Wade Walker

Current

• Managing Director and Business Intelligence Consultant / ETL Expert at Methodata Sàrl

Past

• Senior Consultant at GFI International
• Manager, Business Intelligence, Western Operations at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
• Central North American Team Lead, Business Intelligence at Burntsand

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Education

• The University of British Columbia
• The University of Calgary

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Wade Walker’s Summary

1. Global project experience (Europe; Australia; Japan; USA; Canada)
2. Team formation, coordination and management
3. Project management
4. Effective technical <=> business bridge – actively foster understanding, communication and agreement between diverse groups and stakeholders
5. Definition, architecture & implementation of information technology strategy/vision
6. Conceived & developed structured methodology for data migration (“ClearView”).
7. Definition of business needs & translation to technical requirements
8. Technical data migration expert & strategist (implementation, QA, audit)
9. Business intelligence data structures and implementation (ETL/OLAP/DB)
10. Individual and group mentoring and training
11. Actively search for opportunities to streamline processes to accelerate development while maintaining very high quality standard

Key Points :

• Business and Strategy-oriented thinker
• 10 years as a Business Intelligence and Data Management specialist
• Data Migration Architect, Trainer, Mentor
• Developed and branded structured approaches and methodologies in the domains of data migration, business intelligence, definition of business requirements and Web Analytics.
• Developed structured approaches to data profiling, quality and auditing
• Strong advocate of definition of, and adherence to, corporate standards of development and business rules. Believe in ongoing QA and audit processes to ensure conformance
• Interfaced with all levels of organization, both on the business side and technical side; Encourage bilateral communication and communicate complex ideas with an accessible approach
• Effective communicator across cultural and geographic barriers;
• Broad understanding of the decisional tools market. Able to intelligently combine technologies to leverage diverse vendor strengths while balancing budget constraints. Structured process for software evaluation and selection.

Wade Walker’s Specialties:

Technical
- Data Warehouse
- Data Migration
- OLAP
- Business Intelligence
- Training
- Mentoring

Business
- Negotiation
- Business Analysis
- Pre- and Post-Sales

Industry
- Banking
- Packaged Goods
- Pharmaceutical
- Utility
- Government

Wade Walker’s Experience

• Managing Director and Business Intelligence Consultant / ETL Expert

  Methodata Sàrl

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  Lead Technical Consultant and Data Migration and Data Warehouse Specialist. Responsible for Methodata’s business relationship development and marketing, team leadership, technical development and implementation, technical quality assurance and data migration audits.
  
  Data Migration Architect; Developer and owner of templated Methodology for Data Migration. Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing strategy, architecture and implementation.
  
  Provide courses in Data Migration tools such as Informatica, Sunopsis and Datastage. Developed and provide custom course named "Good ETL Design"
  
  Expert in Data Migration tools such as Informatica and Datastage.
  
  Skilled in OLAP tools such as Business Objects, MS Analysis services, Microstrategy

• Senior Consultant

  GFI International

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 2 months)

  • Responsible for co-ordination and alignment of technical and business teams in Lausanne, Rome, Tokyo and Melbourne for complex global Business Intelligence project
  • Responsible for ensuring alignment and integration of technology developed by team
  • Performed project planning and control; Developed and enforced standards and methodology
  • Definition of business requirements and technical architecture
  • Developed core technical deliverables - data migration (DataStage) and strategic reports
  • Developed data migration strategy for consulting partner
  • Extensive development using DataStage (ETL), Oracle database and Business Objects
  • Provided technical training (Informatica Powercenter/PowerMart) to senior consulting team (Grenoble, France)

• Manager, Business Intelligence, Western Operations

  Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2000 — April 2001 (8 months)

  Examples of Practice Development successes:
  • Founded new Western Canadian Data Warehouse Practice
  • Developed proposals & developed and estimated project work plans for major clients
  • Developed new Western Canadian team to five professionals in first four months of practice.
  • Generated revenues >$1.2 million Q1 2001.
  • Developed western software partner strategy & developed vendor relationships.
  Examples of Project Successes:
  • Analyzed 40 disparate data sources (SAP, Peoplesoft, Custom) and developed data management strategy for a major telecom company
  • Collaborated on development of global data model for large North America telecom
  • Analyzed proprietary tool and developed strategy for global rollout for global restaurant chain.

• Central North American Team Lead, Business Intelligence

  Burntsand

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; BRT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1999 — September 2000 (1 year 9 months)

  • Proposed, founded and developed Central North American Data Warehousing Practice
  • Definition of strategy in eBusiness, Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
  • Planned, costed and led technology projects
  • Performed project requirements definition and business analysis.
  • Built and developed competent team of five professionals
  • Worked with and supported three regional offices to develop their local markets
  • Generated nearly $1 million in revenue in first few months of practice creation.
  • Identified, extracted, transformed and loaded data from variety of sources (Informatica).
  • Developed reports in a variety of OLAP tools.

Wade Walker’s Education

• The University of British Columbia

  Certificate , Web Analytics Award of Achievement , 2007 — 2009

• The University of Calgary

  BCOMM , Management Information Systems , 1993 — 1998

  Scholastic Award: Dean’s List (1998)

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Wade Walker’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

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