§    ICCP Certified Professional at the Master level in Data Architecture with over 17 years of enterprise technology, project management, and consultancy experience emphasizing hands-on implementation in Informatica, Oracle, and ERwin.

§    Expert in multi-terabyte Oracle builds, high volume ELT/ETL designs (billions of transactions/load), performance tuning, database and system internals, SQL, Informatica, Unix, ERwin, dimensional modeling, data governance, data cleansing/harmonization, supply chain management, ERP sourcing, and metadata management (MDM).

§    Proven technical project manager in over 20 major engagements, leading domestic and offshore build teams through multiple lifecycle iterations, upgrade migrations, software tool selections, and RFP preparations and reviews.  As lead designer and developer, built dozens of high performance automata on integrated, scalable, and extensible platforms. 

§    Over 20 years delivering best practice IT solutions for Fortune 100 companies in the health sciences, banking, insurance, consumer packaged goods, telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, HR, and service industries.

§    Established IT professional with exceptional ability to understand a business’s analytical requirements and articulating a vision to exceed them.  Lucid communication skills at the highest managerial and technical levels of an organization. 

§    Driven technologist and entrepreneur with a passion for embracing challenges and quickly delivering business value. 

§    Owner and operator of a successful independent consulting firm for over 17 years with impeccable client references.

 

 

Databases and Operating Systems:

§   Oracle Exadata, 11g and 10g(Enterprise and RAC), Informix, Sybase, SQL Server, Ingres, Ramis, Teradata, DB2

§   Linux Red Hat Enterprise 6.5, Oracle Solaris 11, HP-UX 11, IBM AIX 7.1

 

ETL, OLAP, Data Modeling, Development, and Productivity Tools:

§   Informatica PowerCenter 9, Data Quality 9.5.2, PowerExchange, Talend, PC Express, Informix-4GL

§   BusinessObjects XI, MicroStrategy, Cognos, Essbase, SAS, SPSS

§   ERwin, Oracle Developer/Designer, Enterprise Architect, Documentum, Visual Source Save, scss, SCM, StarTeam

§   SQL, PL/SQL, Pro*C, SQL Navigator, Quest TOAD

§   Java, J2EE, JRE/JDK, XML, Eclipse, HTML

§   C/C++, C#, Unix scripting (Bourne, K shell), awk, PERL, VBScript, Ada, COBOL, JCL

§   Rally (Agile Project Management), Office (Excel, Word, Project, Outlook, Powerpoint, Access)

 

ERP, CPG, and Automation Systems:

§   Salesforce.com. SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials, Siebel, JD Edwards, AutoSys, Maestro, Control-M

 

Syndicated, External, and Practitioner Data and Related Services:

§   HL7 Messaging v2.7, v3.1 RIM

§   IMS Health – Xponent, Plantrak, DDD, HCOS, NPA, LifeLink, Forecasting

 

Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing Philosophies and Related Architectures:

§   Kimball – Dimensional Modeling and Data Mart Bus Architecture with Conformed Dimensions, System of Record

§   Inmon – ODS, Data Warehouse, and Metadata Management

§   Hub-and-Spoke, Federated Design, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

§   Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, UML, XMI

 

Software Lifecycle Methodologies:

§   Agile, Classical Waterfall, Joint Application, and Rapid Prototyping Methodologies

§   PriceWaterhouseCoopers – SMM, Ernst & Young – Navigator, Wyeth – Platinum DWP

§   Informatica – Velocity, Ardent/Prism – Iterations

 

 

Quest Diagnostics ° May 2013 to January 2015                                   Data Integration and Cleansing Architect

Led the architecture and development teams in building and deploying the Customer Master Data Management system to unify account, provider, and contact information across 23 business units and 38 product domains. Developed workflows, mappings, stored procedures, and Java modules on an eight-node Oracle Exadata platform.  Leveraged Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) and MDM data cleansing and standardization tools for cleansing and ETL operations across 12 enterprise sales systems.  Data volumes used in customized Change Data Capture routines ranged in the 10 of millions of records daily.  Built data quality profiles and scorecards for monitoring data conditions and empowering the Data Governance team to act on exceptions in real time. Employed the Rally agile methodology using 12-week iterations, phase-end user demos, and daily stand-ups.

 

Wells Fargo ° December 2012 to April 2013                          Solution Architect

Established a roadmap for future state architecture of the Enterprise Analytics Platform, which was a single version of truth for customer, account, product, across all LOBs, sales channels, and marketing functions.  Efforts included designing the high-level sourcing, staging, ETL, and presentation layers and serving as the Technical Project Leader for the consulting team.  Designed the conceptual, logical, and dimensional data models of the Operational Warehouse and four Data Mart star schemas.

 

Hootyah ° May 2012 to December 2012                                       Co-Owner

Managed operations for a mobile entertainment startup company.  Served as lead executive in product conceptualization, artwork approval, storyboarding design, outsourcing, marketing, code migration, and production. Oversaw all off-shore code development activities for cross platform applications (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) that serve the game and amusement industries.

 

Thomson Reuters ° September 2010 to May 2012                    Senior Data Engineer

Modeled and constructed the Helium Clinical Data Warehouse, an enterprise analytical system running on a 64-bit Linux Oracle 11.2.0.1.0 RAC environment (developed using an Agile methodology)

§   Employed ERwin 7.3 to build and maintain the conceptual, logical, physical data models that support the canonical, transactional, and analytical layers of the HL7 database architecture.

§   Acted as Application DBA by installing and configuring the development and QA environments (Oracle 11.2.0.1.0 RAC on 64-bit Linux servers).  Conducted encrypted tablespace design, optimized tunable parameters and block sizes, built user accounts, resolved JDBC connectivity issues, and tuned SQL for improved performance.

§   Established and enforced data standards across Helium applications and ensuring alignment of objects design with the enterprise-defined data governance and architecture principles.

 

Chubb Insurance ° July 2009 to February 2011            Senior Technical Architect

Re-engineered the Accounting Global Adjustment and Reporting System from DB2/Mainframe to an IBM p7 AIX environment using Informatica PowerCenter 8.6.2, Oracle 11g, Hyperion Essbase 11.1, and Agile methodology

§   Partnered with the Data Design team to architect star schemas that followed IBM’s Insurance Information Warehouse model, enabling the consolidation of meaningful financial data across multiple channels and products. Integrated enterprise risk management, accounting, finance, and statutory compliance reporting, and actuarial requirements.

§   Built over 100 ETL processes: Informatica mappings, sessions, and workflows, Oracle stored procedures, and Korn shell scripts.  Co-authored a JUnit automated testing facility to allow nightly validation of ETL workflows.  Developed processes for creating data extracts for the Essbase reporting engine that delivers detailed drill-through functionality of the Premiums, Losses, Expenses, Taxes, and IBNR subject areas.

§   Established Autosys jobs to schedule daily, weekly, and monthly ETL processes built on a complex array of dependencies and programmatic- and user-triggered events.  Upgraded PowerCenter from 8.6.2 to 9.1 and migrated all objects.

 

Cegedim Dendrite ° January 2006 to June 2009                    Senior Data Architect

Led all discovery, design, and delivery phases of a large pharmaceutical client’s 6 TB ODS and Data Marts to support explosive sales force growth and data volumes.  Implemented several crucial hardware and software initiatives including server and OS upgrades from Sun Solaris to Dell Linux, migration from Informatica PowerCenter 6.2 to 8.6, Oracle 9.2 to 11g, and BusinessObjects 7.5 to XI.

§   Reduced the run time for monthly ETL processes from 15 days to 21 hours that aligns and aggregates over 15 billion IMS monthly sales transactions across critical sales area, product, customer, and time dimensions.

§   Implemented best practices in system architectures to maximize parallel processing, employ object reuse, and automate daily, weekly, and monthly load cycles, reducing operational and maintenance costs by 75%.

§   Directed the Customer Master initiative that integrated 20+ data sources to a “single version of the truth” at the enterprise level for a large pharmaceutical client.  Responsibilities include project management, dimensional modeling, and standards governance.

§        Optimized Informatica sessions and workflows using pipeline partitioning, parallel processes, load balancing, incremental aggregation, and appropriate DTM buffer, buffer block, and lookup data/index cache sizes.

§        Produced strategic roadmaps for long-term storage requirements, recommended hardware and software upgrades, and design enhancements to the semantic layer and physical BI components.

§        Advised DBAs to employ 32k blocksize tablespaces, advanced partitioning, materialized views, bitmap join indexing, and optimized parallelization techniques for replication across all data marts.

§        Tuned dozens of end user and ETL queries using TOAD, SQL Optimizer, explain plans, 10046 SQL Trace, and automated cost scenario generation from Quest tools.

§        Provided tactical Service Level acumen to senior management for multiple client accounts.

 

Wyeth Consumer Healthcare ° September 2005 to December 2005Solutions Architect

Directed the investigation, evaluation, and recommendation of commercially available products for the CPG Data Warehousing Platform; documented requirement specs, authored the RFI and RFP, and assessed technology stacks from vendors such as Kalido, Information Resources Inc, Retail Solutions Inc, DemandTec, and Vision Chain.

§   Prepared a total cost of ownership and ROI analysis, including speed of delivery savings over a custom-built solution and expected business productivity gains, established project plan for three-month proof of concept, and submitted the final recommendation with supporting financials to the executive IT Steering Committee.

§   Organized onsite demos and business presentations from the vendor short list to prove functionality of their products from a list of required key capabilities and created a product scorecard to rate the solutions using a standardized approach and a common playing field.

 

Bristol-Myers Squibb ° May 2005 to September 2005Lead ETL Architect and Developer

Established best practices for designing, developing, and maintaining the Informatica PowerCenter 6.2 ETL platform for the Global Clinical Site Monitoring application

§   Set up the underlying physical layer (folders, shared objects, user accounts) and built 15 complex mappings and workflows to demonstrate the standardized approach and provide a foundation for continued development.

§   Instituted the GCSM Business Intelligence Analytics Framework using the Cognos 7 Suite for reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, business event management, and data integration.  Assisted with portal design and construction.

Pfizer, Inc. ° July 2002 to May 2005Global Data Warehouse Architect

Directed the hardware analysis, purchase, and implementation of the upgrade to the 3.5 Terabyte Oracle 9i Global Supply Chain DSS, an enterprise data warehouse supporting over 300 end users utilizing Microstrategy’s DSS Suite on a Sun Starfire V1280/880 Solaris 11.0 and EMC storage platform with source data from Manugistics, Logility, SAP R/3, and Oracle Financials.

§   Designed and constructed over 70 Informatica mappings and associated workflows, ranging from direct source-to-target relationships to complex business rules involving Joiner, Expression, Lookup, Aggregator, Sorter, and Router transformations and multi-pass data flows that formed the conformed dimensions and fact table layer of the DSS.

§   Implemented Oracle 9i advanced performance techniques, including parallel execution, composite partitioning with data segment compression, materialized views with query rewrite and fast refresh, bitmap join indexes for the star transformation, direct-path inserts, and CUBE and MERGE SQL extensions, which saved over 3 hours of nightly processing and enabled database growth to triple in two years.

§   Using ERwin 4.2, designed, developed, and created the Oracle data mart and associated ETL modules for the Supply Issue Monitoring System (SIMS) that employed Vigilance, a tactical operations monitoring software tool that detected and notified users when inventory issues arose and provided them with actionable information for immediate resolution.

§   Led and assisted with the migration of three Informatica PowerMart 5.1 repositories to PowerCenter 6.2 and then to PowerCenter 7.1 to improve developer efficiency and decrease data delivery by 1-3 months.

 

M&M/Mars (ISI) ° September 2000 to May 2002Project Manager & Data Mart Developer

Led the analysis, development, and management of a 750 GB data mart for Customer Service and Logistics metrics, providing over 200 knowledge workers detailed order, inventory, and shipment information by time, customer, sales organization, and product and allowed them to take action on late shipments, low order fill rates, and inventory issues.

§   Served as Project Leader of seven BusinessObjects and RAMIS developers and 13 business analysts and as Senior Developer designing and developing the data model, over 50 Informatica mappings, Maestro job schedules, and recurrent data load procedures, utilizing Oracle 8.1.6, HP-UX 11.0 on an HP N-Series platform.

§   Using ERwin and Informatica PowerConnect, designed and developed a Product Movement data mart with product costing data from Siebel Financials, sales data from SAP, and nightly POS feeds from Wal-Mart’s Retail Link.

 

Pfizer, Inc. (Warner-Lambert) ° October 1999 to August 2000Global Data Warehouse Architect

Constructed a 2.8 TB Global ODS and data mart strategy for sales, marketing, and customer relationship management and resolved complex business and technical challenges common in a international endeavor, such as language and character set translation, time zone consistency, currency conversion, and customer and product hierarchy conformity.

§   Designed staging, common objects, consolidated, and conformed dimension data model subject areas using ERwin 3.5, and forward-engineered the physical schemas to an Oracle 8.0.6 database with a metadata abstraction layer using Informatica MXPowerPlug 3.0.  Developed over 40 Informatica PowerCenter 1.6.1 mappings that read flat files from SAP R/3, transformed incoming records, and populated targets.

 

M&M/Mars (ISI) ° April 1998 to September 1999Lead Data Warehouse Architect

As the chief technologist of the 4 TB Enterprise Data Warehouse, oversaw and participated in all design and development efforts that encompassed modeling the logical and physical layers, cleansing data, and building over 200 mappings, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and object types using Informatica PowerCenter 1.5.2 and Oracle 8.0.5.

§   Designed the normalized ODS using Kimball’s Bus Architecture, denormalized Dimensional Data Store (DDS), and replicated Data Mart (DM) information delivery strategies using ERwin and Oracle Replication Manager.  Led all technical requirements phases, created source-to-target specifications in Excel for the ETL developers, and designed and developed the Account Profitability Data Mart that provided income statement KPIs by customer, item, and time.

 

 

 

Served as the practice’s principal technology authority in data modeling, metadata management, ETL, and Informix functional areas.  Delivered 20+ client solutions in a timely and professional manner. Utilized proven negotiation and persuasion skills across functional lines to establish large, complex architectural programs involving multiple stakeholders and delivery team members. 

§   Facilitated the sale of over $75 million in consulting engagements, reseller hardware, software maintenance plans, and licensing agreements.

§   Co-authored RFP responses to 20+ prospective clients and presented solutions to client executives as the lead technical team member.  Composed whitepapers on the ETL vendor industry and published findings on product comparison and use of the tools.  Conducted extensive research with Gartner reviews, “magic quadrants”, and practitioner experiences.

§   Assisted the practice’s senior partner in establishing the Excellence in Leadership Center, a think tank comprised of PWC consultants who shared project experiences devised innovative approaches to solve complex business issues.  Led the ELC Database (Oracle/Informix) and ETL (Prism/Informatica) functional areas.

 

 

Pfizer, Inc. (Warner-Lambert) ° October 1997 to March 1998Lead Data Modeler

Led the conceptual and logical dimensional modeling phases of a 2 TB PeopleSoft and Hyperion HR data warehousing project; built physical models using Kimball’s dichotomous fact table design that used 0 and 1 as additive fact values for properly aggregating granular employee metrics and employed a dual role fact/dimension employee table

§   Analyzed the client’s existing hardware and network architecture and recommended upgrades from the existing Pentium Windows NT, 10baseT, IDE drive setup to an HP 9000/570 server, 100baseT, and EMC disk array environment

 

Panasonic ° October 1996 to October 1997Senior ETL Architect

Directed the ETL phases of the sales and marketing data warehouse by implementing Prism’s PWE v1.5 and PWM v4.5.1 tools (now integrated into IBM WebSphere DataStage) to cleanse, filter, integrate, convert, and summarize data from Oracle and IBM mainframe sources into a 700 GB SP2/AIX Informix database. Custom coded COBOL and JCL code from Prism’s PWE v1.5 tool to perform specialized transformations in over 35 modules

§   Developed a comprehensive data quality reporting subsystem using PERL, Unix shell scripts, SQL, stored procedures, and email routines to monitor and alert the support team of data problems after each daily load cycle

§   Integrated business rules, transformation logic, and source system of record information into the Microstrategy reporting layer by customizing the metadata distribution core using Prism’s PWD, Builder, and Navigator software

§   Led the design and creation of the logical and physical snowflaked star schema models of the data marts using ERwin 3.0

§   Devised aggregation schemes, created procedures for optimal load performance, and analyzed explain plans

 

 

Honeywell (Allied-Signal) ° January 1995 to October 1996Project Manager & Systems Specialist

Led the four-person development team of the Materials Management Data Warehouse (MMDW) project. Using Oracle Designer/Developer 2000 and Powerbuilder, converted MMDW from a simple reporting system into a fully integrated OLAP tool, with over 500 users nationwide, running Cognos Impromptu and Hyperion Essbase on an HP9000/370 and an Oracle 7.1.2 star schema database.  The system featured an Intranet thin client reporting system that utilized HTML Web pages to produce standard reports and drill down functionality.  Responsible for project budgeting, planning, and hiring.

§   Directed the Assessment and Impact Analysis aspects of the Year 2000 effort for Engineered Materials Information Systems by determining affected mainframe, Unix, and Windows-based systems within the organization and preparing an RFP for the conversion and testing efforts

§   Designed and developed an automated departmental budget tracking tool using Visual Basic macros, OLE, Excel, and Powerpoint, which was deployed to project managers in eight remote locations for the consolidation of project expenses and reporting of key performance indicators to the CIO and CFO

 

AT&T ° August 1986 to December 1994Senior Systems Engineer

Directed a five-person team in developing GENESIS, a mission-critical client-server application which tracked and reported sales results of the innovative Association Rewards^ä program.  Led the analysis effort, assisted in Visual Basic programming, conducted capacity planning efforts, and developed SQLServer host-to-client synchronization routines

§   Managed a three developer team in re-engineering the Local Area Marketing group’s National Project Reporting System (NPRS), utilizing Informix-4GL and Unix shell scripts

§   Designed and wrote several Oracle Pro*C programs for the Cost and Profitability Reporting System (CPRS), which monitored departmental expenses against targeted revenues.  Responsible for technical project leadership as well as maintaining data integrity and resolving complex cost allocation issues

§   Managed a seven-person development team while delivering a client-server time tracking system called SPSS.  Invoked IRI’s PCExpress (later Oracle Express) and Informix to produce a DSS/EIS containing summarized salesperson event data

§   Coded the General Marketing Group’s Financial Platform in Informix-4GL, maintained two AT&T 3B2 Unix superminis for the Capital Recovery and Depreciation group, and created Ingres and RAMIS databases with parameterized end-user reports, supporting financial analysis functions within the Fixed Asset and Amortization divisions

 

 

§   Master of Business Administration degree in Information Technology, Rutgers University, 1993

§   Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1986

§   ICCP Certified Business Intelligence Professional at the Master Level in Data Warehousing Design, 2002

§   Founded Double Eagle Systems LLC, 1998

§   AT&T Arch of Excellence Award, 8 Individual Merit Awards, and 7 “Far Exceeded Expectations” Performance Reviews,  1986–1994