Michael K. Thran

847-***-**** . 224-***-**** (C) . acyfdk@r.postjobfree.com

Business Intelligence, Enterprise Architecture

My background includes functioning as a Subject Matter Expert in Business

Intelligence, Master Data Management and Decision Support. Proven history

of successfully leading teams in both establishing a new Business

Intelligence Center of Competency, and enhancing existing infrastructure

with improved policies, procedures and guidelines to optimize Enterprise

Decision Support. Deep business and technical expertise in the support of

data warehouse, in database analytics, "big data"/Hadoop, ETL, metadata

management, business intelligence delivery and advanced analytics (SAS, R)

environments for the insurance, banking, consumer package goods,

telecommunications and healthcare industries.

I am a leader and communicator who excels in the planning, designing, and

implementation of scalable enterprise wide solutions that achieve the

company's desired business objectives. My expertise includes a strong

ability to transcend the definition of the technical solution and convey

the strategic vision and business requirements to management and clients

across the organization.

Core Professional Strengths

? Data Warehousing ? BI Planning, Design, & Implementation ? Data

Governance

? Strategic Planning ? Big Data Analytic Architecture ? Data Integration

? SAS Support & Development ? Metadata Management ? CRM

? Business Analytics ? Policy & Procedure Development ? Statistical

analysis

Professional Experience

Managing Consultant - Analytic Architecture

Sept 2013 - Present

Sears, RCG

Provide insight into designing, developing and implementing efficient and

effective analytic environments that utilize Big Data (VLDBS) technologies

(Hadoop, MPP RDBMS, etc.) and advanced analytics (R, SAS)

< Recommend technologies that best fit business and IT requirements

< Provide strategic direction, architecture and best practices for

implementing advanced analytics

< Coordinate and moderate Data Scientist requirements with Business and

IT constraints

< Provide assistance in demonstrating ROI on investing in advanced

analytic infrastructure

Allstate

BI & A Sept

2012 - Aug 2013

Manager

Work within Business Intelligence & Architecture team to improve

inferential analytics capability

< Collaborated with business inferential analytics team in designing an

implementing automated model building & deployment application

< Provided technical and statistical oversight in selection of MPP/SN in-

database analytics platform

< Provided technology architecture oversight in setting strategy for

Hadoop/MapReduce implementation

< Served as SME for evaluation of technical architecture for advanced

analytic platforms

RCG (Navistar)

Program Manager Apr 2012 -Aug

2012

Senior Manager (consultant)

Work within consultant and client team develop an BI CoE for client

< Define strategic direction for global client, working closely with

business representatives and IT across areas such as data warehousing,

data integration, BI delivery, and data governance.

< Collaborate with business units across the enterprise identifying

critical information subject areas

< Support business units in the development of their BI business

requirements by identifying opportunities for them to achieve

benefits.

< Provide technology (Teradata) architecture oversight to BI

implementation projects.

< Managed consultant team of SME's in development of BI strategy,

architecture, standards and best practices.

Capgemini Financial Services (HSBC)

Jan 2012 - Mar 2012

Business Information Management Group

Subcontractor - HSBC

Provide oversight to migration of BI environment

Tek Systems (Walters Klower)

2011 to 2012

Domain Owner Business Intelligence & MDM - (consultant)

Work within virtual teams to analyze the opportunity, develop an approach

and move forward with implementation of an enterprise MDM/BI solution that

will support all global business units.

< Define strategic MDM/BI technology direction for global clients,

working closely with business representatives and IT across areas such

as data warehousing, data integration, BI delivery, and data

governance.

< Collaborate with business units across the enterprise identifying

critical information subject areas to manage and business performance

indicators required for reporting.

< Collaborate with senior technologists across all global business units

to establish an information management reference architecture

template.

< Lead efforts to select vendor that will best deliver a MDM/BI with the

customers' desired business benefits, technical robustness and cost.

< Support business units in the development of their MDM/BI business

cases by identifying opportunities for them to achieve benefits.

< Provide technology architecture oversight to MDM/BI implementation

projects.

Capgemini Financial Services 2010 to

2011

Business Information Management Group

Manager (consultant)

Key player in establishing the BICC governance framework for data

integration, data warehousing, data architecture and metadata management.

< Collaborated with other consultants in developing strategic policies

for data warehouse architecture, data architecture, data governance,

metadata management, and data integration, which were utilized in BIMG

product suite.

< Provided high-level strategic direction for data warehousing and data

Integration RFP responses.

< Subject Matter Expert who reviewed and evaluated hardware and software

selection for all BI and data warehouse RFP responses.

< Sought out for expertise in standards, guidelines and BI performance

for sales proposals and internal knowledge databases.

< Member of proposal sales team who signed two large accounts,

demonstrating technical expertise and demonstrating benefits that

would fit client needs and specifications.

Zurich American Insurance 2007

to 2010

Senior Solutions Architect, Business Intelligence Center of Competency

(BICC)

Key subject matter expert on a new team tasked with establishing BICC

governance framework for data integration, data warehousing, data

architecture and metadata management.

< Key advisor in the development of strategic policies for data

warehouse architecture, data architecture, metadata management, and

data integration, which were approved and adopted by Zurich executive

management.

< Responsible for reviewing and evaluating the hardware, software and

tool selection to create the optimum BI solution.

< Managed the design, progress and on-time implementation of the

enterprise data warehouse.

< Identified and validated an approach for introducing business

intelligence procedures, organizations, and standards.

HSBC

2001 to 2006

Director, Architecture and Data Systems

Established and managed the Data Domain Centre of Excellence, which

provided the infrastructure and frameworks to set enterprise-wide

standards, policies, guidelines, and best practices for data management to

facilitate the timely and cost effective delivery of BI and CRM solutions.

< Directly responsible for the $5 million departmental budget, and key

advisor in the enterprise-wide $20 million Business Intelligence and

CRM system procurements.

< Key management sponsor for the effective design and on-time

implementation of an enterprise data architecture and data warehouse.

< Oversaw the performance criteria, development and maintenance of the

enterprise data integration system and metadata repository.

< Hired, trained, and supervised a cross-disciplinary, internationally

based staff of 52 professionals.

< Responsible for leading the System and Technical Architecture team,

Data Architecture team, Metadata Repository team, and Business

Intelligence delivery team.

< Identified and evaluated new tools for improving data management

processes, including data integration, warehousing, data mart,

business intelligence, and repository tools.

< Documented, communicated and provided training on data standards,

polices, and procedures across the enterprise.

< Set global enterprise-wide purchasing polices and standards to ensure

the efficient, cohesive and cost-effective procurement of BI software

and hardware.

< Key resource in the review, evaluation and final selection

determination of the MDM software and vendor.

< Integrated offshore resources into Data Domain Center of Excellence

operations, educating them on center polices and procedures.

SBC/Ameritech

1998 to 2001

Senior System Architect, Information Systems (1999 to 2001)

Oversaw the high-level system design and implementation of an EDW.

< Designed the strategy and architectural plan to successfully migrate

14 warehouse/data marts to a EDW solution.

< Key leadership role in designing the network infrastructure for data

migration to a data center location in St. Louis.

Solutions Director, Enterprise Data Warehousing (1998 to 1999)

Oversaw the design, development, and implementation of four key decision

support environments covering corporate customer information including call

detail, service order, and customer databases.

< Administered an annual budget of $3 million for the technology and

personnel to provide a cost effective decision support environment.

< Addressed the day to day and long term technology demands of managing

a 40 terabyte decision support environment.

Education Training

Master of Science in Statistics, Kansas State University

Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology, Bradley University

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Northern Illinois University[pic]

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