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Top Skills

Microstrategy

Data Architecture

Data Warehousing

Languages

Urdu

Punjabi

Spanish

Rizwan Yousuf

Principal/Managing Director IT

Bloomfield

Summary

• Experienced hands-on technology leader.

• Over 20 years of experience in technology, with focus on the complete IT landscape.

• Over 15 years of experience in portfolio/program management leading high performing devops/infrastructure, INFOSEC, analytics, data science, business intelligence and data teams on large projects

• Industry verticals: financial services, retail, e-commerce, telecommunications, healthcare, wholesale supply and management consulting

• Proven thought leader with demonstrated success helping clients achieve their goals in the technology and business space through detailed understanding of technology and its trends

• Well-balanced professional skillset, equal technical and functional competencies. Complete SDLC solution experience for technology, data, analytics and business intelligence projects

• Develops and communicates concise implementation plans for business and technical users alike, keeping in line with business strategy

• Confident and well-reasoned; able to exercise independent judgement and creative problem solving to concisely relay the logic behind business intelligence area directives and drive improvement

• Effective communicator across all levels of the business; comfortable presenting to business leaders

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Structured Data, Collibra Metadata, Unstructured Data, MicroStrategy v 10.x, MicroStrategy SDK, Tableau, QlikView, Domo, Business Objects, ETL, SDLC, Informatica, DataStage, Ab Initio, Data Architect, Data Analysis, Dimensional Modeling, Data Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Predictive Analytics, NOSQL, Python, R, AWS Ecosystem, Hadoop, Green Plum, Oracle, Teradata, Sybase, SQL Server, DB2, Netezza, Sybase, SAS, BI, Google Analytics, SalesForce, Cognos, Crystal Reports, Toad, MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes, MAC, CRM, Benchmarking, Project Page 1 of 6

Management, Web Software, Flash, Team Manager, Budget, ROI, Tech Roadmaps

Experience

Fairway Associates

Principal/Managing Director

September 2015 - Present (5 years 3 months)

Greater New York City Area

• C-Level engagement

• IT Strategy

• Client Engagement

• Staffing

• Budgets

• Infrastructure modernization

• Digital Transformation

• INFOSEC

• Technical training

• Lead global teams

• SME on Cloud

• SME on All Things Data

• SME Technology Strategy

• SME Technology Governance

• SME, BI/Analytics

• Enterprise Architect

• Enterprise BI/Analytics

• ETL Solutions Architect/Lead

• Pre-Sales/Sales technical Architect

• Blending unstructured and structured data for robust and deep dive analytics solutions

• Senior member of the architecture review board

• Senior consulting member data governance

• Thought leadership across the IT space

• Develop and train development and production support teams

• AWS Ecosystem (EC2, Elasticsearch, Redshift, Cost Management, Lambda, Management Tools, etc.)

• GCP architect and development

• In charge of over all implementation, development, training, and adoption of digital transformation

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• NO SQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, Kognitio, and AWS/Redshift Exusia, Inc.

Director

January 2017 - December 2017 (1 year)

NJ/NYC

• Brought on to further develop and enhance Big Data strategy and implementations

• SME on data, data usage, and data consumption strategies

• SME on implementation on data strategy

• Business Intelligence SME and tool expert

• Enterprise architecture

• Enterprise BI/Analytics architect

• Data Architect

• Blending unstructured and structured data for robust and deep dive analytics solutions

• ETL Solutions Architect/Lead

• AWS Ecosystem (EC2, Elasticsearch, Redshift, Cost Management, Lambda, Management Tools, etc.)

• Hadoop Ecosystem

• R

• Pre-sales technical architect

• Managing and building out of various global teams (3-35 FTEs)

• BI/Analytics COE, Pune India

• Driving solutions for wealth management product/business problem as it relates to selling and consumption of product

Accenture

Manager – BI / Data Analytics / Subject Matter Expert August 2014 - August 2015 (1 year 1 month)

nyc

• Led teams of various sizes in implementing reporting solutions using SSRS/ SSAS, Tableau, Report Builder, BO, MicroStrategy, Qlikview, Cognos, Excel, Access, and other BI reporting tools

• Provided Data architecture, data scrubbing, ETL, ETL design, DDL script generation, database development

• Big Data, Hadoop, AWS Ecosystem (EC2, Elasticsearch, Redshift, Cost Management, Lambda, Management Tools, etc...), Data warehouse (Oracle)

• Blending unstructured and structured data for robust and deep dive analytics solutions

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• Supported IT help desk, end user training, technical tool training, business analysis, project management, resource management, solution architect, and was the overall lead for reporting project

• Pre-sales technical support to senior level sales team Spartan Technologies

Manager Business Intelligence

October 2013 - September 2014 (1 year)

• Business Intelligence/Analytics architect, lead developer, project designer, data architect, Oracle Pl/SQL, and SQL server. SDLC. DW. Big Data / Hadoop, AWS Ecosystem (EC2, Elasticsearch, Redshift, Cost Management, Lambda, Management Tools, etc.…), Informatica, SAS for ETL

• Dashboard design and development

• Completed dimensional modeling/database development for BI/Analytics projects. Project lead from inception to production

• Taught and mentored non-technical staff in usage of BI/Analytics and suite of products.

Business Development.

• Led conversion of Cognos data packages and reports to MicroStrategy. Data gap analysis, Cognos reporting conversion to SAS datasets. Also conducted MicroStrategy reporting, data warehouse, SQL server, database querying, onshore/offshore liaison, technical requirements for onshore/offshore team, data mapping, ETL design/ mapping, and solution providing

• Marketing and churn analytics using SAS

• Data analysis and analytics using SAS

Optum Health

Apps Dev Consultant

July 2010 - October 2013 (3 years 4 months)

• MicroStrategy architect, lead developer, project designer, data architect, Oracle Pl/SQL, and SQL server. SDLC

• MicroStrategy dashboard design and development across enterprise

• Blending unstructured and structured data for robust and deep dive analytics solutions

• Dashboard design and development for Empire State Medicaid, Optum Health Operations, Optum Health management reporting

• Dimensional modeling/database development for MicroStrategy projects. Project lead from inception to production

• Assisted and taught non-technical staff in usage of MicroStrategy and suite of products

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• Trained BA in writing MicroStrategy-specific technical documents. Presented MicroStrategy projects to business teams and management. Worked with testing and UAT teams throughout test cycles. Work with cross functional teams to ensure product is completed on time. Offshore team liaison/lead. Lead team of up to 9 onshore/offshore development team

• Data analysis and analytics using SAS

• BI reporting using SAS

• ETL using SAS

Independent Consultant / Multiple Clients

Business Intelligence Consulting Manager

2000 - 2010 (10 years)

Atlanta

• Responsible for business requirement analysis, data analysis, and specification writing

• Provided BI report development using open source (Jasper and Pentaho), SAS, and MicroStrategy products. Oracle SQL development. SQL development

• Blending unstructured and structured data for robust and deep dive analytics solutions

• Microstrartegy dashboard design and development

• Designed, developed and tested BI Applications using MicroStrategy, Oracle PL/SQL and SQL

• Analyzed business data and assisted users in explaining the information to ensure understanding

• Coordinate project management with other IT and business teams. Create documentation as required for good SDLC practices

• Created data dictionaries, process flows, and user guides. Streamlined reporting environment. Offered detailed data analysis

• Worked within multiple aspects of MicroStrategy application such as Administration, Architect, Desktop, Report Services, Intelligence server, and Narrowcast server

• Created dashboards for leadership team. Created attributes and metrics

(inventory, commission, customer, volume, usage, scale, geographic, etc.) Education

Georgia State University

BS/BA, Economics/Political Science · (1997 - 2003) Page 5 of 6

Monthclair High School

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