CALLA KNOPMAN

 

Director of Information & Data Management at various top 4 and leading consulting firms.  Competency leader of Data Management services with 18 plus years of experience designing solutions and managing projects consisting of US/global resources and teams through leading edge technology DI/DW/BI solutions. Focus on leading companies through transformational projects including predictive analytics and expertise in big data processing of structured and unstructured data sets through clustered index partitioning such as hadoop, greenplum and teradata. Successfully managed multi-million dollar initiatives and led large diverse teams to successful implementations.

 

·   Stakeholder Partnership and Communication	·   BI/DI/DW Architecture Design
·   Data Management, Integration Pathways ·   Master & Reference Data Management	·   Data Governance and Quality  ·   Vendor Management
·   Metadata Strategy and Implementation	·   Big Data clustered index partitioning
·   Creation of Standards and Methodologies	·   Process Improvement
·   Team Building	·   Business Case Development
·   Project Planning & Risk Assessment	·   Requirements Analysis
·   Data Mining and Predictive Analytics	·   ETL/DI Design and Process Flows

Key Projects and Milestones:

Intricity – At the second largest food distributor in the US, Calla led the organization through the current to future state, deployment plan and roadmap for a multi-domain master data management solution of product, customer and item. As the solution architect, Calla was responsible for the overall solution design and management of risk, requirements traceability from business specifications through test scenario creation. Calla oversaw the infrastructure to support the project and data integration pathways between the domains, metadata lineage,  and associated reference data sets.

 

California State Automobile Association – Project Lead and Architect. Calla managed a group of 22 resources, client, consulting and outsourced, through an 18 month conversion of Auto and Home legacy application data with previous data warehouse data into newly architected Business Intelligence system. Calla designed the data integration pathways, workflow strategy and managed the SDLC process through to deployment. During the length of the project, she was also responsible for client communications including steering committee status reports, risk mitigation plans and resource planning.

 

Convergent Inc. – Solution Architect. For an audit recovery firm, Calla provided a Big Data Solution, and designed an MPP and hadoop based environment to provide advanced analytics for structured and unstructured data. This provided a flexible and robust platform for Convergent to drive business functions around customer churn, segmentation and dialer predictive analytics. The system can easily be extended into web analytics and incorporate social media interactions.

 

JPD Financials – Solution Architecct. Calla implemented a cloud solution to provide vendor management and integration to the SalesForce data for another financial services client. Calla designed the data model, the integration processing from SFDC and 50+ clients into a unique view of the vendor with address doctor validation all in the cloud space. The enhanced vendor information is then fed back into SalesForce for reporting and processing business requirements. The solution is being extended to cloud database hosting and qlikview reports for management dash boarding capabilities and predictive analytics.

 

FDNY – IT Manager. While managing data delivery at the  Fire Department of New York City , Calla lead the solutions architecture and client, QA and IBM contracting teams to repair and implement the successful deployment of a risk based scheduling system for FDNY. The risks were rendered back to the business community via data visualization and dashboards for tuning and prioritizing the predictive models.

 

IBM – SAP Lenovo Split Project Lead.  Ms. Knopman was the lead for two individual internal IBM projects to split the Lenovo product supply chain and financials to support the sale. Calla was responsible for managing the data split functionality and testing with global resources in a follow the sun methodology. Both projects, ledger and SJ Manufacturing were successful, on time and n budget.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

 

Knopman IT Consulting, LLC                       March 2004 – January 2007, May 2014 - Present

Director and Data Management Lead

Exigen Services                                                                                       October 2012 – May 2014

Director – Data Management

Archipelago IS   July 2010 – October 2012

Director – Data Integration Practice

VIP Consulting          July 2007 – July 2010

Practice Manager for the National BI/DW group

International Business Machines, Global Consulting             January 2007 – July 2007

Project Manager and Senior Test Architect

KPMG Consulting/Bearing Point        January 1999 – February 2004

Manager, Financial Services Data Warehousing Group

 

 

Client Details on Engagements

 

Performance Food Group – 8 months

Solution Architect & Technical Lead - Master Data and Business Process Management

·   Design overall solution architecture and design strategy for enterprise multi-domain master data management system.

·   Build out deployment plan, staffing model and budget for full implementation of iterative design approach.

·   Lead architect team (MDM, BPM, ETL, DQ and Data Governance) for overall implementation plan and single vision.

·   Technical ownership of all SDLC artifacts and methodology.

·   Integration and oversight of offshore outsourcing model and success criteria.

·   Work with steering committee, business and IT community for requirements and delivery.

Fannie Mae – 14 months

Integration Platform Architect - Enterprise Data Repository

·   Design component and interface requirements and design patterns for enterprise data integration platform supporting Loan, Securities and Party.

·   Author the best practices and standards to be utilized enterprise wide for Informatica initiatives.

·   Create infrastructure topology to support tier 0 application hosting: PowerCenter, Data Quality, Mater data management and Metadata Management

·  Install, implement and develop use cases and benefits/risk analysis for Data Virtualization, Master data Management, Data Correction and Governance, data synchronization and infrastructure support.

Enterprise Data Repository - 3 months

Data Migration Architect

·   Developed the strategy to migrate and transform data from legacy application to Operational Data Store.

·   Designed the process to convert the data to a conformed model to support both the legacy information and the newer application structures.

·   Installed, configured and initiated performance baselines and monitoring to optimize processing.

Convergent USA, INC. – 2 months                                         

Big Data Architect - GreenPlum Big Data Implementation                                                      

Designed a Greenplum-based environment to provide advanced analytics for structured and unstructured data for Convergent to drive business functions around customer churn, dialer predictive analytics. Designed system to be easily extended into web analytics and incorporate social media interactions.

·   Provide expert architectural advice and guidance with respect to building current application functionality to Greenplum.

·   Transfer knowledge and expertise to Convergent development personnel

·   Discuss how to Analyze and Tune Query Performance and review data distribution and partitioning strategies as they relate to Greenplum

·   Review, assess and design the partitioning/clustering design required to
assure high performance of retrieval of structured and unstructured data elements for analytics.

·   Clustering across 48 segments and isolation of stage, ODS, DW and DM

·   Design Data Marts

o   Advise on strategic and tactical roadmap for Data Warehouse builds

o   Review data design and partitioning scheme

o   Deduce volumes/capacity plan and disk design

o   Assist with data extraction and delta planning from sourcing
systems

·   Review ETL/ELT Strategies and Optimization

·   Provide expertise and assistance to define a workload management (resource queuing) strategy.

 

JPD Financials, INC.  – 5 months                                                   

Solution Architect - Cloud Data Warehouse and SalesForce Integration

Implemented cloud solution to provide vendor management and integration to the SalesForce data. Designed the data model, the integration processing from SFDC and 50+ clients into a unique view of the vendor with address doctor validation all in the cloud space...

·   Optimize the data to support better decision making processes

·   Optimize the business by understanding how clients share vendors and the vendor interrelationships such as parent/child.

·   Design, Develop and Deploy starter data warehouse for vendor management

·   Design Tables, Create database and objects, Deployment

·   Automate data entry requirements including the vendor file and line items from the open credit report

 

Informatica Upgrades – Various Clients

·   PowerCenter, Data Quality and Exploration, Windows, Linux, Unix,  Teradata PT, VM/Windows,  Java Message Queue,  Mysql, , PowerExchange (CDC), Metadata Manager, AS400, High Availability, grid extension

 

FDNY (Fire Department of New York) – 15 months                              

Solution Architect, QA Lead and IT Manager

Coordinated Building Inspection and Data Analysis System

·   Solutions architect, fixing and redesigning strategy left from system integrator that was removed from project.

·   Design oversight and Modification: Data Model, Risk Model, ETL developers, Report Developers, ADF Developers, Requirements Verification and Testing, Iterative Deployment schedules.

 

Led the solutions architecture and client, QA and IBM contracting teams to repair and implement the successful deployment of a risk-based scheduling system for FDNY.

 

NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners) – 1 month             

BI Architect - BI/DW Training and Mentoring

•                      Training consisted of DW Concepts – Company wide, ETL Concepts and Market tools s

•                      Performance Tuning and Benchmarks – Administrators and superusers

•                      Metadata management and Data Quality

 

University of Florida   - 18 months                                                 

Data Warehouse Consultant

Led three projects to implement and enhance business intelligence initiatives, reducing complexity and redundant data patterns in the integration aspects, reducing data loading window.

 

AARP – 6 weeks

Business Intelligence Consultant                                                                       

Data Warehouse Audit and current to future state assessment

 

Hewitt Associates  - 18 months                                                     

Solution Architect, EPM and Conversion

EPM upgrade Lead, global resource management, database tuning and administration

·   Gap analysis on Upgrade of EPM80 and EPM88 customization fit.

·   Architecture and redesign of database (DB2), Data archiving strategy and implementation, SQL tuning

 

New York Daily News   - 3 weeks                                               

Striva Administrator – CDC

·   Reviewed Striva/Informatica Power Exchange installation and modified parameters when needed.

·   Architected Database design and creation procedures, backup and recovery plan and configuration scripts.

 

PeaceHealth – 3 months                                  

Senior Data Warehouse Architect

Data Warehouse Architect – Data Warehouse Assessment and Future State Roadmap

·   Current to future state vision and road map to implementation

·   SAN and disk allocation and configuration

·   Service Oriented Architecture gap review and identification

·   Workflow process review and recommendations

·   Data Intake layer strategy and redesign

·   Performance tuning – Windows, SQL Server, Informatica

 

AOC  - 18 months                                            

Senior Data Warehouse Architect

·   Data Warehouse strategy and architecture

·   Team management and status reports

·   Project plan and risk management activities

·   Initial and Incremental Load architecture and implementation

 

IBM  - 7 months                                          

Senior IT Architect, Test Engineer

Responsible for managing two concurrent global projects each with  20+ resources for the Lenovo split and isolation of supply chain management functionality. Responsibilities included all aspects of project management, time management and testing in a follow-the-sun approach with teams.

 

OneGlobe - Bearing Point  - 3 years

DBA/Application Administrator                              

·   Capacity planning and storage solution design for Development and Production data centers.

·   Microstrategy installation, configuration, clustering and administration for development, testing, UAT and production environments.

·   Informatica installation on UNIX and NT platforms, configuration, migration through development, testing, UAT and production environments.

Allegis – 14 months                                      

Architect, ERP Conversion and Development Lead

·               Designed and led the data integration team on a multi-million dollar PeopleSoft conversion project. Architected the conversion process to migrate all historical data with customizations and new functionality to upgraded PeopleSoft systems.

US Cellular   - 6 weeks                                                            

Data Warehouse Assessment

·   Reviewed ETL and Reporting scripts and SQL

·   Performed a gap analysis between delivery and requirements

·   Documented fixes and next steps.

 

Bell South – 9 months

Testing Lead/QA                                            

·   Liaison to the business community to confirm requirements were delivered as captured.

·   Review of all Ascential Datastage processes

CSAA – 18 months                                            

Data Architect

·   Oracle DBA; build, configuration, admin and maintenance on all DB instances.

·   Data Model oversight and architectural recommendations for facts and dimensions.

 

Arrow Electronics – 18 momnths

Senior Informatica Developer/Data Modeler                                                               

 

 

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

 

Technical experience includes  Greenplum, Teradata, MS SqlServer, MySQL, Oracle DBA, ERP Administrator, Data Architect PeopleSoft 7.5/8.0/8.4 EPM88, SAP r3, Oracle 11i, Siebel, Informatica 4x/5x/6x/7x/8x/9x, Power Exchange/Striva, Informatica Data Quality and Profiling(IDE) 8x/9x, Talend, Ascential DataStage 7.5/8.0, Business Objects Data Integrator, Evoke, MicroStrategy 7i, Hyperion, Business Objects XI, Sagent, BEA Web Logic & Tuxedo, OMS & Dataguard , Control-M, Autosys, Erwin, Sybase Power Designer, Metarecon, Mercury Tools, Remedy, Oracle Data Integrator 10.1.3.5, OBIEE (Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition) , Talend Open Data Source

 

EDUCATION

 

BA equivalent Chemistry, at City College of New York – Phi Beta Kappa

Chubb’s Institute, Jersey City, NJ –Honors program

4 Patents (Bond adhesive, skin barrier wafer)

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

 

VP of Marketing- DAMA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter

Member of TDWI – Data Warehousing Institute

Woman’s Bond Club of NY

Who’s Who of Information Technology

Microsoft Certified Partner

IPED Advisory Board

 

Training Offerings

Metadata Management; Informatica Developer, Advanced & Administration; Performance analysis and Tuning; Data Warehousing 101; Data Quality, Cleansing & Profiling.

 

 

 

Presentations

·  GPSEG Technology Sector – 3/18/2013 - Big Data from the Trenches, a Consultants View

·  DAMA National Chapter DC – 9/20/2012 - Big Data and Integration in the Cloud

·  Webinar – Leveraging your Investment, Getting a bigger bang from your vendor buck – 9/22/2011 - https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/889267422

·  Denver IUG – 6/20/2012 -    Metadata Architecture and Discovery

·  DAMA Chapter PA/NJ/DE  - 5/11/2011 - Implementing DI as a SOA component

·  TDWI LA – 1/11/2011, TDWI CO – 2/9/2011 - Implementing DI as a SOA component

·  EDW conference 3/17/2010 - Data Integration as a Service

·  IUG      11/12/2010, 11/18/2009 -   The Painless Upgrade

·  OIUG      11/12/2008 -   Planning and implementing a successful upgrade project.

 

Papers

1/21/2011 - Data Integration as a service  http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/14869

4/5/2012 - Business Drivers for Data Integration http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/15959

9/10/2012 – Big Data: What it Means for Business Today http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/16372

1/15/2013 – 5 Steps to Readiness Assessment for Big Data  http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/16762

 

Certifications

PeopleSoft-PeopleTools, Informatica, Datastage, BEA Weblogic, Data Vault, Data Modeling Concepts, Data Warehousing Concepts, Erwin 3.5.2 Administration, MDM (Master Data Management)- Siperian, EMC – Greenplum, SAP - HANA