Manager Project

Cognos BI Consultant

Cognos BI Consultant experienced in implementing multiple Business Intelligence projects simultaneously. Expertise includes Cognos BI implementations with Oracle, Teradata, and DB2. Full lifecycle experience with both Agile and Waterfall methodology.

Professional History

11/2016 – 06/2017

Birst

Professional Services BI Project Manager / Presales Architect

Project Managed implementation of several Cloud BI projects simultaneously. Each project normally included 3-5 consultants covered 3-4 months of consulting services.

Performed consulting services presales activities such creating, presenting and closing many professional services contracts.

Created Project Services Statements of Work (SOW) covering several months of project consulting services often totally over $100,000 per SOW.

01/2015 –11/2016

IBM

Cognos 10 Consultant

Cognos 10 Consultant for advanced analytics project at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. Project won award for rescuing predictive engine maintenance dashboard using Cognos BI tool.

Cognos 10 Consultant created multi-year plan to rollout Cognos BI nationwide to 10,000 users for Comcast Cable. Developed a project staffing estimates to implement 24 reports and several cubes.

Onshore Manager for staff of over 100 offshore consultants that were providing health insurance processing and financial services for medical device provider Animas.

04/2012 - 12/2014

Teradata

Cognos 10 Consultant

Developed Cognos Medicaid eligibility system for State of Ohio. Requirements, data mapping, data modeling and Cognos 10 development running on Teradata DB.

Business Objects Lead for migration from Oracle to Teradata for antivirus software manufacturer Symantec. Rescued project to convert 20 BO Universes and 100 reports.

Designed and mentored Chevron Cognos manager on best practices to implement Cognos 10 on Teradata.

Advised SiriusXM radio on design of campaign marketing analytics using Cognos best practices. Analyzed other Cognos 10 applications for performance enhancements.

Created proposal to migrate 2000 Cognos 10 Report Studio Reports, 40 Cognos Framework Models and 20 Transformer cubes for airline manufacturer Boeing.

01/2010 - 03/2012

Business Intelligent Resources

Cognos 10 Consultant

Developed Cognos 10 Credit Risk Management Reporting System for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Developed Cognos 10 Rewards Reporting System for wireless telephone provider US Cellular.

04/2009 - 12/2009

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

Cognos 10 Consultant

Created Cognos Solution for national DW and BI Cognos solution for healthcare insurance provider Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

07/2007 - 04/2009

NEC America

Cognos Consultant

Worked with VP of Finance for insurance provider Arthur J. Gallaher company. Developed Cognos financial reporting system.

04/2005 - 06/2007

Take Two Interactive

Cognos Architect

Established Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse department for video game manufacturer Take Two Interactive. Saved millions in retail customer chargebacks within 90 days after implementing Cognos cube and reports. Reduced finance monthly close by several with timely reporting that used to take days to produce. Managed team of BI and ETL developers and analysts.

Additional Experience

Synchronoss Technologies

Cognos BI Administrator

Cognos BI Administrator for AT&T Wireless and telecom providers.

Knowledge Partners

Cognos BI Consultant

Cognos BI developer that effort in creation of finance data warehouse for McNeil Pharmaceuticals.

Cognos

BI Presales Engineer

BI Presales Engineer for BI software provide Cognos Inc.

CSI (Center for Data Warehousing)

BI Consultant

BI Consultant for Crystal Info and Business Objects partner.

Context Integration

Business Objects Consultant

Developed Business Objects HR reporting solutions for consulting firm Ernst & Young.

Technical Skills

BI Tools:

Cognos, Business Objects

Databases:

Oracle, Teradata, DB2, SQL Server

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA),

Management Information Systems,

Pace University, Pleasantville, NY

Certifications

Teradata 12 Certified Associate

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