GREG BRASHER

**** ******** ****** *** *****, CA *4403

206-***-**** acvn3y@r.postjobfree.com

Business Intelligence and Systems Leader

Experienced senior business intelligence and systems leader with a proven track record in driving high-level financial and systems projects. Ability to develop and implement effective technical business solutions and plans along with an ability to effectively lead cross-functional teams toward organizational goals has led to ongoing career progression. Seeking a ‘hands on’ leadership role in an organization where I can partner with business stakeholders and drive the business forward with my systems and analytical skills.

Areas of Strength and Expertise

Business Intelligence

Financial Management

Executive Leadership

Reporting & Analytics

Strategic Planning & Analysis

Project Management

Process Improvements

Solutions Advice

Relationship Building

Business Systems

System Implementations

Program Management

Professional Experience

Vivify 5/2016 to Present

Consultant

Providing strategy and finance consulting for a tech startup focusing on driver-less trucking technologies.

Wal-Mart eCommerce, San Bruno, CA 10/2014 to 2/2016

Director, Business Intelligence and Systems

Led key business intelligence plans and technical products for ecommerce to enhance sales, engagement and revenue. Effectively managed a team of business system analysts, architects, developers and administrators to support the business partners.

Key Accomplishments:

Owned strategic roadmap for Finance BI and data management storage from various upstream systems.

Directed key projects and delivered cost saving business solutions regarding Hyperion, Teradata, SAP and Tableau. Promoted a scalable self-service platform with multiple data visualization options. Periodically upgraded servers and software.

Promoted best practices by creating and deploying a ticketing system to track all projects following the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.

Effectively delivered forecasting and budgeting processes and modeling tools to boost planning accuracy and transparency.

Created and deployed Cost of Customer tools which pivoted the business from looking at a product view to a customer view.

Starbucks, Seattle, WA 10/2012 to 9/2014

Senior Manager, Retail Business Intelligence (1/2013-9/2014)

Contract, Category & Marketing Finance (10/2012-12/2012)

Effectively developed and drove all aspects of key business intelligence solutions for Americas Finance (for CPG), including MicroStrategy, Teradata, SQL Server and Oracle. Led and motivated a team of business system analysts and administrators to ensure optimal accuracy, efficiency and productivity.

Key Accomplishments:

Served as project manager among executive management, business partners and engineering teams throughout the SDLC process.

Created and deployed labor reporting tools to enhance the organizational management of $2B in annual operational expenses.

Re-engineered and automated quarterly and annual forecasting processes for increase accuracy and ease of use (time savings).

Led data governance committee across Starbucks to ensure one version of truth and data quality.

Brought data warehouse online for Retail store information storage.

T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA 4/2006 to 6/2012

Senior Manager, Supply Chain Business Intelligence and Systems (11/2009-6/2012)

Directed business systems analysts, administrators and developers in all aspects of end-to-end business solutions across various back/front-end technologies, including SQL Server product suite, SharePoint and Oracle Hyperion. Successfully managed and delivered all projects throughout lifecycles, including requirements, design, development, testing and deployment to production.

Key Accomplishments:

Launched the Handset Total Cost of Ownership Report, a subscription based tool used by senior management to determine future handset purchases and potential user acquisition. Used throughout company to increase sales and leverage vendor negotiations.

Developed key business solutions, including project roadmaps and programs to meet rapidly evolving business needs.

Integrated acquired and third party distribution center data marts into data warehouse.

Built data quality measures into systems and tools to ensure data integrity.

Manager II, Supply Chain Business Intelligence and Systems (1/2007-11/2009)

Effectively oversaw supply chain operations, including business analysis requirements, functional design, data modeling, proof-of-concept, testing and production deployment. Led and mentored staff to provide expert guidance on projects and professional growth opportunities.

Key Accomplishments:

Designed and implemented a reporting intake process to successfully align all new projects with supply chain and company-wide objectives.

Developed SDLC to improve lean and agile Scrum processes.

Effectively implemented Demand Planning cubes to improve forecast accuracy by 35% and improve cost savings by more than $50M per month.

Senior Financial Analyst, Supply Chain Operations Finance (4/2006-1/2007)

Collaborated with senior management to develop business metrics, analysis and performance management processes to effectively drive organizational strategy in accordance with company-wide goals.

Key Accomplishments:

Developed weekly business operations metrics and reported analytical findings to senior management to advise on performance progress.

Launched and managed the remorse returns reporting to track returns compared to sales across the nation. Drove reduction of returns from 14% to 9% resulting in lowering costs and driving revenue.

Extensive prior work in traditional financial roles (Forecasting, Budgeting, Scorecards, Metrics, Variance Analysis and Analytics) includes Senior Financial Analyst-Human Resources Finance (2005–2006) with Gap, Inc., Senior Financial Analyst (2004-2005) and Senior Reporting Analyst (2003-2004) with Washington Mutual, and Senior Financial Analyst (2002-2003) and Financial Analyst (1998-2002) with Amazon.com.

Education and Training

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT Storrs, CT - Bachelor of Arts in Economics

Technical Expertise

Databases – Teradata, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PKMS (Manhattan), Netezza

ERPs - SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft

OLAP & BI - Oracle OBIEE, Hyperion EPM, Business Objects, MS PowerPivot, Cognos, MicroStrategy, Tableau, SAP BW, Thoughtspot

Other - ERWin, JIRA, MS Office, VBA, SharePoint

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