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OLUSEGUN MICHAEL FALADE
**B Brian Dr, Toronto, ON, M2J 3X8
Home: 647-***-****; Cell: 416-***-****;
Email: acedk9@r.postjobfree.com
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PROFILE
"An Information Systems (IS) specialist, with over twenty (20) successful
years of experience in IS management, within which is over ten (10) years
of experience in project management and 10 years of experience in Business
Intelligence (BI) analytics, having worked in the public, banking,
telecommunication and IS consulting sectors; highly analytical, strategic
thinker, team builder and adaptable; with certification in project
management (PMP), master degrees in Information Systems (M.Sc.) and
Business Administration (MBA)."
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
. Project Lead/Coordinator for Colleges and Universities Analytic and
Decision Support Project
. Technical lead for EDCS BI cubes application.
. Project Manager for SIMS 4.1 BI application, with a budget of $703,800.
. Led 2 other BI developers to successfully complete the L18 (Learning to
18) project, as the sub-project manager and BI solution architect, a BI
application, which provided enable business to measure performance of
funded programs and initiatives. Designed and developed the reports with
Report Studio, modelled the report metadata using Framework Manager,
performed the system integration tests and deployed and coordinated the
user acceptance test. (EDU)
. Led 2 other BI developers to successfully complete the SIMS (Strategic
Information Management System) project, as the BI solution architect, a
BI application, which provided the proof of concept to business or policy
formulators. Designed and developed the reports with Report Studio,
modelled the report metadata using Framework Manager, performed the
system integration tests and deployed and coordinated the application's
user acceptance test. I received the prix REALM award on this project.
(EDU)
. Led 2 other BI developers to successfully complete the REACH project, as
the sub-project manager and BI solution architect, a BI application,
which provided the proof of concept to business or policy formulators.
Designed and developed the reports with Report Studio, modelled the
report metadata using Framework Manager, performed the system integration
tests and deployed and coordinated the user acceptance test. (EDU)
. Led 2 other BI developers to successfully complete the EVERGREENING
project, as the sub-project manager and solution architect, an enterprise
business intelligence (EBI) infrastructure upgrade (upgrade to a load
balance architecture), which provided an enhance performance environment
for BI projects.
. Led and mentored BI developers in the design and development of BI
reports and OLAP objects/cubes. (EDU)
. Led successfully, as the sub-project lead and technical expert, other
projects such as:
. REACH, the business intelligence (BI) application development project,
which provided the proof of concept to business or policy formulators
for Ontario Ministry of Education.
. MELODIE, the application migration project, as part of requirements
for CGI to be SOX compliant.
. EVERGREENING, the Enterprise business intelligence (EBI)
infrastructure upgrade project (upgrade to a load balance
architecture), which provided an enhance performance environment for
BI projects for Ontario learning ministries (Education, Training,
Colleges and University).
. Managed and built an IT unit from a three member's team to over fifty
staff members within fifteen years span, with low turnover rate;
developed the strategic information systems policies and direction and
managed IT resources (finance, human, equipment and property) for daily
operations efficiently.
. Managed and mentored department personnel (resolved personnel conflicts,
conducted yearly appraisals, supervised unit heads, provided mentorship,
advised on career plan), with a very low staff turnover rate.
. Managed a team of eight (8) IT professional, as the project manager and
technical expert, to build the enterprise network infrastructure project
for Trade Bank Ltd. I managed the project through all the project phases
of concept, definition, planning, implementation (including procurement)
and close-out. The project was completed successfully within budget
($1,100,000) and timeline. This project linked the business units for
faster transactions, reduced the customer transaction time, and enhanced
customer services. Other IT projects managed successfully include BANKOS
(banking information system) with a team of fifteen (15) at the cost of
$330,000 and THEBANK (banking information system) with a team of seven
(7) at cost of $200,000
SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL SKILLS
Skills Level Yrs Skills Level Yrs Skills Level Yrs Cognos 8, 10
BI Suite:
Framework Manager
Cognos Connection
Report Studio
Query Studio
Analysis Studio
Metric Studio
Metric Manager/Designer
Cognos 7 BI Suite:
Impromptu Administration
PowerPlay (PP) Explorer
PP Transformer (OLAP)
Upfront Portal
Access Manager/Sun Directory Server
Impromptu Reports
Others:
Data Manager
Informatica PC 7
Oracle 8i/9i DBA
MS-SQL Server
MS PowerPoint
MS Access
MS Visio 5
Unix Scripting
SQL
SQL*Loader
PL/SQL
TOAD
Modelling
Unix Admin.
VSS
MS Project
Visual Basic-VB
Cobol
RPG
DecisionStream/Data Manager
DETAIL WORK EXPERIENCE
Ontario Ministry of Education, Toronto, ON
Jan 2013 to Date
Business Intelligence Developer (BI Architect/Technical Lead/Project
Manager)
. Project Lead/Coordinator for Colleges and Universities Analytic and
Decision Support Project ($725,000)
. Technical lead for EDCS BI cube application and deployed/implemented
BI application solutions.
. Designed and built prototype/proof-of-concept BI applications
. Project Manager for SIMS 4.1 BI application, with a budget of
$703,800.
. Consulted with business users to manage, provide BI solution and
direction, as co-project manager and technical expert for FIR and EDCS
BI application projects.
. Led the design and development of technical solutions for FIR and EDCS
BI application projects.
. Reviewed the L18 (Learning to 18) project and providing solutions to
the application defects/bugs.
. Designed and developed multidimensional OLAP cubes and reports.
. Planned, prepared material for and facilitated clients' training
program.
Scotiabank (MIS & RR, International Operations & Share Services)
Apr 2012 - Jan 2013
Business Intelligence Consultant
. Technical lead for the FDR credit card project and COA BI
applications.
. Reviewed and analysed business requirement documents and performed
data analysis for the data sources.
. Built the FDR credit card, loans and customer information metadata
model and updated data dictionary.
. Investigated the defects in the COA BI application and designed the
solution, resolved to defects and improved the performance by updating
the macro (Visual Basic) scripts, Cognos reports and OLAP cubes.
. Collaborated with offshore team to analyse business requirements,
prepared test cases and test BI applications.
Ontario Ministry of Education, Toronto, ON
Mar 2007 - Apr 2012
Business Intelligence Developer (BI Architect/Technical Lead)
. Led 2 other BI developers to successfully complete the L18 (Learning to
18) project, as the sub-project manager and BI solution architect, a BI
application, which provided enable business to measure performance of
funded programs and initiatives. Designed and developed the reports with
Report Studio, modelled the report metadata using Framework Manager,
performed the system integration tests and deployed and coordinated the
application's user acceptance test.
. Led 2 other BI developers to successfully complete the SIMS (Strategic
Information Management System) project, as the BI solution architect, a
BI application, which provided the proof of concept to business or policy
formulators. Designed and developed the reports with Report Studio,
modelled the report metadata using Framework Manager, performed the
system integration tests and deployed and coordinated the application's
user acceptance test. I received the prix REALM award on this project.
. Led 2 other BI developers to successfully complete the REACH project, as
the sub-project manager and BI solution architect, a BI application,
which provided the proof of concept to business or policy formulators.
Designed and developed the reports with Report Studio, modelled the
report metadata using Framework Manager, performed the system integration
tests and deployed and coordinated the application's user acceptance
test.
. Led 2 other BI developers to successfully complete the EVERGREENING
project, as the sub-project manager and solution architect, an enterprise
business intelligence (EBI) infrastructure upgrade (upgrade to a load
balance BI architecture), which provided an enhance performance
environment for BI projects.
. Led and mentored BI developers in the design and development of BI
reports/applications and OLAP objects/cubes.
. Installed and configured the Cognos 8 Suite for the EBI EVERGREENING
systems architecture environment and participated in the review and
upgrade of the BI systems architecture
. Conducted interview for OPS resource.
. Reviewed and analysed user requirement documents for BI applications
(Data mart, Cubes and Reports).
. Designed and Developed reports and cubes (OLAP objects) for BI projects
(ONSIS, SIMS I, II & III, L18, OSN) to monitor key performance indicators
for the learning ministry's policy initiatives. These projects have
greatly improved the decision making process of the learning ministries
and increase the capacity to manage the education policy initiatives of
government.
Dimensional Strategies Inc Dec
2006 - Feb 2007
Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant
. Designed and developed BI report solutions using Report Studio and
Framework Manager
. Worked with data BI team to analyze data sources
Client: Rogers Communications Inc (Local Network Portability)
CGI Inc, Markham, ON June 2004 -
Nov 2006
Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant
. Led successfully the MELODIE, as the sub-project lead and technical
expert, an application migration, which was part of requirements for CGI
to be SOX compliant.
. Analysed business requirements and data sources, designed and developed
processes for the extraction, transformation, and load for the MELODIE
application data.
. Developed BI reports for clients to monitor their financial assets.
. Led successfully, as the project manager and technical expert, the Time
Billing project.
. Analysed, designed and built the dimensional Model for the Time data
warehouse.
. Analysed, Designed and built the Time Billing data mart star schema
model.
. Designed and built the Metadata model for Reporting.
. Analysed, Designed and developed Business Reports and OLAP cube.
. Installed and configured, tested/deployed the Informatica POWERCENTER
Server and clients.
. Installed, configured, tested/deployed the REPORTNET and Cognos 8
environments, as a development and testing environment for CGI BI/DW
team.
. Designed, installed and configured Cognos 7.3 Series Servers and Clients
application in an N-tier infrastructure.
. Migrated Cognos 7.0 metadata, reports (IWR), cubes and macros to Cognos
7.3
. Designed, built and tested Impromptu reports from ESDW data mart and
published to 'Upfront' portal for Releases 2.2 and 3 of data warehousing
project.
. Built, refreshed and published three multi-dimensional cubes built from
Ontario school board data mart.
. Mentored/trained clients to develop new reports and support BI
environment.
. Conducted knowledge transfer sessions for clients to be able to support
the system.
. Worked with data warehousing team to analyze data sources and data
warehouse for business solution.
Clients: Bell EXPRESSVU; Ontario Ministry of Education.
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Toronto, ON Mar
2004 - June 2004
Programmer
. Designed and developed reports and published the reports in different
formats (Excel, PDF, portable, etc) for user requirements using Cognos
Impromptu suite for the decision support system (DSS), extracting and
converting PL/SQL scripts and data from multiple databases.
. Automated the procedure of processing reports using Cognos scripting
language (macro).
. Performed quality assurance tests of applications/reports.
. Supported overnight MIS processing with the aid of a pager and Citrix
Program Neighbourhood system.
The Laurier Institution, Vancouver, BC Oct
2003 - Feb 2004
Information Technology (IT) Consultant
. Project Manager for Laurier Client database
. Elicited and analysed business/user requirements, analysed processes to
design system requirements and designed data models and rebuilt the
institution database, developed reports and supported.
Trade Bank PLC, Lagos, Nigeria Nov
1988 - Mar 2003
IT Manager
. Projects managed are:
. Enterprise Network infrastructure with a team of eight (8) at a
cost of $1,100,000
. BANKOS (banking information system) with a team of fifteen (15)
at the cost of $330,000
. THEBANK (banking information system) with a team of seven (7) at
cost of $200,000
a. Developed project's business cases and project charters.
b. Gathered/elicited, documented and analysed business and user
requirements.
c. Monitored and supervised the projects to successful completion on time
and within budget.
d. Prepared project management plans (scope, budget, schedule, quality,
communication, risk).
e. Executed, and monitored and controlled the projects.
f. Recruited (interviewed) human resources for the projects.
g. Supervised post-deployment daily operation of the information systems.
h. Prepared, defended and implemented resources budgeted.
i. Managed change request and conducted impact analysis.
. Developed the strategic information systems policies and direction for
the bank annually.
. Developed and maintained the enterprise architecture (data, application
and technical/technology) for the bank.
. Managed IT resources (finance, human, equipment and property) for daily
operations efficiently.
. Managed department's procurements and service level agreements
. Managed and mentored department personnel (resolved personnel conflicts,
conducted yearly appraisals, supervised unit heads, provided mentorship,
advised on career plan), with a very low staff turnover rate.
. Prepared, defended and implemented the IT department's annual budget
. A member of the enterprise business analysis team, named as Enterprise
Strategic Planning and Management.
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
. Project Management Professional (PMP, USA)
. M.Sc. Information Systems, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, New York,
USA
. MBA, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
. B.Sc. Mathematics/Computer Science, AHMADU BELLO University, Zaria,
Nigeria
. Business Intelligence Architecture: Principles of BI Design (TDWI)
. Cognos Report Studio: Author Reports with Multidimensional Data (Newcomp)
. Cognos 10.2 Workspace Advance Self-Service OLAP Data Extraction,
Relational Authoring and Dash-boarding (Senturus)
. Oracle 9i Database Administrator (DBA) Certified Professional and
Associate, OCP & OCA
. Cognos Suites ( 10, 8, Report Net and 7) Training Courses
. Service Management using ITILv3
. Risk Management, Tricks of the Trade and Attributes of the Most
Successful Project Managers (RMC)
. Project Management Crash Course for IT Professionals and PMP Exam Prep
Online - 6th Edition (RMC)
. Business Writing Skills (OPS Learning & Development)
. Advance Project Management and Project Planning Workshop
. Presentation Skill and Conflict Management (OPS Learning & Development)
. Project Management for IT Professionals (Canada School of Public Service,
Skill Soft Corp)
. Certified Business Analyst Professional Courses (Canada School of Public
Service, Skill Soft Corp)
. Gathering and Documenting User Requirements (Alliance Training Network,
Noble Inc)