11 to Oct 13

Apartments.com, Classified Ventures – Chicago, IL

·               [Leadership] Responsible for Apartments.com enterprise data vision, technical roadmap and annual $4.5M data capital expense and maintenance operating budget. Responsible for ETL, Middleware, Warehouse, Analytics and Infrastructure Domain architecture for accessing data and content.

·               [Resource Management] As Director of BI and Data, directly reported to the CTO while managed a team of 24 FTEs that included managers, architects, administrators and developers. Additionally managed consultants to maintain technical competency in SOA based ETL, Cloud and on-premise dashboards and reports, EAI, Data Governance, Database Infrastructure Administration and support for business analytics and CRM teams.

·               [Technology Transformation] Re-platform 10 terabyte data warehouse to scale 3 times in volume and reduce processing times by up to 90% and operating costs by 50% by migrating SQL Server to Teradata (MPP) platform. Evaluated and ran POC’s with other vendors (Netezza, PDW, Vertica, Greenplum), managing the RFP and selection process. 100+ millions rows of data ingested daily. Sold vision to CEO and CTO.

·               [Enterprise Architecture] Worked with media marketing and sales executives to re-assess Salesforce CRM implementation. Redesigned flows and usage of CRM. Migrated custom legacy applications into custom Salesforce modules to ensure maintainability and integration in the overall application landscape. Saved apartments.com several $100K in consulting that kept unsupported legacy applications alive.

·               [Enterprise Architecture] Responsible for maintaining architecture models for current/future state along with the entire integration flow during total re-platform initiatives to migrate OLTP to MySQL/PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RubyonRails and Google Graph for online reporting, replaced MS FAST with Lucene SOLR and Talend ETL for data integration (vs DataStage, SSIS and scripts) between Salesforce.com, external and internal systems and defining standard API layers for data access. Replaced MSMQ with HDFS style processing.  

·               [Agile Transformation] As a core team member for Agile Transformation, played a key role in establishing the Agile Framework for Apartments.com that resulted in Product and Technology Transformation.

·               [Enterprise Architecture] Special focus to simplify legacy architecture by quickly delivering solutions to changing business needs in an agile environment. Feed development cycle reduced from 12 weeks to 3 days, new partner integration business process redesigned, eliminating weeks of manual development to 4 hours.

·               [Creative Leadership] Continuous drive to improve architecture by prototyping solutions and running POC initiatives with a focus on maximizing business value and reducing costs to fulfill business use cases. Successfully led initiatives to evaluate open source/low cost technologies, including Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Infobright, MongoDB for analytics, Pentaho, Talend, Jaspersoft, Hadoop/BigData in AWS S3/EC2 using Datameer, MySQL, Cloudera distro, Hortonworks distro and Azure. Used Talend for integration.

·               [Leadership] Represented Apartments.com in several conferences, round table and panel discussions while conducting sessions with several industry leaders and analysts from Gartner and Forrester Research.

·               [Vendor Management] Frequently interacted with C-Level vendor managers to negotiate contracts and major software or service purchases, including Tibco Spotfire, Biztalk 2010, Salesforce.com and contract renewals.

·               [Development] Hands on intensive training on setting up native Hadoop multi-node environments including associated tools like Pig, Hive, HBase, Zookeeper. Also trained on named node recovery methods. Personally attempted to resolve Hadoop drawbacks with security, high-availability and near real time processing, before products launched to resolve this (YARN, STORM and many other products).

 

Sr. Computer Specialist (Senior BI Manager, Principal Data Architect)         Jun 09 to Jun 11

University of Washington Medicine / Harborview Medical Center – Seattle, WA

·               [Leadership] Setup a BI organization for the hospitals to implement and co-develop a data aggregation tool from Microsoft (Amalga). Nurtured a 12 member team of ETL developers, analysts and administrators.

·               [Enterprise Architecture] Architected self-service analytical platform for business & medical directors from research, clinical and government departments for real-time OLAP interactive reports and dashboards utilizing BI Tools. KPI measures executed, resulting in improved patient care and significant drop of MRSA cases.

·               [Agile Transformation] Introduced and utilized SDLC methodologies, demonstrating waterfall and Agile methods to develop live data ingestion tools (multi-million rows per day) and front end portals. Led SCRUM.

·               [Technical Creativity] Led architecture, development and test of an interim web based patient financial system using Unisys Clearpath mainframe and proprietary EAE/LINC language which was integrated with Epic ERP system without much effort. Systems processed a weekly cash flow of $15 million.

·               [Project Management] Managed workload using dashboard tools on projects ranging from 80 to 40K+ hours.

·               [Development] Developed HL7, XML, file and queue interfaces using C#, Amalga and SSIS. Setup Labs, Radiology, ADT, Schedule, Clinical Event and more feeds from Epic, Cerner, Docusys and legacy systems.

·               [Controls] Defined automated processes to ensure strict compliance with HIPAA and other healthcare rules.

 

Sr. IT Services Consultant, Senior Analyst – Legacy Migration              Mar 09 to May 09

Asysco USA – Tallahassee, FL

·               [Leadership] Worked with the CEO and Managing Director to study client legacy systems and infrastructure of two major utility organizations. Developed site surveys and assisted with contract negotiations.

 

Project Mgmt Consultant, Senior Analyst, Developer – Legacy Conversion       May 08 to Feb 09

Nue Vista Group, Client: Nicor Gas – Naperville, IL

·               [Creative Leadership] Orchestrated rescue of a $6 million data migration project from legacy Insurance, HRIS, Billing and Revenue Accounting systems to hosted (SaaS) applications. Completed project within budget. Lead a team of 25 members.

·               [Strategy] Set strategic direction for sustaining and enhancing new platform by identifying and filling gaps in areas of project management, resource capacities, communication and change delivery methodology to Agile.

·               [Development] Owned migration of Defined Benefits, Contributions (Pension, 401K) and Retiree Payroll data to Vanguard. Received accolade from Vanguard as their smoothest client migration to date.

 

Project Manager, Lead Analyst, Sr. Architect – Innovations Group       Aug 06 to May 08

CCC Information Services – Chicago, IL

·               [Innovative Products] Launched several alpha, beta and 1.0 innovative products for the company to ensure company’s leadership in insurance service market. Led agile development of portals for several ‘first of a kind’ integrated products adding revenue of several $MM. Launched Sugrogation and Autoverse Active Schedule. 

·               [Product Development] Liaised with industry executives CIECA Subrogation Chairman and CTO’s of insurance companies to effectively optimizing their business flows in the form of CCC products.

·               [Architecture] Integrated innovative technology to maximize value of existing products, like Google Maps with traffic for location based scheduling and subrogation integration with repair and claim systems.

·               Individual effort recognized multiple times during product launch for architecting optimized solutions utilizing new technology and methodologies during product development processes.

 

Application Development Manager, Project Manager, Sr. Systems Analyst      Sep 98 to Aug 06

Nicor Gas

·               [Leadership] Served as Chair for the Process Improvement Committee and active member of SDLC design, competency development, business evaluation and software development best practice committees.

·               [Technology Transformation] Managed multiple teams of 15+ members in a $77 million legacy migration to ERP (CC&B) project over 3+ years. Also led efforts and developed strategy for a similar $10 million project.

·               Worked with VP Technology to create 3 year department business plan and revise vision/mission statements.

·               [Data Architecture] Established a post-migration BI reporting infrastructure and team for the company, building data and reporting marts off production database. Aggregated several 100 million rows of data.

·               [Resource Management] Managed team of 18 FTE’s, responsible for their growth and development.

·               Led simultaneous projects through full lifecycle of varying scope in variety of functional areas: Customer Service, Field Operations, Billing, HR, Payroll, Insurance (HIPAA), Corrosion Control and Business Intelligence.

 

 

Early Career

Senior Consultant, UII Corporation – Plymouth, MI (Client: Unisys Corporation)           Feb 1997 – Aug 1998

·               Managed Y2K conversion projects for US and European based order management & internal billing systems.

·               Trained the trainers. Developed and facilitated Advanced LINC courses for 50 Unisys programmers.

 

Systems Analyst, Programmer, Mashreqbank – Dubai, UAE                                                             May 1993 – Jan 1997

·               Developed several banking modules for 17+ overseas branches, integrating X-modem data transmits into core legacy systems. Modules catered to retail, commercial, financial and treasury banking departments.

·               Designed and developed automated SWIFT transaction posting into core banking system, created automated check ordering module, 24 hour call center operations support systems and maintained Loans module.

 

·                             Chicago IT Architects Group (2012+) ·                             Technology Executives Club (2012+)

·                             Illinois Technology Association (2011+) ·               Member of PMI Chicago chapter (2003 - 2008)

 

Software Development Lifecycle / Methodologies ·               PMI Project Management ·               Agile vs Waterfall ·               ITIL Service Desk Management ·               Sarbanes-Oxley and Internal Controls   Database Architecture, Data Dev  & Analytical Tools ·               Entity Relationship Modeling (ERM, ERD) ·               Transactional and Analytical (OLTP, OLAP) ·               Data Warehouses and Data Marts ·               Master Data Management (MDM) ·               NoSQL databases (MongoDB, HBase) ·               Hadoop, BigData, HDFS, Hive, Pig ·               Inforbright, MySQL, PostgreSQL ·               SQL Server 2008, 2012, Unisys DMS II ·               Powerview, Tableau, Birst, Tibco Spotfire, SSRS ·               Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Quickbase   Business Knowledge Sectors ·               Web Media Marketing, Property Listings ·               Healthcare EMR, ADT, Billing, Labs ·               Health Insurance Claims, Enrollment, Part D ·               Gas Utility ·               Payroll, HR, Benefits (401K, Pension, Union) ·               Auto, Property, Casualty Insurance Claims Banking, Financial, Manufacturing, Order Entry

Data Integration Tools ·               SSIS, BizTalk Server 2010, Pentaho, Talend   EDI Standards & Formats ·               ACH, MITS, CEICA ·               X-12, HL7, 834, 837, ICD-9, 10 ·               XML, flat files, REST/JSON API Calls   Machines, OS ·               Cloud: Amazon Web Service (AWS), EC2, S3 ·               Force.com, Heroku, Salesforce integration, Azure ·               Cloudera 3.0, Hortonworks, Native HDFS ·               Windows Server 2008, 2012, Ubuntu ·               Unisys Clearpath NX, A series, Libra 580, MCP   Development Environment & Tools ·               Microsoft C#, .Net 3.5, 4.0, PowerShell scripting ·               MS Amalga R2/SP1 ·               Stored Procedures, Views, T-SQL ·               Java, SOAP, XML, REST, JSON SOA ·               Unisys EAE, LINC, WFL, COBOL 74, 85, MicroFocus ·               Version Control: PVCS, TFS, VSS, BL/Source ·               Visio, Project, Office Suite, One Note ·               Scheduling: CTRL M, SQL Agent ·               Agile: Rally, Version One, TFS

 

Indiana Institute of Technology - Fort Wayne        (BS – Computer Information Systems – 1993)

·               National Deans List (91-93), Academic Excellence award, International Club, 1st place table tennis intramurals