Sherry Zhang

San Ramon, CA 925-***-**** adbr5p@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Senior data leader with over 20 years’ experience in data engineering and 12 years’ experience in building and driving a team that is responsible for data with the mission to empower business to operate efficiently. Solid knowledge and experience in enterprise data warehouse, business intelligence, data analytics and data integration. Excellent tracking records of achieving results by in-depth technical knowledge with hands-on skills, building high quality teams and strongly effective executions.

Work Experience

2019 – Now Sr. Manager, Data Engineering Slack Technology.

Manage Data Modeling & Architecture team in Data Engineering organization. Develop Data Vision and Roadmap including building and maintaining big data pipelines and data marts to support product analytics and business insights, utilize resources toward automation and efficiency.

●Report to VP infrastructure, drive data strategic vision and develop roadmaps. Develop implementation and executable plans, assign and prioritize tasks and deadlines.

●Establish technical standards, best practices and processes

●Hiring, coach and motivate top talent team members.

●Manage cross functional teams, arrange meetings with other teams and pushed on deadline.

2012 – 2019 Sr. Manager, Data Warehouse Oracle Corp.

Managed BI and reporting team developing reports and decision-making analysis for PEO Demo Services organization, including building data warehouse, daily ETL load and business intelligence reports to support core operations.

●Responsible for Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) architecture and data strategy. Developed integration solutions (ETL) to integrate data from multiple sources and store historical data.

●Built Business Intelligence and reporting team and collaborated closely with business leaders to develop a deep understanding of business needs, and then create BI executive reports to deliver insights and overall visibility cross core business operations.

●Proactively drove BI analyses and reporting that led deeper insights and recommendations. Developed demo environments utilization reports and improved system efficiency.

2005 – 2012 Sr Manager, Data Warehouse & Reporting Epocrates

Directed all data warehouse and reporting development. Managed roadmap, licensing, budgeting, hiring, and promotion. Led IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT business applications.

●Responsible for leading the efforts to deliver decision-making advantage across the company, working with all business stakeholders to develop key company performance metrics, and innovating to deliver advanced analytics and business intelligence.

●Successfully delivered dimensional data warehouse within the company for all business intelligence and analytics needs.

●Played a key leadership role in working with cross-functional teams for the successful implementation and deployment of Salesforce CRM & Oracle BI (OBIEE) along with the integrations with other back office applications.

●Led Business Intelligence and reporting team and HIPPA related projects. Setup process and implemented data protection applications.

2002 – 2005 Sr. Database administrator Informatica Corp

Responsible for backend database, data integration and services support for internal R&D and external customers. Designed the information delivery and access for the databases.

●Managed and support over 100 databases including production, development and testing environments. Provided 24X7 high availability production database administrative support.

●Maintained PeopleSoft financial ERP applications. Adept at performance tuning in multi-threaded architecture environments, and configuring backup/recovery high availability Oracle systems.

●Led the data integration Metric Reporting Dashboard project using Informatica Power Center /Power Analyzer tools. Designed, delivered and maintained dashboard reports.

●Documented best practice for database installation, configuration and migration. Defined the guidelines for database capacity planning, backup & restore strategy and implementation, database clustering & performance tuning.

2000 – 2002 Sr. Database developer Incyte Corp

Responsible for database engineering and administrative support of company’s OLTP database systems and data warehousing CRM applications.

●Designed, developed and implemented PeopleSoft CRM system. Wrote PL/SQL scripts, Shell scripts.

●Conducted complex data analysis, trend analysis, data modeling and data mining. Worked with users and defined key performance indicators, service level agreements, thresholds, aggregates, statistical deviations, etc.

●Developed database emergency disaster backup, recovery strategies, and test plans for production databases. Installed and upgraded Oracle and migrated database objects

Education Degrees

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, IL M.S. in Computer Science, 1996

CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, Beijing, China M.S. in Computer Science, 1987

BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY, Beijing, China B.S. in Computer Science, 1984

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