Manager Management

Kevin Sherman Landry

Johns Creek, GA ***** Cell: 770-***-**** *****@*****.***

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Effectively managed client relationships in developing business development strategies across all channels by designing and promoting tactics to achieve market share and revenue targets

Accomplished in becoming a trusted advisor to all levels of senior management

Initiate and execute proposal development (RFP/RFI) and other new business development activities by leveraging new and existing relationships with C-level executives

Effective manager of client relationships by identifying and managing risks inherent in business processes and technology systems that support business objectives, and provide them with the information needed to meet strategic and financial goals.

Proof-of-concept creator focused on return-on-investment justification

Holder of certifications in data modeling, data warehousing best practices, and IBM’s project management

Business Intelligence (BI) software implementation services, Amazon Web Services, and Financial Performance Management through the entire life cycle of a project, including requirements analysis, ETL review, logical and physical Dimensional Model Relationship, Online Analytical Processing design, application development and software installation

Best-practice expert in software development life cycle implementations, and training of Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management and Output Management solutions

Managed offshore application development

Trusted advisor to all levels of senior management

Maintained business acumen by translating complex technical concepts into laymen terminology

Driver of profit margins between 30%-60% via negotiations with business stake holders to purchase software and/or services over a 13-year period from 1997-2010

CAREER SNAPSHOTS

Deutsche Bank Assistant Vice President Project Manager July 2016 - Present

Lead multiple teams onshore and offshore and parallel work streams in delivery of quality software and technology solutions,

Work closely with technical teams to develop and track release milestones and schedules leveraging Agile methodology.

Coordinate with partners, stake holders and sponsors to gather and document business requirements.

Meet with business and technology executives to discuss the status of top initiatives, programs and projects

Develop and manage project and resource plans

Accountable for multiple programs and projects with average budgets of $2 million annually

Manages team of analyst, associates, vendors, and technical leads in a highly matrixed organization.

Identify and coordinate heavy interdependencies to ensure timing and alignment of releases, hardware, and resources.

Ensure communication, coordination of activities, and issue resolution amongst core team members, senior management and other stakeholders.

Lead hands-on collaboration to bring in distressed projects and teams back on track.

Proactively coach, share knowledge, and be the role model and advocate for creating a collaborate solutions management domain

Freedom Consulting Group, Oct 2015 – June 2016 Senior BI Developer Consultant

Provided Business Intelligence and Amazon Web Services consulting to Federal Sector

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) BI Project Manager Jan 2012-Aug 2015

Successfully led the research, construction and deployment to production of the IBM’s Maximo (Enterprise Asset Management) replicated database’s dimensional and relational reporting models for analytics and reporting

Built General Ledger and Project Cost Cubes from Oracle Financials to support financial analysis

Managed team throughout all phases of the software development life cycle with Agile method

Facilitated all meetings with Nuclear, Supply Chain, Transmissions, and Generation business units with gathering and documenting requirements

Collaborated with the business units in real-time during workgroup sessions by developing the relational and dimensional models, dashboards and reporting solutions

Managed relationships with Senior Management by providing daily statuses and presentations

Provided technical design, created the data dictionary, dimensional modeled relationships (DMR), Cubes, enterprise relationship diagrams and logical models

Responsible for the Change Management Processes using IT Service Management (ITSM)

Responsible for interviewing and recommending resources and all onboarding and exiting activities

Provided post go-live support

Built and deployed relational model and reports for Oracle’s Primavera 6 project scheduling application

Successfully evangelized the purpose and need of deploying true business intelligence

Maintained the ETL source to stage to target mappings for EDW reference

Fulton County Schools Senior BI Trainer Consultant Jun 2011-Oct 2011

Provided Cognos 8.4 Report Studio and Framework Manager custom training

Acosta Sales and Marketing Principle Cognos Consultant Jul 2010-Mar 2011

Built Cognos Report Studio Query’s and Transformer Cubes to support the sales organization tracking of consumer goods throughout North America

Software Group – IBM Senior IBM Cognos Consultant/Trainer Mar 2007- Mar 2010

Facilitated the extraction, transformation, of data loads from legacy systems to the current Avant-garde approach to reporting and analysis by designing and creating multidimensional modeling and relational data modeling paradigms to support software reporting and analysis development

Delivered BI solutions to the financial and risk management industry, in particular Bank of America and AON.

Created dashboards, standard reports, enabled drill through and drill down functionality

Delivered Rapid Assessment Methodology to enable customer migration success to Cognos 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 environments

Developed IBM Cognos TM1 Data Models and Cubes

Met engagement deadlines and budgets, as well as maintained compliance with internal risk policy requirements; executed against engagement work programs developed by Managers and Directors while interacting with clients and team members to achieve engagement objectives

Effectively created an economic eco-system via large-scale engagements

Engineered close relationships to customers by identifying critical business inefficiencies with the integration of processes and best practices of software development

Federal Sector Engagement Delivery Management – Northrup Grumman

Gathered requirements from Business users and translated into business intelligence applications

Developed dashboards with relational online analytical processing metadata models to enable real time analysis.

Managed entire process of the software development life cycle from development, test to production.

Identified inefficiencies in the manual process of disseminating HR reports by printing, and postal mailing by automating the process with business intelligence and output management solutions, which saved $60MM over a 20 year period.

Gathered requirements from Business users and translated into business intelligence applications which generated 2.3MM of revenue.

Mentored an aging workforce of 40 workers supporting legacy mainframe Cobol reports to SQL programming language to proficiently utilize the current technology

Technical Skills/Certifications

IBM Project Management Professional

Amazon Web Services Associate

Operating systems: Windows, Mac OS

Software: JAMA, JIRA, HPALM, Service Now, IBM Maximo, IBM Cognos Versions 4.5 thru IBM Cognos 11, Report Studio, Query Studio, Framework Manager, Analysis Studio, PowerPlay, Transformer, TM1, Impromptu, IBM Cognos TM1 9.4 thru 10.2 (Performance Modeler), Optio Software, Microsoft Office,

Databases: Hadoop, Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server, Progress, DB2, VSAM

Programming Languages: C++, and SQL

Previous Employment History

Northrop Grumman Corporation Sept 2001- Dec 2006 Practice Area Lead

The Baer Group, LLC, Atlanta, GA Feb 1997-July 2001 BI Consultant/Certified Trainer

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