Business Objects/Data Warehouse Architect Resume

Summary

Over nine years of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence experience.
Data warehousing full life cycle implementation experience including requirements gathering, dimensional modeling, ETL, Business Intelligence, production support, end user support and end user training.
3.5+ year experience Managing Business Objects, SAS, and Tableau environments.
Expertise in Dimensional modeling using Ralph Kimball methodologies.
Business Objects integration experience with SAP BW and ECC.
Expertise is Business Objects architecture, administration, development, end-user support, and end-user training.
Experience with full suite and different versions of Business Objects products.
Over 13 years of teaching experience including 6 years of end-user training experience using Business Objects.
Experience working with Teradata, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and Access.

Achievements

Saved $2M in licensing cost by consolidating Cardinal Health landscape from 14 deployments to 2 deployments.
Hosted MOC (Meet our Customers) table at 2011 SAP Sapphire.
Selected as a Speaker for ASUG 2011 Business Objects Conference.
Performed investigation on Kohal Pharmacy data and helped Idaho Department of Health and Welfare get $214,000 in restitution for damages from the pharmacy. This amount also included $50,000 investigative cost.
Saved thousands of dollars by training Business Objects users in-house.

Education

Experience

Confidential
June 2008 - Present

Managing a landscape with 8000 internal and 15,000 external Business Objects users. Also responsible for managing SAS and Tableau Infrastructure.
Consolidated Business Objects landscape at Cardinal Health.
Established BI Competency Center at Cardinal Health.
Established BI Training center for in-house end-user trainings.
Conducted several WebIntelligence and Advanced WebIntelligence trainings.
Lead several Business Objects development and Infrastructure projects.
Performed SAP BW and ECC Integration with Business Objects XI3.1.
Demoed Business Objects products and solutions to executives.

Business Objects/Data Warehouse Architect, Confidential
May 2004 - May 2008

Performed several roles simultaneously including Data Architect/Dimensional Modeler, Business Objects Architect, Business Objects developer, Business Objects Admin, and Business Objects Trainer.
Designed dimensional models for systems including Human Resources, Criminal History, Child Support, Welfare, Case Review, Family and Children Services, and User Activity.
Performed several Business Objects migrations and upgrades including BOBJ 6.5.1 to XIR2, 6.1b to 6.5.1, and 6.1a to 6.1b.
Worked as a team lead to maintain the data warehouse deployment of 1500 users across the enterprise.
Created 50+ universes and hundreds of complex Desktop Intelligence and Web Intelligence reports.
Created Business Objects end-user training manuals and conducted several in-house trainings.

Business Objects part time Consultant, Confidential
August 2007 - November 2007

Confidential
January 2001 - June 2002

Worked as a Teaching Fellow at University of Houston where I taught undergraduate Java Programming courses.
The course covered object oriented design, inheritance, composition, polymorphism, GUI, advanced GUI and event handling, JDBC, multi threading, serialization and networking concepts in JAVA.

Confidential
March 1999 - August 2000

As a junior modeler, designed databases to keep track of student registration, enrollment, enrollment card issuance and results.
Extracted business rules from the requirement documents and entities from business rules and by using reverse engineering techniques.
Participated in logical and physical database modeling and designing using oracle designer and Erwin.
Participated in creating Entity Relationship diagrams and normalizing the database.

References

Available on request.