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*Experienced Information Worker System Analyst/Architect

Michael Thompson Isaac

112134 Haering Circle

Chaska, MN 55318

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cell: 612-***-****

SUMMARY

I am an IT professional with over 13 years experience in corporate systems and application analysis, design, and programming. For the past 10 years, I have specialized in creating business intelligence applications, data warehouses, and knowledge management frameworks for my clients. In addition to this technical experience, I have helped my clients create and modify their technical and business processes within a diverse range of vertical markets.

My accomplishments include both architecting and implementing high-profile projects yielding millions of dollars in cost reductions and incremental revenue. My experience includes managing both small and large teams, defining data warehouse subject areas; defining business intelligence and reporting requirements; planning, managing, and implementing projects; logical and physical database design; standard and ad-hoc reporting design and implementation; data transformation, standardization and reconciling for loading into data warehouses; and establishing data warehouse rollout and stabilization standards.

EXPERIENCE

Principal XBA Group, Inc

.: 06/20024/2005

XBA Group is Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in the Business Intelligence and Information Worker competencies. As such, we design and implement data warehousing, OLAP, and analysis solutions for clients using the Microsoft platform. My accomplishments with XBA Group include:

Designing, implementing, and managing data warehouses, data marts, and OLAP analysis solutions using Microsoft s Analysis Services and SQL Server 6.5, 7.0 and 2000

Creating integrated solutions in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Office System InfoPath

Achieving big ROI successes in a variety of vertical markets

Using DTS and other third-party tools for ETLM processing

Helping my clients leverage the tools they already own

Creating ASP and ASP.NET data delivery solutions as front ends to Analysis Services cubes

Creating VBA reporting solutions using Office and Office Web Components

Delivering business-based Analysis Services seminars to the local market, in partnership with Benchmark Learning and Microsoft

Teaching the first ever classes on Microsoft s SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence, in partnership with Benchmark Learning and Microsoft

Teaching Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Analysis Services classes

Teaching MDX classes

Teaching Intermediate and Advanced classes in VBA for Excel and Access

Practice Director Oracle Consulting, Business Intelligence and Warehousing: 05/2001 - 01/2002

In my role as North Central Business Intelligence and Warehousing Practice Director, I routinely:

Acted as business analyst throughout the entire data warehousing and business intelligence lifecycle

Led client Executive Workshops to assist in formulating enterprise reporting strategies to meet defined corporate goals

Worked with the North Central BIW team to complete projects on time in within budget

Designed and implemented ETL routines using Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle Pure*Extract and third party ETL tools

Designed and implemented data cleansing and validation routines

Designed and implemented ad-hoc query routines and reports using PL/SQL, Oracle Discoverer, and third-party reporting tools

Designed and implemented OLAP and MOLAP analysis routines and reports using both Oracle Express/9i and third-party OLAP tools

Designed and implemented data models for both operational data stores and enterprise data warehouses

Managed both large and small business intelligence implementations and extensions

Prepared effort and investment estimates for clients based upon both industry best practices and proven Oracle methodologies

Client Solutions Director II Oracle Consulting, Business Intelligence and Warehousing: 02/2001 - 05/2001

While a Client Solutions Director for Oracle Corporation, my achievements included:

Working as a key member of a consulting sales team to identify, qualify, and satisfy client data warehousing and business intelligence opportunities ranging in size from $10k to $1M+.

Using Oracle s Application Implementation Methodology (AIM) and Project Management Institute (PMI) hybrids to estimate, staff, and lead data warehousing and business intelligence projects

Leading client Executive Workshops to assist in formulating enterprise reporting strategies to meet defined corporate goals

Working with clients with an eye to budgets and ROI to recommend and estimate the implementation of various business intelligence tools and techniques

Designing data warehouse architectures, including dimensional and hierarchical modeling

Designing extract, transform, and load (ETL) methodologies using Oracle Warehouse Builder, Microsoft DTS, and other third-party ETL tools

Practice Manager/Senior Consultant insightformation, inc

.: 03/1999 - 02/2001

While a

Practice Manager and Senior Consultant, my achievements have included:

Managing timelines, planning, and allocating internal/external resources for large, Fortune 1000 clients using Microsoft Project in tandem with PMI methodologies

Managing data warehouse implementations as

technical architect, project manager, account manager, and implementation specialist

Helping design product and support pricing

Working with sales prospects to determine key needs and wants in a consultative sales role, using Executive Workshops and Rapid Application Design (RAD) workshops

Helping develop recommended data mart hardware infrastructure

Working with clients to determine key business structures (e.g., sales and distribution models) and performance indicators

Working with end users in an iterative development process

Managing enterprise-deployable data warehouse solutions consisting of various Microsoft, ISV, and third-party technologies using both relational and non-relational data sources

Designing, building, and deploying administration layers in Visual Basic that integrate all technology administration into one program

Designing, building, and deploying Cognos PowerPlay and Impromptu reporting tools

Designing, building, and deploying SQL Server data marts

Designing, building, and deploying DTS ETL routines

Designing, building, and deploying DataStage ETL routines

Utilizing other third-party design, ETL, and reporting tools (i.e., Informatica, Sagent, Business Objects, Brio, etc.) in the data warehouse development process

Integrating conventional data mart and data warehouse processing schemas (i.e., star schema, slowly-changing dimensions, surrogate keys, aggregations, archiving) into a Visual Basic shrink-wrapped, easily deployable utility product

Independent IT Consultant

: 08/1990 - 03/1999

To support my interest and aptitude for all things technical (as well as to support my family) while starting three businesses, I struck out on my own as an independent IT consultant.

As an independent IT consultant, my achievements included:

Building more than 20 solutions for my clients, from small Access databases used for transactional reporting, to large enterprise data warehouses. Technologies used included Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Project, as well as dBASE FoxPro and Oracle.

Acting as the chief architect and business analyst on the majority of my clients implementations

Prospecting, scoping, selling, and implementing a $110k organ donation and transplant reporting system (Visual Basic and HTML) for a large national health benefit system

Prospecting, scoping, selling, and implementing a $90k advertising tracking system (FoxPro and Visual Basic) for a large, multi-national manufacturer of custom power supplies

Developing the systems architectures as consultant for three separate businesses including infrastructure, reporting structure, internet/intranet/extranet

EDUCATION

1997

1998: Metropolitan State University; Minneapolis, MN

*PRIVATE

**Business Philosophy and Ethics*PRIVATE**

1990

1995: University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN

Humanities

1987 1990: University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; Green Bay, WI

Biology, Pre-Medicine

1987: *PRIVATE**Northeastern Wisconsin Technical College; Green Bay

Respiratory Therapy

*PRIVATE**AFFILIATIONS

HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Professional HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

Excel*Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Professional Access*Microsoft Certified Partner

Cognos, Certified Professional PowerPlay 6.5 Administration*Cognos, Impromptu 5.0 Administration

Member, Project Management Institute

PRIVATE**SKILLS

Skill Name*Skill Level*Last Used*Exp PRIVATE**Data Warehousing*Expert*Currently used*10 years**Slowly Changing Dimension Processing*Expert*Currently used*5 years**Technology Sales*Advanced*Currently used*9 years***PRIVATE**Project Management*Intermediate*Currently used*8 years***PRIVATE**WWW Development*Intermediate*Currently used*1 years***PRIVATE**Knowledge Management Architecture*Expert*Currently used*4 years**Business Objects*Intermediate*1/2002*1 year**Informatica*Intermediate*1/2002*2 years**Sagent*Intermediate*7/2001*1 year**Cognos Impromptu Admin.*Expert*8/2001*3 years**Cognos PowerPlay Admin.*Expert*8/2001*3 years**ETL Architecture*Expert*Currently used*5 years**Ardent/Informix/Ascential DataStage*Advanced*8/2001*3 years**Logical Database Design*Intermediate*Currently used*7 years**Physical Database Design*Intermediate*Currently used*7 years**Oracle Database Suite*Intermediate*1/2002*1 year**Oracle Applications Suite*Intermediate*1/2002*1 year **Oracle Pure*Integrate*Intermediate*1/2002*1 year**Oracle Pure*Integrate Name and Address*Intermediate*1/2002*1 year***PRIVATE**OLTP Systems*Intermediate*Currently used*10 years***PRIVATE**OLAP/MOLAP/HOLAP*Expert*Currently used*6 years***PRIVATE**Visual Basic .NET*Expert*Currently Used*4 years**C#.NET*Expert*Currently User*3 years**Visual InterDev (now .NET)*Intermediate*3/2001*1 year**Microsoft SQL Server RDBMS*Advanced*Currently Used*6 years**Microsoft OLAP/Analysis Services/MDX*Advanced*Currently Used*5 years**Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services*Expert*Currently Used*3 years**Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server*Expert*Currently Used*3 years**Microsoft Office System InfoPath*Expert*Currently Used*1 year**Data Transformation Services*Expert*Currently used*5 years***PRIVATE**Microsoft Office/VBA*Expert*Currently used*10 years***PRIVATE**VBScript*Intermediate*Currently used*2 years**JavaScript*Intermediate*Currently Used*2 years**

*PRIVATE**PERSONAL INFORMATION

Sd Experience and training in group dynamics and process modification

Varied experiences allow the ability to communicate at different levels and within different departments

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