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Highly accomplished Business Intelligence Architect for fortune 100 companies (optimal solutions with
High ROI) with over twenty five years US experience architecting robust solutions from end to end.
Gained invaluable experience with InfoDynamics (co-founded by Dr. Kimball) to develop world class data
warehouse. My BI tools evaluation published in HP Global knowledge-base.
SUMMARY
Hands-on BI Solution Architect with extensive background in requirements gathering, dimensional
modeling, BI analytics, database administration, performance tuning, ETL, cloud architectures, design of
HA/DR solutions and architecture artifacts.
Developing cost benefit analysis and optimal roadmap based on expert knowledge of BI, ETL, reporting
tools & cloud architectures to help organizations avoid costly mistakes and deliver significant cost savings.
BI Architect for JPMorgan Chase Architecture Review Board (ARB).
Work closely with executives & business users providing guidance on how to use data to deliver value to
the business and establish a single view of the truth. Proven leader on high profile successful projects.
Lead BI Architect for Sun Oracle Business Intelligence Center of Excellence. Implementing over 50
large BI projects to include effective data integration, data federation & data virtualization solutions.
Provided optimal cost conscious design & scalable architecture. Consulting on performance challenges.
Expert in modeling (Conceptual, logical & physical), Kimball & Inmon methodologies.
Senior DBA (Oracle, SQL*Server, DB2 LUX/Mainframe) & performance engineer since 1995.
Amazon Web Services cloud architectures & Columnar database Redshift.
Business Objects, Cognos, Informatica, DataStage since 1997. Open Source (Pentaho, MySQL).
Key player in DW/BI, analytics, ODS, OLTP, Enterprise Data Architecture & MDM projects.
Data/Process Modeling. TOGAF & Zachman. Pilots with Vendors and tools evaluations.
Metadata, mapping, partitioning, indexing & aggregation strategies.
Ability to communicate well with different organizational levels and meeting tight deadlines.
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. Ain Shams University, University of Toronto Equivalent.1980
CLIENTS
Top Tier: Microsoft, Accenture, KPMG, IBM, Xerox, HP
Credit Cards: Visa, JP Morgan Chase
Manufacturing: Sun Micro, Hitachi, Belkin, JDS Uniphase, Amdahl, LSI Logic, Tektronix, Monsanto.
Insurance-Risk Mgmt: New York Life, MONY Life, Connecticut Life, Sun Life, Canada Life, Deltanet, EQE
Banks & Brokerage: Wells Fargo Bank, Union Bank, JP Morgan Chase, TD Waterhouse
Public Sector: Idaho Dept. Of Health & Welfare, Ministry of Health
Utilities: Pacific Gas & Electric
Retail: Levi Strauss, Nike Telecomm: AT&T, WebTV B2B: GetThere.com, Sun Micro
Health Care: BlueCrossBlueShields
Auto: Fleetwood RV
Shipping: Matson Navigation
Ecommerce: 3Com, Belkin, Release Soft, HP
Education: Los Angeles School District
Cruises: Royal Caribbean, Princess Cruises, Holland America Airlines: Northwest, American Airlines
Technology: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS, RDS, EC2, S3, Redshift). Data Model
(ERWIN, ER/Studio, Power Designer). OLAP (Business Objects, Cognos, SSAS), ETL (Informatica, DataStage,
Pentaho, Business Object BODS, SAS, SSIS), Tableau, ERP (Baan, Oracle EBS, SAP), CRM, PeopleSoft, Siebel.
Unix, Linux, VMware. SAN & NAS. Clustering, replications, RMAN, Grid Control, Openview, AWR, OEM
Diagnostic Pack. Golden Gate. Agile, Scrum, Waterfall. SOA, MFT, Google Analytics, Mainframes, COBOL, OBIEE.
Knowledge of Microstrategy, NoSQL (Dynamodb, Mongodb), Hadoop, Big Data, Exadata.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SaaS Company, Irvine, CA
Present
The challenge: global company specialized in SaaS for Recruitment software. My task: architect Global
Talent Supply Chain Analytics solution for fortune 100 clients. The complex system integrates ATS
software and web analytics data to deliver actionable intelligence.
Solution: evaluated and selected cloud vendors. Developed cost benefit analysis. I designed cost
conscious optimal scalable cloud infrastructure.
Project management: Managed a team of 14 implementing projects within budget and timelines.
Worked with business units & leads to identify business processes, process flow & data flows.
Dimensional model, metadata, ETL architecture, creation of cubes, reports. Tableau reports.
Administered & developed several pilots in SQL Sever 2008. BIDS, SSAS. SSIS.
BI projects: ecommerce, CRM, sales & marketing, invoicing, revenue & health care.
Data mapping, partitioning, indexing, aggregation strategies.
Replication, clustering, PL/SQL, Oracle, Linux, Amazon Web Services, MySQL, Business Objects,
Cognos, Informatica, Erwin. RMAN, ASM, Data Guard, RAC, Linux, SAS, Toad, AWR, TOGAF, Agile.
=== Contracts 2001 to 2004 (multiple clients at same time in some cases)
Royal Caribbean (contract), FL
DW Specialist
Key player in the Design, metadata, dimensional modeling & OLAP reports creation. SCD, PL/SQL, HPUX. Documented logical & physical models. ETL to interface to new reservation system. Brio, Oracle,
CRM, Accounting, Sales & Marketing, Forecasting. DFD, HLD.
LOS ANGELES SCHOOL DISTRICT, CA
Senior DBA
Contract: Key player in the design, modeling, ETL setup of Education Data Warehouse. Portal,
dashboard, security and metadata, Schema creation and optimization. Enhanced Student Information
System & Instructional Management System. Oracle, SAN. Production Support.
Data governance: cleansing, access control, profiling. Longitudinal Analysis of Students, Forecasting.
BELKIN (Contract), Torrance, CA BI Architect
Interviewed users to define requirements. Conducted data warehouse audit to improve infrastructure,
design, performance and functionality. Consulted with multiple teams to create an effective information
environment. The new architecture eliminated redundant data, enhanced ETL and reporting. Developed
data maps, DFD & HSLD. Evaluation of BI tools. Oracle ERP, NetApp, Cognos, DataStage, OWB.
UNION BANK (contract), CA
BI Architect
Key player in the design, infrastructure, ETL, for the new EDW.
Prepared complete set of documentation including design, capacity plan, metadata, ETL, Oracle and
hardware configuration. Business Objects, Informatica, EMC, IBM, AIX.
PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC (contract), CA
BI Architect
Key player in ODS project that involved data cleansing, profiling and integration of data sources,
metadata, logical and physical model, design, infrastructure, performance tuning, ETL setup. Sourced
primarily from the billing system being converted to CorDaptix/SPL. Oracle, OLAP, Informatica.
JDS UNIPHASE, San Jose, CA
BI Performance Engineer
Performance tuning of current data warehouse. Oracle, Solaris, Net App.
Re-engineered ETL processes to streamline the data acquisition and integration.
QRS(Contract), Richmond, CA
EDW Architect/ PM
Authored the enterprise data warehouse strategic plan framing best practices for implementing a
consolidated reporting environment to resolve system disparities and assist the company in making
strategic business decisions. Modeling, redesign and migration of Revenue Data mart.
Consulted business leaders to create an effective information environment. Eliminating redundant
reporting tools and data. Designed the interface to CRM/ERP systems. Evaluation of BI tools.
Investigated and resolved data quality issues. Uphold data governance policies and standards.
Project Manager for the EDW Project: Preparing and maintaining EDW Project plan.
Prepared Data Warehouse Quick-Win Prototype on SQL Server, T-SQL, DTS, Cubes and reports.
BlueCrossBlueShields, LA
BI Architect
Validated the Health Care logical model for the data warehouse/ODS (HIPAA), HL7 integration.
Designed the star schemas. Design of ETL Strategies. Claims, Enrollment, Billing data from DB2.
Fleetwood (Mobil homes manufacturing), San Jose, CA
Large implementation of SIEBEL CRM and JDEdwards ERP. Oracle Installation & tuning for SIEBEL and
JDEdwards. Logical model & physical implementation for Data warehouse, DecisionStream ETL, HDS.
11/1998 1/1999
EQE is a leading risk management and reinsurance company. Interviewed management to define
requirements. Designed Star Schema and implemented OLAP cubes solution using SQL Server.
RESOLUTE SOFTWARE, Oakland, CA Database Architect
10/1998 2/1999
RAPS package is designed to manage performance and capacity for distributed applications.
Redesigned the Oracle agent architecture. Redesigned the server for SUN, HP, IBM AIX and Windows.
3COM-HP, Santa Clara, CA EDW Architect
3/1998 10/1998
I was selected by 3COM eBusiness Director (leader in Channel Commerce) to Provide strategic plan to
develop Sales and Marketing BI solution to turn their internet data into information to be used to develop
internet marketing strategies and increase profitability. The project included creating a single view of their
products (MDM) after they acquired other companies.
Identified Key Metrics to collect and how to use them to identify business opportunities.
Developed a delivery strategy to implement departmental datamarts that seamlessly integrate to provide
managers and key users, OLAP and Data Mining capabilities to uncover trends and patterns to help 3COM
develop closer relationships with their Channel Operations.
Interviewed key users, designed star schema, and prepared project charter with implementation plan, and
project size & cost. Use of Erwin to capture logical model, physical model,meta data and business rules.
Built pilot on SQLServer. Prepared an educational seminar to introduce EDW & OLAP concepts.
Evaluated OLAP tools such as Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion. Selected best tool for eBusiness
team according to business requirements that included interface to SAP. Investigating Web Statistics tools,
Clickstream Analysis. Designed Business Objects universes and Webi for reports.
XEROX, Palo Alto, CA Lead Oracle DBA
2/1997 7/1998
Key player creating an Electronic Catalog for NIKE, an INTRANET application to create customized
catalogs for their worldwide clientele. Object Oriented design, Java.
Evaluated tools and presented a Decision Matrix to Nike Global Sales VP. Designed relational model
using Erwin. Created Schema and supported team of developers creating the applications.
Supported Tektronix Electronic Catalog application. Database Designer for the Product Information
Repository and Catalog databases.
MICROSOFT, Santa Clara, CA Webtv Data Warehouse Administrator
2/1998 7/1998
I was recruited by InfoDynamics (co-founded by Dr. Kimball) to join the 3 co-founders to build world
class customer focused data warehouse at WebTV.
Two of the team members wrote best-selling series The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit. Improved
query performance drastically by designing and implementing aggregation solutions.
Responsible for creating and tuning the physical design and ETL load processing. Deployed tools to
effectively automate monitoring usage, data loads and physical database growth. Red Brick warehouse
server (developed by Ralph Kimball), Alpha Server 8200(Unix), tcsh scripts, RISQL, TMU, Brio OLAP.
LEVI STRAUSS, San Francisco, CA Data Warehouse Architect/DBA 9/1997 2/1998
Data Warehouse & Data Marts for Inventory and Shipments Management to reduce inventory and
forecast inventory demand. Project was a success & on target resulting in inventory reduction and
significant cost savings. Oracle, SAS, Cognos, Business Objects.
Developed Analytics solutions using SAS/SQL, SAS Macros, Stored Procedures to extract data from
OLTP system on DB2 and feed the DSS. ETL SAS & Syncsort.
Reviewed the Enterprise STAR Schema database architecture/design. Data audit and cleansing.
PFIZER, San Francisco, CA Senior Oracle DBA
6/1997 9/1997
Created new oracle databases for EventNet (product developed for reporting drug related adverse events).
Oracle Clinical is the back-end. Problem solver for developers and application architect. Administered
Oracle (security, backups).
HEWLETT PACKARD TMO, Santa Clara, CA DW Specialist
1/1997 6/1997
Completed reporting tools analysis according to business requirements. Tools for Decision Support
System DSS reporting, Data Mining and OLAP: Cognos, Crystal Reports, Business Objects and Hyperion.
Reviewed overall system architecture and configuration for the Project Financial Tracking. Reviewed the
database architecture/design to determine its feasibility for reports. Contacted vendors and arranged demos.
My highly regarded tools analysis published in HP global knowledgebase. Was recruited by Cognos
& Business Objects as a Consulting Partner to represent them for their High Profile clients.
LSI LOGIC, Milpitas, CA Oracle SIEBEL DBA
9/1996 - 3/1997
Implementation of Sales Force Automation project. Optimization & tuning of SIEBEL database. Supported
and administered SIEBEL. Implemented the interface from SIEBEL to the Data Warehouse. Prepared the
Deployment plan. Solaris, Oracle 7, Sybase, ETL, Brio.
PACIFIC BELL (AT&T California), Pleasanton, CA
2/1995 12/1996
1) Sr. Data Warehouse Consultant: key player in KPMG team for database design, ETL development,
testing, implementation and production support of the critical Sales and Marketing EDW. ETL SAS,
COBOL, Syncsort, SQL, DB2 mainframe to Oracle7 HP UX. SAP DBA training.
2) Capacity Planner, San Diego, CA
Developed a SAS-based Performance/Capacity Monitoring system (for over 200 servers).
The system monitors system response and utilization to manage hardware and software upgrades. The
performance data collected using HP/PCS. Developed complex batch SAS macros. Data posted to website.
BENOVA(Medicare Government Agency), San Francisco, CA Oracle DBA
4/1995 7/1995
7/1993 2/1994
11/1989 7/1991
Key Player in a large Customer intelligence (CI) System. It tracks customers & prospects from first
contact. It was a complex integration of 5 different systems on different platforms. Billing, Sales, marketing
and CRM data goes into the CI database, so the enterprise have a single view of the customer. Profiling,
programmed ETL data cleansing, conversion and integration programs. Unit, integration and system test
plans and QA. Contributed to database design. COBOL, DB2/SQL, CICS, VSAM, JCL.
The CI system significantly reduced staff workload and generated higher revenue. The applications used
for CRM, collection analytics, cross-sell, risk management & marketing.
VISA, NEW YORK LIFE, SUN LIFE, MONY LIFE, MONSANTO CANADA, TD WATERHOUSE,
MINISTRY OF HEALTH, Litton Industries
Project DB2 DBA: Reviewed the physical design based on logical model. Capacity planning.
Responsible for the design, creation & reorg of DB2 objects. Developed DB2 applications. Business
resumption backup and recovery procedures. Code reviews with developers. ADW, BMC, ISPF, JCL.
Production DB2 DBA (24x7): Support & implementation of production applications.
Department Manager: MONROE (Subsidiary of Litton Industries),
Managed the software support operation for major PC manufacturing company. Accountable for
developing and managing the division. Managed 10 programmers and 20 field staff. Software supported:
Payroll, Billing & Inventory. Performance reviews and training personnel.
Designed and developed Insurance conversion project and policies Tax reporting system.
Team lead for CAPSIL Reinsurance package installation.
Team lead for AMAPS manufacturing package conversion project.
Developed & maintained LIFE 70 insurance package. Group Insurance & Claims projects.
Additional certifications:
Held the following: Certified Mortgage Broker, Certified Lender, Certified Real Estate agent in Florida