Project Manager Quality Assurance

Location:

Chicago, IL

Posted:

April 16, 2014

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Allan Verissimo Souza

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Application Solution Architect Consultant

State Farm Insurance – Bloomington, IL

July 2013 – Present

Provide the Enterprise Performance Management & Analytics (EPMA) group advisory services, and serve as the escalation point

for application architecture (including BI data delivery capabilities).

As a part of Architecture and design team involved in creating and developing POC's to finalize and approve design

decisions.

Responsible for reviewing Architectural Decision Documents (ADDs) and participate in creation as appropriate.

Participated in horizontal business efforts to define logical business function/process across all lines and access points

of State Farm and align work between multiple po rtfolios.

Performed project cost/benefit estimation, budgeting and resource allocation for multiple efforts across State Farm .

Created the reporting road map for the large ARM (Asset Risk Management) program to provide State Farm the

capability to report on the asset inventory and related asset information; executive dashboards, management and

operational level reports were provided using IBM Cognos and Qlikview.

Performed As-Is and To-Be artifacts using Mega Enterprise Architecture tool for analysis and system development

efforts which supported various functional groups across State Farm.

Led architecture solutions, recommendations and BI data services on Hadoop, IBM Cognos & TM1, Qlikview, etc.

Architecture methodologies, frameworks, standards and tools used (TOGAF, MEGA, ITIL, UML and MS Visio).

Business Intelligence Architect Consultant

Northern Trust Bank

February 2013 – July 2013 (6 month contract)

Worked with Northern Trust to identify gaps in their Cognos reporting environment; provided solutions to enhance reporting

experience, and supported the migration from Cognos BI 10.1 to 10.2.

Leaded the migrating of existing PowerPlay cubes, prompted, bursting and drill through reports from IBM Cognos

10.1 to 10.2 environment.

Coordinated offshore BI support\development team and serve as technical project manager for all Cognos migration

issues and develop solutions for new or unknown issues.

Launched an IBM Cognos TM1 environment from the ground up

Business Intelligence Analyst Lead

Groupon

June 2012 – February 2013

Coordinated activities of cross-functional teams in order to achieve goals of BI and DW projects, including work plans,

system design, complex Teradata data queries, data modelling and mapping along with testing of solutions.

Created dashboards and reports to support Marketing, CS and Finance teams and provided on-going analytical

support using Tableau for Data Discovery, Teradata and MicroStrategy.

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

BrightStar Partners – IBM

February 2011 – May 2012

Client: Astellas Pharma – Deerfield, IL

Lead position responsible for providing support and management to the Cognos reporting team for the Market

Intelligence department.

Developed and revised existing Framework Manager Models to improve performance and accuracy.

Developed market share, product share and waterfall graph, as well as complex report dashboards.

Client: PartsNow - Middleton, WI

Developed several dashboards to support management team and improved performance and design of existing

reports.

Provided on-going technical support for Cognos 8 applications including report analysis, development, maintenance,

and report migration.

Allan Verissimo Souza

Client: AT&T – Greensboro, NC

Assisted NICE with developing their Call Center dashboard BI solution to be delivered to AT&T. This engagement involved

providing more effective means for displaying complex data sets using a variety of charts to quickly convey Call Center

representative effectiveness (Cognos Report Studio, Framework Manager and Oracle) .

Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

Tahoe Partners (4-month project)

Client: Cengage Learning – Cincinnati, OH

Responsibilities included planning and implementing the migration of IBM Cognos Series 7 to IBM Cognos 8.4. Evaluating

different migration options and analysing impact of the migration process on business processes, user community and support

structure.

Re-development of 250 power cubes and over 1000 reports (Report Studio, Analysis Studio, and PowerPlay Studio).

Performed quality assurance testing to validate Cognos reports and cubes.

Business Intelligence Developer

AMCOR Flexibles

November 2006 – October 2010

Responsibilities included delivering Enterprise Data Warehousing and BI solutions for 4 different locations in US; managed all

aspects of the BI lifecycle from assessments to gathering requirements and delivering to end user solutions.

Improved Sales/Finance reports and released a new reporting and analytic environ ment within six months of hire,

which eliminated Business Intelligence consulting cost within one year.

Managed the daily Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) processes that manage the synchronization of data betw een the

AS/400 ERP and BI tools.

Launched a BI environment from the ground up using SQL Server and Cognos. This solution utilized data from many

disparate sources including Great Plains and AS/400.

Designed and supported various Performance Management solutions such as Cognos Planning Rolling Forecast,

Budgeting, Functional Support Costs Plan and Allocations.

Information Technology Coordinator

SunGard Higher Education

October 2005 – November 2006

Primary responsibility was implementing IT-related policies and procedures and ensuring the availability o f necessary technical

resources; managed both internal systems and resources as well as outsourced ven dor support.

• Supported all IT issues, ensuring system reliability

• Responsible for training and coaching of new IT coordinators

• Resolved customer calls regarding software and hardware issues

4 years of IT consulting experience prior to this date - per request

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

DePaul University

MS, Business Information Technology

2012-Present

Loyola University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business

Executive Education, Mini MBA Management Program

2014 – 2014

University of the State of Rio de Janeiro - UERJ

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (1996-2000)

LANGUANGES

Fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish

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