Nikhil Jain
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Executive Summary
A customer-focused, hands-on Information Technology Director with broad,
end-to-end technical knowledge and managerial experience in the areas of
Data Warehouse (DW), Business Intelligence (BI), and Master Data Management
(MDM). Experience includes designing and managing the implementation of
enterprise class DW/BI/MDM systems and solutions into large-scale, global
company environments with such companies as ADM, Johnson Controls Inc.,
Nokia, Cummins, Deutsche Bank, Nortel Networks (EADS), JP Morgan Chase, BNP
Paribas and Volkswagen.
. Global experience, having worked in USA, Germany, UK, Finland & India.
. Great exposure to Manufacturing (Auto & Food), Corporate Banking,
Telecom and Healthcare domains.
. Large enterprise project leadership - directed and influenced
management of global projects across multi-functional groups.
. Experience in consulting as well as in direct employment for several
Fortune 100 companies.
. Broad exposure to multiple, enterprise-level technical platforms-SAP,
Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Teradata, etc.
. Executed a very complex BI project studied by the GARTNER research
group.
. Received "Young Leader" award for BI industry by a major IT company.
. Received "Merit Award" from a FORTUNE 100 company.
. Published "EDW Process Framework" handbook.
. Received highest customer satisfaction index in a FORTUNE 100
organization.
Professional Experience
CHRISTUS Health, Irving TX 2012 - Present
Director - Business Intelligence and Technical Integration
. Introduced and successfully set up an Enterprise Data Services
program.
. Successfully set-up BI, MDM (Master Data Management), Enterprise Data
Model and Data Movement (Interface) teams.
. Developed a 5-year, robust Data Services roadmap while considering
planned major company acquisitions.
. Worked with senior leadership to come up with a two-year, $10M-savings
business case.
. Established BI Competency Center & Enterprise Data Governance Council
to define consistent data, its definitions & standards across the
organization.
. Implemented monitors and controls to ensure that data is accessible,
acceptable and accurate.
. Implemented near time big data solution to provide critical
information to physicians for better patient care.
. Implemented agile software development methodology to bring quick
value to the business.
. Responsible for over $22 Million annual budget.
. Built a team of 20+ employees in less than a year.
. Established the company name among healthcare thought leaders in BI
(according to major industry vendors).
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland Company), a Fortune 50 company 2008 - 2012
Manager - Business Intelligence Program
. Successfully led Enterprise Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, MDM
and Enterprise Data Architect teams. Responsible for overall budget of
$42 Million.
. Key member of corporate change agent team.
. Worked with senior business leaders to define 5-year Business
Intelligence program roadmap to incorporate complete commercial data
at regional & corporate level to help achieve the corporate initiative
of being the low cost producer.
. Defined 5-year roadmap for MDM to bridge accounts, customers, vendors
and product data from 16 distinct ERP systems resulting from multiple
company acquisitions. Helped define data governance council at
regional and corporate level.
. Implemented Center of Excellence, formed BI Steering Committee,
introduced the concept of Business Partner to better serve the
business community.
. Implemented transportation (rail, truck & container) data mart (early
big data solution) for over $4 billion of shipments resulting in $50
Million in savings in 2010-11.
. Implemented sales data mart from 5 distinct and large ERP source
systems enabling corporate users to self-analyze and mine data for
over $60 billion of sales.
. Implemented Accounts Payable data mart from 9 distinct source systems
for $37 billion in spend, this is expected to save $25 Million in the
first year.
. Implemented MDM solution for Chart of Accounts and Vendor domain.
. Introduced and implemented agile software development methodology.
. Helped define DW architecture which significantly reduced development
and support efforts.
. Successfully introduced the overhaul of financial consolidation
platform. This is expected to reduce several headcounts in IT &
accounting departments.
. Key member of team that worked on the initial concept to retire 16
distinct ERP systems and replace them with a single global platform.
. Working with business leaders to standardize business processes like
procure-to-pay, etc. surfaced through business intelligence
initiative.
. Created strategies around data quality, metadata (i.e. collecting and
publishing definition of data items), and information governance.
. Responsible for the development, maintenance, execution and
measurement of company-wide data policies, standards and guidelines
that affect immediate operations and may also have long-term effects.
. Established and facilitated an enterprise wide Data Governance
practice to meet periodically with steering committee to resolve
ambiguities in data, reporting, process and corporate vocabulary.
. Worked in a SME capacity to educate and advise the stakeholders about
best practices.
TCS (Top 10 Global IT Consulting Company) June-01 - Sep-08
Program Manager
. Defined 3-year EDW/Business Intelligence roadmap for Johnson Controls
Inc. (Fortune 100) to incorporate global operational data to create
corporate balance scorecard for manufacturing excellence.
. Implemented balance scorecard for one of the three business units
which resulted in savings of $750K in first month.
. Implemented MDM solution based on employee data to reduce new employee
onboarding process from 5 days to 1 day. Also implemented MDM solution
for location data.
. Successfully set-up and managed onsite (USA), offshore (India) and
near shore (Mexico) teams for applications design, development and
support functions to reduce overall cost by 30% on $35M IT spent.
. Acted as a principal consultant for Nokia to initiate and implement
their BI program for global MyNokia CRM data which highlighted major
customer retention issues.
. Implemented BI solution in Cummins (Fortune 500) based on supply chain
data resulting millions in cost saving and overhaul of vendor
management program.
. Lead credit risk data analysis team of Deutsche Bank. The initiative
provided better insight to bad credits to credit risk officers. Also
set-up 3 IT teams in three different continents to support users in 32
countries.
. Lead testing team of Nortel Networks (EADS) and initiated test cases
automation program.
. Part of product development team for corporate banking solution
implemented in JP Morgan Chase & BNP Paribas bank.
. Lead technical COE of more than 100 employees.
Various Software Engineering Development Projects 1995-2001
Worked as a Software Engineer writing C/VB/Oracle applications.
Education
Master's in Computer Applications