BENEDICTO
GARCIA, PMP Aliso
Viejo, CA | +1 (949) 613-0611 | garcia.benedicto@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL
SUMMARY
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A progressive
and seasoned IT practice that spans the entire SDLC in both in-house and
consulting engagements employing plan-driven to change-driven (agile) methodologies.
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Project
Management Professional with more than 10 years of experience leading
geographically distributed team members in delivering enterprise solutions to
several well-established organizations using industry standard tools.
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Business
focused with years of direct or indirect involvement in business needs
analysis and recommending solutions to facilitate organizational change and
effectiveness, and deliver value to stakeholders.
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Had been
involved in several projects from its inception, which involved formulating
goals and strategic plans, evaluating project strengths, weakness,
opportunities and threats; and developing and evolving program roadmaps.
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More recent
projects are in the business intelligence and data warehousing space,
covering self-service reporting application development, data modeling and
integration, business systems analysis, user acceptance testing and training,
and production support.
WORK
EXPERIENCE
Self-Employed
(Aliso Viejo, CA) | Sep 2014 to Present
IT Consultant
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Business Analyst
Consultant for Teach for America (Sep-Dec 2014): spearheaded the development
of an integrated Staff Analytics solution that enabled in-depth analysis and
advance reporting of staff recruitment and retention.
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IT Consultant
for Bolsa Chica Conservancy (Dec 2014 to present): analyze and recommends
solutions in volunteer data capture, data cleansing and reporting
requirements, and researches and develops cost benefit analysis on technology
infrastructure, use of external opportunity research databases and upgrading
to a more suitable CRM tool.
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Developing
project management and business requirements definition domain data model,
artifact templates and workflows incorporating best practices.
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Exploring the
capabilities and architecture of several BI and DW technologies such as Big
Data (e.g. Hadoop, Trifacta, Zoomdata), data visualization (Tableau,
QlikView, SAP Hanna) and ETL/ELT (e.g. Informatica, Talend)
Technologies: SAP Business
Objects Launch Pad, Workday, Little Green Light, MS Project, Erwin, MySQL, JIRA,
Oracle
Teach for America
(New York, NY) | Dec 2011 to Aug 2014
BI Reporting
Manager and BI/DW Tech Lead (Enterprise Business Intelligence)
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Led a team of
BI developers collecting and analyzing requirements, designing semantic
layers, and delivering self-service reporting solution that enhanced data
analysis and reporting of enterprise metrics.
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Tech lead in
architecting the end-to-end DW/BI reporting solution for recruitment,
admission, alumni affairs, teacher preparation, growth & development,
marketing, and human assets business teams.
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Performed a
lead role in developing the Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) program
roadmap to support the ever growing user demand to effectively analyze data
to uncover key business insights.
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One of the
key proponents to making a shift in data strategy that led to cost savings
and improved user satisfaction.
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Led several
process improvement and productivity initiatives by implementing a robust
incident and request tracking workflows, standardized requirements documentation
and service level agreements that contributed to higher user satisfaction and
efficient and motivated project team.
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Won the 2013
IT Conference Tech Fair for the project proposal to develop a personal and
professional development tool application MOOD (My Own One Day)
Technologies:
SAP Business Objects (XIR2&3/BI4, Xcelsius) Oracle, SQL Server,
Informatica, Salesforce, Workday, JobScience, JIRA, MS Project, Visio
International Fund Services (IFS) (a State-Street
company) (New York, NY) | Aug 2010 to Dec 2011
BI Architect (Data
Warehouse)
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Responsible
for establishing the business intelligence strategy and architectural
framework that delivered advanced and self-service reporting solution.
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Led the
evaluation and selection of a reporting tool and its subsequent installation,
configuration and administration.
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Led the
design and development of key business analytic self-service and
custom-reporting applications (P&L and Net Asset Value) that provided
users with more comprehensive data and quicker reporting turn-around time.
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Led the
integration of IFS’s client reports to the parent company’s (State Street)
client web portal that achieved the strategic goal of delivering a unified
client interface.
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Member of
State Street Business Intelligence Technical Board, Office of Architecture
Tools Management Committee, and Community Manager for Developer Community
Social Networking.
Technologies: JasperSoft &
Pentaho Reporting/Analysis/Dashboard/Data Integration, SQL-Server, SSAS/SSRS,
SharePoint, Talend, Netezza, JIRA
UBS Financial Services (Weehawken, NJ) |
Jun 2005 to Jul 2010
BI Manager and Lead BI Developer (Data Warehouse &
Business Intelligence)
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Led a team in
developing data marts and self-service reporting applications and custom
reports for the Global Management Information System (GMIS) project as the
reporting and analysis centerpiece for the firm’s financial data. Other
projects handled include Managed Accounts and Legal & Compliance.
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Received
excellence service award and nominated for corporate-wide service excellence
through consistent pursuit to delight internal customers and professional
integrity.
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Championed
the EDW's Audit, Balance and Control application that resulted to quicker
response to data issues leading to higher confidence in the quality of data
and accuracy of reports.
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Led the
design and development of EDW’s self-service reporting that led to enhanced
data exploration and discovery capability as well as quicker response time to
data quality issues.
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Participated
in design and review of EDW’s fact and conformed dimensions and ETL
processes.
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Led special
projects: study of existing reporting tools versus user requirements;
Business Objects proof of concept.
Technologies:
SAP Business Objects (XI R2, Designer, WebI/Rich Client), Hyperion Essbase /
Reports / Analyzer / Excel Plug-in, Oracle Discover, Actuate, Hummingbird,
Oracle, Informatica, Erwin, UNIX, Autosys, PVCS, SVN, MS-Project
Xerox Corporation (Rochester, NY) | Jun 2003 to May
2005
Data Modeler & BI Developer Consultant (Enterprise
Finance Information Warehouse)
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Led the
development of data models for legal entities and products source of record
and cash flow.
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Led the
development of Cash Flow analytic cube and various financial and accounting
reports (e.g. P&L, Balance Sheet and Income Statements)
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Performed
data analysis of various source systems that feeds into the data warehouse
including financial consolidation systems, submission systems and user feed
files.
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Facilitated
business requirements definition sessions, developed application design, prepared
test cases and performed testing for various financial applications.
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Defined data
standards and performed data coherence activities used for the entire Xerox
organization.
Technologies:
Hyperion Essbase (Essbase Administration Services / Application Manager),
Reports, Analyzer, and Excel Add-ins, Erwin, Visio, PL/SQL, MS-SQL, MS
Access, MS Project, Global Corporate Manager
IEWorks, Inc. (now part of iPeople, Inc)
(Philippines) | 1993 to 2002
IT Consultant, Project Manager and Account Manager (IT
Consulting)
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Led two full
life cycle development of property and casualty insurance applications.
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Developed the
data models for an application builder as the core component of all products
of the company.
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Prepared and
conducted various IT courses, including IT Concepts, Logic Formulation and
Data Modeling.
PACT Group (now known as Headstrong) (Philippines) |
1989 to 1993
Lead Developer, IT Consultant and Methodology
Specialist (IT Consulting & Engineering)
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Led the
development of software development productivity tool and software
development methodologies.
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Performed
business analysis, existing systems study and coordinated software and
hardware selection process.
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Prepared and
conducted various IT courses, including IT Concepts, Logic Formulation and
Data Modeling.
National Power Corporation (Philippines) |
1988 to 1989
Developer (Information Systems Development)
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Designed and
developed budgeting and accounting reporting applications.
EDUCATION
AND CERTIFICATIONS
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Bachelor in
Computer Data Processing Management, Polytechnic University of the
Philippines, 1987
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Project
Management Professional, Project Management Institute, 2015 (PMP # 1800755)
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Certified
Professional Coach, International Coaching Federation accredited coach
training program (ACTP), 2014
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Electronic
Data Processing Specialist, National Computer Institute, 1988