Project Manager Supply Chain

Ali Farooq Phone: 309-***-**** Email: *********@****.*** Address: 5613 Sabetha Way Plano

Texas 75094

Tools/Methods:

• Summary

MicroStrategy 9

• Six Sigma

I have over 8 years of professional experience in leading Business Intelligence

• Project Success by YCA

programs. My strengths and expertise is in managing and delivering BI programs,

• Cognos

management consulting, working with CEO and Vice Presidents to develop strategy

• Business Objects

and drive implementation of business analytics, ensuring quality of the solutions

• Primavera through effective project management, stakeholder management, change

• MS Project management, and communication management. I have served as a BI professional in

developing BI strategy for the enterprise, establishing BI Center of Excellence and

Industry Application playing information management advisory role. I have driven efforts to sell Business

• Healthcare Supply Chain Intelligence technology to various business units of an enterprise and help them

• Predictive Analytics understand how their business can benefit from it through informed decisions.

• Manufacturing

I have a strong background in understanding user requirements, building strategies

• Insurance

and developing solutions. My strong technical knowledge and strong leadership skills

• Corporate Treasury

have made me deliver quality solutions with high customer satisfaction. I have lead

• Forecasting Systems

and delivered multiple complex end to end BI/Data-warehouse projects. I have lead

projects supply chain, healthcare, insurance and manufacturing.

Roles:

I have detailed experience in leading projects using 6-sigma and PMI methodology. I

• BI Strategy Advisor

have taken extensive program management training, including conflict management,

• MicroStrategy

change management, resource management, resource planning, target selection,

Engagement Mgr

performance management, project sponsorship, investment in excellence by Pacific

• BI Supply Chain Program Institute, Caterpillar PMO program management training (including resource planning,

Manager budget planning) and YCA project management training. Academically I have an MBA

• BI Strategy Program in management from Bradley University and Masters in Computer Science from

Manager Purdue University.

• Six Sigma Blackbelt

• Business Analyst Highlights:

• Project Manager

Role:

• BI Technical Lead

• Lead Technical Advisory Services delivery, which includes: Consistent

delivery of BI advisory and audit services, Subject matter expertise, Project

Certifications

management, Strategic consulting, Onsite services resource management,

• Certified 6 Sigma Blackbelt

Provide insight, expertise and direction, Facilitate relationship with

• MSTR Certified Project

MicroStrategy corporate and executive resources,

Designer

• MSTR Certified Report

BI and Data-warehouse

Developer

• Lead efforts to consolidate data from multiple MRP’s into one Supply Chain

• MSTR Certified Document

Data warehouse. This program was critical to the enterprise for helping

Developer

manage inventory more effectively.

• MSTR Certified Platform

• Lead effort to develop the BI Strategy. The goal was to revisit and evaluate

Administrator

leading Business Intelligence solutions and develop 5 year roadmap.

• MSTR Certified Engine

• Lead efforts to build an Enterprise Information Management Center of

Specialist

Excellence.

• Lead efforts to develop enterprise data-warehouse strategy.

Education

• Strong technical knowledge and hand on experience of MicroStrategy

• MBA Management

BI Suite. Strong technical knowledge and hands on experience of Cognos BI

• M.S. Computer Science Suite. Basic technical knowledge and hand on experience of Business

• B.S. Computer Science Objects BI Suite.

• In depth knowledge of BI architecture and design, OLAP/BI tools,

dimensional modeling, data warehousing and master data management.

• Completed an extensive 6 Sigma Black belt Training. Lead 15 6 Sigma

DMAIC and DMEDI projects to introduce new processes or to improve old

processes resulting into increased efficiency or reduction in costs. Total value

proposition of these projects was $1.5 million.

• Lead 30 projects following PMI project management methodology.

• Lead 6 sigma projects dealing with creation of corporate standards for BI

development.

• Drove SWAT teams to troubleshoot environment issues and performance

issues for financially significant reporting solutions.

• Manage and allocate BI developers to various development projects. This

included an offshore BI core team.

Ali Farooq Phone: 309-***-**** Email: *********@****.*** Address: 5613 Sabetha Way Plano

Texas 75094

Summary of Experience

MicroStrategy Inc – Consulting Services (April 2010 to present)

Project 1: Strategic Advisor at Novation\VHA: As a strategic advisor at Novation developed a detailed roadmap for the

client with thorough details and recommendations around enriching user experience, portal integration, predictive

analytics, data consolidation, project consolidation, security unification, delivery model, staffing model and governance.

The recommendations provided valuable input to the client about their current challenges and building blocks to address

the challenges.

Project 2: Strategic Advisor at Dell: As a strategic advisor at Dell performed complex diagnostics of technical

environment at Dell, understanding the challenges and developing an extensive report with steps to address the short

term and long term challenges. The customer positively responded the suggestions and has a signed a billable contract

with MicroStrategy to implement and kick-off work on these recommendations. The technical scope of the diagnostics was

around MicroStrategy environment protection guidelines, Object Reusability guidelines, license configuration, solution

design framework, report migration process, peer review process, product utilization diagnostic, delivery model, offshore

engagement model and level 1 support model.

Project 3: Strategic Advisor Delta Dental: Lead a key engagement at Delta Dental. As a project manager and strategic

advisor at this engagement the key responsibilities were ensuring on time and on budget delivery of the project. ensuring

quality of the solution, help the team solve technical challenges around Infrastructure configuration, security design, portal

integration, schema development and report development and provide the client recommendations on governance, data

modeling best practices, change management, agile delivery process and security architecture.

Project 4: Strategic Advisor Heartland Payment Systems: Lead the effort to provide the customer with a roadmap to

migrate from Unix to Windows environment.

Project 5: Delivery Manager Top Markets LLC: Lead efforts to deliver “Dashboard QuickStrike and Performance

Analysis Offering”

Caterpillar Inc (June 2004 – April 2010)

BI Strategy Program Manager

BI Tool Strategy for GIS Foundation Program

• As a 6 Sigma Black belt lead the BI Tool Strategy project. The goal of the project was to recommend the BI Tool strategy to

support the initial BI delivery for the EIM Build the Foundation program in 2010. The SAP purchase of BObj (Business

Objects) makes it a tool that will be the next generation of SAP BI and therefore this project evaluated BObj’s use in the EIM

architecture and identify any significant risks posed by BObj in that architecture; estimated the total cost of ownership for

BObj and Cognos; and defined the MGPP for rolling out the recommended tool for Caterpillar Foundation and MACH 1

program.

BI Supply Chain Program Manager

Inventory Analytics – Supply Chain Program

• As a Program Manager lead the multi-generation Inventory Analytics reporting application development. The program

consisted of multiple sub-projects that included a project to acquire TeraData Infrastructure, a project to create

standard interface for all distribution facilities, a project to source data to the standard interface through IT

representatives from each facility, a project to plan and implement change management, a project to load and

transform data from standards interface to Data warehouse and a project to develop front end reports and dashboards

for the users.

• The program was critical to the enterprise for having an enterprise wide view of Inventory. The fact that multiple

vendors and multiple facilities were involved as key players in the program made it very challenging.

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