
Business intelligence & data warehouse design professional and executive.
Greater Chicago Area

Business intelligence & data warehouse design professional and executive.
Greater Chicago Area
Business Intelligence innovator and leader with 20 years of experience in reducing costs, increasing profit, and identifying and mitigating risk. I devise ways to make more effective use of corporate data, and increase information access for knowledge workers and decision makers.
Transformation of business goals into data relationships, visualization of information, and mentoring/motivation of developers.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Acquity Group delivers award-winning, tailored solutions to elevate brands and businesses by maximizing the digital channel.
Created a social media analysis plan for a start-up subsidiary of a firm in the banking supplies business.
Managed a team which created a customer profile data warehouse for Publishers Clearing House. Also, managed a BI tools vendor selection process.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)
Business intelligence specialist in the Technology Integration team.
Lead development and execution of a BI vendor analysis and selection process for Washington Mutual Bank in Seattle.
Head Architect of commodities brokerage volume and financials data warehouse.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ABN; Banking industry)
June 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Director of business intelligence development work flow and analytical reporting for bank finance, security audit, credit risk, retail services, commercial loans, and marketing. Senior technical liaison between banking businesses and IT for assessing reporting and data warehouse infrastructure needs. Managed bank staff of five, consulting staff up to 30 in-house and up to 70 off-shore.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ABN; Banking industry)
June 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 1 month)
(Held by ABN Amro NA, included because both company names tend to refer to the same thing)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — 2005 (3 years )
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; BRNC; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1994 — April 2002 (8 years 1 month)
Branch department head, chief of practice marketing, and thought leader in data warehouse and reporting solutions. Performed staff evaluations, set performance objectives, salary and bonus levels, training budgets. Lecturer in quality management, data warehouse architectures, and the design of the Internet. Managed staff of 20 consultants located in 13 US branch offices.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1994 — 1999 (5 years )
(Sole Proprietorship; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1987 — April 1994 (6 years 8 months)
Specialist in design of relational databases and document management software for publishing industry. In-house consultant on Oracle database administration and software change control standards.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1985 — September 1987 (2 years 1 month)
Member of development staff of pre-relational database management system.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1983 — September 1985 (2 years 9 months)
Director of computing facilities and software architectures.
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
January 1981 — January 1983 (2 years 1 month)
Operating system programmer on CDC Cyber/170 series. Developer of operating system software for Fermilab scientific research and development mainframes.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 1977 — January 1981 (3 years 6 months)
Operating system programmer on CDC 6000 series. Author of RTX operating system on ModComp/16 computer.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1973 — 1975 (2 years )
Operating system programmer on CDC 6500.