SARAH TAGHAVI

Sr. Consultant in Enterprise Information and

Enterprise Solution Architecture

acgmgx@r.postjobfree.com

b 703-***-****

AREAS OF EXPERTISE :

Solid understanding and experience in the the design and establishment of

Enterprise Information Architectures, Master Data Management (MDM),

Enterprise Data Models, BI infrastructure (corporate data warehouse model), ‘to-

be’ data models OLTP and Analytical applications, Establishing corporate-wide

metadata mapping standards and guidelines ; Identifying and uncoupling

business process logic from data in existing complex distributed transactions ;

management of multiple data integration projects; establishing integration

standards via SOA ‘s canonical model to conform to Data Governance

procedures ; Mentoring and teaching seminars on EIA ; (Gartner EA, NIEM’s

XML Schema, UML and component based modeling- *working knowledge )

WHITE PAPERS:

“When SOA runs into MDM, you are on the right track!”

“How reliable is the data in your data warehouse?”

“The advantages of having a multi-dimensional database in data

warehousing solutions.”

“Data Governance –a rewarding corporate effort ”

“Business Processes in Service Oriented Architecture”

(Published by Oracle.com- expert advice, IT-online local TV channel, VISIBLE

Corp; BIEC.co and VLDB Forums)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Business Information Engineering Corporation (BIEC)– Principal,

Consultant on BIEC contracts:

2011-Present Sr. consultant, EIA VL Contract Laboratory INC. Data

warehouse lead on EDM extension middleware app (designed a highly adaptive

enterprise data model and metadata repository); Responsible for overseeing

technical solutions alternatives and final implementation in a parallel proto-type

platform to find and automatically correct the data integrity problems of existing

databases or any data source; increased data quality and consistency across

online database systems by developing and adhering to a subset based EA

framework developed by my company; Developed dynamic online Master Data

links within the source systems( virtual MDM repository) using proprietary Agile

software development framework; EIA ‘how to’ for training seminars and

practical ‘how to’ guides on Enterprise Information Architecture and business use

of SOA based MDM platforms (customizing for pharmaceutical companies as a

vendor solution package)

4/2012-12/2012 Federal Contract IBM, Sr. Enterprise Architect ; defined

metadata management strategy by building in the foundation for formal data

governance ( under EIA framework).Data requirements and analysis; defining

Customer Care architectural standards, redesign of existing CRM Data

Definitions and data models. Delivered customized and integrated CRM data

models.

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3/2010-7/2011 Business Intelligence(BI) Federal Contract NetStar- Project

lead -Analysis of existing data sources and data marts to improve BI

functionalities; Promoting DMBOK practices as the technical lead on Tri-Health

Care System’s data mart design and MDM staging ‘to-be’ proposal; teaching and

providing design guidelines on various data warehousing efforts such as

inclusion of organizational business requirements into ERD to maintain

application independence; Provided plans to fit within EIA framework which shifts

to a vertical approach to LOB data integration.

3/2006-8/2009 Sr. EIA Architect and Project Manager-Responsible for

enterprise-wide data governance, MDM design and overseeing massive data

cleansing efforts –Led a team of 12 DBAs and engineers involved in coding and

extensive re-modeling including detailed

manual checks of data volumes; set formal procedures for SME interactions and

corporate-wide access of business data through UML notations and diagrams.

Winstar Telecommunications Inc., Project Manager (enterprise master data

management and integration of existing databases 4/1999-10/2005)

Hired and managed a team of 14 data architects and BAs to work on the

development of Winstar’s enterprise-wide data and process ‘to be’ models;

defined and documented the requirements of candidate models (EDI,MDM of

today); delivered specification and design of the (2000+ entity) corporate ER

Diagram; successful modification of organizational (Order,CS,provision,billing)

logical data and process models leading to significant improvements in data

quality. Seminar instructor on modeling and normalization;The development tasks

were as follows; parallel db setup and meetings with various corporate staff and

documentation of the enterprise model-and DDL in Designer2K; For the first time

corporate data definitions were mapped and made shareable across all

development platforms (Oracle 9g, SQL server, excel,flat files). Selected the

vendor and tools for my 3 projects.

Microlink Inc., Mentor/EIA / (Walter Reed Army Medical Center-1/2004-

8/2004)

Developed requirements analysis documentation and questionnaires by

evaluation of existing reports, SME interviews and recent I/O patterns; point of

contact for the preliminary ‘to-be’ data model of national breast cancer database

to physicians and staff; Defined data dictionary and assigned tasks to the

database development teams;

Franklin Acceptance Corporation.(later merged into Wells Fargo 2/2000-

11/2002)

Sr. EIA consultant to the MIS department on the establishment

of the Enterprise Architecture framework; Analysis of applications,

data models, backup and recovery plans, platforms and tools; Oracle DBA

responsible for performance and tuning of an SMP (load

balancing) HP-ux Unix OS running 3 Oracle instances(high volume

distributed transactions) replicated via Oracle multi-master

symmetric replication method. EIA framework later purchased by Wells Fargo

Bank.

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VISA - Sr. Data warehouse Consultant(3/1999-12/1999)

Financial data warehouse architect- defined project and guidelines;

examination of existing legacy and processes and databases(3000+ entities) to

determine content and granularity level required to accommodate the diverse and

complex financial rules and requirements across secure external user views;

designed the first loan administration dimensional data model (STAR schema)

central to other subject areas; used ER-WIN data mart component to serve as

the central meta BI data repository; defined the staging area setup and the

mapping structures

Winstar Telecommunications inc (1/1997-12/1999).

Project Manager- Full life cycle development of the enterprise-wide data model

and EDM repository(similar to MDM of today); Defining, setting and

documenting specific standards and procedures for information strategy and

integrated planning of the organizational valuable business data;

Consolidating the existing disparate business area databases and other data

sources into a detailed conceptual model by resolving previous data anomalies

and lack of logical independence; developed a three tier client server architecture

to be implemented by my development DBA team ; The

information architecture supported a distributed transaction processing

environment (multiple ORACLE RDBMS nodes) with a single business rules

validation layer.

ORACLE Corporation (Data Warehouse group- Sr. DBA 3/1996-12/1996)

In charge of design of DOE data warehouse system; Analysis and understanding

of clients’ analytical/BI and application systems issues and shaping of decision

making systems; Performance and tuning, specializing in VLDB; Provided project

time and cost estimation- detailed planning and direction; Completed 2 advanced

Oracle DBA, 2 data warehouse (OLAP tools), Parallel Query operation, Server

optimizer methods and Enterprise

Manager courses.

PSC Inc. (Sr. Informix DBA-1/1995-3/1996)

Data Architect/DBA specifying the physical organization, table layouts and tuning

parameters to optimize the performance of distributed database systems (C/S

architecture -multiple Informix 7.1 engines on Windows NT

3.51 servers); Implemented data replication for query load balancing and remote

site backup for an automated secure entry system; Developed standards on the

maintenance and update of the highly integrated data processing environment;

Implemented online Informix DBA query tool.

US Order and VISA (2/1996-12/1998)

Project manager responsible for the US order billing applications and

database system; defined the external user views, logical and physical

level specifications and implementation of RDBMS;

Resolved requirements conflicts and performed data modeling to

precisely represent the structures and entity relationships of the

organizational model; Installed and configured the database server

Informix Online 7.1 engine on SPARC running SunOS 2.4;

Developed application interface routines (ESQL/C 7.1 and shell

scripts) and coordinated the code development on the front end;

Studied the reporting needs of the billing department to implement a

subject matter (data mart) to address the main decision support( BI)

requirements and to define the meta data repository for future expanded

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data warehouse efforts; Supervision and training of development team.

Technology, Management and Analysis(6/1997-8/1997)

Conducted training seminars (3 weeks) to software developers and

DBAs on the architecture and administration of relational database

management systems, focusing on Informix Online (6.0 and 7. 1)

database servers.

MICROTEMPS INC., Consulting Contracts:

BANCTEC (2/1996-7/1996)

DBA / Architect- providing services on the design and development of

database management systems in client/server environments; Database

administrator responsible for installation, performance study,

trouble shooting and monitoring of multiple database servers (Informix- Online

7.1 0 on Unix HP-UX 1 0.01); Created stored procedures to control access and

improve query performance; Built EIS (a data mart) architectural framework;

TRW (3/1995-12/1995)

DBA- installation and optimization of three Informix Online servers

and I-Star client/server connectivity software's on Solaris 2.3 systems;

Incorporated true distributed database environment into the design

(API routines employing dynamic SQL) allowing for joining and

updating information in several remote on-line database servers

simultaneously; Performing requirements analysis, logical and physical

data modeling, E-R diagramming and implementation of the Oregon

State Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program automated

system; To serve as a shell for the future development. Created comprehensive

remote site replication procedures ensuring

accurate and efficient data replication controlled by the network process.

EDUCATION: M.S. Computer Science- West Chester University, PA

(Thesis presentations in Relational Data Modeling and RDBMS)

B.S. Computer Science and Mathematics -University of Hartford, CT

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