SUMMARY:

• Senior Architect and Manager in Enterprise Information Management & Business Intelligence fields with 14 years of experience working for Top Tier IT consulting firms. Possesses deep expertise in Enterprise Information Architecture, Data Management Strategy & Processes, Data Modeling, Data Integration,
• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence technology domains. Holds overarching experience in architecting, establishing new practices & teams, technology consulting and driving large Data Management programs for prominent customers across the globe. Has the right blend of managerial and business acumen built with a solid technical foundation. Possesses rich experience working with global customers & geographically distributed teams and in multi - vendor environments.
• Enterprise Information Management & BI/DW Maturity Assessment & Roadmap Definition
• Enterprise Data Architecture & Governance - Strategy, Planning, Establishing policies & standards
• Data Architecture Customizations (to support initiatives like SOA deployment, Data exchange with vendors / regulators etc)
• Technology Evaluation & Recommendation
• Enterprise Customer Data Management & Analytics Strategy - using IBM’s CFE (‘Customer Focused Enterprise’) framework
• Metadata management & Solution Implementations
• Data Modeling ( Business Concept / Logical Modeling - using Relational & Dimensional techniques) & IBM Industry Data Models
• Experience with leading Data Modeling tools including CA ERwin, Infosphere Data Architect, CA Coolgen, Proforma Provision
• EDW Solution Architecture & Data Integration Design
• Business Analysis / Information Analysis & CPM & Balanced Scorecard - Strategy Map Definition
• Previous experience with ETL tools incl. Informatica, IBM Infosphere Datastage, Oracle Warehouse Builder, Microsoft SSIS
• Previous experience with leading BI Reporting / OLAP tools incl. Cognos, Business objects, Oracle BI, Microsoft SSAS
• Trained on Data Mining, Operations optimization algorithms / applications and Big data technologies
• Client Relationship & Engagement management
• Experienced in Agile / Waterfall / Iteration project management methodologies
• Mentoring / Performance Management of the team members
• New service offering definition - from Incubation to positioning
• Large bid Proposal writing & solution Presentations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Enterprise Information Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Information architect for the Member, Plan and Billing enterprise domains
• Data Architecture for multiple key initiatives in these domains. Some of them are listed below
• Impact analysis of various ‘healthcare reform’ mandates on the data layer, supporting projects to enable selling plans through the upcoming ‘Health Insurance Exchanges’
• Review and refinement of Medicare data exchange mechanism with CMS and CVS Caremark (for pharmacy claims processing)
• Project to design a comprehensive custom business rules repository’ for auto validation of insurance plans against the massive ‘state-specific’ health insurance mandates during the case installation
• Revising the data exchange between with Benefitfocus to support ACO (‘Accountable Care Organization’) business model
• ‘Customer service center Optimization’ initiatives to improve customer experience.

Data Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data Architect for Enterprise Datawarehouse solution implementation for Confidential
• Used IBM’s TDW (Industry Standard Data Model) framework
• Integration of data from multiple countries across the South American market

Enterprise Data Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consulted on Data Modeling Standards & Development Process
• Lead Data Architect for new ‘Horizon Innovation’ ACO program - defined the data architecture and conducted JAD to define business concept models. Introduced the concept of generic ‘person’ and ‘organization’ master entities.
• Architected the integration of ‘Pharmacy’ Subject Area into Enterprise Data Warehouse
• Designed new Interface definitions for external pharmacy vendors to send claim data into BCBS systems
• Consulted on Metadata design and led efforts on establishing, publishing & adoption of Data Dictionary for pharmacy subject area
• ‘BAO Assessment & Strategy’ Short Term Consulting Engagements
• Confidential (Telco Major in Malaysia) - Enterprise Customer Analytics Strategy using IBM’s CFE - ‘Customer Focused Enterprise’ framework
• ‘ Confidential ’ (West African Telco major) - Enterprise Data & BI assessment and BI implementation roadmap
• Confidential, Belgium - Enterprise BI & Reporting strategy
• Confidential, Vietnam - BI system assessment & impact analysis in lieu of Org restructuring
• Confidential, Netherlands - large-scale BI Platform Migration across the corporate
• Data architecture for IBM’s ‘Sales Analytics solution’ - out of the box solution for sales performance analysis & sales territories assignment / optimization
• Have set up the following BAO Consulting service offerings - from inception to positioning
• BAO Consulting approach on ‘Enterprise Customer Analytics Strategy’ using IBM’s ‘Customer Focused Enterprise’ framework
• ‘Cognos Migration Factory ‘ - assessment of BI infrastructure and migration to Cognos for BI standardization
• ‘Cognos AMS Offering’ - AMS service offering based on CSIM (Cognos Solution Implementation Methodology)
• Framework for consulting on Telco DW & Analytics strategy - tailored for matured & growth markets

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• BI Assessment & Roadmap consulting engagements: These engagements involved - Evaluating the current BI infrastructure, Short / Long term business needs, Cost Constraints and recommending a BI roadmap - in terms of technology and solutions. Key customers consulted

BI Program Manager / Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the six country implementation of the BI Solution to assess and analyze the success of various Post Launch Product Promotions’
• Achieved extensive automation of the collection and analysis of external vendor’s market research data, initially from AC Nielsen’s
• Have led the opportunity from the bidding stage, managed the program from inception to its closure.

BIDW Presales & Solutioning

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the business development & new solution definition activities of the Healthcare, Retail & Utilities - DW/BI & Data Mgmt group of Confidential
• Primary sales activities included customer profiling, technology partnering, GTM strategy, proposal and collateral writing & presentations
• Solutioned the data layer of ‘ Confidential t diary’- a healthcare product for managing ‘disease management programs’ and prototyped with Confidential Inc

Enterprise Information Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a member of ‘Core Information Architecture’ team - participated in establishing Enterprise Information Architecture practice across the enterprise, in Data Ownership & Stewardship program and in ‘Enterprise Data Dictionary’ efforts
• Owned ‘Business Concept Models’ for certain key Supply chain mgmt subject areas during the supply chain process re-engineering exercise conducted across the enterprise. Conducted professional JAD sessions with Senior Executives / Business Managers and prepared comprehensive models
• Was responsible for consolidation of the business models across subject areas and arrive at ‘Enterprise Business Concept Model’ aligned with the re-engineered business processes.
• Owned “Logical Modeling” of “Inventory management” functional area and participated in the Package evaluation exercise. ‘Aldata’ - package was chosen for implementation. Used the concept models as a for comparison to identify the scope of customization required on the package.

Datawarehouse / ETL Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical leadership for one of the first ‘very large’ and ‘complex’ end-to-end Enterprise Datawarehouse implementations done by Confidential
• Some of the highlights of the solution include, Operational datastore with near-real time data load (first Oracle streams implementation in Europe), complex SCD requirements and dimensional modeling, parallel development & testing of EDW and source systems etc
• EDW provided ‘360’ degree view of its gas transportation network operations to Transco. Network operators were able to monitor the network utilization on a ‘Near real time’ basis - with the help of ODS implemented - and balance the network & optimize the utilization accordingly.
• Designed a custom ‘Metadata Repository & Solution’ to capture and report technical & business metadata - aiming at improved system adoption

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• ‘Technical Lead’ - ‘Executive Information System Development’ for Confidential, Malaysia (Transportation)
• ‘Module Leader’ - BI Product Development for Malaysian retail banks to comply with Confidential regulatory reporting requirements
• ‘BI Project Engineer’ - Executive Information System Development for Confidential, Malaysia ( Insurance )