LENNY FINKEL   LinkedIn Profile

 

417 Cedar Bridge Ave,  Lakewood, NJ 08701Lenny.Finkel@Gmail.com            

Phone: (732) 598-2703       

 

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT / PROJECT LEADER

 

SUMMARY

§    An accomplished, goal oriented, Business Intelligence Professional using SQL Server Microsoft BI stack. 

§    Over 13 years of extensive experience in the IT industry as a BI Solutions Architect, Developer/Analyst, Project Leader and Applications Designer/Developer.

§    Architecting and developing BI solutions and analytical reporting to support Senior Management in key business decisions using SDLC. 

§    Consistently contribute to the efficiency, stability, cost savings and robust solutions. 

§    Demonstrated leadership abilities and team work skills, as well as the ability to accomplish tasks under minimal direction and supervision.

           

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

 

Business Intelligence/Reporting Applications: BI Development Studio (BIDS); Cognos 10 Report Studio; Microsoft Office 2010; SharePoint 2007/2010; PowerPivot 2010; Excel Services 2010; Performance Point 2007; Visual Studio 2010; REPORT BUILDER 3.0; Team Foundation Server 2010; SVN; Microsoft Visio 2010

Database & Database Applications: SQL Server 2005/2008R2; T-SQL; PL/SQL; MySQL; SSIS; SSRS; SSAS; SSMS;

Talend Enterprise Data Integration; SQLyog; DB2; UDB; MS ACCESS
Programming Languages: MDX; XML; HTML; VBA scripting

Software: Red Gate tools, Showcase Strategy; Sungard; InvestOne; Loanet; Platinum; Swift; Omegamon; Merva; FTP; MS Project; Windows 2000/XP/7.

 

  EDUCATION  &  TRAINING

             

PACE UNIVERSITY, NYC                                                       

Computer Science and Business Administration

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE

 

FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE

investors Bank                Iselin, NJ                                02/13 - present

Business Intelligence Solutions Architect / Project Leader

Currently engaged in various responsibilities as a Business Intelligence Architect, Analyst for the bank, such as: development of specialized analytics for senior executives; design BI solutions, data marts, create Dashboards, Scorecards, Forecasting and Trending reports/charts; provide advisory to management on key decision making. Additionally, involved in the role of a Project Leader, coordinating multiple projects, which entails reports development and .Net applications development.

•Design, develop and implement BI solutions, such as: Risk Rating Analysis for the Credit Risk area, Government account balances trending and internal metrics on Analyst task delivery.

• Re-engineer ETL processes for third party imports into the Data Warehouse.

•     Create a roadmap for the MIS group that delineates an entire process of the business Intelligence/Analytics development lifecycle.

•     Create best practices and standards for developers and analysts.

•     Advise Business Intelligence and Reports Developers on fine tuning queries, and creation of efficient processes. Assist the user community in defining business rules; create business requirements.

 

TradingScreen        NY, NY                       10/12 – 12/12

Business Intelligence Developer

Formerly engaged in the Total Cost Analysis project for a trading software development firm. The company processes various securities for a multitude of its international clients.  Some of the responsibilities are as follows:

•Design, develop and implement BI solutions, using Java based, Open Source technology.

• Perform source system analysis and source to target data mappings.

•     Develop and implement strategies and self-service tools to allow end users to access and analyze data to provide useful information for business decisions.

•     Review ETL mappings/workflows that populate EDW and data mart Dimension and Fact tables to ensure accuracy of business requirements.

•     Implement performance tuning logic on targets, sources, mappings, sessions to provide maximum efficiency and performance.

 

FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE

Brookfield Financial Properties        NY, NY                       06/11 – 09/12

Business Intelligence Solutions Architect / Project Leader

Have been involved in multiple responsibilities of high-profile Global Asset Management Business Intelligence initiatives:

•Design, develop and implement a Market Statistics Data mart and Dashboards for senior executives.

•Design and develop a back-end solution for Dashboards on iPad application for senior executives.

•Perform gap analysis and synchronization of multiple interfaces and Data Warehouses.

•      Redesigned and modified OLAP cubes based on reporting demands empathized by company CIO.  

·               Performance engineering - stress test analysis; enhance cubes and reporting performance.

• Created interfaces for F/X and Bond Yield rates; designed and implemented F/X  conversion for BI solutions.

 

FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE

Scholastic, Inc.                            NY, NY                       10/09 - 06/11

Manager of Operational Analysis / Business Intelligence Developer

Formerly involved in for the following key areas and responsibilities of the Supply Chain business unit:

·                           Create Operational Data Stores (ODS) for downstream Data Marts and Data Warehouse.

·                           Design and develop ETL processes for downstream data feeds into Data Warehouse.

·                           Manage resources on multiple projects; assist business users in business requirements.

·                           Train end-users on data usage and reports functionality, QA/UAT testing; mentor new employees and interns on

operational data needs.

 

SetFocus, LLCMarlboro, NJ      06/09 – 08/09

Business Intelligence Master’s Program

·               Implemented a Labor Analysis Business Intelligence solution for a national construction company.

·               Existing data from diverse data sources were consolidated into a uniform SQL Server 2005 database.  ETL capabilities of SQL Server Integration Services were used to define imports of the data, build scheduling packages, to define integration flow, log data error exceptions and orphaned data and to define Database Maintenance Plans and send emails. 

·               Created cubes, dimensions and business critical KPIs using SQL Server Analysis Services representing aggregations in several different ways - hierarchically and using custom groupings that the company will use to analyze performance. Created several MDX queries according to business requirements.

·               Developed detail and summary reports including line and pie charts, trend analysis reports and sub-reports according to business requirements using SQL Server Reporting Services. 

·               Implemented business intelligence dashboards using MOSS 2007 Report Center and Excel Services producing different summary results based on user view and role membership.

·               Created score cards with executive summary dashboards using MS Office Performance Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer that display performance monitoring measures for sales, sales trends, and book return rates for a fictitious book publisher deriving data from an OLAP data source and deployed them to SharePoint sites. Built dashboards with drill-down capabilities to view product sales by category and customer, through summary reports and sales trend charts.

·               Created score cards with advanced set of dashboards using MS Office Performance Point Server 2007 Dashboard Designer that feature executive summary measures for revenue, overhead costs, material purchases, labor and profitability trends for a fictitious construction company extracting data from an OLAP data source and deployed them to SharePoint sites. The dashboards contain multiple pages to view performance by employee, region, and quarter. It enables the end-users to make filter selections.

·               Key product areas utilized also include data modeling, SSRS report subscriptions and data driven subscriptions, SSAS analysis services processing tasks, cube processing options and roles

 

Solutions / Applications Developer, Project Leader   Consultant 2004 – 2009

UBS Securities                  Weehawken, NJ 10/08 – 03/09       

·               Involved in a firm-wide effort to build the global Client Position system (CPos).

·               Provided the new system with Cost Price, Realized and Unrealized Tax Lot summary data, for the creation of Position Balance repository as well as supporting Portfolio Management System (PMIS).

·               Designed and built the interface between PMIS and Client Position system

·               Provided estimates, and coordinated during project scoping and planning   

·               Created Data Mapping of host data sources and CPOS repository

·               Wrote functional and technical specifications

 

Oppenheimer & Co.                              New York, NY03/08 – 10/08    

·               Participated in Multi-Currency project, that involves Trading and Statements related Swift messages for both, foreign and domestic trades.

·               Involved in all phases of the systems-wide effort, including Systems, Data and Business analysis

·               Designed and built Settlement Instructions repository and applications design

·               Translate business requirements into functional requirements

·               Analyzed issues with statements and confirms

Brown Brothers Harriman                             Jersey City, NJ09/07 – 03/08       

·               Involved in the Goldbrick project of the Messaging Infrastructure Systems group. The system primarily handles the routing of SWIFT financial messages from all applications within the bank. A complex network of components, such as: Merva, Swift Alliance Gateway, XGEN and WBI-FN are utilized in controlling Interbank communications.

·               Monitored OFAC (Anti-Money Laundering) messaging activity

·               Elucidated functional requirements into technical requirements

·               Produced schedules; performed integrated/QA testing, and trial activities

 

Citigroup               Jersey City, NJ02/07 – 09/07       

·               Fund Accounting system receives trade activity and recordkeeping transactions from external clients, formats the data and processes on the SunGard/InvestOne accounting system.  Subsequently, the application produces client reporting, such as: Daily NAV changes, Gain/Loss, Cash Flow Analysis, Trade Status, Reconciliation and periodic client Statements. 

·               Translated business requirements to functional requirements

·               Developed technical specifications and designed functional flow

·               Created test cases for integrating testing

 

Education Testing Services (ETS)                Princeton, NJ04/06 - 01/07     

·               Engaged in the development of a high profile, multi-platform system, that provides various nationwide entities with the ability to administer a multitude of structured examinations.

·               Designed applications and databases, conducted systems gap analysis, and project/ estimates

·               Translated business requirements to functional requirements

·               Created technical specifications and developed system guideline standards

 

The Bank of New York                New York, NY10/04 – 03/06        

·               Participated in the development of a sophisticated and robust system, that allows broker/dealer services to automatically borrow securities for Hedge Funds clients.  This system is designed for high-volume trading and is one of the most efficient systems in the Securities Lending division. 

·               Performed business and system analysis, feasibility studies, and project/task estimates

·               Designed applications, set up test and QA environments, and production job scheduling

·               Developed and designed mark-to-market and daily lending activity  reports

·               Coordinated unit, integrated and system testing; user acceptance testing

 

UBS Securities                Weehawken, NJ04/04 – 09/04         

·               Engaged in the design and development of the Margin Interest Billing system. The system rebuilds historic client data, recalculates and reimburses clients overcharged margin interest. 

·               Provided technical team leadership, and system and database designs

·               Responsible for business, financial analysis, and systems analysis

·               Translated business requirements to functional requirements

 

 

ADDITIONAL SKILLS (OR) PROFESSIONAL LICENSES

 

CHIRON BUSINESS INSTITUTE, NJ             

Business Analysis               

 

MICROSOFT CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT

Business Intelligence development