CAREER PERFORMANCE QUALIFICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS

	Provide strategic and tactical consulting, solutions, support,
development, delivery, and technical training to 	assist personnel in identifying
business performance requirements, defining product roadmap, selecting,
	implementing, rolling-out, and using new software; i.e., reporting, custom
applications, and data warehouse 	applications, etc. 
  	Demonstrate collaborative and successful liaison with Cognos and
Hyperion, as customers’ software 	vendors; 	i.e., leverage functionality and
integration into clients’ existing software applications, provide new
	functionality not found in products, or to automate tool administration.
	Work with clients to define scope of project deliverables for each
engagement; manage user expectations; 	design technical solutions, and
identify/train internal personnel to develop, test, deploy, and support Cognos
	solutions.
	Compile and analyze detailed, user requirements with teams of primary
business users, and technically 	trained personnel within IT department. 
	Introduced and positioned as business analyst and technical lead;
establish positive relationships with clients 	to expand consulting presence
within Fortune 100s/500s. 
	Manage performance of junior consultants to develop and deliver
solutions.

~	Designed and developed enterprise-wide Performance Management solutions that
combined information from legacy ERP and POS systems with information from manual
Excel spreadsheets and Cognos EP into a comprehensive data warehouse design and
BI application that leverages the entire range of Cognos functionality:
self-service reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and event
management.
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~	Due to personal Cognos expertise, secured client as Cognos partner for rollout
of 1,000 user project – with 	expansion forecast of 275,000, 2007.
~	Converted business requirements into technical specification and design for
Oracle data mart, and adhoc/standard reporting using Cognos 8BI.
~	Oversaw implementation of Cognos ReportNet; developed and assisted with
development of long-term 	strategy for implementation of CRN features/integration
into Enterprise Risk Management Technology 	departments’ custom portal /
infrastructure.
~	Developed and enhanced reports incorporating sophisticated DHTML/JavaScript
techniques for 	navigation/usability.
~	Implemented Cognos SDK program to provide event-based report scheduling from
internal ETL scripts.
~	Re-designed Framework Manager model to leverage Best practices to ensure
predictable queries.
~	Developed PowerPlay cubes and Impromptu reports, replacing MS Excel-based
reporting and 	presentation system.
~	Established framework for gathering and analyzing business requirements;
designed a star-schema data	mart to meet requirements; developed Cognos solutions
to deliver information; trained client’s staff.
~	Found solutions to convert several dissatisfied clients’ current software
investment in Cognos;	recommended additional/alternative Cognos software leading
to additional licensing revenue for Cognos; 	based on performance, clients’
expanded their ISA presence from one consultant to three engagements, and 	four
consultants – leading to ISA revenue growth.
	~	Specifically placed with two Fortune 500s; i.e., successfully established
foothold with prominent client on the west coast; built reputation, sold
additional software, and placed more consultants – resulting in repeat project
assignments at both client sites.                                     
	~	Initial pre-sales efforts led to placement of two ISA consultants for custom
development project; and, data warehousing efforts led to contract for ISA with
two consultants to build warehouse application.
	~	Developed statements-of-work, project plans, UML diagrams, hardware
sizing/configuration worksheets, business requirements/technical design
specifications, system test plans, test scripts, standard operation procedures,
and training manuals.
	~	Provided strategic/tactical consults to major publishing organization’s
personnel to support the New York State Education Department’s implementation of
CRN to over 200,000+ end-users within a pre/post sales capacity. Provided
hardware estimates, ORACLE Content Store sizing estimates, system architecture
diagrams, documentation, and proof-of-concept report.
	~	Designed numerous Internet, intranet applications utilizing browser
front-ends and multiple technologies.
~	Conducted advanced ReportStudio techniques presentation at Cognos User
Conference, in conjunction	with AIG, 2006.
	~	Delivered multiple training workshops to empower business users to define
their requirements.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QUEBIT CONSULTING • New York, NY 						               2007 to Present
($10MM Consulting, Software Sales & Training Services)
Director of Business Intelligence Services 
Accountable for all aspects of project from pre-sales through completion
including design, implementation, training, project management and post
implementation support.  Responsible for project plans, solution designs, project
management, and implementation of advanced BI solutions.  Perform Architect and
project management roles on implementations of advanced reporting and data
warehousing solutions as an Experienced Cognos BI Developer.  Responsible for
development of client projects starting with needs analysis, continuing through
development and user acceptance testing.  

~	Increased revenue for the Business Intelligence practice from $0 to $1M in 14
months.
~	Managed mixed team of 2 full-time employees and 2 contractors.



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ISA CONSULTING • New York, NY 							               1999 to 2007
($10MM Consulting, Software Sales & Training Services • Three Locations)
Senior Consultant 
	Provide consulting services; i.e., requirements analysis, scope management,
installation and configuration, 	data modeling, report development, performance
tuning, application development, and hardware selection. 	Manage junior
consultants at clients’ sites; train and manage clients’ developers. Introduce
Cognos into clients’ 	organization; provide pre-sales support to ISA and Cognos
(software vendor) sales personnel. Deliver end-user 	training to business and
technical client staff. Train internal ISA consultants.

~	Developed internal web-based timesheet system to capture employee/customer
hours; system 	integrates with ISA accounting system to automate monthly payroll
process; developed web-based 	system for tracking employee technical skills for
ISA sales department to use for prospective clients, and 	back-office personnel
to match with customer requirements to consultant availability; developed
web-	based system for generating training request forms; system captures relevant
information relating to 	training engagements; used as contractual foundation
between ISA and customers.
~	As a Cognos Platinum Partner, ISA was awarded “Top Reseller of 2007,” and
“Innovation” Awards. 


SEI INVESTMENTS • Oaks, PA								       1995 to 1999
($773MM, Int’l Outsourced Asset Management Services • Investment
Processing/Operations Solutions • Nine Locations • 2,000 Employees)
Technical Specialist
	Supported custom client-server applications within service bureau environment;
i.e., performed product 	installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and client
training. Provided first-line support for product data-	related/functionality
issues.
	~	Developed automation scripts; hardware configuration and sizing for new
installations of product.

EDUCATION

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA – Management Information Systems, 1995

CERTIFICATIONS

Cognos: 8 Framework Manager Modeler / 8 Report Studio / 8 Query Studio,
Certified, 2006
Ameritrain – Microsoft Certified Solution Developer Training, 2000
Innovative Systems Associates – ISA Training Certification, 1999 
Hyperion Essbase Certification, 1999

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Cognos - ReportNet SDK for Developers, 2004  Hyperion - Hyperion
Intelligence Suite, 2004
MicroEndeavors - Microsoft.Net Road Show, 2002

MEMBERSHIPS / ASSOCIATIONS

The Data Warehousing institute (TDWI)

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENTS
Install, Upgrade, Migrate, Configure, Modeling & Reporting

Business Intelligence Tools: Cognos: 8BI / ReportNet / Framework Manager /
PowerPlay for Windows  PowerPlay Web Explorer / Transformer / SDK/ Impromptu Web
Reports/Impromptu / Visualizer / Query 
Architect /  Upfront / Script / Web Services   MS: Analysis Services /
Data Analyzer / Proclarity / Reporting Services  Hyperion: Essbase
 Hyperion Intelligence Suite 
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Performance Management Tools: Cognos: Enterprise Planning / Contributor /
Enterprise Planning Analyst / Metrics Studio / Metrics Designer / TM1

Data Warehousing Tools: Cognos: Data Manager (DecisionStream)  MS SQL
Server DTS  Composite Information Server  CA: Erwin

Database Experience: MS SQL Server / Access  Sybase SQL Server 
Oracle  Informix Adaptive Server  Software AG ADABAS

Programming: Visual Basic.NET / 6.0  ASP.NET / ASP  HTML/DHTML
 JavaScript  JAVA/J2EE  XML/XSLT/Xpath  Windows
Scripting Host  ORACLE PL/SQL  MS T/SQL  UNIX Shell
 PERL  JCL  REXX  ADABAS Natural

Software: MS: Excel / PowerPoint / Project / Word / Visio

Web & Application Servers: Apache/Tomcat  MS IIS
Operating Systems: Windows 9x / NT / 2000 / XP  IBM OS/390 
UNIX: Solaris / AIX / Red Hat Linux