Wade Walker

I would like to find an influential managerial position where I will be able to leverage my entrepreneurial approach to champion, lead, establish, deliver and evolve next-generation decision support and/or master data environments.

My areas of expertise are data migration, in particular ETL, Business Intelligence (including Web Analytics and the link/integration with "traditional" Enterprise Analytics) and Reference/Master data management. I have an organizational background and have an architect's profile, in particular in data migration, for which I have developed (and have given courses in) a methodology focused on establishment and enforcement of standards and conventions, in an overall QA cycle.

I am particularly interested in the end-to-end linkages between business activities and marketing efforts (including Social Media initiatives) through to the measurement of the results in the BI context, and using these results in analytics as a key input and feedback loop to optimize/improve the rest.

I have worked in most roles in a BI team - Strategic or Operational, including roles ranging from technical development through architecture, project and program management, business analysis and definition and implementation of strategy.

COMPETENCIES

Management
• Coordination & planning: 11 years : Definition of tactical, strategic and go-to-market plan for three consulting companies/practices.
• Business plan: 8 years : Business planning, identification of opportunities, negotiation, selling (pre-post sales), segmentation, Management of people, partners and clients, strategic vision and planning
• Project Management 12 years : Project planning, costing and management, budget control, resource planning, risk & change management
• Program Management 1 year : Managed portfolio of 7 strategic projects for ERP Strategy Program Management Office (budget chf 3 million)

Analytics
• Design, Strategy and vision 10 years : Overall Business Intelligence strategy, encompassing analysis, decisional design, Identification and decomposition of KPI's, Project prioritisation and definition, Road mapping
• Methodology 6 years : Developed end-to-end methodology for Business Intelligence implementation
• "New" Business Intelligence 2 years : Researching and formulating approach for integration of analytics environment; strong interest in the merge of "traditional" decisional environments with real-time BI, web silos and new media including Social channels and analytics; Mobile BI and CRM.
• BI and Analytics 4 years : Design, definition & delivery of reporting, , data mining, Web Analytics strategy and management; customer conversion strategy, Web marketing

Consulting, Architecture & Technology
• Consulting 13 years : Expert consultant in Data Migration, Business Intelligence, Master Data
• Architecture 10 years : Expert Architect in ETL BI and Decisional design
• Technologies : Database Oracle, DB2, Sql Server; ETL Datastage, Informatica, ODI, Talend; Analytics Business Objects, Microstrategy, Cognos, Microsoft, Google Analytics; CRM Siebel

Data Management
• Master and Reference Data : 1.5 year, Start up and Definition of requirements, and structure for cross-functional Master Data Management and Integration Project; Master Entity identification and source evaluation; championed semantic alignment Contributed to MDM vendor evaluation & selection
• Data Landscape & Lifecycle 10 years : Identification, analysis and evaluation of master, key and contributing sources; data profiling; data quality; data integration, data lifecycle analysis (CRUD)
• Data Management Strategy : 1.5 year, Championed Alignment of multiple streams of Master/Reference Data Management initiatives into single strategic program; Ongoing interfacing with chief architects in Zurich, London, New York to align and define implementation roadmap
• Data Governance : 1 year Definition and planning for new Data Governance structure; Submission of detailed proposal for overall structure