Profile

• Over twelve years experience as an IT professional.
• Implemented large-scale Business Intelligence solutions at several Telco’s.
• Over seven years consulting experience as a BI Architect and e-Business Architect.
• Former product Specialist for Business Intelligence software Company.
• Intimate knowledge of multi-dimensional and relational database design concepts.
• Led terabyte class data warehouse implementations using Oracle, Informix, DB2 and DB2/400.
• Published articles on Hybrid OLAP products in a leading BI magazine (DM Review).
• Experience with Neural network and Decision Tree data mining technologies.

Work Experience

Enterpulse - Pleasanton, California
Enterpulse is an e-Business services firm based in Atlanta Georgia with a focus on corporate portals, content management and e-business solutions.

Technical Director & Business Intelligence specialist — (10/2001 - Present)

• Act as lead Architect and engagement manager on client projects
• Responsible for “Scoping” and approving technical estimates for Enterpulse client solutions
• Represent Enterpulse’s technical capabilities during client presentations and sales cycle
• Responsible for developing a BI consulting practice, BI methodology and associated marketing collateral.
• Develop and Manage relationships with leading OLAP vendors.

  Manager Web Engineering & e-Business Architect — (1999 - 2001)

• Architect and lead development of scalable e-business sites.
• Perform Client Management duties. Participate in sales presentations, RFP responses and speaking engagements.
• Participate in development of an e-business system integration methodology.
• Lead technical and business requirement workshops and engagements.

IBM Telecommunications and Media - San Ramon, California — (1996 - 1999)
IBM’s Telecom and Media consulting unit specializes in providing management and technology consulting with a deep expertise in the telecom and entertainment industries. This includes deep knowledge of telecom products, systems and services.

Senior IT Strategy Consultant (BI Architect)

• BI Specialist for IBM’s Telecommunications and Media consulting practice.
• Architect and lead development of an IBM BI solution for the telecom industry.
• Present IBM BI solutions at industry tradeshows and during sales presentations.
• Develop marketing collateral, and create white papers for publication in industry journals.
• Architected and lead BI Implementations at various telco’s across the US. This included large projects (3000+ end users) at GTE and Pacific Bell as well as smaller projects at US West, Cable & Wireless, Concord Telecom and AT&T.

Speedware Corporation Montreal, Quebec — (1993 - 1996)
Speedware is a software company based in Montreal, which specializes in Data-Management and Business Intelligence technologies. Their BI product suite includes a Multi-dimensional database, a Hybrid OLAP engine, a native language report writer and a dashboard query tool.

Product Specialist & Technical consultant

• Participate in product planning and development.
• Manage beta accounts and implementations.
• Develop and rank enhancement requests for product releases.
• Consult on strategic accounts.
• Teach Multi-dimensional database design.
• Teach and participate in development of training material for the Speedware suite of BI Tools.
• Manage and mentor a team of technical consultants.

Additional Experience 1988 – 1993
Designed and developed graphical Executive Information Systems for the airline industry (UNIX X-Windows). Prior to that I was DBA and UNIX system Administrator for 4 years.

Skills
I pride myself with my ability to quickly understand and work with a broad range of technologies. Below is a sampling of some of the technologies I have worked with extensively:

• UNIX (Solaris, AIX, LINUX, HPUX, AT&T) (10 + yrs)
• RDBMS (Oracle, DB2/6000,DB2/400, Informix, MySql) (10+ yrs)
• Cognos Certified, Speedware certified, Oracle Discoverer, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Visual Warehouse, SAS, Magnify Data Mining tools
• IBM IT Strategy and IT Architect certified
• Bourne/Korn/C shell, AWK , Weblogic, JSP, ASP, Pascal, , Modula II, HTML, Macromedia Flash, Director, DreamWeaver, HomeSite,…
• Data Modeling/SQL (10+ yrs), Erwin, Informix –4GL/Wingz, Oracle PL/SQL, etc…

Awards and publications

• Published articles on Hybrid OLAP products in a leading BI magazine (DM Review).
• Received IBM’s Technical Contribution Award (1998) for work at Pacific Bell.
• Various Telco Projects Featured in PC Week, Computer world and America's Network magazines.
• Received Speedware’s Technical Excellence Award (1996) for designing and implementing the largest multi-dimensional database in the company’s history.

Languages

I am equally comfortable presenting and writing in French and English.

Education

Université du Québec à Montréal (1987-1991) Cumulated Computer Sciences
Computer Institute of Canada (1986-1987) Certification
John Abbott College, Québec, Canada (1984-1986) Pure and Applied Sciences