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Board Member @ Chattahoochee Gold Providing strategic guidance to the executive management team. Greater Atlanta AreaHead of Analytical Solution Architecture Practice @ Teradata General Manager and leader of a specially selected group of technical experts who served as analytical solution architects for the Australia/New Zealand region. Members of this Architecture Practice partnered closely with Technology and Business leaders of companies interested in maximizing the value of data through application of the most powerful analytical solutions available. From 2010 to 2012 (2 years) Melbourne, AustraliaHead of Analytical Solution Delivery @ Crescent Blue Solutions Founder, Partner and Principal of a consulting firm created to provide best-in-class EDW, BI, and Analytical services to companies throughout North America and Australia. Built strong partnerships with leading analytical technology providers to develop and deliver a comprehensive EDW/BI Services portfolio.Major customers: Limited Brands (The Limited, Victoria’s Secret, Bath & Body Works, Express), Bank of America, Capital One, Teradata, Coles-Meyer, Best Buy, McDonald’s, Sprint/Nextel, Cisco, Express Scripts, Hershey, CitiCard, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and AT&T MobilityEstablished EDW/BI Programs: Partnered with executives, and delivered recommendations in the areas of organizational structure, staffing, EDW and BI product selection, solution architecture, program management, solution optimization, and accelerated delivery.Built the EDW for the 2nd largest bank in the world: Enabled enterprise-wide data analysis by consolidating 110 disparate data marts. This aggressive program was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget. Saved millions of dollars and improved performance: Performed EDW Audits and Assessments. Recommendations enabled customers to shore-up weaknesses, and reclaim as much as 35% processing power from their EDWs. Capacity reclamation initiatives provided immediate value as high as $12MM, and enabled early delivery of backlogged projects bringing in many millions of dollars in additional value.Enabled Worldwide Customer Insights: Led the delivery of the first Global Data Warehouse for the world’s largest restaurant chain. Fueled extraordinary corporate success by providing insights from analysis of Customer Experience, and Traffic data.Gave competitive advantage to a multinational retailer: Re-engineered and delivered a business-critical Active EDW Executive Reporting Solution. The final real-time product delivered Budget, Sales, and Traffic metrics 60X faster than the previous solution. From 2001 to 2011 (10 years) Greater New Orleans AreaHead of Global Business Intelligence & Shared Services @ Polo Ralph Lauren Established BICC: Streamlined development and increased organizational productivity (60%) by defining, staffing and directing the company’s first Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC). Reorganized division into specific Centers of Excellence with clearly identified core competencies and a well-defined solution delivery methodology which was leveraged to architect, build and support the global BI solutions portfolio. Business Partnership: Partnered with CFO, CIO and key business executives to establish lines of communication directly with the business where none had existed before. Established Service Level Agreements (SLA) with the business, and restored confidence in BI Reporting and Analytics. Established a track record of on-time, or early delivery of business solutions. Chief Architect for the Global BI portfolio: Provided thought leadership, technical guidance and mentoring to senior staff and vendor partners in the definition of a solid, secure, extensible architecture. Re-engineered siloed data marts into the company’s first Global EDW/BI solution. Maintained focus on business requirements and product functionality to select and configure architecture components and define best possible roadmap for growth.Increased Technical Competency: Improved organizational competency by training and maintaining the only organization in the company to achieve 100% ITILv3 certification. Certified associates in PMP, Informatica, Teradata, and MicroStrategy.Leader in Governance: Defined and leveraged EDW and BI governance processes at multiple levels where none had existed before. Improved solution quality, security, efficiency and business value.Enabled Globalization: Directed the expansion of BI and Analytical solutions into the Asia-Pacific region to enable corporate growth. Expanded solution capability and availability (24 x 7) to provide the company’s first global reporting system (Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific). From 2007 to 2010 (3 years) Greater New York City AreaHead of Enterprise Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & Analytics @ Overstock.com Established BICC: Streamlined development and increased organizational productivity by defining, staffing and directing the company's first Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC). Reorganized division into Centers of Excellence with clearly identified core competencies and a well-defined solution delivery methodology which was leveraged to architect, build and support the enterprise BI and Analytics solutions portfolio. Organizational Development: Provided leadership and technical guidance in the areas of Program/Project Management, Business Requirements Analysis, Solutions Architecture, Delivery, Training, Maintenance and Support of Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Advanced Analytics solutions for the enterprise.Increased Business Confidence and Capability: Paid down technical debt, and restored business confidence in BI and Analytical solutions. Partnered with Finance Department comptroller to establish Quality Assurance (QA) processes which identified and corrected inaccuracies in Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) thereby allowing accurate reporting of marketing and merchandising information. Developed personalized training plans for each business unit. From 2005 to 2006 (1 year) Greater Salt Lake City AreaTechnical Account Manager (TAM) / Senior Solution Architect @ Teradata Senior technical leadership and management role that provided EDW, BI, and CRM solutions to major companies throughout the United States.Major customers: 3M, Air Force Global Weather Center (AFGWC), BellSouth, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois, Caldor, Charming Shoppes, Delta Airlines, Federal Express, Federated Stores Group, Hallmark, Lowe’s, Marriott, Medco, Office Depot, Sears, Government Agencies, Wal-Mart Delivered new EDW on Aggressive Timeline: Did what “they” say couldn’t be done. Led team to complete an aggressive migration to a new EDW in advance of Y2K deadline for the world’s 3rd largest airline. Ahead of schedule; under budget; zero failures.Built Award-winning EDW/BI Platform at Lowe’s Home Improvement: Collaborated with CIO, and his leadership team to architect and deliver Lowe’s new EDW/BI platform. Prototyped, benchmarked, configured, and delivered Lowe's EDW/BI/CRM solution. Data analysis results delivered during proof of concept provided enough value to offset the entire cost of the new solution. Delivered the world’s 1st Ceres CRM solution.Saved Millions for Key Customers: Completed system audits and provided recommendations for improvement that included capacity reclamation, which saved customers millions of dollars by optimizing existing systems and deferring upgrades. Recognized for Technical Expertise: Hand-picked to serve on an elite 10-member task force known as the Teradata SWAT Team, which led the delivery of high-priority analytics initiatives in the Americas.Awards:• National Center for Database Marketing(NCDM) Database Excellence Award for relationship marketing (Lowe’s)• Retail Systems Conference & Expo Award “Best in Corporate Systems” (Lowe’s) From 1996 to 2001 (5 years) Greater Atlanta Area, North Wilkesboro, North CarolinaVice President, Analytical Architecture and Solution Delivery @ Crescent Blue Providing a broad range of strategic and technical advisory services to CXOs and their leadership teams on all aspects of building and growing highly successful Enterprise Data Architecture, Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics architectures and portfolios. Greater Atlanta AreaHead of Enterprise Data Architecture, Business Intelligence & Analytics @ The Home Depot Creator/Leader, and General Manager of Enterprise Information Services (EIS), a 300+ member shared services portfolio responsible for the design, delivery and support of the elastic enterprise analytical cloud ecosystem including desktop and mobility products for the company.Defined the strategy for enterprise data, business intelligence, and analytics. Led the modernization and transformation of key enterprise competencies including: Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Vendor Selection, Ecosystem Architecture, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence (BI), User Experience (UX), and Advanced Analytics with Big Data. Chief Architect for the Enterprise Analytical Cloud Ecosystem: Architected, deployed, and maintained a cloud As-A-Service model for the enterprise - Platform (PaaS), Data, (DaaS), Software (SaaS), and Analytics (AaaS). Provided technical guidance and mentoring to senior staff and vendor partners in the definition of a solid, secure, extensible architecture capable of supporting the growing analytical needs of the business.Leader in Innovation: Designed and pioneered Enterprise Analytical Data Labs which yield extraordinary business value by eliminating confusion of business requirements and enabling significantly faster solution delivery. Assisted the CIO in establishment of the Home Depot Technology Center (HDTC) for Innovation. From 2012 to 2015 (3 years) Greater Atlanta AreaAdvisory Council @ Teradata One of 15 customer representatives from around the world invited to advise Teradata on matters of product direction, product management, product enhancements and roadmap for future versions. From 2007 to 2010 (3 years)