Director Business Intelligence

Harvey H Ahn

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OBJECTIVE

To leverage 25 years of leadership, management, and technology

experience, reinforced with an effective combination of business and

technology expertise, in providing exceptional services in the areas of

Information Management, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, and

Software Development.

QUALIFICATIONS

Technology Executive with deep technical and management experience;

continuously focused on providing exceptional business value through IT -

by focusing on the most strategic initiatives, while maintaining

operational balance.

Highly process-oriented, with drive to deliver outstanding results in a

repeatable manner - focused on standards, best practices, and automation in

all aspects of BI and software delivery.

Excellent ability to understand new technologies and how best to exploit

their value in an enterprise model.

Excellent understanding of business operations and drivers of business

growth, with extensive experience in apparel, consumer goods, financial

services, and corporate systems.

Excellent track record delivering Business Intelligence and Data

Integration solutions in an Enterprise Data Warehouse environment, driving

projects that impact corporate growth.

Highly experienced Technology Executive with a highly service-oriented and

collaborative style and focus on enabling Business Executives with

information tools to optimize resource efficiency.

Highly experienced in the areas of Data Privacy, Information Security,

Information Governance, and Audit functions as they pertain to SOX and

other regulatory requirements (e.g. Basel II, HIPAA) - through oversight of

one of the world's largest financial customer data warehouses at Citi

Cards.

Excellent ability to communicate IT strategy and initiatives to non-

technical peers, as well as ability to clearly direct technology staff at

all levels.

MBA in Finance and Information Systems - NYU Stern School of Business.

Overall, an excellent Senior Manager and leader with the ability to provide

strong leadership within IT, and as part of a senior management team.

EMPLOYMENT

Ahn Consulting, New York, NY

September 2014 through Present

Client: CBS Corporation - Business Intelligence Strategy Advisor.

Strategic and operational BI advisor to Fortune 200 company's

Enterprise Data Management group.

Assessing and guiding long-term strategic decisions, including data

warehouse database platform Teradata), data integration platform

(Informatica), and secure managed file transmission platform (Tibco).

Conducting analysis to determine BI maturity levels within business

functions to inform BI Roadmap development.

Advising and assisting on steps to immediately improve BI operational

efficiencies, as well as long-term efficiencies - e.g. job schedule

automation and monitoring, data model documentation, improved visualization

techniques for analysis, etc.

Leading and directing the EDM/BI track (reporting, analytics, data

integration into data warehouse) for assessment and implementation of a new

Enterprise Affiliate Management System.

Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY

March 2011 through August 2014

Director of Business Intelligence, Data & Analytics. Global Head of

Business Intelligence for Time Warner, a $65B corporation, within its

Corporate Division.

Established the Business Intelligence team at Time Warner Corporate, taking

it from a start-up group to full maturity - recently re-branded as Data and

Analytics COE, with a global Enterprise mandate.

Established repeatable processes, standards, and best practices, which

allowed the team to ramp up from 4 FT individuals at the team's inception

to over 30 currently, delivering high value data integration and business

intelligence services.

Established and expertly managed Build and Run teams to support over 40

Corporate and Enterprise applications, as well as multiple concurrent high

value projects year over year.

Expertly managed a low cost budget using low cost consulting partner

offshore that established the TW standard for successful onshore/offshore

engagements.

Established Time Warner's Enterprise Data Warehouse housed on a Netezza

platform, leveraged Informatica for data integration, SAP BusinessObjects

for reporting and analytics, and QlikView for dashboarding.

Directly responsible for an additional 50 FTE managing Time Warner's

Enterprise Payroll System implementation using Workday - heavily reliant on

Data Integrations to EDW, divisional downstream systems, and 3rd party

partner systems.

Key responsibilities include oversight of system and data architecture,

data models, integrations, best practices and development standards, and

information governance in this $100M global enterprise services HR

initiative.

Leveraged Informatica suite for Enterprise Data Integration, Data Masking,

Data Archiving (ILM), Data Quality, Process Monitoring, Meta Data

Management, and B2B.

Engaged in negotiating enterprise contracts with Informatica, SAP, and

Tableau to ensure favorable pricing commensurate with the breadth and

volume of the TW Enterprise.

Chaired the TW Enterprise BI Committee, engaging BI solutions and analytics

across business units; established as a priority for our Global CIO by

identifying collaboration and cost-saving opportunities, such as common

best practices and data sources, enterprise contracts with common vendors,

common platform sharing, and leveraging enterprise services.

Scholastic, Inc., Secaucus, NJ

November 2008 through March 2011

Business Intelligence Sr. Manager. Business Intelligence leader for

$2B global leader in education and literacy products.

Directed initiatives to deliver Enterprise Data Warehouse analytic

solutions for Scholastic business divisions (i.e. Book Clubs, Book Fairs,

Education Group, Trade, etc.) and cross divisionally.

Managed team of Project Managers, Architects, Business Analysts, ETL

developers, and Business Intelligence developers to support growth of the

EDW and strategic BI capabilities to support commercial operations.

Directed the development efforts of multiple enterprise BI and data

analysis projects, including Cross Divisional Sales Analysis and Corporate

P&L Analysis; also engaged in directing the BI initiatives for divisional

data marts, including Book Club Event Analysis, Book Fairs POS (Point of

Sale) Analysis, and Education Group Sales and Sales Rep Performance

Analysis.

Engaged in actively enhancing and upgrading the BI architecture and

infrastructure to ensure optimal performance through periods of growth;

actively managing hardware and software scaling efforts in a clustered high

availability environment; actively managing continuous upgrades to major

releases of system software on iSeries and SQL Server platforms.

Excellent knowledge and experience with performance tuning BI applications

in a large and demanding EDW environment.

Excellent knowledge and experience with scheduling and automating EDW jobs

and dependencies, to minimize the need for manual intervention.

Marc Ecko Enterprises, Inc., New York, New York

October 2007 through November 2008

Director of Business Intelligence. As senior technology manager,

coordinated the development of Business Intelligence and Reporting

initiatives to enable fact-based business analysis.

Coordinated priorities of the Executive management team in architecting and

managing the development of the company's Data Warehouse infrastructure.

Collaborated extensively with peers and heads of business units to

understand business processes and analytical needs. Established strategy

for a phased Data Warehouse implementation, targeting immediate strategic

needs first - in our case, excess inventory generated at each selling

season - and working our way through the supply chain.

Provided leadership and technical expertise to build an extensible

foundation that meets both timeliness and effectiveness goals, built on

Microsoft Business Intelligence technology.

Employed best practices in Data Warehouse architecture and design

methodology, favoring a Kimball-oriented staging and star-schema structure.

Delivered end-to-end Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solution -

from staging operational data sources, to building ETL code for loading

fact and dimension tables, to feeding cubes for rapid data analysis, to

information delivery through familiar and highly usable front-end tools -

Excel, ProClarity Professional & Dashboard, browser-based formatted

reports, etc.

Scholastic, Inc., Secaucus, NJ

June 2005 through October 2007

Business Intelligence Architect. As an independent consultant,

provided exceptional services in the areas of architecting and

delivering Business Intelligence capabilities and managing Data

Warehouse development.

Contracted as a Business Intelligence Architect and Project Manager to

manage and implement Enterprise Data Warehouse analytic solutions for

Scholastic business divisions (including Book Clubs and Book Fairs) and

cross divisionally on a 10 TB DB2/400 environment, using the MS SQL Server

BI stack for delivering Data Marts, OLAP, reporting, and dashboarding

capabilities.

Managed internal and consulting resources to design and develop ETL code

(SSIS) to populate EDW data structures, star-schema Data Marts (SS DB),

multi-dimensional databases (SSAS), and structured reporting (SSRS) for

Scholastic's primary business units.

Implemented leading-edge Financial Budget and Forecast Analysis system for

Book Clubs that enabled year-to-date analysis and comparisons of Budget and

rolling Forecasts against current year actuals as well as historical

actuals. Automated the allocation of budget dollars (by product line) to

daily, through the use of historical distributions of prior years of actual

data. Enabled a very accurate process for tracking business performance

and for adjusting inventory levels to meet realistic demand expectations.

Coordinated priorities of Book Fairs' Supply Chain Director, Finance VP,

and CIO to develop a comprehensive proposal for gaining visibility into

performance data critical to future business planning and streamlining

operational effectiveness, while addressing concerns around risk and ROI.

Citigroup, Inc, New York, New York

November 1999 through June 2005

Senior Manager/VP, Information Management, Citi Cards (Oct 2003 - Jun

2005)

As part of Citigroup's Consumer Credit Card business, specialized in

directing Business Intelligence solutions with information governance

oversight to business units.

Directed the activities of a team of 20 in providing a full Enterprise Data

Warehouse support function, including the development of business

analytics, delivery of business intelligence, oversight and governance of

critical and confidential data, funding and budget management, and

strategic expansion of the EDW. Activities supported daily operational and

strategic decision-making for a $4.7B credit card business.

Managed teams of Product, Customer, and P&L Analysts to support a wide

range of business analytics for the Consumer Credit Card business;

incorporated innovative solutions for making data available earlier and

more efficiently through the use of data marts and Cognos cubes to meet the

demands of supporting more timely business decision-making.

Responsible for directing Citi Cards' Information Governance initiative to

address concerns over Data Privacy and Security, specifically with regard

to PII (personally identifiable information) within the Citi Cards 25TB

analytic Data Warehouse.

Charged with providing oversight of areas including Process Engineering,

responsible for establishing sound and efficient SOX-compliant policies and

processes that strengthen Information Governance. Ensured sufficient risk

mitigation in the areas of privacy and security, in addition to data

availability, accuracy, and data load timeliness.

Started in the Global Corporate & Investment Bank (GCIB) delivering

corporate-wide business solutions and support to a global customer base

utilizing various technologies, including ColdFusion and .Net for web-based

applications, Oracle and SQL Server for database, and Essbase and Cognos

for multi-dimensional cube (MOLAP) development.

WinMill Software, New York, New York

January 1999 through November 1999

Professional Services Manager. Served as Project Manager,

Relationship Manager, and Technical Consultant for multiple clients,

leading a team of consultants.

Managed and mentored large-scale project teams of Web designers and

programmers, delivering e-commerce, Business Intelligence, and Data

Warehousing solutions to clients.

Tsumura International, Inc., Secaucus, New Jersey

January 1997 through January 1999

Manager, Executive Information Systems. Group Manager for strategic

technology initiatives.

Designed and implemented early Business Intelligence and Executive

Information Systems, Data Warehouse, and dashboards; successful Hyperion

Essbase implementation delivered budgeting and analysis capabilities to

Finance and Sales.

Liz Claiborne, Inc., North Bergen, New Jersey

September 1992 through January 1997

Manager, Technical Services. Managed the technology infrastructure

support area of the corporate Program Office, responsible for

providing technical and project management leadership.

Managed Technical Review Board; oversight for design review and code

reviews; standardized approach to software development and deployment.

Instruments SA, Inc., Edison, New Jersey

January 1988 through September 1992

Software Engineer. Designed and developed new software systems and

modules, as well as enhancing and maintaining existing ones.

Expert C language programming; cross-platform development; programmed in

Microsoft C for DOS and Windows environments.

EDUCATION

New York University - Stern School of Business, New York, New York

MBA in Finance, Information Systems, and Digital Economy Initiative

Program, May 2003

Member of National Honor Society for Business - Beta Gamma Sigma

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

BA in Computer Science, May, 1990

INDUSTRY CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD).

Microsoft Certified Professional +Site Building (MCP +Site Building).

Microsoft Certified Trainer (1999 - 2003).

Microsoft Consulting Partner.

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