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FRANK J. TIRONE [email protected] Cell: (973) 769-3797 21 Pine Tree Ln ~ Morris Plains, New Jersey, 07950 QUALIFICATIONS Proven leadership and communications abilities combined with project management and development expertise. Problem solver with the skill to conceptualize solutions that meet enterprise objectives for cost, quality, and performance. Highly proficient in Transactional Systems, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Database Administration and System Analysis. Specializes in the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Mobile Suite. Has an exceptional track record in the design, development and implementation of large-scale mission-critical database solutions. Experience in contemporary and legacy applications that include mobile, Internet, client-server, middleware, and mainframe. COMPUTER SKILLS Highly Proficient Proficient Hardware : Personal Computers IBM pSeries HP Intel Servers Tape Library Systems iPhone, iPad, Android Operating Systems : Sun Solaris Novell Netware IBM AIX Tru64 UNIX LINUX Windows (Client & Server) Software: MicroStrategy 7.2 – 10.2 SQL Server, SSRS Oracle 7 – 11g Sybase, Sybase IQ Toad Oracle Names Erwin Ascential DataStage Microsoft Project/Visio Sybase Data Architect MS Office & FrontPage Tivoli Storage Manager MS Access Crystal Reports webMethods Languages : SQL/SQL Plus Oracle Forms/Reports PL/SQL Java/Javascript Korn and Bourne Shells Sun NetDynamics MS Visual Basic/VBA HTML PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Senior MicroStrategy Architect Xoriant Corporation, Sunnyvale, California Mar 2016 – Present Facilitates the identification, definition, and documentation of client needs and will make a determination as to which MicroStrategy functionality will best support the customer's long and short term needs. Creates supporting metadata objects, reports and dashboards using the latest version of MicroStrategy, as well as acting as client liaison to support ad hoc demonstrations and interactive design sessions with clients. Acts as part analyst/part developer and will be work with clients extensively. 111

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FRANK J. TIRONE [email protected]: (973) 769-3797

21 Pine Tree Ln ~ Morris Plains, New Jersey, 07950QUALIFICATIONS

Proven leadership and communications abilities combined with project management and development expertise.

Problem solver with the skill to conceptualize solutions that meet enterprise objectives for cost, quality, and performance.

Highly proficient in Transactional Systems, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Database Administration and System Analysis.

Specializes in the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Mobile Suite. Has an exceptional track record in the design, development and implementation of large-scale mission-critical

database solutions. Experience in contemporary and legacy applications that include mobile, Internet, client-server, middleware,

and mainframe.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Highly Proficient ProficientHardware: Personal Computers IBM pSeries

HP Intel Servers Tape Library SystemsiPhone, iPad, Android

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris Novell NetwareIBM AIXTru64 UNIXLINUXWindows (Client & Server)

Software: MicroStrategy 7.2 – 10.2 SQL Server, SSRSOracle 7 – 11g Sybase, Sybase IQToad Oracle NamesErwin Ascential DataStageMicrosoft Project/Visio Sybase Data ArchitectMS Office & FrontPage Tivoli Storage ManagerMS Access Crystal Reports

webMethodsLanguages: SQL/SQL Plus Oracle Forms/Reports

PL/SQL Java/JavascriptKorn and Bourne Shells Sun NetDynamics

MS Visual Basic/VBAHTML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESenior MicroStrategy ArchitectXoriant Corporation, Sunnyvale, California Mar 2016 – Present

Facilitates the identification, definition, and documentation of client needs and will make a determination as to which MicroStrategy functionality will best support the customer's long and short term needs. Creates supporting metadata objects, reports and dashboards using the latest version of MicroStrategy, as well as acting as client liaison to support ad hoc demonstrations and interactive design sessions with clients. Acts as part analyst/part developer and will be work with clients extensively.

Client: Citi, Tampa, FloridaMar 2016 – Present

Senior MicroStrategy Architect: Participation in the entire project lifestyle; including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support of BI solutions. Collaboratively assist in the analysis, preparation, and presentation of solution designs. Understand the requirements and convert them into Logical Data Models. Review performance of the

models and suggest enhancements to the schema for performance tuning of the reports and dashboards.

Develop a reporting architecture on current and historical data, and develop and maintain architecture components.

Serve as MicroStrategy developer for major and minor technology initiatives that support client and related organizations through the active participation in projects, operations, and support efforts.

Create analytical reports and dashboards to support the client in decision-making.

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Perform quality assurance for the design, development, and testing of system enhancements and changes that are made to BI systems, data stores, and processes to ensure that they function according to design.

Provide technical support, analyze issues, and recommend solutions regarding data loading, data transformation, and reporting.

Build partnerships by working closely with customers to understand their business needs. Collaborate with customer personnel to achieve solutions to the defined business needs.

Provide technical guidance and business process expertise on special projects or system issues to other staff members.

Be committed to continuous learning and strive to increase relevant skills and knowledge required for the position. Keep abreast of the latest developments in information technology and computer software, and be committed to continuous improvement of the development and support services being delivered to clients.

Senior Mobile Business Intelligence ConsultantWinterWyman, New York, New York Jan 2016 – Mar 2016

As Senior Mobile Business Intelligence Consultant, I was responsible for leading the strategic design and maintenance of business intelligence applications. Identified, researched, and resolved technical problems. Ensured that the use of business intelligence applications enhanced business decision-making capabilities. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relied on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performed a variety of tasks. A wide degree of creativity and latitude was expected.

Client: Coach, New York, New YorkJan 2016 – Mar 2016

Coach iPad Application: Developed high-level and detailed mobile iPad solutions; including MicroStrategy Dashboards, Intelligent Cubes, Subscriptions. Working with the full life-cycle development process; including analysis, design, construction, and testing. Handled multiple tasks simultaneously, reacted to problems quickly, understand complex issues, and produced high-quality solutions. Ensured optimal environment performance of Mobile Dashboards and the environment. Relied on a thorough understanding of Data Warehousing architectures, techniques, and methodologies.

Coach iPhone COACH 1941 Application: Duplicated the Coach iPhone Saddle Bag application that tracked the Saddle Bag promotion activities to create the COACH 1941 application. Enhanced, corrected bugs, and added new functionality that tracked the COACH 1941 promotion.

Manager, Business Intelligence DevelopmentWyndham Hotel Group, Parsippany, New Jersey Sept 2012 – Nov 2015

As Manager, Business Intelligence Development, I managed a team of MicroStrategy Developers and subsequent development of applications, dashboards, reports and tools to enable the operational teams to interpret an opportunity, identify a problem or understand more about a business scenario. My key requirements were the ability to not only lead a team but to understand the strategy and objectives of each business organization and interpret their vision, description or objective while being able to make recommendations or suggestions on how to use data to be more successful. 

As Manager, Business Intelligence Development, I was also responsible for the team’s development pipeline as well as holding each developer accountable to timelines, budget, deliverables and high standards. This unique position is responsible for mentoring and developing the team with regards to functional capabilities and training on new features of the tool. As Manager, Business Intelligence Development this role required MicroStrategy 9 Certified Project Designer (CPD), Certified Report Developer (CRD), Certified Document Developer (CDD), MicroStrategy Certified Developer (MCD), MicroStrategy Certified Engines Specialist (CES), the MicroStrategy Certified Platform Administrator (CPA), and MicroStrategy Certified Engineering Principal (MCEP) certifications.

As Manager, Business Intelligence Development, I worked closely with the Enterprise Data Architecture team and Database Administrators as an integral contributor to the model that promotes a service based, centralized solution that correlates multiple KPI’s and exposes through a single point of access.

Software By Design, Inc., Rye Brook, New YorkJul 2010 – Sept 2012

Senior Consultant, Business Intelligence Architect

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Responsible for leading the strategic design and maintenance of business intelligence applications. Identifies, researches, and resolves technical problems. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Leads and directs the work of others. Obtained MicroStrategy 9 Certified Project Designer (CPD), Certified Report Developer (CRD), Certified Document Developer (CDD), MicroStrategy Certified Developer (MCD), MicroStrategy Certified Engines Specialist (CES), the MicroStrategy Certified Platform Administrator (CPA), and MicroStrategy Certified Engineering Principal (MCEP) certifications.

Client: Olympus Surgical Technologies America, Southborough, Massachusetts Jun 2012 – Sept 2012 iPad Executive Cockpit Dashboard: Created a MicroStrategy Mobile iPad executive dashboard based on

Revenue, Gross Margin, Backorder, Booking and Shipping, and Cost Center subject areas. The subject areas included a variety of key performance indicators represented by simple to advanced visualizations. Performance objectives were achieved by implementing MicroStrategy Intelligent Cubes. Mentored staff on dashboard creation, iPad implementation, and iCube implementation.

Client: Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Apr 2012 – May 2012 MicroStrategy Change Management Recommendation: The MicroStrategy Administrator requested an

extensive analysis of three change management techniques they were considering to streamline their growing 9.2.1 environment due to limited staff. Shortcuts, Hybrid, and Without Shortcuts. Outlined the different strategies for managing user access to MicroStrategy Objects and the associated workflows needed to carry out typical tasks in the context of each strategy for their environment. The Hybrid approach was the most efficient for the administrator.

Custom MicroStrategy User Training: Composed two custom MicroStrategy Web training classes that are administered by Brandeis staff, Consumer or End User and Creator or Power User Training. The custom training cost 50% less than directly from MicroStrategy. The Consumer Training consisted of Getting Started, Executing Reports & Documents, Manipulating an Executed Report, and Other Interactions with a Report. The Creator Training consisted of Attributes and Hierarchies, Modifying Existing Reports, Creating Existing Reports, Ad Hoc Analysis Using Visual Insight, and working with Custom Groups, Filters, and Prompts.

Custom MicroStrategy Object Manager Training: Based on the previous MicroStrategy Change Management Recommendation assignment, composed “MicroStrategy Object Manager Recommendations for Brandeis University”. This document summarizes The Application Lifecycle, MicroStrategy’s Methodology, Overview of Object Manager and different strategies for using Object Manager to duplicate projects or propagate objects from a single origin project to additional projects.

Client: Diageo North America, Norwalk, Connecticut Jul 2011 – Apr 2012 Reporting And Decommissioning F12 North American Restructuring Program: Led a team of 3 junior to

senior MicroStrategy resources from analysis through implementation. Completed this very aggressive, short timeline project before deadline and under budget. Migrated Cognos MPower (Cognos Cubes and ReportNet Reports) and made reporting available in Visibility Analytics (MicroStrategy v9.0.2). Additional data was added to the US Data Warehouse (Oracle). Updated existing MicroStrategy projects, created 7 new MicroStrategy projects, and created 30 complex MicroStrategy reports (mainly data extracts) that supplement Excel. Used conditional, compound, transformation, and level metrics. Used conditional formatting to enhance the grid reports.

MicroStrategy Bug and Performance Remediation: Identified and corrected 5 MicroStrategy hierarchy architecture flaws correcting many errant grid reports. Identified and corrected 3 attributes causing inefficient query generation and inaccurate results. Rewrote a Top 50 report that was generating inaccurate results. Contacted MicroStrategy Support, on 10 occasions, following through from problem to resolution.

Volume Price Mix Reporting (VPM) Migration: Sales variance is the difference between actual sales and budget sales. Sales mix variance compares the actual mix of sales to the budgeted mix. Initially supervised the analysis, design, and development for migrating Excel reporting to MicroStrategy v9.0.2 enabling enhanced analysis and insight. Later inherited the remaining development, QA, enhancements, and maintenance. Implemented complex calculations, using pass-through, conditional, compound, transformation, and level metrics. Used conditional formatting to enhance the grid reports.

Provided expertise in the development of MicroStrategy Dashboards: Resurrected a Sales and Marketing dashboard, made changes for a demo. Provided advice, dashboard functionality, designed and quoted effort for the new version(s) of the Sales and Marketing dashboard.

Client: Investment Technology Group, Inc. (ITG), New York, New York Mar 2011 – Jul 2011

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ITG Net® Execution Transparency Reporting: Architected the solution from analysis, MicroStrategy multi-fact POC, logical design, conformed dimension database design, database implementation, ETL design, and MicroStrategy design through MicroStrategy implementation enabling enhanced analysis and insight for customers to increase customer base and volume. The project required analysis of trade flows through the ITG Net® network. That included global, broker-neutral, platform-neutral trade routing and ‘best execution’ services. The specific analysis included Trading By Order Strategy, Trading By Algo Strategy, Trading By Venue & Last Market, Trading By Venue & Execution Destination, Trading By ADV Breakdown, Trading By Venue & Industry, and Trading By Market Cap Breakdown. The data layer is Sybase IQ and the presentation layer is MicroStrategy. The combination of the two will support As-is vs. As-was Analysis. As-is analysis presents a current view of relationships, i.e., displays trades by Buyside according to the way Buysides are organized today. As-was analysis presents a historical view of relationships, i.e., displays trades by Buyside according to the way Buysides were organized at the time the sales transactions occurred.

Indication of Interest (IOI) Messaging System Reporting Migration: Performed analysis and design for migrating the semi-manual Excel statistical reporting to MicroStrategy enabling enhanced analysis and insight to increasing customer base and volume.

Connections Reporting Migration: Performed analysis, design, and POC for migrating the semi-manual Excel statistical reporting to MicroStrategy enabling enhanced analysis and insight to increasing customer base and volume.

Client: Starwood Hotels and Resorts, White Plains, New York Jul 2010 – Mar 2011 Sellers Performance Report Book Automation: Converted a 10 tab, 15 report Excel spreadsheet to

MicroStrategy 8 Report Services Document. The report outlines the roll up of above property and property level sales for YTD by the seller. Originally this report was put together manually by a subject matter expert by running queries directly against the warehouse. It took the SME about a week or two to manually create the entire report. Completely automated the process by creating this report in MicroStrategy Web. The conversion involved evaluating the client’s current MicroStrategy implementation and adding more attributes and metrics as needed for the report. The task consisted of creating some very complex Report Services Document structures in order to meet the client’s formatting needs. This resulted in savings of multiple staff weeks as now the report is available the instant the books are closed at the end of the month.

Sales Performance Report Book Automation: Converted a 15 tab, 55 report, 39 graph Excel spreadsheet to MicroStrategy 8 Report Services Document. Originally this report was put together manually by a subject matter expert by running queries directly against the warehouse. Once again completely automated the process by creating this report in MicroStrategy Web. The conversion involved evaluating the client’s current MicroStrategy implementation and adding more attributes and metrics as needed for the report. The task consisted of creating some very complex Report Services Document structures in order to meet the client’s formatting needs.

AIG Enterprise Risk Management, New York, New YorkJul 2007 – Jul 2010

Senior Database Administrator, Operations and Systems Sept 2008 – Jul 1010

Assumed this leadership position after a department restructuring, moved from Senior Database Administrator, Change Management to the current position. In addition to Change Management activities, became responsible for all Development (DEV), Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Production (PROD) databases. Provide 24x7 support. Direct and mentor onshore Sr. DBA and DBA consultants and offshore DBA members. Work with developers to troubleshoot and tune their code.Primary Projects: Immediate Remediation : Identified Oracle users that were taking up lots of storage and reduced it by 10%.

Identified 150 GB of orphaned Oracle data files and removed them. Fixed a development database by reinstalling XDB to correct export errors. Fixed a QA database by reinstalling JVM when java stored procedures would not compile. Completed a memory allocation analysis for all databases on the development UNIX server. Corrected inconsistencies between the DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD database configurations. Solidified backup and recovery procedures and processes.

Preventative Maintenance : Proactively recommended and implemented a preventive maintenance and tuning such as following the "DBA Checklist". Some batch processes now complete 40% faster.

Additional Resource Recruitment : Recommended and acquired two short-term and one permanent DBA resource, reviewed resumes, interviewed, and made recommendations for DBA, Operations, and UNIX resources. Participated in their acclimation once hired.

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Upgrade OEM Grid Control from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.4 : Recommended upgrading OEM Grid Control and using this tool for administration and monitoring. Upgraded OMS and all agents which corrected many errors. Installed agents on remaining servers and registered remaining instances. OEM is now used as the primary tool to monitor the Oracle environment.

New Hardware Upgrades : Pointed out hardware capacity issues. Replaced two Sun Fire 15K servers with four Sun Sparc M5000 servers. Participated in planning and implementation resulting in a 40% performance improvement. Became familiar with Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Data Guard.

SOX and Internal Audit : Automate, maintain, and produce security audit reports, re-certifications, and inquiries relating to database security. Ensures policies and procedures are being followed.

Senior Database Administrator, Change Management Jul 2007 – Sept 2008

Monitored ClearQuest change management system for Oracle and SQL Server software deployments. Deployed Oracle and SQL Server software into Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Production (PROD) databases in a timely and accurate manner. Worked with developers to diagnose, correct, and improve software deployment issues. Also worked with developers to tune their code. Backed up Infrastructure Database Administration as required.

Primary Projects: Database Environment Refresh (Baseline) : Led the initiative to standardize and document the process of

database baseline which significantly improved its efficiency and reduced the level of errors by 20%. Oracle Software Deployment Automation : Worked with Change Management Manager to replace the

manual error-prone process. Automated and fine-tuned Oracle software deployments resulting in 30% gain in efficiency.

Oracle Software Deployment Replication : Created methodology and standards for replicating or synchronizing Oracle software deployments into all Quality Assurance (QA) databases once the software has been deployed and verified in Production (PROD). Reduced preparation time by 15% for QA tests.

ClearQuest 7.0 Upgrade : Created Oracle 10g database for ClearQuest 7.0 testing, streamlining confusing and undocumented processes and resolving multiple issues with CQ vendor - IBM.

FERMAT Installation : Installed and configured FERMAT Risk Monitoring and Control Tools across QA and UAT databases.

Business Intelligence AnalystCommonHealth, Parsippany, New Jersey Aug 2005 – May 2007

Scoped, planned, prioritized, directed, and implemented Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. Managed all aspects of warehouse and presentation such as data sourcing, migration, quality, design, and database administration. Developed and implemented security and integrity policies and procedures, and resolved database performance and capacity issues. Relied on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Reported to Director of Applications, providing leadership, strategy, and vision.Primary Project: PeopleSoft EPM Financial Management 8.8 : Remediated frequent data load failures and reduced load time,

corrected data integrity, upgraded MicroStrategy to a supported version, and corrected reporting issues by adding additional data feeds and correcting metrics.

Improved data load success rate from 60% to 95%, a 35% improvement, by implementing configuration changes and introducing daily maintenance.

Reduced data load time from 13 hrs. to 5 hrs., a 62% improvement, by upgrading hardware, O/S, Ascential DataStage, MicroStrategy, and additional configuration changes.

Identified data integrity issues and created plans for remediation. Developed Change Data Detection (CDD), Change Data Capture (CDC), and Slowly Changing Dimensions

(SCD) type 2 history captures to further reduce data load time. Outsourced Ascential DataStage development.

Developed and taught in-house MicroStrategy Desktop training to bring users up to speed. Obtained MicroStrategy 8 Certified Project Designer (CPD), Certified Report Developer (CRD), and Certified

Platform Administrator (CPA) certifications.

FISHER CHEMICAL, Fair Lawn, New Jersey Apr 2003 – Jul 2005

Data Warehousing Manager Dec 2004 – Jul 2005Promoted from Senior Database Administrator. Directed and implemented Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, and database initiatives. Designed, modeled, installed, and maintained corporate databases.

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Developed and implemented security and integrity policies and procedures, and resolved database performance and capacity issues. Reported to Global Director and provided project management, leadership, vision, and consulting to user groups.Primary Projects: Fisher Bio-Chemical & Diagnostics Data Mart : Developed a 500 GB Oracle 10g database on Linux for Bio-

Chemical, and proposal and project plans for Oracle 10g/Linux for Diagnostics. Performed ETL tool evaluations.

Enterprise Application Integration : Installed and configured webMethods 6.1 EAI architecture to include data sharing components in Microsoft Windows 2000 environment.

Database Administrator Apr 2003 – Dec 2004Designed, installed, administered, and maintained corporate databases, reporting to the Director of Information Services. Developed and implemented policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the databases. Verified and implemented data models and data access. Performed database maintenance. Resolved database performance issues, capacity issues, and other data issues. Performed Project Management: Provided leadership, vision, hardware and software recommendations, hardware sizing. Attended bi-weekly global data committee meetings representing the business unit.

Primary Projects: Infrastructure : Implemented Backup and Recovery, Fault Tolerance, Overall Strategy. Developed the

following Oracle Standards: Install Standards, Backup and Recovery, and the “DBA Checklist”. Implemented Oracle Enterprise Manager 9i (OEM).

Sapphire LIMS Upgrade (IBM AIX) : Provided technical assistance to the Lab Managers and made hardware recommendations. Installed and configured hardware, Oracle 8i, and Oracle 9i. Designed the data exchange interface between IBM AIX and AS/400.

MS Access Data Conversion (IBM AIX) : Made hardware recommendations, installed and configured hardware, and Oracle 9i.

ACROS Organics Quote and Order Application : Used Oracle Migration Workbench to migrate the Access 2000 data into an Oracle 9i database.

Fisher Chemical Quote and Order Application : Used Oracle Migration Workbench to migrate the Access 97 data into an Oracle 9i database.

ORGANON USA, Roseland, New Jersey Apr 1999 – Jan 2003Senior Database Administrator Jul 2001 – Jan 2003

Promoted from Data Warehouse Project Manager. Implemented data models and data access programs; performed maintenance; resolved performance issues; mentored staff; provided planning, design and project management for critical developments and upgrades. The only DBA experienced on all O/S platforms, both hardware and software, including UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and VMS.Primary Projects: Leadership and Staffing : Assisted in hiring a Junior and Senior Database Administrator. Mentored a Junior

DBA recommending his promotion to Database Administrator. Performed technical interviews for the Information Services staff. Worked with programming staff to develop and implement best practices for PL/SQL.

Infrastructure : Assessed Environment, Backup and Recovery, Fault Tolerance, and Oracle and O/S version and brought servers to the latest versions. Developed Oracle Standards, Install Standards, Backup and Recovery, and the “DBA Checklist”. Implemented Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM). Created DBA Windows NT test environment. Created a DBA Tru64 UNIX and VMS test environment. Implemented Oracle Names and directed Junior Database Administrator with the implementation of Oracle Internet Directory (OID).

Data Warehousing : Led team in the migration of enterprise data warehouse from Windows NT to Tru64 UNIX on Compaq Alpha processors and Oracle 8i to include backup procedures, security, UNIX shell scripting, database tuning, security, et al. to achieve 3X performance gains. Performed ETL tool evaluations. Maintained metadata repository. Implemented Revision Control System (RCS).

FDA Guidelines : Maintained Open VMS and Oracle applications, including Clintrial, Clintrace, SQL LIMS, and Time Control, to ensure compliance with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Title 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and Organon’s Validation Master Plan.

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Data Warehouse Project Manager Sept 1999 – Jun 2001Provided leadership and direction to the Data Warehouse Development Team. Conceptualized the need, initiated budget, analysis, design, hardware and software selection, development, implementation, and testing. Empowered Sales Analysts with instant access to sales and marketing data vs. days or week’s turnaround.Primary Project: Project Initiation : Obtained project approval and budget. Engaged consulting firms via legal contracts.

Completed project plans and mission statement. Project Management : Directed 3 to 4 Data Warehouse consultants, 1 to 2 Cognos consultants, and 2 to 4

Programmer Analysts. Handled time and invoice approval, equipment, office space, and resolved personnel issues. Completed the Scoping, Design, Build, and Test Phase on time and on a budget. Ran regularly scheduled Team meetings that included scheduling, agendas, and minutes. Created demos and presentations for upper management. Led the hardware acquisition, Oracle installation, and backup and recovery.

Data Warehouse : The methodologies of Bill Inmon and Ralph Kimball were used. Led data model designs and user approvals. Coordinated efforts for data extraction from legacy systems.

Data Access : Led the user Business Intelligence (BI) tool evaluation, selection, purchase, and implementation. Cognos was selected.

Senior Systems Analyst, Finance SystemsTOYS “R” US, Montvale, New Jersey Dec 1995 – Apr 1999

Progressed from Programmer Analyst to Senior Systems Analyst position. Performed technical evaluations. Defined technical specifications, reviewed alternatives and feasibility. Prepared detailed system designs, project plans and implemented critical developments and upgrades for finance systems group.Primary Projects: FAST Replacement : Designed and implemented a centralized intranet application using NetDynamics 4.x

application server front end supported by Tru64 UNIX Oracle 7.3 Database Server to replace local VAX VMS implementation.

Timed Minimum Shelf Stock System (MSS) : Created a team and managed the project to convert important distribution system from Unisys mainframe to Tru64 UNIX Oracle database using Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, and COBOL. Implemented Revision Control System (RCS).

Baby Registry : Planned and implemented the conversion of a high transaction Unisys mainframe application for store registry application to Tru64 UNIX Oracle database, and added 700+ stores to the registry.

Programmer AnalystSAFILO USA, Fairfield, New Jersey Jun 1986 – Dec 1995

Progressed from Programmer Trainee to Programmer Analyst position. Performed system and network management. Evaluated hardware purchase alternatives. Provided computer operations support. Worked on customer relations projects leading to significant cost reductions in internal processes.Primary Projects: Customer Relations System : Designed and wrote major functions for order entry, customer service and credit

review in COBOL, DecForms, DBMS, and RMS on a VMS system. Computer Integrated Telephony : Participated in development and implementation of a pioneering program to

upgrade telephone system to identify calling party and automatically display customer record on CSR workstation.

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EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Dean’s List), 1997MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY, Montclair, New Jersey

Associate Degree, Computer Technology (Dean’s List), 1987COUNTY COLLEGE OF MORRIS, Randolph, New Jersey

MicroStrategy 8 CPD, CRD, CPAMicroStrategy 9 CPD, CRD, CDD, MCD, CES, CPA, MCEPMICROSTRATEGY INCORPOTATED

Oracle 9i Certified AssociateORACLE CORPORATION

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