Jason Hopkin
***** *. **** **** ******** AZ, ****8
adjr6s@r.postjobfree.com
Overview
Proficiencies
Business Analysis
Requirements Gathering
Enterprise Application Reporting Support
Business Intelligence Reporting Support
Quality Assurance
SharePoint Admin
Content Multimedia Design Management
Video Editing/Frontend Website Design
End User Design
Summary
Over 10 combined years of professional experience in implementing creative solutions, requirements gathering and workflows to enhance everyday efficiency for key business stakeholders.
Successfully implemented over 20 IT projects in the last 4 years including SharePoint 2019 upgrade, SQL 2017 BI platform migration, and 300 custom reports for Casino Arizona.
Professional Experience
Business Systems Analyst Casino Arizona and Talking Stick Resort
November 2016 – Current
Business Systems Analyst that provides support for over 300 Power BI and SSRS reports along with 9 other Business applications. These duties include documenting requirements, code review sessions, daily standups, and quality assurance testing with communication to the business.
●IT Enterprise Application team leader for day-to-day business operations for a Report Writer, Developer, and Data Analyst Intern.
●Contributed to the development and deployment of 9 different yearly employee evaluation Nintex forms with integrated business workflows for over 3,000 employees. Resulting in quantifiable scores to justify employee annual pay increases.
●Team leader for the SharePoint 2019 upgrade leading discussions with business stakeholders and the development team along with quality assurance testing, and the recreation of 72 department website pages.
●The main lead for the SQL 2017 BI platform migration for over 150 BI reports with little business outage or impact during the migration process.
●Orchestrated the migration of 33 custom SSRS and BI reports for the Casino Market Place 13 upgrade. Completing data validation and functionality to all reports before the next gaming day.
Multimedia Designer Casino Arizona and Talking Stick Resort
April 2010 – November 2016 (promoted to BSA)
Multimedia Designer created digital content for 3 properties at Casino Arizona for over 500 digital displays, 8 interactive kiosks, and 2 freeway signs, 3 large scale video walls and animated building lights.
●Implemented 1.5-million-dollar digital signage system (Ballys CoolSign 12). While building a creation process for the multimedia team for all digital signage concepts throughout Casino Arizona and Talking Stick Resort properties.
●Designed and conceptualized the Spa gift card for key stakeholders improving the purchase process for customers within minutes instead of days.
●Saved time and money by formulating a strategy to create videos in-house for all upcoming events, entertainment, and property outlets when previously it was outsourced.
Professional Experience Continued
Presentation and Media Graphic Artist Thunderbird School of Global Management
October 2008 – March 2010
Designed presentation content, edited video, created interactive presentations and illustrated graphics for college professors.
●Gathered Professor learning theories and conceptualized them into presentation design for the upcoming school year.
●Assisted in the live broadcast for the yearly graduation ceremony operating and coordinating up to 4 video cameras with tight deadlines.
Junior Aerospace Technical Illustrator DataLink Software Consultants
January 2006 – July 2008
Accommodate any illustration style per customer specifications for on-site technical writers and engineers.
●Illustrated 3D drawings and isometric exploded views with the direction of engineers and technical writers to deliver the 2007 Learjet parts catalog.
Customer Configuration Analyst DataLink Software Consultants
January 2006 – July 2008 (promoted to Technical Illustrator)
Analyze all Honeywell aircraft parts for military or commercial use while documenting the findings to verify aircraft parts are classified for export overseas.
●Developed a business process flow diagram for all Configuration Analysts to assure classification consistency for commercial or military avionics parts
●Built a business procedure to analyze unclassified avionics parts for Honeywell that were being held up in customs. Classifying these avionics parts saved Honeywell thousands of dollars a day in docking fees.
Education
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Computer Animation 1999-2002 Art Institute of Phoenix
High school Diploma 1993-1997 Peoria High School
●Art Club Member, Art Club President (1997), Artist of the Year (1997)
Achievements
Employee of the Month October 2013 Casino Arizona and Talking Stick Resort
Recognition for quality of work and leading multimedia team for the Ballys Cool Sign upgrade
Employee Recognition committee 2015 – 2016
Member: Assisted in employee events, employee ticket giveaways, gather feedback from employees and coordinate employee recognition banquets
Tools
Microsoft and Apple:
Microsoft Power BI and EAR reporting, SharePoint 2013 and 2019, Nintex 2013 and 2019 forms and workflows, 3D studio Max Autodesk, Cinema 4D, Adobe CC suite (After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat), SalesForce, SpredFast, Cornerstone, Ballys CoolSigns, YESCO Prism View