Ben Becker

Ben Becker

Data Architect, Systems Integrator, Custom Application Developer, Entrepreneur

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Current
  • Chief Technology Officer at Fleet Map, LLC
  • President at Becker Solutions, Inc.
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Ben Becker’s Summary

I am an avid technologist with a broad spectrum of experience in a variety of industries. My largest background is in business intelligence and database technologies. I also specialize in custom software development and the full spectrum of IT management.

Ben Becker’s Specialties:

Enterprise Application Integration, Business Intelligence, Database Design, Software Development, IT Oversight & Management

Ben Becker’s Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer

    Fleet Map, LLC

    (Wireless industry)

    March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

    Fleet Map is a low cost, customizable GPS tracking, mapping, and messaging application. It is a system that has been developed with one goal in mind, to leverage GPS and spatial data to increase revenue, drive out costs, and add value to your business. This system is not just another fleet tracking solution that charges substantial upfront hardware costs, those are a dime a dozen.

  • President

    Becker Solutions, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

    Becker Solutions is a company I had initially started run my side ventures and software initiatives through. After doing this for a couple of years, I have now become a full time employee pursuing consulting and custom software projects.

  • Consultant

    Brightpoint

    (Public Company; CELL; Telecommunications industry)

    April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)

    As a consultant with Brightpoint, I worked with the Business Intelligence team developing an operational data store to support a Webfocus front-end to provide operational reporting to support their ERP system. The Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) tool was used for all ETL routines which integrated with the Sterling Gentran Information Suite middleware platform. The operational data store was sourced from a variety of systems including JD Edwards, Provia Viaware, Evavi and others. My involvement was on the architectural oversight, data modeling and ETL design & development.

  • CIO

    Hoosier Tradewinds

    (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

    January 2004 — March 2008 (4 years 3 months)

    Managed the full realm of the IT infrastructure in place to support rapid growth in addition to development of new technologies and business processes.

    Highlights:
    - Development of custom imaging system using SQL Server and .NET which integrated to TMW Suite.
    - Deployment and creation of web services and integrations with assorted vendors.
    - Created many small custom .NET applications to extend TMWSuite.
    - Implemented SQL Reporting Services for operational and analytical reports.
    - Development of a maintenance system which allowed detailed reporting and reduction of paper.
    - Development of heads up display used in the operations room on a 250" screen. Featured real-time feed from multiple systems to provide a dashboard of GPS, weather, phone and accounting metrics.
    - Development of intranet solution built using DotNetNuke with many custom module extensions. Solution was featured in the Commercial Carrier Journal innovators article.
    - VoIP implementation.

  • Manager

    Braun Consulting

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; BRNC; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 1997 — January 2004 (6 years 8 months)

    Client / personal project list includes Eli Lilly, Supreme court for the State of Vermont, Brown and Williamson, Carrier, Cintas, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Dow Agro Sciences and Ameren Energy.

  • Consultant

    Eli Lilly

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LLY; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    July 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 6 months)

    in vivo Lead Optimization Data Warehouse
    On this project, I was the technical and architect lead overseeing the gathering of requirements and overall system design. The project involved designing a complex 3NF data warehouse model for optimal storage of live phase assay results. The architecture for data movement was based on an XML EAI exchange leveraging MQ series and proprietary Java and PL/SQL.

    in vitro Lead Optimization Data Warehouse/Mart
    On this project, I was the project manager overseeing the deployment of a lead optimization data mart for the substance research group at Eli Lilly. The project involved finalizing the data requirements, overall solution architecture, designing a star schema data model, design and development of the 3NF warehouse and data mart ETL routines. The mart was designed to meet the specific requirements of a data visualization tool.

  • Consultant

    State of Vermont

    (Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Government Administration industry)

    January 2001 — June 2001 (6 months)

    On this project, I was the lead technical architect for designing and deploying a data warehouse and two data marts. The state of Vermont’s fourteen counties of data were used as sources for the data warehouse. An ETL process comprised of ODBC, PL/SQL and Unify were implemented to build a 3NF warehouse structure. A statistical data mart was designed and deployed as well as a Juvenile data mart. The juvenile data mart allowed for specific analysis of juvenile dockets to better serve these cases.

  • Consultant

    Brown & Williamson Tobacco

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BAT; Tobacco industry)

    June 2000 — January 2001 (8 months)

    On this project, I was the lead technical architect for revamping a data warehouse that was already in production. As part of the project, a new warehouse was structured. Part of this structure included the development of standards and process meant to aide as a blue-print for future modifications to the warehouse to support growth and flexibility. Several data marts were also built once the warehouse redesign was completed. These marts used BusinessObjects as a front-end reporting tool. The mart structure supported query analysis across several distinct subject areas and was presented transparently to the user through advanced BusinessObjects universe design. The backend DB was Oracle.

  • Consultant

    Carrier Corporation

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UTX; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

    January 2000 — May 2000 (5 months)

    On this project, I designed and developed a data warehouse and data mart of Human Resources information to accommodate analytical analysis. A warehouse was designed pulling information from several different legacy systems and homogenizing the data into a standard structure. A mart was then designed to accommodate query analysis and aid in cross dimensional analysis of the data. The system also offered additional capabilities such as historical tracking and front-end manipulation of the data outside of the source systems and warehouse. All ETL was completed within Informix DataStage against Oracle.

  • Consultant

    Cintas

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 1999 — January 2000 (8 months)

    Was the lead technical architect for the development of a CRM solution for several divisions within Cintas. The primary goal of the system was to deliver cross-sell capabilities and to better analyze customers across several criteria. This solution was achieved by customizing a Data Mart from nine different legacy systems and homogenizing these sources into a single Mart. The three main functional pieces of the system included standard OLAP reporting, Campaign Management and data mining.

  • Consultant

    Thomson Consumer Electronics

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TMS; Consumer Electronics industry)

    1998 — 1999 (1 year)

    Worked on a variety of business intelligence initiatives working with Oracle, and assorted reporting tasks.

  • Consultant

    Ameren

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AEE; Utilities industry)

    April 1999 — May 1999 (2 months)

    On this project, I assisted with the development of an energy brokering system built using VB. This system included many complex routines and interfaces utilized on the trading floor where energy was sold and purchased. This application was built from the ground up and was a replacement for an existing legacy trading system.

  • Consultant

    Eli Lilly

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LLY; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    January 1999 — March 1999 (3 months)

    Upgraded an existing cold fusion web application to support several new enhancements. These enhancements included porting the database structure to Oracle from MS Access, adding additional administrative functionality, securing the application and adding capability for multi-language support.

  • Consultant

    Eli Lilly

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LLY; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    1997 — 1998 (1 year)

    As a consultant with Eli Lilly and Company, was involved in the design of a Data Mart for reporting purposes for the Clinical Trials team. This project allowed the Clinical Trials team to discontinue the use of several miscellaneous tools used to track Clinical Trials enrollment and milestone information. The Data Mart also allowed a standardized way of reporting information. BusinessObjects was used as the front-end to report against the Data Mart, which is stored in an Oracle database. The reports tracked Clinical Trial enrollment, milestones, and key metrics. The reports are used by approximately one thousand users in over forty Lilly affiliates worldwide. Was responsible for the data movement aspect of the Data Mart using PL/SQL. Skills relevant to this experience included problem resolution, data movement concepts, PL/SQL and training of end-users.

  • Consultant

    Dow AgroSciences

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DOW; Chemicals industry)

    1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

    As a consultant with Dow Agrosciences, I was involved in the design of two business objects universes which reported off a STAR schema Data Mart. These universes provided actual and forecasted sales information for payment programs. I was responsible for the design and development, testing, and documentation of the universes.

  • Network Administrator

    Deloitte

    (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; DTT; Accounting industry)

    1992 — 1994 (2 years)

    Worked through college as a network administrator doing IT and Helpdesk support.

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Ben Becker’s Honors:

Graduated Purdue in Computer Technology with Distinction

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