BD Alabi

Contact: (+1) 425-443-0144, abidemialabi@hotmail.com

 

Highly accomplished and results oriented leader with over 14+ years of diverse industry experience working for growth companies and major industry leaders in fast paced environments. Diverse background in Technology Management, Project management, Enterprise Data warehouse systems. Corporate Financial Data Analytics. Business systems development, Investment banking applications support, Online software & service development. Infrastructure, Amazon AWS Cloud services and Network engineering implementation, change management & operations.

 

 

Publicis Groupe, Seattle WA

Senior BI Consultant, [2011 – Dec 2014]

Design and implement BI solutions using MS SQL Server BI tools (SSIS, SSRS & SSAS) and Amazon Cloud Services including RDS, S3 and EMR and Redshift data warehouse platform running on EC2 and VPC Cloud services. Develop ETL using SSIS and Talend open studio for data integration and Pentaho data integration BI platform, and business reports from various data sources including data marts and cubes. Design and develop data warehouse solutions based on customer business requirements using RDBMS platforms including MySQL and the Kognitio WX2 massive parallel processing (MPP) database system.

 

·               Data solutions architecture executing various projects to acquire and integrate data from disparate sources and platform into a central data hub using the Amazon AWS cloud services infrastructure.

·               Develop ETL for very large data sources, data mapping and validation components with SSIS packages, Talend open studio data integration, Pentaho data integration BI platform and SQL Server.

·               Develop data presentation components based on best practice methodologies, and utilizing Excel, SSRS & SSAS.

·               Work with engineering team to translate customer business requirements into technical design briefs.

·               Design new cubes and implement performance enhancement on existing cubes to meet customers’ business needs.

·               Design and Implement performance tuning process by utilizing a process of caching and executing most commonly used and long running MDX queries as a part of scheduled SSAS cube processing.

·               Perform sustained engineering on existing data warehouse systems and work with engineering team to implement OLAP best practices.

 

Clearwire Corporation, Kirkland WA

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant, [May 2010 – 2011]

Design and develop processes and tools for collecting & presenting data and information for financial planning and budgeting. Provide business and technical leadership for creating and improving BI systems effectiveness core capacity planning and project team. BI systems design and implementation, Analytics and Data visualization. Data warehouse with MS SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS & SSAS). ETL working with various data sources build data marts & cubes (MDX), design and develop KPI dashboards, business and financial data presentation, define and develop reports in ProClarity, and other BI reporting tools.

 

·               Developed business performance reporting and KPI dashboards for the core network planning finance and budget team using BI tools and best practice methodologies and SSRS & SSAS.

·               Developed ETL and data mapping and validation components with SSIS packages and SQL stored procedures

·               Designed and developed processes and tools to extract data and load into OLAP databases from various data sources including Zenoss, Share point, ProClarity and Excel.

·               Lead team efforts to implement automated processes for creating datasets and mapping data elements to corresponding groups and hierarchy.

·               Managed vendor relationships, cross team collaboration on data inter-exchange and the BI systems data quality improvement initiatives.

·               Developed data sets and multi-dimensional data objects for integrations into the enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence reports for Cognos, Crystal Reports and Micro strategy BI platforms.

 

Microsoft Corporation, London UK & Redmond WA USA

 

Senior Program Manager (Business Intelligence) [2006 – Apr 2010]

Program Manager [June 2004 – 2006]

Data Systems Engineer [2001 – May 2004]

 

Project & product management. Design and implement data collection and analysis tools, Manage projects from inception to completion, Drive collaboration between virtual project teams. Database & Data warehouse Management Systems Analysis and Design, Software Development project management. KPI and scorecard reporting. Performance data analysis and reporting, technology strategy and envisioning. Multi group collaboration. Implement data driven strategic investment decisions.

 

Business Intelligence

·               Performed enterprise level integration and extraction of business data using SSIS with multiple data sources including Excel, SQL Server databases, MS Excel & Access, XML, Proclarity, SAP (Cognos) systems.

·               Developed and managed business reports and dashboards. Created process for generating periodic KPI and Service performance reports for supported lines of business, using SQL business intelligence tools including SSIS & SSRS.

·               Developed and maintained the systems performance monitoring data warehouse for the global online division.

·               Maintain Business Systems functionality and integrity during the period of rapid growth from 50GB to 4TB by employing database and data warehouse maintenance best practices.

·               Worked with Internal customers to collect, analyze, interpret and present complex business data.

Program/Project Management

·               Successfully reduced OPEX by 12.5% for the R&D incubation service by implementing a plan focused on maintaining service growth, developing an effective communication & marketing strategy and cost saving through automation & improved process efficiencies.

·               Drove and completed project for the design and implementation of a brand new $12 million Microsoft state-of-the-art 10,000 server capacity data center in Puerto-rico using process automation with dynamic infopath forms and Sharepoint.

·               Developed service delivery plans, created and documented roadmaps and future strategic vision for all of my supported lines of business.

·               Drove collaboration with the Windows Live operations security team to develop mitigating solutions to potential security vulnerabilities. This helped meet a key requirement of the US government mandated security audit of the company’s global infrastructure.

·               Performed risk assessment & mitigation plans for key service/product releases such as Windows OCA.

Data Systems Engineering

·               Performed key engineering role in the design and implementation of the change management database (CMDB) system based on MS SQL Server 2000, Data Transformation Service (DTS) & SMS.

·               Completed project work on the design and development of web content management and publishing application (Atlantis v2.0) for the MSN EMEA organization using IIS, SQL Server 7.0 & MS Message queuing service (MSMQ).

·               Gathered data and other relevant information for the development of measures and reports for historical and/or predictive analysis within the group’s assigned projects.

·               Developed customized scripts and applications to support the SMS deployment using VB Script & T-SQL queries.

·               Worked on shipping progressive releases of the tools applications suite, pre-release product cycles and post release sustained engineering of the internal tools applications suite.

·               Collaborated with the architecture, design and test teams throughout the complete product development life cycle.

 

Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) Investment Bank, UK.

Senior Project Consultant, [2000 – 2001]

 

Deliver monitoring systems project successfully and on schedule. Evaluate existing systems and propose new systems designs and technical strategies. Design and maintain monitoring and performance data collection and analysis; architect, implement and maintain compute resources.

 

·               Successfully served as the lead project engineer in the design and deployment of the organization's internal web services performance and monitoring data warehouse system using highly effective data gathering and collection and reporting techniques.

·               Developed and maintained enterprise systems availability and performance monitoring data warehouse systems using SQL Server 2000, DTS and SQL stored procedures.

·               Provided Tier2/3 level support of the internal tools and platform for the investment banking division.

·               Authored paper on recommendations for future operating systems platform upgrade and presented to the IT group executives and leadership team.

 

Psion Teklogix Ltd, UK

Lead Engineer, [1998 – Nov 1999]

·               Managed a team of tech support engineers supporting the corporate network with over 600 users.

·               Successfully implemented project to develop a factory floor time and attendance tracking application based on SQL Server 7 and Visual basic.

·               Collaborated with other IT support teams at different locations within the company to design and create key intranet applications suite using IIS 4.0 and FrontPage 98 web authoring tools.

·               Designed, deployed and documented the Admin LAN security policy standards (C2 level) and implemented database systems for reporting audited data.

Andersen Consulting

Technical Consultant, [1996 – 1998]

·               Designed and implemented rollout project of Windows NT4.0 workstation to over 500 corporate network users.

·               Provided Tier2 level support for financial applications Reuters & Bloomberg equity and index trading terminals, Cognos, Business objects, AccPac for windows, TaxSoft for Windows , Market Eye, Edos, globe and crest.

 

EDUCATION

Foster Business School, University of Washington, Seattle WA

MBA (Master of Business Administration)

 

London South Bank University, UK

B.ENG (Electronic/Electrical Engineering)

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS

·               Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

·               Foundation Certification in IT Service Management (itSMF ITIL).

·               Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)

·               Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA)

·               Microsoft Ship IT Awards – Received for contributions towards the release of MSN versions 8 & 9 and Windows 7.

 

KEY SKILLS

·               All Windows OS Platforms, Linux, Amazon EC2 and VPC Cloud Systems.

·               SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio (SSIS, SSRS, & SSAS) and Data Warehouse design.

·               MS Office applications suite, Word, Excel,  MS Project, PowerPoint, Access.

·               Proficiency with Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) Including MS SQL Server, MySQL and Amazon Redshift data warehouse services.

·               Visual Studio IDE, SharePoint, System Center Configuration Manager 2007, IIS, ErWin.

·               VB Script, Powershell, Perl, XML, T-SQL, MDX, ASP, Javascript and C#. TCP/IP stack, Routing Protocols.